William Rom
Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine (NYU School of Medicine)

William N. Rom MD, MPH has been at NYU since 1989 as Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The Division has 75 full-time faculty and over 25 fellows. His research is on early detection of lung cancer, environmental lung disease, TB/AIDS, and air pollution. He and his faculty have been awarded over $125M in NIH and CDC grants over the years. He is editor of 4 editions of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and 2 editions of Tuberculosis. He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles. He Chairs the American Thoracic Society's Environmental Health Policy Committee that advocates science-based air pollution standards. He has been a Fellow in the Department of Interior on National Parks and was a Senior Investigator at the NHLBI, NIH for 6 years deciphering the mechanisms of asbestosis. He was a Legislative Fellow for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and wrote the Family Asthma Bill, the Caribbean Wilderness Act, and the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Bill. He was the Founder and Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah. He was a wilderness canoe guide in the BWCA and Quetico for 8 years, is a member of The Explorer's Club with three flag expeditions, is the author of Canoe Country Wilderness.











Contact Details

romw01@gcrc.med.nyu.edu
212-263-6479
NBV 7 7N24-31
462 First Avenue
New York NY 10016

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Areas of Expertise

  • Environment
  • Health Management
  • Health Policy
  • Law & Regulation
  • Management
  • Politics