Principal
M.C. Townsend Associates, LLC
Dr. Townsend is an Independent Spirometry and Epidemiology Consultant for industrial, government, and research clients and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. She consults for OSHA's Directorate of Standards and Guidance and helped develop the Spirometry Testing in Occupational Health Programs: Best Practices for Healthcare Professionals Guidance Document, released on March 27, 2013. She received the 2013 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Award for Health Achievement in Occupational Medicine, is lead author of ACOEM's Position Statement on Spirometry in Occupational Health - 2020. She has been an active member of ACOEM and of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) for many decades. She has been the course director for annual Spirometry Updates for Physicians courses at the AOHC, as well as teaching for the University of Pennsylvania Occupational Residency program, MARCOEM, and the WOHC. She has taught NIOSH-approved Spirometry courses for 30 years, and since COVID, has developed the only fully virtual initial NIOSH approved course in the US. She is Course Director for Johns Hopkins as well as for M.C. Townsend Associates, LLC. Before working as an Independent Consultant, she worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Visiting Scientist and Research Epidemiologist at NIOSH, and as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Friday, April 25, 2025
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
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104 - Interpreting Spirometry Test Results in the Occupational Setting Since 2023
Sunday, April 27, 2025
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
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