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DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLICY,
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Gregory R. Wagner, M.D. is serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Mine Safety and Health Administration. He was appointed to the position on July 29, 2009, and is senior official at the agency pending confirmation of an Assistant Secretary.
Before his appointment to MSHA, Dr. Wagner served as the Senior Advisor to the Director of the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health.
Until 2004, Dr. Wagner served as Director of the NIOSH Division of Respiratory Disease Studies in Morgantown, WV. Under Dr. Wagner's guidance, NIOSH took the lead in U.S. and contributed to international efforts to control or eradicate silicosis. He played a key role in the expansion of NIOSH activities in areas involving health and safety of miners, leading work at the Pittsburgh and Spokane Research Centers as the first NIOSH Associate Director for Mining in 1996-7. He also coordinated a public research priority-setting process that led to the development of the National Occupational Research Agenda.
Dr. Wagner has served on American Thoracic Society committees developing policy statements on silicosis, on the adverse health effects of air pollution, and on the diagnosis of non-malignant disease from asbestos. He also served on federal advisory committees for the Departments of Energy and Justice on issues related to beryllium disease prevention and compensation for uranium miners.
Dr. Wagner also has significant international experience, working closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in international efforts to combat occupational lung disease. He represented the U.S. on a variety of expert committees of the WHO and ILO.
A graduate of Harvard College and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Wagner has both taught and practiced internal and occupational medicine and is board certified in both fields. Following his internal medicine residency, he served as a medical officer in the National Health Service Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service in Dawes, West Virginia.
He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and reports on occupational hazards and their prevention. Dr. Wagner's professional work focuses on the role of government in the prevention of disease.
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