Prof. Joel D Kaufman MD, MPH
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Occupational Medicine
Uwmc-Roosevelt 4245 Roosevelt Way N Seattle WA, 98105About
Joel Kaufman is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Kaufman specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Kaufman participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
University of Mi Med Sch 1986
University of Michigan Medical School 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- New developments in work-related asthma.
- Genetic factors and asthma in aluminum smelter workers.
- Effect of ambient air pollution on pulmonary exacerbations and lung function in cystic fibrosis.
- Prediction of chronic disability in work-related musculoskeletal disorders: a prospective, population-based study.
- Comparison of ergonomist, supervisor, and worker assessments of work-related musculoskeletal risk factors.
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and coal tar creosote exposure in a railroad worker.
- Silica, silicosis, and lung cancer.
- Effect of particulate air pollution on lung function in adult and pediatric subjects in a Seattle panel study.
- Long-term exposure to air pollution and incidence of cardiovascular events in women.
- A community study of the effect of particulate matter on blood measures of inflammation and thrombosis in an elderly population.
- Flow mediated dilation of the brachial artery: an investigation of methods
- Air pollution and mortality: are we closer to understanding the how?
- Diesel exhaust inhalation and assessment of peripheral blood mononuclear cell gene transcription effects: an exploratory study of healthy human volunteers.
- A controlled inhalation diesel exhaust exposure facility with dynamic feedback
- Associations between recent exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and blood pressure in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
Treatments
- Pain
Prof. Joel D Kaufman MD, MPH's Practice location
Practice At Uwmc-Roosevelt 4245 Roosevelt Way Ne
Uwmc-Roosevelt 4245 Roosevelt Way N -Seattle, WA 98105Get Direction
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