Bios

Dr. H. William Barkman
Director
Center for Environmental and Occupational Health
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS 66160

Dr. Barkman received the bachelor of arts degree in biology from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, in 1969. He earned the doctor of medicine degree from Creighton University, Omaha, Neb., in 1974, and completed an internship in internal medicine at Creighton in 1975. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, in 1977. Dr. Barkman was awarded a fellowship in pulmonary diseases from 1977 to 1980 by the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where he also completed a residency in occupational medicine in 1980. He earned the master of science degree in public health from the University of Utah in 1980.

Before joining the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Barkman spent nine years with Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, La. While there, he served in several parallel roles including director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, co-director of Respiratory Therapy, director of the Critical Care Medicine Program, co-director of the Pulmonary Diseases Section, and director of the Intermediate Care Unit. During this same period, Dr. Barkman was a staff physician at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, an assistant professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, director of the Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Program at Tulane University School of Medicine, and co-director of the ICU at Charity Hospital of Louisiana.

Dr. Barkman came to the Medical Center in 1989. Currently he serves as an associate professor of Internal and Preventive Medicine, and senior physician and director of the Center for Environmental and Occupational Health. He is a member of the University of Kansas Medical Center's Institutional Biosafety Committee, Laser Safety Committee, Surgical Case Review Committee, and the Infection Control Committee.

Dr. Barkman is a member of the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Kansas Thoracic Society, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the American Thoracic Society, the Medical Group Management Association, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is a member of the Great Plains College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and served as its vice president in 1993 and president in 1994. He is also a member and director of LeadBusters, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the prevention of childhood lead poisoning, and a member of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Barkman has more than 44 published abstracts and articles and has given more than 63 presentations. Key presentations that he has given on lead poisoning include Lead Poisoning in School Age Children, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas; Lead Poisoning, Mt. Carmel Hospital, Pittsburg, Kansas; Lead Poisoning: A Paradigm for Occupational Disease Investigation, Greater Kansas City Society of Internists, Kansas City, Missouri; Lead Poisoning in Adults, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, Kansas; Lead Poisoning, Family Practice Noon Teleconference, KUMC, Kansas City, Girard and Hays, Kansas; and Environmental Lead Contamination in the Tri-State Area: How to Evaluate, Treat and Prevent Lead Poisoning, Mount Carmel Medical Center, Pittsburg, Kansas.

In 1992, Dr. Barkman served as the program director of the American Academy of Physicians' annual meeting, which focused on environmental medicine. The meeting's co-sponsors were ATSDR and the AAP. Dr. Barkman received the KDHE/KU Lead Health Education Assistant Award for 1990-1991, an award that is sponsored by ATSDR

Dr. Barkman's NIH research activities have included serving as an investigator on NHLBI HL-15092 SCOR/Immune and Fibrotic Responses to Occupational Environments; and as faculty on NHLBI HL-07376 Training Program in Fibrotic and Immunologic Pulmonary Disease. Currently he serves as faculty/investigator on NIHT32 ES-07079-16, Training Program in Environmental Toxicology; and as physician/investigator on NIH ES03765, Biochemical Toxicology of Cytochrome P-450