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| Measures of Accomplishment 2001-2003 Faculty: Brief bios |
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Faculty |
Scott Barnhart, MD, MPH, is a professor (primary appointment in the School of Medicine) and since 1999 has been medical director of Harborview Medical Center. He directed the Occupational and Environ-mental Medicine program from 1994 to 1999. One area of research is the natural history of asbestos-related lung disease, including possible protective effects of beta-carotene and vitamin A. A second project is control of silicosis in developing nations. A third area of investigation is use of a public health approach to reduce occupational hazards on Department of Energy (DOE) sites. Carl A. (Drew) Brodkin, MD, MPH, an associate professor of Internal Medicine andEnvironmental Health, (primary appointment in Internal Medicine) taught in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program. His research involves health effects of organic solvents and asbestos, including solvent-related liver disease and occupational pulmonary epidemiology. He has served on the Board of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics since 1993. He was appointed to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Committee to update the 1986 ATS statement on “the diagnosis of non-malignant diseases related to asbestos.” He is a coeditor for the Second Edition of the Textbook of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Saunders & Co). He left in 2003 to go into private practice. Thomas M. Burbacher, PhD, is an associate professor in the Toxicology program and deputy director of the department’s Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research. His research focuses on the effects of prenatal or early postnatal exposure to environmental pollutants on central nervous system development. His projects include studies aimed at examining: the cognitive and sensory effects of prenatal methylmercury exposure in aged monkeys; the effects of prenatal exposure to methanol on sensory and cognitive development; and the effects of early pesticide exposure on brain development in rodents. Janice Camp, MSN, MSPH, is a senior lecturer in the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program and director of the Field Research and Consultation Group. Her research interests include occupational exposure assessment, ergonomics, and program evaluation. Ms. Camp, a certified industrial hygienist and certified occupational health nurse, is past president of the Pacific Northwest Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the Washington State Association of Occupational Health Nurses. Harvey Checkoway, PhD, is a professor in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program. His research interests include occupational and environmental risk factors for cancer, dust-related lung diseases, and neurological disorders. Increasingly, his research has incorporated biomarkers of exposure, response, and genetic susceptibility. Recent projects include a study of silica, silicosis, and lung cancer among diatomite industry workers; semen quality among lead smelter workers; environmental exposures and genetic variations in Parkinson’s disease; and cancer risks among textile workers. Lucio G. Costa, PhD, is a professor in the Toxicology program. His area of research is neurotoxicology, particularly the study of the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms involved when toxicants affect the nervous system. His laboratory uses in vivo, in vitro, and cell culture systems, as well as biochemical, molecular, and imaging techniques. Research projects include the effects of alcohol and pesticides on brain cells, and studies on genetic predisposition to neurotoxicity. He has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed dozens of book chapters and other publications. William Daniell, MD, MPH, is an associate professor in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program. His current research interests primarily involve noise-induced hearing loss and the utility of workers’ compensation data for research and intervention purposes. Past research includes neuropsychological consequences of occupational chemical exposures, particularly organic solvents, carpal tunnel syndrome, and multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. David L. Eaton, PhD, is a professor in the Toxicology program and associate dean for research in the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He has published more than 80 research papers, contributed to 23 books, and written a dozen articles explaining toxicological principles to the general public. He directs a training program for elementary and secondary educators and is past president of the Society of Toxicology. His research specialty is chemical carcinogenesis, focusing on how enzymes in the liver activate and detoxify carcinogenic chemicals. He directs the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health, which brings together more than 50 UW investigators to study how small differences in human genes (polymorphisms) can influence susceptibility to toxic substances in the environment. The center is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Elaine M. Faustman, PhD, is a professor in the Toxicology program, director of the Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication and the Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research. Her long-range aim is to identify biochemical and molecular mechanisms of developmental and reproductive toxicity. Because 70% of human birth defects have an unknown cause, she wants to identify preventable causes, focusing on several types of pollutants including pesticides and metals such as lead and methylmercury. Recently, she chaired a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel that developed approaches for incorporating new genomic, molecular, and developmental biological findings into risk assessment. