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• It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing on September 16, 2009 of Marcia Trapé-Cardoso M.D., F.A.C.P., M.R.O., associate professor of clinical medicine, following a short illness. 
  
  Dr. Trapé joined the Health Center in 1992, as the medical director of the Employee Health Service. She achieved national recognition in the field of employee health with a focus on work-related exposures to health care workers. Dr. Trapé has been an active member of the Board of Directors for the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Connecticut, a chapter of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She has played an important leadership role in this organization holding several key positions most recently as a state delegate for the National House of Delegates. Dr. Trapé recently received the Irving J. Selikoff Professional Excellence Award from the Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health. ConnectiCOSH is a non-profit, statewide organization which helps unions, individuals and communities win healthier and safer working and living conditions.
  
  Dr. Trapé was passionate about ensuring the health and safety of employees including educating the Heath Center community on the importance of workplace safety, influenza prevention, hand hygiene, andblood borne pathogen exposures. She was a preceptor in the primary care program of internal medicine, a lecturer in the Masters in Public Health Program, and an adviser and teacher of graduate students, residents and medical students.  
  
  Dr. Trapé achieved many accomplishments in her professional career. Among those, she was an integral part of the Genesis Team that provided smallpox vaccinations to various state and acute care healthcare providers. Her research interests included reducing occupational injuries and illnesses in migrant and seasonal tobacco farm workers for which she had a grant from the CDC.
  
  With Dr. Trapé’s passing, UCONN loses an exceptionally dedicated and valued member of our faculty. 

• DEP Says Study of Artificial Fields Now Set to Assess Health and Environmental Impact of Crumb Rubber - January 2, 2009

• Occupational illnesses decline by 22%, but stay above the national average - September 2008 (Download full report below)

• A one day conference was held on October 24, 2008: Greenable Cleanable Eastern Connecticut: A Public Health Initiative to Reduce the Use of Toxic Cleaning Products in Eastern Connecticut.

• Dr. Eileen Storey retired on June 30, 2007 after 20 years of service at the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is working at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown, West Virginia. The current success of the UCHC Division of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health is a result of Dr. Storey's leadership and excellent work. We wish her continued success!

• Researchers investigate health risks to nail salon workers - UCONN Advance Article, February 25, 2008