Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH
Co Director, MACCHE
Chair and Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University
Dr Tee L. Guidotti has been involved in issues of child health and environmental exposures since 1982 when he gave testimony on the subject to a committee hearing of the California State Assembly. Since, he has been deeply involved in issues of child health and the environment and the initiation of Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units, the North American network of resource centers for environmental exposures affecting children. He is currently Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center. Prior to this, he was Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Killam Annual Professor (1996) at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine, in Edmonton. There he and his colleagues Harold Hoffman and Irena Buka, working with the Department of Paediatrics in 1997, developed one of the first PEHSUs, the Paediatric Environmental Health Clinic at the Misericordia Hospital. This remains the only PEHSU in Canada. Dr. Guidotti was one of the initiators and continues as co-director of GWU’s Mid-Atlantic Center for Child Health and the Environment, the PEHSU for Region 3 in the United States. He was President of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics when the PEHSU system was expanded nationwide in the US. He was part of the working group that created the International Network for Child Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES) at the founding conference in Amsterdam in 1998 and served on the planning committee for CEH II, which was held in Washington DC in 2001.
Dr. Guidotti obtained his medical degree from the University of California at San Diego and trained in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, occupational medicine and obtained his MPH at Johns Hopkins. He took part of his medical training as a Clinical Associate in the Pediatric Metabolism Branch at the National Institutes of Health, 1977-1979, where he was involved in research on cystic fibrosis, and he was often engaged in the evaluation of children and families at the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Consultation Clinic at the University of Alberta.
Dr Guidotti has published extensively on issues in toxicology and environmental health and is a co-author of the textbook Basic Environmental Health, which was sponsored by the World Health Organization and will soon be published by Oxford University Press, and edited the popular book Canadian Guide to Health and the Environment, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and published in 1999 by the University of Alberta Press.