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Risk Analysis. Dr. Faustman has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 25 book chapters and other publications. Richard A. Fenske, PhD, MPH, is a professor in the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program and director of the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center, one of ten such centers supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). He is also deputy director of the Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research. He researches new methods for assessing workplace and community exposures and risks. This work has included development of a quantitative fluorescent tracer technique for characterizing dermal exposure during pesticide applications, evaluation of risks associated with residential pesticide use, and community-based biological monitoring of children’s exposure to pesticides. He teaches courses in exposure assessment and environmental risk analysis. He is a member of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Review Board for pesticide science policy, an advisor to the National Cancer Institute’s Agricultural Health Study, and a member of the Institute of Medicine/NAS Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides. Gary M. Franklin, MD, MPH, is a research professor in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program and in the Department of Neurology, and is the medical director of the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries (L&I). His research interests include the epidemiology and outcomes of treatment for occupational injury, occupational and environmental diseases of the nervous system, health services research, and health policy. Jack Hatlen, MS, is an associate professoremeritus in the Environmental Health program. His research specialties include environmental sanitation practices in public health agencies, environmental health planning and management, and workforce education and development. Another interest is the collection, treatment and disposal of community wastewaters. Peter Johnson, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Industrial Hygiene program, specializing in ergonomics. He earned his doctorate in Bioengineering from the University of California-Berkeley and has worked as a researcher at the national institutes of occupational health in the United States, Sweden, and Denmark. He is developing and validating an exposure assessment system for measuring multiple physical risk factors during computer work, working on a large-scale study to measure and characterize office workers’ exposure to upper-extremity hazards, and developing tools for exposure assessment of physical risk factors. He is also developing methods to measure occupationally related muscle fatigue using electrical stimulation of the muscle. David A. Kalman, PhD, is department chair and a professor in the Environmental Health program. His research focuses on chemical issues, such as hazardous properties of materials, environmental fate and transport, environ-mental quality assessment, hazard management, and occupational and community exposure assessment, especially using biomarkers of exposure. Active research areas include assessment of exposures to atmos-pheric particulates, including wood smoke, and exposures and effects of arsenic in drinking water, diet, and soil. Joel Kaufman, MD, MPH, is associate professor and director of the Occupa-tional and Environmental Medicine program. He has a joint appointment with General Internal Medicine and an adjunct appointment in Epidemiology. His research activities fall into three areas: occupational and environmental factors in cardio-vascular disease; epidemiology of occupational and environmental asthma; and surveillance and prevention of occupational illnesses and injuries, including lead poisoning and occupational skin disorders. He is past-president of the Northwest Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He directs a research facility studying health effects of diesel exhaust, focusing on cardiovascular and pulmonary effects, and an epidemiological study of cardiovascular disease and air pollution. Terrance J. Kavanagh, PhD, is a professor and director of the Toxicology program. His research interests include free radical biology and oxidative stress, and the effects of chemicals on diseases of aging, including cancer, atherosclerosis, pulmonary fibrosis, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. His laboratory assesses the role of the free radical scavenger glutathione (GSH) and the enzymes involved in its synthesis in preventing free radical injury. Another research interest involves assessing the role of genetic polymorphisms in these enzymes in free-radical-mediated diseases. Matthew C. Keifer, MD, MPH, is an associate professor and director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine residency program and the graduate program coordinator for our department. He joined the faculty after serving as project epidemiologist for CARE in Nicaragua, where he supervised health surveillance and development activities related to pesticide exposures and biological monitoring. His activities pertain to studies of agricultural and international occupational and environmental health and safety. He is co-director of the PNASH Center. He is also director of the International Scholars in Occupational and Environmental Health. John Kissel, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Environmental Health program. His research interests include pathways of human exposure to environmental contaminants in environmental media. Exposure factor data collected by Dr. Kissel and his students and staff are cited in EPA guidance documents and used in cleanup decisions at Superfund sites. He also investigates community exposures to pesticides and currently serves on the EPA Science Advisory Panel for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Dr. Kissel was president of the International Society of Exposure Analysis in 2002-2003. He has authored or coauthored about 30 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Jane Q. Koenig, PhD, is a professor in the Toxicology program. Her research interests are the respiratory health effects of air pollution, especially the responses of susceptible individuals, such as those with asthma or other chronic respiratory diseases. She is involved in three general areas of research: controlled laboratory studies using human subjects, field or epidemiological studies evaluating respiratory health in populations exposed to fine particulate matter from wood smoke or other sources in their neighborhoods, and assessment of physical or chemical changes in cultured human epithelial cells after air pollutant exposure. