Program Co-Director, Medical Director & Research Assistant Professor
Research Foundation of the City University of New York, Queens College
Khaula Khatlani MD MSc, has dual board certification in Occupational Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, and became the Worker Health Protection Program (WHPP) Medical Director in 2022. WHPP is a Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored, medical surveillance program for former nuclear weapons' industry workers, based at Queens College, New York. She became a member of the Medical Community of the ‘Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health’ for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) in June 2024, which advises Secretary of Labor on matters of compensation. In her current role, she has conducted research on Colorectal Cancer screening practices and risk factors of thyroid abnormalities among the former DOE employees.
Dr. Khatlani graduated from DOW Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan and completed both her residency and a clinical fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Khatlani was the recipient of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Fogarty Fellowship in Trauma and Injury Prevention and received epidemiological training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Khatlani has published research on occupational disease, injury prevention, workplace and intimate partner violence.
306 - Thinking Big: Tackling Cancer in Occupational Health Screening
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
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