CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT:
Professor Max Costa DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Professor Jerome J. Solomon
845-731-3661 or 3610

The Program in Environmental Health Sciences (EHSC) provides advanced training in scientific disciplines related to environmental health, with emphasis on major health problems, such as cancer, respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular diseases, and musculoskeletal ailments. The program provides specialized knowledge in an environmental health area (biostatistics, epidemiology, ergonomics and biomechanics [ERBI], exposure assessment and health effects, molecular toxicology/carcinogenesis, and toxicology), a perspective on the interrelationships of environmental health problems, and competence in a basic science. Both the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees are offered.

The Department of Environ-mental Medicine is supported by a center grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which has designated it as a national "Center of Excellence" for research and teaching in the environmental health sciences.

Faculty

Ilana Belitskaya-Levy, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2002 (statistics), M.S. 1999 (statistics), Stanford; B.S. 1997 (mathematics), California (Santa Barbara) and St. Petersburg (Russia).
High-dimensional data analysis; algorithms for missing data analysis; expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; cluster analysis, developing statistical methods for analyzing large data arising in genomics and molecular biology, DNA microarrays, flow cytometry; statistical design and analysis of clinical trials; data mining.

Maarten C. Bosland, Professor, Environmental Medicine, Urology; Director, NYU/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center Histopathology and Experimental Animal Facility; Codirector, NYU Cancer Institute Genitourinary Cancer Program. Ph.D. 1989 (experimental pathology), D.V.Sc. 1978 (veterinary science), Utrecht.
Hormonal carcinogenesis; prostate cancer chemoprevention; prostate and breast cancer; endocrine disruption; experimental pathology.

Fredric J. Burns, Professor. Ph.D. 1967 (biophysics), New York; M.A. 1961 (physics), Columbia; B.A. 1959 (physics), Harvard.
Cancer prevention and multiple stages in radiation carcinogenesis; patched gene and DNA repair genes in cancer susceptibility; arsenic cocarcinogenesis; DNA repair and proliferation.

Marco A. Campello, Assistant Professor, Ergonomics and Biomechanics (ERBI); Associate Director, NYUHJD-OIOC. Ph.D. 2002 (environmental health sciences), M.A. 1990 (ergonomics and biomechanics), New York; B.S. 1985 (physical therapy), Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Ipa (Brazil).
Work retention; disability management.

Haobin Chen, Assistant Professor (Research). Ph.D. 2006 (environmental health sciences), New York; M.S. 1999 (clinical medicine), B.S. 1997 (medicine), Shanghai Medical.
Metal carcinogenesis and toxicology; histone modifications and epigenetic mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

Lung Chi Chen, Associate Professor; Associate Director, NYU/EPA Particulate Matter (PM) Health Center. Ph.D. 1983 (environmental health), M.S. 1978 (environmental health), New York; B.S. 1976 (public health), National Taiwan.
Inhalation toxicology; exposure-response relationships; air pollution.

Yu Chen, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2005 (epidemiology); M.P.H. 1999 (health policy and management), Columbia; B.S. 1997 (public health and animal science), National Taiwan.
Environmental epidemiology; epidemiology of cancer and other chronic diseases.

Beverly S. Cohen, Professor. Ph.D. 1979 (environmental health sciences), New York; M.S. 1961 (radiological physics), Cornell; B.A. 1953 (physics), Bryn Mawr College.
Measurement of personal exposures to airborne toxicants; dosimetry of inhaled pollutant gases and aerosols; airborne radioactivity.

Mitchell D. Cohen, Associate Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1988 (toxicology/nutrition), M.S. 1984 (toxicology/nutrition), Florida; B.S. 1981 (chemistry/physics), SUNY (Albany).
Pulmonary immunotoxicology of inhaled pollutants; effects of inhaled pollutants on lung/lung immune cell iron homeostasis; modulation of cytokine biochemistry by metals and complex mixtures; pulmonary/immunotoxicology of World Trade Center dusts.

