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Environmental Health Service
This service center is an internationally known and respected clinical and research
unit. Environmental Health Services performs clinical/occupational
procedures and studies related to the respiratory system. It performs cutting edge
research on the health effects of air pollutants (e.g. ozone, sulfuric acid,
sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide) and other environmental stresses, such as
inhaled drugs, allergens, infectious agents, in a wide range of groups including
healthy children and adults and patients with asthma, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), and spinal cord injury.
The types of agents that are evaluated are diverse and originate
outdoors, indoors, and in the workplace. Rancho has the only dedicated environmental
center in Southern California capable of providing combined medical and
direct exposure evaluation of these patients. The
highly sophisticated expertise, resources, and facilities in the environmental
health center would be cost-prohibitive to duplicate elsewhere. Thus, it is
cost-efficient for patients with environmentally or occupationally related
issues to be referred to Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center for
quality medical environmental evaluation.
Two movable research facilities, designed and built by Environmental
Health Services, offer unique laboratory capabilities for conducting
community environmental research. The 10-foot by 60-foot facility
is built on a mobile office-trailer chassis and is designed to
study human subjects under a range of ambient environmental conditions. Complete
air monitoring capabilities (including meteorological variables) are available.
The research facility has been used in and around the Southern California area
in several key studies of respiratory health and air pollution, and can be
deployed to any location accessible by rail or road.
Contact Information
Trudy Webb, Clinical Research Coordinator
Bill Linn, Scientist
Telephone: (562) 401-7561
Voicemail: (562) 401-7563
Fax: (562) 401-5191
E-mail: trudywebb@yahoo.com
For additional information about research conducted at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center visit:
The Los Amigos Research and Education Institute
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