Members of the Faculty
Julie Caruth, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; M.D., University of West Indies (Trinidad/Tobago); M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Occupational and environmental medicine; community health; acute care medicine
Migzhu Fang, 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 (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
Nancy Fiedler, 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 and Director, Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Environmental health
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 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, Assistant Professor 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, Distinguished 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
Michael Pratt, Assistant Professor 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
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, 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 Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health and Executive Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute; Ph.D., McGill (Canada)
Environmental
and occupational health and cancer research
Associate Members of the Faculty
Joanna Burger,
Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at School of Arts and Sciences-New Brunswick; 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
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 School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Cornell
Environmental microbiology
Gediminas Mainelis, Assistant Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health; primary at School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; P.h.D, Cincinnati
Bioaerosols research
Mark Robson, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
primary at
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
Administration, Centers, and Faculty 
