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Robin Herbert

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR  Preventive Medicine

Overview

Gender Female
E-mail robin.herbert@mssm.edu
Awards 2008
America's Top Doctors
Castle Connolly
  2007
Special Merit Award
NYC Public Health Association
  2007
Top Docs
NY Resident Publication
  2007 - 2009
Best Doctors of New York
New York Magazine
  2006
Woman of the year
Women's World Awards
  2006
Featured Top 13 Medical News Stories of 2006
Discover Magazine
  2002
Best Doctors Hall of Fame
New York Magazine
  1995, 2004
Annual Award
NY Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
  1980
Grant Recipient
National Institute of Mental Health
  1975
Grant Recipient
National Science Foundation

Robin Herbert, MD, an Associate Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Dept. of Community and Preventive Medicine, serves as Co-Director of the Department's Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine as well as the Director and Principal Investigator of the federal World Trade Center (WTC) Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program's Data and Coordination Center. Dr. Herbert has been instrumental to the development of the WTC Program, which is based at Mount Sinai. Former Medical Co-Director of the Mount Sinai-Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dr. Herbert worked with Dr. Stephen Levin in leading efforts to identify and prevent health effects in World Trade Center responders and others after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She helped establish and expand what stands today as the federal government's public health response to 9/11, serving first as Co-Director of the nation's first large scale medical screening program in the wake of 9/11, The WTC  Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, as well as Director of the first WTC Treatment Program based at Mount Sinai. She subsequently also served as Director and P.I. of the WTC Medical Monitoring Program's Clinical Center at Mount Sinai, prior to her current appointment.  An occupational medicine physician whose work is now known both nationally and internationally, she is  the recipient of numerous honors for her work, including a 2006 Woman of the Year Award presented by the Women's World Awards Foundation and former Pr. M. Gorbachev.

Publications

de la Hoz R, Herbert R. Health care and social issues of immigrant rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center (WTC) site. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine;: in press.


Skloot G, Schechter C, Herbert R, Moline J, Levin S, Crowley L, Luft B, Udasin I, Enright P. Longitudinal Assessment of Spirometry in the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program. Chest;: in press.


Enright P, Skloot G, Herbert R. Standardization of Spirometry in Assessment of Responders Following Man-Made Disasters: The World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2008 March/April; 75(2): 109-114.


Savitz D, Oxman R, Wallenstein S, Metzger K, Stein D, Moline J, Herbert R. Epidemiologic Research on Man-Made Disasters: Strategies and Implications of Cohort Definition for the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Surveillance Program. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2008 March/April; 75(2): 77-87.


Moline J, Herbert R, Levin S, Stein D, Luft B, Landrigan PJ. The WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program: Establishment of a Comprehensive Healthcare Response in the Aftermath of Disaster. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2008 March/April ; 75(2): 67-75.


Stellman J, Smith R, Katz C, Sharma V, Charney D, Herbert R, Moline J, Luft B, Markowitz S, Udasin I, Harrison D, Baron S, Landrigan P, Levin S, Southwick S. Enduring Mental Health Morbidity and Social Function Impairment in World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Cleanup Workers: The Psychological Dimension of an Environmental Health Disaster. Environmental Health Perspectives 2008 September; 116(9): 1248-1253.


de la Hoz RE, Shohet M, Bienenfeld LA, Afilaka AA, Levin S, Herbert R. Vocal cord dysfunction in former World Trade Center (WTC) rescue and recovery workers and volunteers. Am J Ind Med 2008; 51: 161-165.


de la Hoz RE, Shohet M, Chasan R, Bienenfeld L, Afilaka A, Levin S, Herbert R. Occupational Toxicant Inhalation Injury: the World Trade Center (WTC) Experience. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 2008; 81: 479-485.


Mendelson D, Roggeveen M, Levin S, Herbert R, de la Hoz RE. Air Trapping Detected on End-Expiratory High Resolution CT in Symptomatic World Trade Center (WTC) Rescue and Recovery Workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2007 August; 49(8): 840-845.


Fang S, Dropkin J, Herbert R, Triola D, Landsbergis P. Workers' Compensation Experiences of Computer Users With Musculoskeletal Disorders. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2007 March; 06-0134: 1-7.


Herbert R, Moline J, Skloot G, Metzger K, Baron S, Luft B, Markowitz SB, Udasin I, Harrison D, Stein D, Todd A, Enright P, Stellman JM, Landrigan PJ, Levin SM. The World Trade Center Disaster and the Health of Workers: Five-Year Assessment of a Unique Medical Screening Program. Environmental Health Perspectives 2006 December; 114(12): 1853-1858.


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