Mark S. Condon, Research Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1997 (environmental health sciences), M.S. 1994 (environmental health sciences), New York.
Stromal-epithelial interactions in carcinogenesis; in vitro and animal models of prostate cancer progression and metastasis.

Max Costa, Professor; Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine. Ph.D. 1976 (pharmacology major, biochemistry minor), Arizona; B.S. 1974 (biology), Georgetown.
Metal carcinogenesis and toxicology; DNA-protein interactions; DNA damage; histone modifications and epigenetic mechanism of carcinogenesis.

Wei Dai, Professor; Director, Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Program. Ph.D. 1988 (invertebrate pathology major, biochemistry minor), M.S. 1986 (entomology), Purdue (Indiana); B.S. 1982 (entomology), Nanjing Agricultural.
Cell cycle; checkpoint control; mitosis; chromosomal instability; protein kinases; tumor suppression; oncogenesis.

Hugh L. Evans, Professor. Ph.D. 1969 (psychobiology), Pittsburgh; M.A. 1965 (psychology), Temple; B.A. 1963 (psychology), Rutgers.
Neurotoxicology.

Emerich Fiala, Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1964 (biochemistry of nucleic acids), Rutgers; B.A. 1959 (chemistry), Columbia.
Mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis and cancer chemoprevention.

Krystyna Frenkel, Professor. Ph.D. 1974 (biochemistry), New York; M.S. 1964 (organic chemistry), Warsaw.
Carcinogenesis and chemoprevention; role of endogenous oxidative stress in cancer and aging; contribution of inflammatory cytokines to carcinogenesis; effects of radiation-, metal-, and chemical-induced free radicals and their interactions with DNA on cancer development; biomarkers of cancer risk.

George Friedman-Jiménez, Assistant Professor. M.D. 1982 (medicine), Albert Einstein College; B.A. 1976 (physics), Rutgers.
Occupational and clinical epidemiology; epidemiology of radiation and cancer; epidemiology of asthma; epidemiologic methods; urban populations.

Judith D. Goldberg, Professor; Director, Biostatistics Program. D.Sc. 1972 (biostatistics), M.S. 1967 (biostatistics), Harvard; B.A. 1965 (mathematics), Barnard College.
Design and analysis of clinical trials; survival analysis; disease screening and misclassification; analysis of observational data; statistical genomics.

David Goldsheyder, Instructor, Ergonomics and Biomechanics (ERBI). M.A. 1993 (ergonomics and biomechanics), New York; M.S. 1974 (mechanical engineering), B.S. 1972 (mechanical engineering), Khmelnitsky Institute of Technology (Ukraine).
Biomechanics; workplace design; workstation modification; ergonomics.

Terry Gordon, Professor; Director, Systemic Toxicology Program. Ph.D. 1981 (toxicology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S. 1977 (toxicology), B.S. 1974 (physiology), Michigan.
Genetic susceptibility of lung disease produced by environmental and occupational agents.

Albert F. Gunnison, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1970 (entomology), Pennsylvania State; M.S. 1966 (entomology), B.S. 1964 (biology), Cornell.
Molecular mechanisms and toxicology of pulmonary inflammation; DNA microarray technology; reproductive toxicology.

Manny Halpern, Research Assistant Professor, Ergonomics and Biomechanics (ERBI); Senior Manager, Ergonomic Services, NYUHJD-OIOC. Ph.D. 1999 (environmental health sciences), M.A. 1988 (ergonomics and biomechanics), New York; B.Sc. 1984 (kinesiology), Waterloo (Canada); B.A. 1973 (social sciences), Tel Aviv.
Ergonomics; workplace intervention; injury prevention methodology; job analysis.

Naomi H. Harley, Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1971 (radiological physics), A.P.C. 1984, M.E. 1967 (nuclear engineering), New York; B.E. 1959 (electrical engineering), Cooper Union.
Dosimetry of internally deposited radionuclides; measurement of radiation and radioactivity; risk modeling of radiation carcinogenesis.

Maire S. A. Heikkinen, Assistant Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1997 (environmental health sciences), M.S. 1985 (analytical chemistry), B.S. 1983 (chemistry), New York.
Measurement of ultrafine and nanometer aerosols; development of instrumentation for collection and analysis of acidic, radioactive, and biological particles.

