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Biography
Michael J. Hodgson, MD, MPH
Director, Occupational Safety and Health Program
Michael
J. Hodgson joined VHA as director of the newly constituted
Occupational Health Program in November 1999.
Dr. Hodgson attended medical school at the Universities of
Wuerzburg, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt, where he obtained his MD
degree in 1975. He
obtained an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh
School of Public Health in 1985.
Dr. Hodgson is board-certified in internal medicine
(residency at the Washington DC VAMC) and in occupational medicine.
He served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service as a
commissioned officer in the Public Health Service, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, from 1981-1983; was director of the
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program in the Department of
Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
(1986-1991); and established and directed a residency program in
occupational medicine at the University of Connecticut (1991-1998).
In 1998 and 1999, he served as a Senior Scientist in the
Office of the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health.
His
formal research interests have included metabolic bone disease in
uremia and calcium homeostasis; the effects of organic solvents on
the liver and brain; dose-response relationships in indoor
environments; and the role of a broad range of low-level
environmental exposures on chronic diseases of adults.
He has been active in the engineering community on a variety
of standard setting committees (ventilation, thermal comfort) and in
policy development. This
interest led to the most recent research topic of uncontrolled
moisture, primarily in the built environment, on the development of
a broad range of lung disorders.
He has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications, 40
abstracts, and 2 books.
He
was Associate Director, Employee Health Services at the Universities
of Pittsburgh and Connecticut.
At the latter, he reorganized the unit, developed an Employee
Assistance Program, and implemented a broad range of clinical and
surveillance activities that led to UCONN’s participation in the
early CDC NaSH project. His
prior interests in employee health services and in national
surveillance data led him to work with VHA while at NIOSH.
He also served as medical consultant to the American Legion
as that organization struggled with what has come to be called
“Gulf War illnesses.”
Dr.
Hodgson sees patients at the Washington VAMC in follow-up to
military service concerns.
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