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, and directs the EPA particulate matter research center. L.-J. Sally Liu, ScD, is an associate professor in the Environmental Health program. She earned her doctorate in 1994 from Harvard University’s School of Public Health and has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. Her research interests include air pollution exposure assessment in susceptible populations, risk assessment, and air pollution epidemiology. She is the principal investigator of several exposure assessment projects focusing on assessing hazardous air pollutants exposure and health effects among high-risk subpopulations in the Northwestern United States. Daniel L. Luchtel, PhD, is a professor in the Toxicology program. His research projects include the effects of gaseous air pollutants (ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide) on cultured human nasal epithelial cells and primate bron-chial epithelial cells; toxicology of carbon/graphite fibers used in advanced com-posite materials by the aerospace industry; and mucociliary clearance as a defense mechanism in the lung. He has developed new ways of preserving and fixing mucous cells with ultrarapid freezing and freeze-substitution. He is also interested in the applications and techniques of microscopy. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals. John Scott Meschke, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Environmental Health program, specializing in pathogens in the environment. He earned his doctorate in environmental microbiology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on environmentally transmitted pathogens, sampling and analysis methods, environmental fate and transport, quantitative microbial risk assessment, and engineered controls. He is involved in studies on the recovery and disinfection of a variety of Noroviruses on surfaces and the development of micro-array-based methods for characterization of viruses. Lee Monteith, MS, is a senior lecturer emeritus in the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program. He is a certified industrial hygienist, a member of the Air Sampling Instruments Committee of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and the Gas and Vapor Detection Systems Committee of the AIHA, and a liaison between the two committees. He is a Diplomate member of the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene. His research interests include the adsorption process in passive dosimeter badges, methods for the measurements of glove permeation, and methods for the detection and measurement of trace compounds in the environment. He is author of two chapters in Air Sampling Instruments for Evaluation of Atmospheric Contaminants. Michael S. Morgan, ScD, is a professor in the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program. He holds adjunct appointments in Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering. Dr. Morgan is a certified industrial hygienist. His main academic interest is in respiratory physiology and inhalation toxicology. He measures and models the pharmacokinetics of industrial solvent exposures, and studies the performance of personal protective equipment used with solvents. He also studies lead exposures in the construction industry, particularly among demolition workers. He chairs the Biological Exposure Indices Committee of the ACGIH. In 1999, he was appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee on Air Quality in Passenger Cabins of Commercial Aircraft. He has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and currently serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Sharon L. Morris is a senior lecturer in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program and our department’s assistant chair for community outreach. Her research interests include occupational safety and health policy and program evaluation, and she directs our department’s Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation Initiative. She is involved in a study to evaluate the implementation of the Washington state ergonomics rule. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; the Innovations Task Force of the Washington state L&I; and the Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Board, among other committees. Curtis J. Omiecinski, PhD, was a professor and director of the Toxicology program, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmacology. His research program in molecular toxicology focused on genetic factors and regulatory mechanisms that underlie susceptibilities of individuals to toxic effects associated with chemical exposures. He is an editorial board member of several scientific journals, and has served as Associate Editor of both Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology and Toxicological Sciences, official journals of theSociety of Toxicology. In the summer of 2003, Dr. Omiecinski left the UW to take the H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell chair in the Department of Veterinary Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. He continues to serve as an affiliate professor in our department. Mansour Samadpour, PhD, was an assistant professor in the Environmental Health program. His research projects include source analysis for fecal coliforms in relation to shellfish beds and public water supply; molecular epidemiology of food-borne outbreaks; and prevalence and implications of food-borne pathogens in public food supplies. He left the UW in 2003 to pursue private interests. Noah S. Seixas, PhD, is a professor in the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program. Dr. Seixas is a certified industrial hygienist and a member of the editorial board of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. His interests are in the quantification of exposure for occupational epidemiology, and development of bio-logically relevant exposure metrics. His research efforts include a prospective study of noise-induced hearing damage among construction workers, assessment of irritant gas exposures during aluminum smelting, exposure assessment for women textile workers in Shanghai, China, and methods of controlling exposure to dust during construction tasks. Dr. Seixas also works closely with the local construction community evaluating the effectiveness of educational and organizational programs. Elizabeth (Lianne) Sheppard, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program with a joint appointment in Biostatistics. Her applied work focuses on air pollution health effects and occupational epidemiologic studies. Her biostatistical research interests emphasize estimation of health effects from environmental and occupational exposures, and incorporating group information in epidemiologic studies. Christopher Simpson, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program. His research interests involve the application of analytical chemistry to the development and application of analytical methods for assessment of human exposure to toxic chemicals in the workplace and the environment. Active research areas include development of biomarkers of exposure to wood smoke and diesel exhaust, use of organic molecular tracers for measurement and source apportionment of particulate air pollution, and measurement of biomarkers for reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species associated with exposure to particulate air pollution. Charles D. Treser, MPH, is a senior lecturer in the Environmental Health program. His interests include administrative law and process applied to environmental health, and vector control and housing. He works with the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice to develop a regional network of state and local public health agencies and academic institutions focused on current issues of public health workforce development. He has also participated in a national effort to revise the basic housing inspection manual for environmental health practitioners. He is a past president of the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs (AEHAP), and principal investigator on a cooperative agreement between AEHAP and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Center for Environ-mental Health, designed to improve environ-mental health practice through promoting and strengthening environmental health academic programs. Gerald van Belle, PhD, a professor in the Environmental Health program (joint with Biostatistics), was department chair from 1990 to 1998. His research specialties include design of experiments, data characterization, and analysis with emphasis to neurodegenerative diseases and environmental studies. He also studies the effects of air pollution on health, particularly the link between daily fluctuations in air pollution levels and morbidity and mortality statistics. A current interest is the investigation of characteristics of cognitive tests in neurodegenerative diseases by means of item response modeling. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 papers and several books, including Statistical Rules of Thumb (2002). He serves on the External Scientific Advisory Committees of the National Environmental Respiratory Center, the Harvard Particulate Matter Research Center, and the University of Southern California NIEHS Center. He is also a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drug Advisory Committee. James S. Woods, PhD, MPH, is a research professor in the Toxicology program. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of toxicity of heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, and lead, with additional interest in changes in metabolism of porphyrins as biomarkers of metal exposure and toxicity. He also conducts epidemiological studies of metal toxicity in human populations, including a study to determine the potential health risks to children of dental amalgam fillings containing mercury. He is past president of the American Board of Toxicology and is founding president of the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists. He has served on numerous national and international advisory committees to evaluate human health risks from metal exposures. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals in addition to numerous book chapters and review articles. Zhengui Xia, PhD, is an associate professor in the Toxicology program. She has published 38 papers, mostly on the mechanisms for regulating apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death. During development, apoptosis helps remove cells that are produced in excess, have developed improperly, or are no longer needed. In adults, apoptosis removes cells that are potentially dangerous, such as viral infected cells, genetically damaged cells, or toxin-damaged cells. Dr. Xia studies the role of chemical toxins such as sodium arsenite and pesticides (rotenone, chlorpyrifos) on apoptosis. Abnormal apoptosis has been implicated in various diseases, such as cancer, autoimmune disorders, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and stroke. Dr. Xia’s research has been supported by the Sheldon Murphy assistant professor endowment and National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. She is also a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome new investigator award. Michael G. Yost, PhD, is a professor and director of the Industrial Hygiene and Safety program. His research interests include optical remote sensing of chemicals in the environment, and physical agents in the workplace such as noise, vibration, and electromagnetic radiation. Dr. Yost is a member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and the ACGIH. He is developing new tools for exposure assessment, such as Optical Remote Sensing (ORS) methods that use electromagnetic radiation (lasers, UV, visible, or infrared light) to rapidly identify and measure contaminants. He founded and directs the optical remote sensing lab, which is engaged in several research projects that apply these tools to environmental monitoring problems. Peter Breysse, MPH, Associate Professor Emeritus PART-TIME AND VISITING FACULTY Theo Bammler, PhD, Acting Instructor Nilo Arnaiz Leonard Altman, MD, Clinical Professor, Joint with Medicine (primary appointment), Oral Biology David Covert, PhD, Adjunct Research Professor Frank Dost, DVM, ATS, Affiliate Professor Robert Dreisbach, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor Diana Echeverria, PhD, Affiliate Associate Professor Scott Iverson, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor Philip Landrigan, MD, Clinical Professor Joellen Lewtas, PhD, Affiliate Professor Roseanne Lorenzana, PhD, Affiliate Assistant Professor Roscoe Moore, PhD, Affiliate Associate Professor |
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