IAQ Radio

EPISODE329-Dr. Hung Cheung, IEQ: The Good science, Junk Science

This week on IAQ Radio we are Hung K. Cheung, MD, MPH, FACOEM, President of Dr. Cheung/ OEM Advisor, LLC. in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Cheung was formerly with Building Health Sciences and was also the Maryland State Medical Director. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and received his Medical degree from University of Maryland Medical School. His first residency and board certification was in Primary Care/ Internal Medicine from University of Maryland Hospital. He later received his Masterâ??s in Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University in Environmental Science. He returned for further Postgraduate training (and received his second board certification) in Preventive Medicine specializing in Occupational Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. For the last sixteen years Dr. Cheung has been working full time in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Public Health consultation.
In June 2000, he was designated as the State Medical Director for the State of Maryland agencies and State employees and in that capacity has worked closely with the State of Maryland (and local municipalities and many large corporations) in building a safe, healthful and productive workplace. Dr Cheungâ??s subspecialties are Respiratory Environmental Medicine, Indoor Environmental Quality investigations, Risk communication and Medical Advisory services. Dr. Cheung will also be the keynote speaker at the IAQ Training Institute/IAQ Radio Healthy Building Professional Summit August 21st at Seven Springs, PA. His presentation title is Learning to resolve rather than to merely inspect or sample. LEARN MORE about problem resolution, good science, junk science and the stretch of scientific evidence/techniques this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE328 - Roundtable Discussion at Purdue University

Natural disasters occur globally and with real time cell phone and media coverage seem to occur with greater and greater frequency. Structural resiliency, disaster preparation and response are studied and researched at institutes of higher learning around the world. This week Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana hosted I3R2 the 10th International Conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction where conference delegates from North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia met to collaborate on better practices to prepare and execute effective disaster response.
Technical presentations were made by the CDC, Society of American Military Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers; and 31 technical presentations were reviewed. A first ever panel discussion between emergency responders and academia was also part of the program. Pete Consigli organized the panel and the Z-man was one of the panelists. This week on IAQ Radio we traveled to Purdue to LEARN MORE and to broadcast our own round-table panel discussion about the Purdue Building Construction Management program and the 10th I3R2.

EPISODE327 - Ken Rothmel

This week on IAQ Radio Alison Johnson, Chair of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation, will be our guest. We recently did a show with Steve Temes on this issue and he has since joined the board of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation. He suggested we get Alison on to further discuss the issue and we got it done. Multiple chemical sensitivities are touchy subject for IAQ, disaster restoration and building science professionals. What is MCS? Is it a one size fits all issue? How do we work with the chemically sensitive? How do we avoid making things worse for the chemically sensitive? Mrs. Johnson graduated from Carleton College at the head of her class. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne on a National Science Foundation Fellowship and received her Masterâ??s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, studying on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 2010, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College for her work in the field of chemical sensitivity. Ms. Johnson has published three biographies: : Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive; Henry James: His Life Revealed Through His Letters; and Louis XVI and the French Revolution. She has also presented her book Gulf War Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War and 9/11 documentaries on Capitol Hill, in New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Wiesbaden, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal. We are privileged to have her join us this week as we continue to seek to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE326 - Alison Johnson, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

This week on IAQ Radio Alison Johnson, Chair of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation, will be our guest. We recently did a show with Steve Temes on this issue and he has since joined the board of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation. He suggested we get Alison on to further discuss the issue and we got it done. Multiple chemical sensitivities are touchy subject for IAQ, disaster restoration and building science professionals. What is MCS? Is it a one size fits all issue? How do we work with the chemically sensitive? How do we avoid making things worse for the chemically sensitive? Mrs. Johnson graduated from Carleton College at the head of her class. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne on a National Science Foundation Fellowship and received her Masterâ??s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, studying on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 2010, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College for her work in the field of chemical sensitivity. Ms. Johnson has published three biographies: : Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive; Henry James: His Life Revealed Through His Letters; and Louis XVI and the French Revolution. She has also presented her book Gulf War Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War and 9/11 documentaries on Capitol Hill, in New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Wiesbaden, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal. We are privileged to have her join us this week as we continue to seek to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE325- Stephany Mason, Ph.D - VOC Material Testing

Dr. Mason is Vice President of VOC Materials Testing and is responsible for promotion and demonstration of expertise in chamber testing, product emissions, product organic content testing, and indoor air quality (IAQ), providing scientific leadership in these areas. Dr. Mason has 10 plus years of directly related experience with product emissions testing and product content testing for both US and international regulations, certifications, and testing schemes. She is well-versed on existing IAQ and product chemical safety regulations and methodologies. She is highly knowledgeable regarding the manufacturing processes of building materials (e.g. furniture, insulation, laminate, paint, wallboard, etc.), their uses, and potential chemical emissions and impact on the indoor environment, as well as potential chemical content health and environmental hazards. Dr. Mason has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University.

