CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: LINDA
SUSAN FORST, MD, MPH, MS
ADDRESS: 2811 W. Estes
2121
W.
TELEPHONE: Office 312-996-0806
Fax: 312-413-9898
DEGREES
Bachelors
of Science, with honors, 1977,
Masters
of Science, 1980,
Medical
Doctor, 1983,
Master
of Public Health, 1988,
RESIDENCY
Internal
& Occupational Medicine,
MEDICAL LICENSURE
State
of
State
of
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Dilomate,
American Board of Internal Medicine, 1988
Diplomate,
American Board of Preventive Medicine (Occupational Medicine), 1990
OTHER CERTIFICATION
Aviation
Medical Examiner, Federal Aviation Administration, 1996-1999
HONORS & AWARDS
Bachelor
of Science, with honors,
Stetler
Fellow, 1993-1994
Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Fellow, 1994-1996
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
University
of
EMPLOYMENT
2000-present Associate Professor, UIC School of
Public Health
1998-present Associate Professor of Emergency
Medicine, UIC College of Medicine
1998-2000 Research Associate Professor,
1998-present Director, Occupational Medicine
Residency, UIC School of Public Health
1996-2000 Medical Director, Industrial
Priority Program (Campus Work Comp), UIC Department
of
Emergency Medicine
1995-1998 Assistant Professor,
1995-2000 Research Assistant Professor,
1994-present Adjunct Assistant Professor,
1992-5 Adjunct
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public
Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
1991-4 Assistant
Professor,
1988-1991 Chief Physician, Greater
1988-1991 Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor,
1988-90,95-6 Instructor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support,
1981-1982 Echocardiography Technician,
1980-1981 Echocardiography Technician,
1980-1981 Michigan Rural Health Action Coalition, Community
Organizing Project Coordinator,
1979 Laboratory
Technician, Genetic Mapping Laboratory,
PUBLICATIONS
(*refereed journals)
1. *Rein, A., Lewis,
N., Forst, L., and Lewis, B. The
Inferior Vena Cava in Health and Disease.
2. *Forst, L.S. Antineoplastics as Occupational Hazards. (letter to the editor). Ann. Int. Med.,
103(3):473, 1984.
3. Forst, L.S. Physician-Based Reporting for Occupational
Disease Surveillance in
4. *Forst, L., and
Hryhorczuk, D. Occupational Tarsal
Tunnel Syndrome. Brit. J. Ind. Med.,
45:277-8, 1988.
5. *Forst, L., and
Abraham, J. Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Presenting As Sarcoidosis. Brit. J. Ind. Med., 50(6):497-500, 1993.
6. *Forst, L., and
Atterbury, M. Occupational Perilymph
Fistula. Am. J. Ind. Med., 25(2):247-50,
1994.
7. *Conroy, L.,
Menezes, R., Sullivan, P.,
8. Forst, L. Medical Management of Upper Extremity
Cumulative Trauma Disorders. in Cumulative
Trauma Disorders: Prevention,
Management, and Treatment. eds.
Erdil, M, Dickerson, B. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
1997.
9.*Forst
L, Freels S, Persky V. Occupational
Lead Exposure and Hearing Loss. J Occup
Env Med 39(7):658-60, 1997
10. .*Forst
L., Persky V., Freels S., Williams, R., Conroy, L. Lead Toxcity in Ironworkers. Am J Indust Med, 32(4):540-3, 1997
11. Forst L. Inorganic and Organic Phosphorus. in the International
Labor Organization Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety. eds Stellman J. International Labor Organization,
12. Conroy
L, Forst L. Physiology and
Health: Health Effects of Volatile
Organic Compounds and Odors. in Handbook of Odor and VOCControl. Rafson HJ, ed. McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1998
13. *Forst L, Fletcher B. HIV Prophylaxis for Health Care Workers.J Occ
Env Med 39(12):1-8, 1997
14. *Lemasters
GR, Atterbury MR., Booth-Jones AD, Bhattacharya A, Ollila-Glenn N, Forst, L. Prevalence of Work-related Musculoskeletal
Disorders in Active Union Carpenters. Occ Env Med. 55:421-7, 1998
15.*Forst
LS, Hryhorczuk D, Jaros M.
