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PATRICIA L. MEINHARDT, MD, MPH, MA
Certified,
American Board of Preventive Medicine ENVIRONMENTAL
MEDICINE Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA has been diagnosing and treating occupational and environmental illness and injury since 1989. Dr. Meinhardt is an occupational and environmental medicine specialist with advanced training as a physician-epidemiologist. She has specific expertise and experience in the diagnosis, management and prevention of the health effects of both acute and chronic occupational and environmental chemical exposure. She has evaluated hundreds of patients for the possible health effects associated with overexposure to a diverse array of chemical agents and hazardous compounds in both occupational and environmental settings. Dr. Meinhardt is currently the Executive Medical Director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine that is affiliated with the Arnot Ogden Medical Center (AOMC) in Elmira, New York. Dr. Meinhardt has received board certification from the American Board of Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. She has been a member of the American Board of Preventive Medicine since 1996. She completed her medical training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania followed by an internship in Internal Medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. She completed her residency training in Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She also received a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins with specialty training in occupational and environmental epidemiology. Prior to her medical training, Dr. Meinhardt worked as an environmental scientist participating in both air and water pollution investigations that emphasized the use of primary pollution indicators as diagnostic signs of environmental pollution. During the past two years, Dr. Meinhardt partnered with the American Water Works Association (AWWA) to provide medical training and education to health care practitioners concerning the recognition, treatment and prevention of waterborne diseases resulting from exposure to chemical pollutants and infectious pathogens in contaminated water. With funding support from AWWA and AOMC and sponsorship from the American College of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Meinhardt has designed and developed Recognizing Waterborne Disease and the Health Effects of Water Pollution: A Physician On-Line Reference Guide accessible at www.WaterHealthConnection.org. This peer-reviewed medical website is 366 webpages in length and has been accessed by national and international medical and public health practitioners, water utility and regulatory specialists and scientific researchers and academicians from around the world. In addition, 22 hours of online Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are offered through review of the content of this Physician On-line Reference Guide. Dr. Meinhardt has also participated as an expert and physician representative on several scientific and extramural review committees addressing physician readiness, water safety and security and anti-terrorism response strategies. She has developed strategies to formulate partnerships between water utility practitioners and the medical and public health community at both the local and national level in an effort to enhance the protection of water supplies and the nation's public health. Dr. Meinhardt has recently received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to provide medical training and education to health care practitioners concerning the recognition, treatment and prevention of waterborne disease resulting from natural, accidental and intentional contamination of water. Dr. Meinhardt has provided technical assistance and medical consultation to numerous local and national technical advisory boards targeting environmental health issues over the past decade. She has chaired and moderated a number of medical conferences addressing the health effects of water pollution resulting from both microbial and chemical contaminants. She has also provided educational outreach to medical and public health professionals regarding the medical consequences of exposure to various occupational and environmental toxic agents. Dr. Meinhardt has also acted as a peer reviewer of submitted water-related manuscripts for Emerging Infectious Diseases published by the CDC and has published a major review of the public health consequences of waterborne Cryptosporidium. If you have any comments about this website and would like to contact the author, click here and use the contact form provided. Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA, Author
This website is sponsored by the Arnot Ogden Medical Center.
Original funding for this website was provided by the Environmental Protection
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American Water Works Association, or Arnot Ogden Medical Center.
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