Dr. Umberto Saffiotti moderating & speaking on panel at occupational Cancer Conference Chicago 1979

Dr. Dr Umberto Saffiotti moderated and spoke on a panel on Occupational Cancer at the 1979 Conference - Lost in the Workplace - Is There an Occupational Disease Epidemic? A Seminar for the News Media (Chicago, September 13-14, 1979). Sponsored by the Occupational. Safety-and Healthy Administration, Dr. Eula Bingham, Assistant Secretary for OSHA. UMBERTO SAFFIOTTI (January 22, 1928 - Sept 8, 2020)
Dr. Saffiotti was born in Milan, Italy, into a family of educators, health professionals, and public servants. He completed classical lyceum and began medical studies in 1944. After post-doctoral cancer research in Chicago, he specialized in occupational medicine and experimental pathology in Milan and immigrated to Chicago in 1960 to join the Division of Oncology at the Chicago Medical School. In 1968, Umberto moved to the National Cancer Institute, in Bethesda, where he spent the rest of his professional life. His work on cancer causation included interdisciplinary efforts to regulate environmental carcinogens and contributed to the establishment of OSHA and EPA. As the "politics of cancer" during the Nixon administration increasingly undermined the scientific quality of research and contributions to regulatory and public health policies, Umberto resigned from leadership of NCI's Carcinogenesis program in 1976. He continued to head the Laboratory of Experimental Pathology at NCI until his retirement. Over sixty years, Umberto's work focused on respiratory carcinogenesis, especially risks from silica and asbestos. He cherished collaboration and friendships with colleagues in the lab and around the world, and was a dedicated mentor to several generations of young researchers. Umberto was a visiting lecturer at the University of Urbino and at the George Washington University.