EPISODE324 - "Radio Joe" Hughes & Dietrich Weyel, Sc.D

This week on IAQ Radio we are going to discuss Indoor environmental quality inspections/investigations/assessments whatever they are called this week and the 2014 Healthy Building Professional Summit at Seven Springs, PA August 20-22. This yearâ??s event builds on the past four events sponsored by IAQ Training Institute, LLC and the Tri-State Restorerâ??s and Specialty Cleaners Association (TRSCA). Each year for the past 6 years IAQ Training has had a meeting and training with all our sub contract instructors and friends in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern PA. We teach all three levels of the Indoor Environmentalist course Foundations, Intermediate and Advanced along with other programs designed to bring together the contractors, consultants, building owners and others. This year the event has grown to the point where we can graduate to the big leagues of facilities at Seven Springs Resort in Champion, PA.

EPISODE323-Bob Pakrul, Spotless Restoration - Disaster Restoration Veteran

EPISODE322 - Flashback Friday with Don Weekes and David Miller

The publication of the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold" ensured that mold investigation and remediation was recognized as worthy of special recognition in the industrial hygiene community. Our guests for this show were both editors of this important reference.
J. David Miller, PhD was educated at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) and the University of Portsmouth (England) where he was also a NATO Science Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined Agriculture Canada in 1982 and was head of the Fusarium mycotoxin program at the Plant Research Centre from 1988-1997. In 1997, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University where he is Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council Research Chair on fungal toxins and allergens. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential and respected fungal researchers in the world.
Donald Weekes, CIH, CSP of InAir Environmental is well known to IAQ Radio fans and has been a frequent guest on the show. Mr. Weekes is the Immediate Past President of the Indoor Air Quality Association and has served or is serving on boards and committees with ASHRAE, ISIAQ and AIHA. He also still finds time to manage asbestos, lead, mould, indoor air quality and industrial hygiene projects through InAir Environmental. Mr. Weekes also joined us in September of 2008 for for Part One of our discussion of the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold". For this show we went into more detail to LEARN MORE with Don Weekes and Dr. Miller on IAQ Radio.

EPISODE321 - Dr. Charlene Bayer, Part 2 IAQA Hall of Famer

Dr. Charlene Bayer is the Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, founded to commercialize her technology for detecting human diseases from breath and her indoor air quality research. She is a Senior Research Fellow for Materials and Healthy Buildings at USGBC, a member of the USGBC EQ TAG and IAQP pilot credit workgroup, as well as the past Vice Chair of the USGBC Research Committee. Additionally she is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last 30+ years, her research has spanned the gamut of the indoor environment. Her group was one of the early leaders in sick building and product emissions research. She has spent much of her career developing methodologies to detect indoor air contaminants at increasingly low levels of detection. One of her long-term research areas is investigating the relationship between asthma and airborne exposures and developing real-time, wearable exposure monitoring systems for children. She is currently researching breath analysis for the detection of health states, exposures, and diseases. She was inducted into the IAQA Hall of Fame in March 2014. She holds multiple patents and is author and presenter of over 150 papers. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.

EPISODE320 - Dr. Charlene Bayer, Part 1 IAQA Hall of Famer

Dr. Charlene Bayer is the Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, founded to commercialize her technology for detecting human diseases from breath and her indoor air quality research. She is a Senior Research Fellow for Materials and Healthy Buildings at USGBC, a member of the USGBC EQ TAG and IAQP pilot credit workgroup, as well as the past Vice Chair of the USGBC Research Committee. Additionally she is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last 30+ years, her research has spanned the gamut of the indoor environment. Her group was one of the early leaders in sick building and product emissions research. She has spent much of her career developing methodologies to detect indoor air contaminants at increasingly low levels of detection. One of her long-term research areas is investigating the relationship between asthma and airborne exposures and developing real-time, wearable exposure monitoring systems for children. She is currently researching breath analysis for the detection of health states, exposures, and diseases. She was inducted into the IAQA Hall of Fame in March 2014. She holds multiple patents and is author and presenter of over 150 papers. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.