B. Case

Biography

Dr. Bruce Case is a pathologist and epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Following his residency in pathology at McGill University he trained with Graham Gibbs and obtained the Diploma in Occupational Hygiene at McGill in 1980, and worked as a post‐doctoral fellow and instructor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, from 1980‐83. For this work he was supported by a Fellowship in Occupational Health Research, Conseil de la Recherche en Santé du Québec . While at Mount Sinai Dr. Case performed some of the first studies on asbestos‐mediated free radical release, with the help of the Young Investigator’s Award of the American Lung Association. On his return to McGill he joined with Corbett and Alison McDonald and Patrick Sébastien in the Dust Disease Research Unit: the focus of this group was the epidemiological study of diseases related to mineral fibre exposure using lung‐retained fibre in exposure assessment. In 1986 he received the National Health Scholarship of NHRDP (Canada) for his work in the field.

Research Interest

Dr. Cases’s main areas of research include asbestos exposure and disease, integration of pathology and epidemiology, mineral fibres and their health effects, mesothelioma, lung cancer, case-control studies, death certification, occupational lung disease, and environmental exposure assessment.