Rafael E De La Hoz
PROFESSOR
Environmental Medicine & Public Health,Medicine, General Int
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
United States of America
Biography
Rafael de la Hoz, MD, MPH, MSc, is a board-certified occupational pulmonologist and internist, Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and practices at the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. de la Hoz has had a longstanding career interest in research in clinical occupational respiratory toxicology and occupational obstructive lung diseases. He has been particularly interested in obstructive airway diseases that escape classification into the accepted nosological entities. Since 2002, Dr. de la Hoz has followed and characterized the types of bronchial disease associated with occupational toxicant exposures at the WTC disaster site. From his initial clinical descriptions, he moved to the investigation, as the principal investigator of federally funded research grant, of the correlation of symptoms, pulmonary functional, and qualitative and quantitative chest CT scan finings in the WTC occupational cohort followed at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Research Interest
Pulmonary Medicine, Occupational Medicine Research Topics: Epidemiology, Occupational Health, Respiratory
Publications
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de la Hoz RE, Shohet MR, Bienenfeld LA, Afilaka AA, Levin S, etal (2008) Vocal cord dysfunction in former World Trade Center (WTC) rescue and recovery workers and volunteers. Am J Ind Med 51: 161-165.
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de la Hoz RE, Shohet MR, Cohen JM (2010) Occupational rhinosinusitis and upper airway disease: the World Trade Center experience. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 10: 77-83.
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Mendelson DS, Roggeveen M, Levin SM, Herbert R, de la Hoz RE (2007) Air trapping detected on end-expiratory high-resolution computed tomography in symptomatic World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers. J Occup Environ Med 49: 840-845.
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de la Hoz RE, Shohet MR, Chasan R, Levin SM, Herbert R, etal (2007) Occupational toxicant inhalation injury: the World Trade Center (WTC) experience. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 49: 479-485.
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de la Hoz RE (2011) Occupational lower airway disease in relation to World Trade Center inhalation exposure. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 11: 97-102.
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de la Hoz RE, Mallea JM, Kramer SJ, Bienenfeld LA, Wisnivesky JP, etal (2012) Polysomnographic diagnoses among former World Trade Center rescue workers and volunteers. Arch Environ Occup Health 67: 239-242.
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de la Hoz RE, Jeon Y, Miller GE, Celedón JC (2016) Post-traumatic stress disorder, bronchodilator response, and incident asthma in World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 194: 1383-1391.
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Cullinan P, Muñoz X, Suojalehto H, Agius R, Jindal S, etal (2017) Occupational lung diseases: from old and novel exposures to effective preventive strategies. Lancet Respir Med.