Occupational Injuries in the
16. *Dorevitch S, Forst
L. Occupational Illness in Emergency
Physicians. Am J Emerg Med, 18:300-311,
2000
17. *Derr J, Forst L,
Chen HY, Conroy L. Fatal Falls in
Construction, 1990-1999. J Occup Environ
Med, October 2001
18. Rosenthal J, Forst
L. “Health Hazards of Photographers.” In Health Hazards in the Arts. State Art Rev Occup Med, 2001
19. *Dorevitch S, Forst
L, Conroy L, Levy P. "Toxic inhalation fatalities of US construction
workers, 1990-1999." J of Occup
Environ Med. 2002.
20. Forst L, Orris P. Eds.
Ethical Issues in Occupational Medicine.
State Art Rev Occup Med, 17(4), 2002
21. Forst L., Levenstein
C. Ethics and Worker Productivity. In State Art Rev Occup Med, 17(4):687-92,
2002
22. Krantz A, Forst L. Ethics in the Workplace. In Clinical Occupational Medicine, 2nd
Edition. Eds, Rosenstock and
Cullen. McGraw Hill. Text completed, at
the publisher.
23. *Forst LS, Chen HY,
Skinner S, Bauer S, Petra R, Nickels L, Alvarado R, Zanoni J, Lacey S, Jimenez
J. Community Health Worker Model to Reduce Eye Injuries in Latino Farm
Workers. Submitted to Am J Indust Med,
2004.
24. *Forst LS, Nickels L, Zanoni
J. Home Care Workers. Letter to the Editor J Amer Med Assn,
25. Forst LS. Reducing Eye Injuries
in Migrant Farmworkers. Abstract of
presentation. In Proceedings of the
2002-3 Migrant Farmworkers Streams Forums.
USDHHS/HRSA/BPHC
26. Forst LS, Dorevitch S, Peng
L. Health Disparities for Occupational
Injuries. In preparation.
PUBLICATIONS--TRAINING MATERIALS
1.Forst, L.,
Atterbury, M., and Applegate, H. Organic
Solvents. Manual prepared under
subcontract from Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. Original contract from OSHA. 1991
2. Forst, L., Conroy,
L., and Nickels, L. Lead Safety Training
Manuals for the Construction Site.
Employer and Employee Manuals and Videotapes. Subcontract from Chicagoland Construction
Safety Council. Original contract from
OSHA. 1993
3. Forst, L. Lead Safety in the Construction Industry. Videotape prepared by National Asssociation
of Demolition Contractors. 1994
4. Ross, M, Forst,
L. Silicosis on the Railroad. Training program on Silicosis prepared for
the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. 1995
5.Forst, L.,
Ross, M. Envirorisk: A web-based course
for the public health workforce. http://www.uic.edu/sph/cade/envirorisk, 2000
6.Forst, L., Derr, J., Hryhorczuk, D. Methyl Parathion: An internet course for CME. www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/case1
7.Buchanan S, Forst L.
Lead Toxicity in Children: An
Internet course for CME. www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/case3
.
8. Forst L, Watters M, MacQueen KC. Bioterrorisk:
An Internet Course for the Public Health Workforce. www.uic.edu/sph/prepare/bioterrorisk
, 2003
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
1. Coordinator.
Conference on Environmental Health Research--exchange between Illinois
Department of Public Health and
2. Moderator/coordinator. "My Work Makes Me Sick."
3. Lecturer.
Occupational Cumulative Trauma Disorders.
4. Lecturer.
Health Effects of Lead. American Osteopathic
5. Lecturer.
Health Effects of Lead Paint Exposure.
6.
Lecturer. Principles of Environmental Health.
7. Moderator/coordinator. Diagnosis and Treatment of Cumulative Trauma
Disorders.
8. Lecturer.
Case Study in Geographic Information Systems. CDC Preventive Environmental Medicine
Course.
9.
Presenter. Envirorisk: A New Web Course for the Public
Health Work Force. CDC Public Health
Training Network Conference.
10.Moderator. Occupational Hearing Loss. Am Pub Health
Assn. Chicago, Nov, 1999.
Grand Rounds
11. Lecturer.
Occupational Medicine in Primary Care.
12. Lecturer.
Lead Toxicity in Adults. U of
13. Lecturer.
Occupational Asthma. U of
14. Lecturer.
Asbestos-related Lung Disears. U
of
15. Lecturer.
Cases in Occupational Medicine. U
of
16. Lecturer.
Occupational Asthma. Mt Sinai
Hospital, 2001
17. Lecturer.
Occupational Asthma.
