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  School of Public Health 2015–2017 Administration, Centers, and Faculty Environmental and Occupational Health (ENOH) Faculty  

Environmental and Occupational Health (ENOH) Faculty


Members of the Faculty

Connie Chuang, Instructor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., Albany Medical College; M.P.A., New York University Wagner School of Public Health; M.P.H., Rutgers School of Public Health
Occupational health; continuous quality improvement

Nancy Fielder, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;  Ph.D., Bowling Green State
Human health effects of stress and neurotoxicants; controlled chemical exposure studies

Panos Georgopoulos, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory (CCL)

Jun-Yan Hong, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., UMDNJ-
New Jersey Medical School; M.S., Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology (China)
Impact of genetic factors on an individual's susceptibility to environmental diseases

Yi-Hua Jan, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Rutgers
Metabolism of xenobiotics; chemical redox cycling; cellular and biochemical mechanisms of chemical toxicity; developing countermeasures against organophospate intoxication and sulfur mustard exposure

Howard M. Kipen, Professor and Interim Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health;
M.D., California (San Francisco); M.P.H., Columbia
Controlled exposure studies of air pollutants; inflammation and cardiovascular disease models; biopsychosocial models of disease; World Trade Center symptomology; Gulf War Syndrome

Koshy Koshy, Instructor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Rutgers
Developing and accessing training programs in occupational safety and health for hard-to-reach workers and workers in high-hazard industries; building disaster preparedness competencies

Jeffrey Laskin, Professor and Division Chief of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Biochemical and molecular pharmacology and toxicology; inflammation, skin, and lung toxicity; hepatotoxicology; oxidative stress; chemical redox cycling; mechanisms of photo toxicity; carcinogensis

Robert Laumbach, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.P.H., Columbia- Mailman School of Public Health
Occupational and environmental respiratory diseases; medically-unexplained illness

Qingyu Meng, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., M.S., Rutgers; M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences
Exposure and risk assessment on chemical and nonchemical stressors; climate change
related exposure and health effects; personal exposure to ambient and indoor air pollutants

Michael Pratt, Instructor and Residency Director of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine; M.P.H., Rutgers School of Public Health
Occupational health

Stephan Schwander, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Director, Center for Global Public Health; Ph.D., Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany); M.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Germany)
Human antimycobacterial immunity; human lung immunology during mycobacteriumtuberculosis infection and disease; effects of particulate matter on antimycobacterial immunity

Derek Shendell, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; D.Env., California School of Public Health (Los Angeles); M.P.H., Yale School of Medicine
Environmental public health sciences and services; environmental epidemiology and human exposure assessment field studies; indoor air and environmental quality in schools, homes, and day care; urban outdoor air quality (United States, Latin America, China, Japan, Nigeria); children's environmental health

Iris G. Udasin, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., SUNY, Downstate Medical Center
Blood borne pathogens; indoor air quality; hazardous waste workers; violence in the workplace.

Clifford Weisel, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., M.S., Rhode Island
Multiroute chemical exposures; applications of biomarkers for characterizing exposure and in epidemiological studies; use of sensors for real-time exposure characterization; effects of air pollutants on the lung microblome and respiratory disease; transportation-linked exposures; application of metabolomics in exposure science

Helmut Zarbl, Professor and NIEHS Center Director, Ph.D., McGill University (Canada)
Environmental and occupational health and cancer research

Associated Members of the Faculty

Joanna Burger, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences; Ph.D., Minnesota; M.S., Cornell
Risk perception and communication for fish consumption and other wild-caught foods;
effects of lead, mercury, and cadmium on neurological development and behavior

Dina Fonseca, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Molecular epidemiology; population genetics; hybridization and evolution of disease transmission; insecticide resistance, ecology and evolution of introduced mosquito disease vectors.

Michael A. Gallo, Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Albany Medical College
Metabolism of xenobiotics; hormone carcinogenesis; receptor action; environmental
risk assessment

Michael Gochfeld, Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health;
M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Ph.D., CUNY
Susceptibility; application of medical surveillance; biomonitoring of workers and
communities exposed to hazardous wastes; environmental and ecological risk assessment

Robert M. Goodman, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Cornell
Environmental microbiology

Gediminas Mainelis, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; P.h.D, Cincinnati
Bioaerosols research

Mark Robson, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rutgers; M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health; M.S., Rutgers  
Pesticide use, policy, regulation; alternative pest control

Adjunct Members of the Faculty

Brian Buckley, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Executive Director, Laboratories and Facilities, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute; Ph.D., North Carolina State
Extraction techniques for analysis of contaminants in water; analytical procedures for environmental contaminants

John S. Dobi, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Massachusetts; M.S., Rutgers
Ecological and environmental risk assessment; PCBs water/sediment contamination; bioaccumulation factors impacting ecological and human risk

Fred Ellerbusch, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Solvay; Ph.D., M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health; M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Urban  and environmental/occupation health, policy, and management; Brownfields revitalization and hazardous waste management

Migzhu Fang, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., Norman Bethune University of Medical Science, Jilin University (China); Ph.D., College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University (South Korea)
Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms on the development of environmental diseases, including cancer; role of biological circadian rhythm on disease development; development of screening methods and strategies for risk assessment of environmental toxicants

Gary Garetano, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Assistant Director, Hudson Regional Health Commission; Ph.D., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Environmental health

Drew A. Harris, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
D.P.M., Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine; M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Public health preparedness, policy, and advocacy

Daniel Lefkowitz, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Research Scientist, New Jersey Department of Health; Ph.D., M.S., Rutgers
Occupational health surveillance with focus on hazard surveillance and intervention

Leroy Meyer, Adjunct Instructor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Section Chief/Research Scientist, Pesticide Control Program, New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection (Retired); M.S., Rutgers
Environmental contamination with pesticides; tracking of pesticide exposures and education in areas of pesticide poisoning

Omowunmi Y.O. Osinubi, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., Ibadan (Nigeria); M.Sc., CUNY
Smoking cessation; occupational health

Douglas Pastore, Adjunct Instructor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Director,
Safety, Health and Environment, L'Oreal USA; M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Occupational health and safety; industrial hygiene

Joseph Romano, Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine
Infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance

Edward Sargent, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Retired
Senior Director, Toxicology, Merck & Co.; Ph.D., New York; M.P.H., Yale
Environmental risk assessment; pharmaceuticals in the environment; regular toxicology of pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals

Alan Stern, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Chief, Bureau for Risk Analysis, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection;  Dr.P.H., Columbia School of Public Health
Environmental toxicology; human health risk assessment; mercury, chromium, quantitative dose response modeling

Tanisha Taylor, Adjunct Instructor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Attending Physician at Monmouth Medical Center; M.D., New York Medical College
Occupational medicine; toxicology; industrial hygiene

Stella Tsai, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Research Scientist, New Jersey Department of Health; Ph.D., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Microbial exposure assessment

Alvaro Osornio Vargas, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Global public health; air pollution research

Eric Vowinkel, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey; Ph.D., Rutgers
Source water quality; drinking water quality

Charles J. Weschler, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., M.S., Chicago
Air pollution and indoor environmental quality

 
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