Rafael E de la Hoz, MD
- PROFESSOR | Environmental Medicine & Public Health
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Specialties:
Occupational Medicine, Pulmonary MedicineResearch Topics:
Aerodigestive Tract, Epidemiology, Imaging, Obesity, Occupational Health, Respiratory
Rafael de la Hoz, MD, MPH, MSc, is a board certified pulmonologist, occupational medicine specialist, and internist. He has had a career of research and clinical interest in occupational respiratory toxicology and occupational obstructive lung diseases. Since joining Mount Sinai in late 2002, he has followed and characterized the types of bronchial disease associated with occupational toxicant exposures at the WTC disaster site. From his initial clinical descriptions, he moved to the investigation, as the principal investigator of a federally funded research project, of the correlation of symptoms, functional, and qualitative and quantitative chest CT scan findings in the WTC occupational cohort followed at Mount Sinai. Dr. de la Hoz consults as an impartial pulmonary and occupational medicine specialist to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board.
Certifications
Occupational Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine
Clinical Focus
- Asbestosis
- Asthma
- Bronchiolitis
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Clinical Preventive Medicine
- Experienced in Workers’ Compensation Reporting
- Medical Screenings for Work-related Hazard Exposures
- Monitoring and Treatment of World Trade Center-Related Adverse Health Effects
- Occupational Asthma
- Occupational Medicine-Related Management and Administration
- Occupational Pulmonary Diseases
- Occupational Respiratory Medicine
- Occupational Rhinosinusitis
- Occupational Toxicology
- Pulmonary Function Tests
- Smoking Cessation
- WTC-Related Adverse Health Effects
- Work Fitness and Disability Integration
- Work-Related Injury and Illness Treatment and Management
Education
MD, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.
MPH, Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health
MSc, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Internship, Internal Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Residency, Internal Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Fellowship, Pulmonary Medicine, University of British Columbia
Fellowship, Occupational Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
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Top Doctor New York Metro Area (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Occupational lung disease, chronic manifestations of inhalation injuries, and obstructive lung diseases, WTC-related diseases
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