18. Lecturer.
Occupational Asthma. Pulmonary
Medicine Grand Rounds, UIC, 2002
19. Lecturer. Occupational Cancer. Medicine Grand Rounds.
20. Presenter. Reducing Eye Injuries in Latino
Farm Workers. UIC Conference on the Environment,
21. Presenter/Discussant: Distance Education in Occupational and
Environmental Health, International Commission on Occupational Health,
22. Presenter.
Community based Project to Reduce Eye Injuries in Migrant Farm Workers.
ICOH,
23. Presenter.
Eye Injuries in Latino Farm Workers. Amer Coll Occup Env Med, April
2003,
24. Poster.
Perception of Eye Health Risk in Latino Farm Workers. Amer Pub Health Assn,
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
Eye
Injury Prevention in Migrant Farm Co-PI ASPH/CDC $62,221/ 2003-4
Workers in
Training
Grant $1.6
mil
Reducing
Eye Injuries in Latino PI NIOSH/CDC $704,000 1999-03
Migrant
Farm Workers
Health
with
Great
Lakes Center ERC Training Grant Co-Inv NIOSH/CDC $800,000/ 1998-2003
$4.5
mil (approx)
Occupational
Health Curriculum PI WHO $50,000 2000-2
Development
Occupational
Health Needs of Dancers Co-Inv UIC Great Cities $7500 2000
Pilot
Study to Compare the Effects of Co-Inv Abbott Labs 1999
Clarithromycin
versus Levofloxacin in
Reducing
Pulmonary Inflammatory
Mediators
in Exhaled Gas and Condensate
Of
Patients with Community Acquired
Pneumonia
Distance-Based
Learning PI ASPH/CDC $219,914 1997-9
in
Environmental Health
Analysis
of the OSHA Fatalities PI CCSC $8368 1996-7
Database
Computer-Based
Learning PI ATPM/ASPH $53,000 1995-6
in
Environmental Health
GIS
Assessment of Fellow ATSDR $53,300 1994-1996
Environmental
Illness
Chemical
Exposure and Co-Inv UIC-CRB $ 9,796 1994-1995
Pulmonary
Function in Fire-
fighters
Proteinuria
in Southeast Co-Inv IDPH/ $25,000 1994
Lead
as a Cause of Fellow Stetler $21,000 1993-1994
Sensorineural
Hearing
Loss
in Workers
Training
Program PI OSHA $15,000 1992-1993
Development
for Lead in
Construction
Occupational
Safety & Co-Inv NIOSH $1.8mil 1992-1994
Health
Educational $4
mil 1994-1998
Lead
Toxicity in PI UIC-CRB $ 6,542 1992
Ironworkers
Cumulative
Trauma PI NIOSH $171,000 1991
Disorders
in Carpenters
Hazardous
Waste Co-Inv AOEC $10,000 1991
Worker
Training Modules
Surveillance
for Co-Inv IDPH $37,000 1985
Occupational
Diseases
in
Community
organizing Co-Inv Kellogg $15,000 1981
project Public
Welfare $15,000
Whiting $ 1,000
UIC COURSES TAUGHT
1992-95 UIC College of Medicine, Physical
Diagnosis Course, 2nd year medical students
Small
group sessions, 3 hours per week for 8 weeks
1992-95
Three
lectures per year
1992-1997 UIC
1.5-4
hours per year
1991-present UIC School of Public Health, Environmental
Acoustics Course
One
lecture per year
1997 UIC College of Medicine,
Focused Physical Exam for medical students
Three
hours per year
1991-5 UIC College of Medicine, Supervision/teaching of Internal Medicine and
Occupational Medicine residents during clinical work
1995-present UIC College of Medicine,
Supervision/teaching of Emergency Medicine residents
during
clinical work
1997 Patient
Interview/Examination; 3 hour session
for 2nd year medical students
1998-present UIC School of Public Health, Occupational
and Environmental Diseases. Coordinator
and lecturer for 4-credit course.
2001-present UIC School of Public Health, Principles of
Environmental Health. Taught on-line
each Fall semester—3 credit course
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Public
Health Association, 1983-
Association of
Occupational and Environmental Clinics, 1989-
World Health
Organization, Occupational Health Collaborating Center, 2000-