William N. Rom, MD, Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Health, NYU School of Global Public Health, and the Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and Chief of the Chest Service at Bellevue Hospital Center, 1989–2014.
His research was on Environmental Lung Diseases at the University of Utah where he founded the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. He was a Senior Investigator at the Pulmonary Branch, NHLBI, NIH, where he focused research on pulmonary fibrosis and alveolar macrophage growth factors. Since arriving at NYU as a Professor in 1989, he led research teams on Tuberculosis/HIV, World Trade Center toxic dust, and biomarkers for lung cancer in the NYU Lung Cancer Biomarker Center. He was Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center (1990-2006). Since 2000, he has been engaged in climate change and health staffing Senator Hillary Clinton on the floor of the Senate for the debate on the McCain-Lieberman Cap-and-Trade bill (2003 sabbatical), and founding the Environmental Policy Committee for the American Thoracic Society. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, recipient of the ATS Distinguished Achievement Award, and Harvard School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dr. Rom has taught Environmental Policy at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy (2007-2011), and Climate Change and Global Public Health and Environmental Health in a Global World at NYU School of Global Public Health (2015-present).
He has co-edited two editions of Climate Change and Global Public Health published by Springer with 29 chapters.
Publications.
1). Rom WN, Rao A, Hoepner L, Dickey C. A new model of learning: Environmental health in a global world. Int J Env Res and Public Health 2023; 20: 6346.Doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126146.
2). Yoganathan D and Rom WN. Medical aspects of global warming. Am J Ind Med. 2001; 40(2): 199-210. PMID: 11494348.
3). Rom, William N. Global Warming: An opportunity for unions and government to embrace renewable energy jobs. In Samuels SW, Ringen K, Rom WN, and Frank A. Ethical thinking in occupational and environmental medicine: Commentaries from the Selikoff Fund for Occupational and Environmental Cancer Research. Am J Ind Med 2022; 65: 286-320. DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23328.
4). Rom WN and Pinkerton KE. Introduction: Consequences of Global Warming to Planetary and Human Health. In Pinkerton KE and Rom WN (eds.) Climate Change and Global Public Health, 2nd Edition, Humana Press, Cham, Switzerland: 2014 (1st) and 2021(2nd); 1-33. Doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54746-2.
5). Rom WN. Annals of Education: Teaching Climate Change and Global Public Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2024; 21: 41-57. Doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010041.
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