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Richard Fenske,
PhD, MPH Director Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences University of Washington Box 357234 Seattle, WA 98195-7234 Contact: (800) 330-0827, (206) 616-1958, pnash@u.washington.edu |
Education
1970 BA Stanford University (History)
1972 MA Columbia University (Comparative Religion)
1976 MA University of California, Berkeley (Geography)
1978 MPH University of California, Berkeley (Environmental Health Sciences)
1984 PhD University of California, Berkeley (Environmental Health Sciences)
Research Interests
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Director, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
Richard A. Fenske is Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington,
and has served as director of the NIOSH-supported Pacific Northwest
Agricultural Safety and Health Center since 1996. He is a core
faculty member of the NIEHS-supported Center for Ecogenetics
and Environmental Health. He also served as Deputy Director
of the EPA/NIEHS-supported UW Center for Child Environmental
Health Risks Research from 1998-2003, and Director of the UW
Field Research and Consultation Group from 1992-1996.
Dr. Fenske received the 2006 NIOSH Director’s Award for
Scientific Achievement in Occupational Safety and Health, and
the 2007 Jerome Wesolowski Award from the International Society
for Exposure Analysis for his substantial contributions to
the field of exposure science. Dr. Fenske currently serves
on several federal advisory boards and committees: the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board;
the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Roundtable on Environmental
Health Sciences, Research and Medicine; the National Academy
of Sciences/Institute of Medicine Committee to Review the Health
Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (serving
as Chair in 2008); and the EPA Human Studies Review Board,
which evaluates the science and ethics of studies involving
human subjects.
Dr. Fenske’s research has focused on the assessment and
mitigation of chemical hazards through workplace and community
studies. He has introduced novel procedures for the assessment
of skin exposure among agricultural workers through the use
of fluorescent tracers. He has also contributed to the elucidation
of pesticide exposure pathways for children living in agricultural
communities and in residential settings. His current research
includes studies of pesticide handler exposures, new biomonitoring
techniques, pesticide spray drift, and para-occupational exposures
of children in rural communities. He currently receives research
support from the NIOSH Agricultural Centers Program, the EPA/NIEHS
Children’s Environmental Health Centers Program and the
Washington Department of Health. Recently, Dr. Fenske was asked
to serve as the lead investigator for the Climate and Human
Health sector of the University of Washington’s state-supported
Climate Impacts Assessment. Dr. Fenske teaches courses in the
areas of environmental health risk assessment, environmental
sampling and analysis, exposure science, and public health
policy related to pesticide use.
From 1984-1990 Dr. Fenske was Assistant Professor and then
Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University
and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. He received
his doctoral degree and master's in public health from UC Berkeley
in Environmental Health Sciences. He was also awarded a master's
degree in geography from UC Berkeley and a master's degree
in comparative religion from Columbia University in New York.
His bachelor's degree is in history from Stanford University.
For more information regarding Dr. Fenske please visit his faculty page.
Dr.
