Children with Mold Related Issues

[Guest guest]

KC, Do you think we could keep a list of physicians people have gone

to and are please with or we have heard about in Files section?

After doctor's name, we could list member's name who recommended

with their permission. That way people could direct questions about

their experience with that doctor to people who have gone to them.

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People with children who are ill if you are near the Great Lakes

region, may want to look into seeing Dr Dorr Dearborn who is at

children's hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Here is a description of

his background and interests.

http://pediatricpulmonology.case.edu/faculty_dearborn.html

I think I read pediatrics is from birth up through adolescence.

Biography

After receiving his B.A. from ette University in 1961, Dr.

Dearborn studied for his Ph.D. in Biochemistry until 1969 and his

M.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1970. His Postdoc in

Biochemistry was carried out at the NIH, NHLBI from 1971 to 74. Dr.

Dearborn became an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatics

and Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Laboratory at Case Western

Reserve University in 1974. He became Research Director of the

Cleveland Cystic Fibrosis Center in 1979. In 1981 Dr. Dearborn was

promoted to Associate Professor. He worked as a resident at Rainbow

Babies and Childrens Hospital from 1983 to 1984. In 1996 Dr.

Dearborn became Director of the Pulmonary Hemosiderosis Prevention

Program at Case. He was appointed Professor in 2001. Dr. Dearborn

was named Ann Sears Swetland Professor and Director of The

Swetland Center for Environmental Health in 2003.

Research Interests

Dearborn 's most significant contributions to environmental health

began in the fall of 1994 when he recognized an outbreak of

pulmonary hemorrhage in Cleveland infants. He notified the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was an integral part of

the agency's investigation, which found an association of the often-

fatal disorder with toxigenic mold in the infants' water-damaged

homes. In 1996, Dearborn instituted the Pulmonary Hemosiderosis

Prevention Program, a public health initiative involving the local

health and housing agencies which has played a role in decreasing

the incidence of the disorder.

His research program -- supported by the NIH's National Institute of

Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD) -- studies the effect of toxic mold on the lungs of infant

animals and the impact of mold and moisture on the health of infants

and young children. The latter research is performed in conjunction

with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and the Cleveland

Department of Public Health. In recent years, Dearborn has published

19 papers in this area of environmental health. He frequently speaks

at national and international meetings and serves on national

committees, including the Healthy Homes Initiative of HUD and the

Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics.