EPISODE503: IAQ Radio Classics – Harriet Ammann, PhD – Remixed with a Video Transcript Added! (original air date 6-22-12)

This week on IAQ Radio we unveil a new feature we are calling “IAQradio+ Classics. In the past we have done Flashback Friday’s where we simply replayed a show from the archives. IAQradio Classics+ will be much more than a replay. IAQradio Classics+ are live shows with a video transcript of the show. We are having some of our best shows transcribed and will remix then to include the transcription. We start this week with a fantastic show with Dr. Harriet Ammann. Dr. Ammann holds a Ph.D. degree in Zoology and Biochemistry from North Carolina State University. She was a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology from 1989 through 2014. She taught cell, human, vertebrate and comparative animal physiology for 14 years before joining the US EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant and Indoor Air Teams in 1984. She was senior toxicologist for Environmental Health of the Washington State Department of Health for 12 years, and then held the same position with the Air Quality Program of the Washington State Department of Ecology for 4 years. While interested in toxic effects from exposure for any exposure route, she is especially interested in inhalation and has worked extensively in indoor and ambient air pollution. She was a member of the NAS Institute of Medicine Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, and authored the microbial toxicity of the book published by the IOM. She has been working on public health issues since 1984. She is an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the School of Public Health of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She teaches in courses in Toxicology and Community Air Pollution at the University, and teaches in Healthy Building courses on moisture, microbes and health in the indoor environment in Washington and in Oregon, and has presented on updates on asthma and the epidemiology and toxicology of indoor mold exposure at the Washington Department of Health Epidemiology Program, and for the Washington 2014 Asthma Summit. She will retire from her affiliate with the University of Washington School of Public Health in July, 2018