Asthma in the Workplace

Jean-Luc Malo, M.D. is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and former Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine of Universite de Montreal. He practices as a chest physician at Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal. During his career, he has been principally involved in the improvement of diagnostic means of occupational asthma and has identified many causal agents. He has described the outcome after cessation of exposure in the case of immunological and non-immunological occupational asthma and participated in epidemiological studies of apprentices and workers. Dr. Malo has contributed to international research projects, position papers and guidelines in the field of asthma in the workplace. Moira Chan-Yeung, MB, FRCPC is Emeritus Professor, Department of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada. She is the recipient of the Alice Hamilton Award for Major and Lasting Contribution in Occupational Health from the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the prestigious Distinguished Achievement award from the American Thoracic Society, among other honours. One of her many noteworthy contributions is her discovery of plicatic acid as the agent responsible for Western Red Cedar asthma. Since Dr. Chan-Yeung began her research in the Department of Medicine in 1968, she has published over 370 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books and has a research laboratory dedicated to her work in UBC.David I Bernstein, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati Division of Immunology, Allergy, and Rheumatology. He has been Director or Co-Director of the Allergy Immunology fellowship training program at the University of Cincinnati for 30 years. During his career, he has focused his research efforts on the investigation of occupational asthma and environmental causes of allergic disorders in childhood. Dr. Bernstein has contributed t