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Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH
Director of Occupational Health Project
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
11 S. Paca Street, 2nd Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
410-706-7464
mmcdiarm@medicine.umaryland.edu
Background:
Dr. McDiarmid is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the
University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Occupational Health Program where she teaches,
sees patients, conducts research and directs a surveillance program for Gulf War Veterans.
Dr. McDiarmid received her BA degree in 1975 from the University of Maryland Baltimore County,
in Biological Sciences; her MD from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1979; and her
MPH from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health 1986 where she also completed fellowship
training in Occupational Medicine. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Occupational
Medicine and Toxicology. She maintains professional society affiliations as a Fellow of the Collegium
Ramazzini, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and as Member of
the American Public Health Association.
Dr. McDiarmid was Director of the Office of Occupational Medicine for the U.S. Occupational
Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) in Washington, DC, a position she held from 1991 until
1996. From 1987 until moving to OSHA, she was Assistant Professor of Environmental Health
Sciences at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health where she directed the
Occupational Medicine residency.
Dr. McDiarmid has a long standing affiliation with the fire service and has authored numerous
journal articles and book chapters on occupational and environmental medicine topics related
to fire fighters, healthcare workers, medical surveillance and management, reproductive hazards
and occupational cancers.
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