Dr. Jonathan Borak

Biography

Jonathan Borak is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Amherst College and earned his Medical Doctor degree from New York University. Dr. Borak completed his residency in internal medicine at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at McGill University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Internal Medicine at Yale University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Toxicology, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and the American Industrial Hygiene Association Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Dr. Borak serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. He has served a decade as Chair of the Council on Scientific Affairs for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and has received numerous accolades, including the Adolph G. Kammer Merit Authorship Award and the Harriett Hardy Award from the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. His research interests focus on environmental and industrial toxicology, biological and clinical surveillance of toxic exposures, and environmental workplace exposure assessments, with recent projects addressing occupational exposures to elemental mercury and beryllium-related diseases.

Research Interests