Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Dr. Robert Paine, UPHE Board Member and Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Respiratory, Critical Care and Occupational Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, points out aspects of the Ozone and PM2.5 levels and their affects on mortality during a press conference, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the largest studies of its kind to date involving 61 million people throughout the United States, strengthens the association between premature death and PM2.5 and ozone. UPHE Board President, Dr. Brian Moench