FACULTY
Joel D. Kaufman, MD, MPH
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences (primary department)
Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Internal Medicine
Professor, Medicine
Director, Occupational and Environmental Program
Attending Physician, UW Medicine – Roosevelt Clinic
Contact Information
Box 3546954225 Roosevelt Way NE
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98105
Tel: 206-616-3501
Fax: 206-897-1991
joelk@u.washington.edu
Links
Controlled Exposure Laboratory
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
DISCOVER Center
Research Interests
Environmental and occupational epidemiology, health effects of diesel exhaust exposures, environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease, occupational asthma, traffic related air pollution and environmental health
Education
MD, University of Michigan 1986
MPH, Environmental Health, University of Washington 1990
Projects
Epidemiologic study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
Dr. Kaufman directs a major epidemiological study of air pollution, atherosclerosis and clinical cardiovascular. The project involves state-of-the-art assessment of cardiovascular disease in a multi-ethnic population, combined with sophisticated air pollution measurements and modeling. See MESA Air Pollution.
Dr. Kaufman directs an inhalation toxicology facility addressing health effects of diesel exhaust in human subjects. See Diesel Exhaust Controlled Exposure Laboratory and EPA National Center for Environmental Research and Department of Environmental Health Laboratories
Selected Publications
Community of Sciences Biography Page