Fenske received the 2007 Jerome J. Wesolowski Award from
the International Society of Exposure Analysis for his work
in reducing human exposure to chemical hazards (read more). Selected Publications
Hofmann JN, Carden A, Fenske RA, Ruark HE, Keifer MC. Evaluation of a clinic-based cholinesterase test kit for the Washington State Cholinesterase Monitoring Program. Am J Ind Med. 2008 Jul; 51(7): 532-8. PMID: 18459125
Thompson B, Coronado GD, Vigoren EM, Griffith WC, Fenske RA, Kissel JC, Shirai JH, and Faustman EM. Para Niños Saludables: A Community Intervention Trial to Reduce Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure in Children of Farmworkers. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 May; 116(5): 687–694. PMID: 18470300
Rodriguez T, Younglove L, Lu C, Funez A, Weppner S, Barr DB, Fenske RA. Biological monitoring of pesticide exposures among applicators and their children in Nicaragua. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2006 Oct-Dec;12(4):312-20. PMID: 17168218 (pdf)
Lu C, Rodriguez T, Funez A, Irish RS, Fenske RA. The
assessment of occupational exposure to diazinon in Nicaraguan
plantation workers using saliva biomonitoring. Ann N Y Acad
Sci. 2006 Sep;1076:355-65. PMID: 17119215
Elgethun K, Yost MG, Fitzpatrick CT, Nyerges TL, Fenske RA. Comparison of global positioning system (GPS) tracking and parent-report diaries to characterize children's time-location patterns. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2006 Jun 14; PMID: 16773123
Hines CJ, Deddens JA, Lu C, Fenske RA, Striley CA. Mixed-effect models for evaluating multiple measures of atrazine exposure among custom applicators. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2006 May; 3(5): 274-83. PMID: 16595379
Fenske RA, Lu C, Curl CL, Shirai JH, Kissel JC. Biologic monitoring to characterize organophosphorus pesticide exposure among children and workers: an analysis of recent studies in Washington State.Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Nov;113(11):1651-7.PMID: 16263526
Weppner S, Elgethun K, Lu C, Hebert V, Yost MG, Fenske RA. The Washington aerial spray drift study: children's exposure to methamidophos in an agricultural community following fixed-wing aircraft applications. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2006 Sep;16(5):387-96. Epub 2005 Oct 12.
PMID: 16249796
Fenske RA. State-of-the-art measurement of agricultural pesticide exposures. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2005;31 Suppl 1:67-73; discussion 63-5. Review. PMID: 16190151
Carden A, Yost MG, Fenske RA. Noninvasive method for the assessment of dermal uptake of pesticides using attenuated total reflectance infrared spectroscopy. Appl Spectrosc. 2005 Mar;59(3):293-9. PMID: 15901309
Fenske RA, Lu C, Barr D, Needham L. Children's exposure to chlorpyrifos and parathion in an agricultural community in Central Washington State. Environ Health Persp 110:549-553 2002
Fenske RA, Kedan G, Lu C, Fisker-Andersen J, Curl C. Assessment of organophosphorous pesticide exposures in the diets of preschool children in Washington State. J Exp Analy Environ Epi 12:21-28 2002
Lu C, Knutson D, Fisker-Andersen J, Fenske RA. Biological monitoring survey of organophosphorus pesticide exposure among preschool children in the Seattle metropolitan area. Environ Health Persp 109:299-303 2001
Lu C, Fenske RA, Simcox N, Kalman D. Pesticide exposure of children in an agricultural community: Evidence of household proximity to farmland and take home exposure pathways. Environmental Research, Sec A No.84:290-302 2000
Fenske RA, Lu C, Simcox N, Loewenherz C, Touchstone J, Moate T, Allen E, Kissel J. Strategies for assessing children's organophosphorus pesticide exposures in agricultural communities. J Exp Analy Environ Epi 10:662-671 2000
Fenske RA. Dermal exposure: a decade of real progress. Ann Occup Hyg Vol 44 No 7:489-491 2000
Fenske RA, Kissel J, Lu C, Kalman D, Simcox N, Allen E, Keifer M. Biologically based pesticide dose estimates for children in an agricultural community. Environ Health Persp Vol 108 No 6:515-520 2000
Doran E, Yost MG, Fenske RA. Measuring dermal exposure to pesticide residues with attenuated total reflectance fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol No 64:666-672 2000
Fenske RA, Simcox N, Camp J, Hines C. Comparison of three methods for assessment of hand exposure to azinphos-methyl (guthion) during apple thinning. Appl Ind Hyg Vol 14 No 9:618-623 1999
Moate TF, Lu C, Fenske RA, Hahne RMA, Kalman D. Improved cleanup and determination of dialkyl phosphates in the urine of children exposed to organophosphorus insecticides. J Analy Toxi Vol 23 No 4:230-236 1999