ETEP Faculty
Sara Dubowsky Adar, ScD, MHS
Environmental epidemiology, exposure science for epidemiology, ambient air pollution,
traffic-related pollutants, community noise, vulnerabilities, interventions.
Stuart Batterman, PhD
Exposure assessment, biological monitoring, human health risk and environmental impact
assessment, innovative measurement techniques for air pollutants, and environmental
policy including indoor and ambient air quality, hazardous waste, and drinking water.
Justin Colacino, PhD
Environmental and dietary factors in carcinogenesis and cancer prevention, environmental
dysregulation of stem cell biology in breast cancer, racial disparities in breast
cancer, environmental epigenetics, nutrient-toxicant and toxicant-toxicant interactions
Dana Dolinoy, PhD
Developmental origins of health and disease; epigenetics; nutrition; toxicology.
J. Tim Dvonch, PhD
Exposure assessment and health effects of air pollution, with a focus on chemical
composition of particulates and source identification. Atmospheric transport and fate
of toxicants including mercury and other metals across a wide array of environmental
systems.
John Fink, MD
Identifying genes and mechanisms responsible for age-dependent neurologic degeneration;
and on developing treatments for these conditions.
Alexis J. Handal
Environmental epidemiology; occupational epidemiology; worker health; labor exploitation;
social epidemiology; social inequities in health; reproductive epidemiology; maternal
and child health; child development; community-engaged research; CBPR; global health
Steven Huang, MD
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), interstitial lung disease, asthma and other chronic
airway disorders, pulmonary rehabilitation, general pulmonary medicine.
Raoul Kopelman, PhD
Chemical and biochemical live cell imaging with nano-sensors to detect cell changes
associated with disease, microbial exposure and environmental toxicant exposure; photodynamic
nano-effectors to fight cancer and germs. Tumor delineation for surgery with targeted
nanoparticles.
Rita Loch-Caruso, PhD
Reproductive and developmental toxicology; molecular, cellular and pathophysiologic
mechanisms of abnormal parturition; toxicant effects on placenta and extraembryonic
membranes; preterm birth and dysfunctional labor.
Kate Manz, PhD
John Meeker, ScD, CIH
Reproductive and environmental epidemiology.
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
Gene-environment interaction. Bayesian methods.
Richard L. Neitzel, PhD
Assessment and control of human exposures to environmental hazards, including noise,
chemical agents (e.g., heavy metals and paper dust); psychosocial stressors (e.g.,
shiftwork and fatigue), and injury risks; evaluation of health effects associated
with these hazards, including hearing loss, cardiovascular disease, sleep disturbance,
and injuries.
Marie O'Neill, PhD
ealth effects of air pollution, temperature extremes and climate change (mortality,
asthma, birth outcomes and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure assessment;
and socio-economic influences on health.
Yoichi Osawa, PhD
Mechanisms of chemical pharmacology and xenobiotic toxicology involving free radicals,
oxidative stress, metabolism, and regulation of hemoproteins by Hsp90- and Hsp70-based
chaperones.
Vasantha Padmanabhan, PhD
Prenatal programming of reproductive and metabolic functions; neuroendocrine, pituitary
paracrine and ovarian control of reproduction; impact of environmental estrogens on
fertility.
Sung Kyun Park, DSc, MPH
Environmental and molecular epidemiology of air pollution, heavy metals, bisphenol
A, and noise exposures; cardiovascular disease, age-related diseases; gene-environment
and nutrient-environment interactions.
Karen Peterson, DSc
Environmental, biological and social determinants of intergenerational patterns of
physical growth and development; population-based interventions addressing nutritional
modifiers of adverse health outcomes from environmental exposures.
James Rae, PhD
Pharmacogenetics/genomics and drug metabolism of Breast Cancer Therapies.
Stephen W. Ragsdale
Metallobiochemistry, enzyme mechanisms, and metabolic regulation. Human metabolism
of carbon monoxide and the mechanism by which CO regulates processes such as oxygen
sensing, the circadian rhythm, and the olfactory response.
Bruce Richardson, MD, PhD
Chromatin structure in autoimmunity, cancer and fibrosis.
Maureen Sartor, PhD
Development of methodologies for high-throughput technologies, empirical and hierarchical
Bayesian models for assessing environmental impacts on health and disease.