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ACOEM Announces 2026 Annual Award Recipients Ahead of Annual Conference in Chicago
ACOEM has announced its 2026 Annual Award recipients, recognizing exceptional contributions to occupational and environmental medicine.
This year’s honorees include Aisha Rivera Margarin, MD, MS, FACOEM, recipient of the Excellence in Mentorship Award; George L. Delclos, MD, MPH, PhD, FACOEM, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in OEM Award; and the Council on OEM Science, recognized with the Executive Committee Outstanding Achievement Award for its impact on advancing the field’s scientific foundation. Awardees will be honored during AOHC 2026 in Chicago from April 19-22, 2026.
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ACOEM's website.
JOEM Offers Free Access to Military Jet Fuels Supplement
The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is offering free access to a new supplement examining military jet fuels and their health effects.
Several ACOEM members contributed to the collection, which includes a systematic literature review assessing the carcinogenic potential of jet fuel exposure. Drawing on epidemiologic, toxicological, and mechanistic studies, the review found suggestive evidence linking jet fuel exposure to increased risks of kidney, bladder, and skin cancers.
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JOEM's website.
Dr. Melissa McDiarmid Champions Hazard Protections for Workers in The Gambia
When ACOEM Member Dr. Melissa McDiarmid began her career in OEM, she never imagined her path would take her from Baltimore classrooms and clinics to shaping national health policy in West Africa.
Today, she and her colleague Joanna Gaitens, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, both faculty members in the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMSOM) OEM Division, are demonstrating how academic medicine can drive real-world change in global health.
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Dr. Judith Green-McKenzie Calls for Stronger OEM Education
ACOEM member Dr. Judith Green-McKenzie explores the state of occupational and environmental medicine education in a recently published article in Occupational Medicine.
Medical school curricula in both Europe and the United States, she writes, remain lacking in OEM instruction.
Read the full article here.