TY - JOUR T1 - Professor Pietro (Pier) Alberto Bertazzi (1945–2021) JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 72 LP - 72 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2021-108032 VL - 79 IS - 1 AU - Angela Cecilia Pesatori AU - Dario Consonni Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/79/1/72.abstract N2 - We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Pietro (Pier) Alberto Bertazzi, MD, MPH, who died on 15 September 2021.Pier (as he was called) graduated in medicine in 1971. His early interest in epidemiology is testified by a thesis on epidemiological methods in occupational health as postgraduate student in occupational health in 1973. He was postdoctoral fellow at the department of epidemiology of the University of North Carolina in 1979–1980, then he was a visiting scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in 1980. He attended epidemiology courses in Finland, the USA and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).Pier had a seminal role in fostering epidemiology in Italy by implementing the first occupational epidemiology unit at the Clinica del Lavoro ‘Luigi Devoto’, in Milan. In 1987, he organised courses with Harvey Checkoway and Neil Pearce (occupational epidemiology) and with David Kleimbaum … ER -