On May 3rd, Occupational health physician and LIN member, Aaron Tustin, will present at the 2022 American Occupational Health Conference in Salt Lake City.
The event, sponsored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), is the largest meeting of occupational and environmental health professionals in the world. It will include over 1600 participants, including physicians and other health professionals working at the forefront of environmental and occupational medicine.
Tustin will be presenting a 20-minute talk about his heat-related acute kidney injury (AKI) research. His work has shown that workers experience heat-related kidney injury in various heat-exposed industries and that heat-related acute kidney injury may eventually lead to chronic kidney disease. Moreover, he has shown that there is notorious underreporting of heat-related AKI hospitalizations by employers, meaning that the severity of the risks that heat-related AKI poses to heat-exposed industries in the US may be severely underacknowledged. In an era of climate change marked by increasing temperatures, this underreporting is especially problematic and highlights the need for clinicians and other healthcare providers to be attentive to the kidney risk from recurrent heat stress.
