Marcia Trapé-Cardoso named Consultant for Otis Elevators

July 2003

Marcia Trapé-Cardoso, MD, FACP is the newly hired consultant for Otis Elevators as their Medical Director. After completing her Medical School in São Paulo, Dr. Trapé did her Internal Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, CT, before returning to Brazil. She started her career in Occupational Medicine working for over four years for Unilever, in the Valinhos' plant, in the São Paulo State. While in Brazil, she completed a core curriculum for a master in public health at the University of Campinas. She returned to the US in 1982 and has been working for the past 20 years for the State of CT, the last 10 years at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, in the University of Connecticut Health Center. Dr. Trapé is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Trapé is well known at a national level in the field of Employee Health. She is an expert in the areas of blood-borne pathogen exposures to health care workers, latex sensitization, tuberculosis control and violence prevention, as well as more general topics involving employee health evaluation.

Dr. Trapé has been an active member of the Board of Directors of the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Connecticut (OEMAC), a Chapter of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). For the past four years, Dr. Trapé has played an important leadership role in this organization serving as Secretary/Treasurer in 1998-99, Vice President in 1999-2000 and President-elect for 2000-2001, and President for 2001-2002. Dr. Trapé is board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine (as a specialist in Occupational Medicine).

Dr. Trapé will be at Otis, in Farmington, on Wednesdays from 1:30 to 5 PM.