Qualifications and Due Diligence

Dr. Guidotti had a 30-year academic career in teaching in medicine and public health, research, and medical and professional practice of medicine before stepping down as a department chair in 2008 and taking early retirement in 2009 from the George Washington University in order to launch a second career in consulting. He has worked primarily since then in North America, the Middle East, and Australia.

In 2015, he returned to academia for six months as Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, in the Institute for Science, Society, and Policy.

Prior to 2009 (when his last appointment at GW ended) Dr. Guidotti was Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at The George Washington University, where he was Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services and as Director of the Division of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology of the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He also held cross-appointments in epidemiology, health policy and pulmonary medicine. His career included 14 years as Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Alberta, where he was named a Killam Annual Professor, founded the Occupational Health Program, and established Canada’s first Royal College-approved training program in occupational medicine.

Dr. Guidotti hold medical specialty credentials in Canada (FRCPC in occupational medicine), the US (board certification in occupational medicine, pulmonary medicine, internal medicine) and the UK (FFOM). He is licensed to practice medicine in three US states and Ontario. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. He trained at Johns Hopkins after completing medical school at the University of California at San Diego and an undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Guidotti has published extensively on topics in the field of occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, ecosystem health, sustainability and health, and science policy. His most recent book is Health and Sustainability (Oxford, 2015). He also wrote the 2010 3-volume work The Praeger Handbook of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Praeger, 2010), a leading comprehensive textbook in the field, soon to be published in its second edition as Handbook of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Praeger, 2020).

He has received numerous honors and awards and served as President of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society; the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics; Editor Emeritus of Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health.

Email: tee (at) teeguidotti.com