FACULTY
Sverre Vedal, MD, MSc
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Medicine
Dr. Vedal is a board-certified pulmonary physician and an epidemiologist. Before joining the faculty of the University of Washington in 2004, he worked for 18 years as an academic pulmonologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and then for three years at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado. His research interests are in the health effects of air pollution and occupational lung disease. Dr. Vedal teaches courses in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (see links below) and sees patients in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic at Harborview Medical Center. He is a NIOSH-certified chest x-ray B-reader. Dr. Vedal served as a member of the EPA Clean Air Scientific Review Committee (CASAC) from 1997-2003 and on the Review Committee of the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in Boston, MA from 1999-2007. He continues to serve on CASAC panels. He has been a member of NIH study section and serves now on an ad hoc basis.
Dr. Vedal completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester (1976-1979), a clinical pulmonary fellowship at the University of Utah (1979-1981) and a research fellowship in respiratory epidemiology at the Channing Laboratory of Harvard Medical School (1981-1983).
Contact Information
Box 3546954225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98105-6099
Tel: 206-616-8285
Fax: 206-897-1991
svedal@u.washington.edu
Links
Education
MD, Medicine, University of Colorado (Denver) 1976
MSc, Epidemiology, Harvard University 1983
Projects
Air pollution health effects: a source-oriented approach
Funding Agency: NIH/NIEHS (R01 ES012197)
The aim of this project is to use a source-oriented approach to assess adverse health effects of short-term exposure to sources of particulate matter on mortality, hospitalizations and measures of asthma control. A supplemental grant (R01 ES012197-S) was added to enhance air monitoring and add birth outcomes as endpoints.
Integrated epidemiologic and toxicologic cardiovascular studies to identify toxic components and sources of fine particulate matter
Funding Agency: Health Effects Institute (4749-RFA05)
The major goal of this project is to identify the compositional features of ambient particulate air pollution that determine cardiovascular health effects of long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter.
Cardiovascular disease and traffic in a multi-ethnic cohort: gene effects (a project of the DISCOVER Center - Cardiovascular disease and traffic-related air pollution)
Funding Agency: NIH/NIEHS (P50 ES015915)
The aim of this project is to use a gene-environment interaction approach to gain insight into mechanisms by which exposure to sources and components of ambient particulate matter cause cardiovascular disease.