Rudi Hiebert, Instructor, Ergonomics and Biomechanics (ERBI); Research Associate, NYUHJD-OIOC. M.S. 2004 (health and management), Maryland; B.S. 1981 (geology), Michigan.
Epidemiology; outcome studies.

Chuanshu Huang, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1994 (immunology), M.S. 1990 (microbiology and immunology), M.D. 1984 (medicine), Fourth Military Medical (China).
Signal transduction in tumor promotion and prevention; molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis caused by ultraviolet radiation, metal compounds, and smoking.

Xi Huang, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1991 (toxicology), Paris VI; M.S. 1988 (toxicology), Paris VII; B.S. 1985 (agrochemistry), Beijing Agricultural.
Implication of iron and oxidative stress in human diseases.

Kazuhiko Ito, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1990 (environmental health sciences), M.S. 1985 (environmental health sciences), New York; B.S. 1982 (applied chemistry), Yokohama National.
Human health effects of air pollution and risk analysis.

Rudolph J. Jaeger, Research Professor. Ph.D. 1971 (biochemical toxicology), Johns Hopkins; B.S. 1966 (biology), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Inhalation toxicology; aerosol science; plastics toxicology and the toxicology of their monomers; combustion products; tobacco smoke toxicology; pulmonary pathophysiology; liver toxicity and pathophysiology; effects of lead and heavy metals on the developing nervous system.

Catherine B. Klein, Assistant Professor; Director, NYU/NIEHS Laboratory Supplies and Services Facility Core; Consultant, NYU/NIEHS Cytogenetics Facility and NYU Cancer Institute. Ph.D. 1988 (environmental health sciences), New York; M.S. 1978 (human genetics), George Washington; B.S. 1975 (biology), SUNY (Albany).
Mammalian mutagenesis; epigenetic gene control; DNA methylation; oxidants; metals; estrogens; molecular cytogenetics.

Karen Koenig, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1989 (environmental health sciences), New York; B.A. 1972 (sociology), Ithaca College.
Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and cancer; epidemiologic methods.

Morton Lippmann, Professor; Director, Human Exposure and Health Effects Program. Ph.D. 1967 (environmental health sciences), New York; M.S. 1955 (industrial hygiene), Harvard; B.Ch.E. 1954 (chemical engineering), Cooper Union.
Inhalation toxicology; aerosol science and physiology; occupational and environmental hygiene; air pollution.

Angela Lis, Instructor, Ergonomics and Biomechanics (ERBI). M.A. 2000 (ergonomics and biomechanics), New York; B.S. 1997 (physical therapy), Rosario (Colombia).
Occupational musculoskeletal disorders, low back pain; prevention of injury, prevention of disability; biomechanics; ergonomics.

Mengling Liu, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2004 (statistics), M.S. 2002 (statistics), Columbia; B.S. 2000 (statistics and probability), Nankai.
Analysis of longitudinal data with informative censoring; survival analysis; semiparametric inference; analysis for quality of life data.

Michael Marmor, Professor, Environmental Medicine, Medicine; Director, Epidemiology, Ph.D. Track. Ph.D. 1972 (physics), M.A. 1968 (physics), SUNY (Stony Brook); B.S. 1964 (physics), Queens College (CUNY).
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases; clinical trials of HIV vaccines and nonvaccine interventions; environmental, occupational, and ophthalmologic epidemiology.

Assieh Melikian, Associate Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1980 (bioorganic chemistry), M.Phil. 1978 (organic chemistry), M.S. 1975 (chemistry), New York; M.S. 1960 (chemical engineering), Tehran.
Mechanisms of environmental carcinogenesis; cancer chemoprevention; biomarkers; molecular epidemiology.

Arthur Nádas, Associate Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1967 (mathematical statistics), Columbia; M.A. 1961 (mathematics), Oregon; B.A. 1959 (mathematics), Alfred.
Mathematical statistics; biostatistics; mathematical biology; statistical design of HIV immunotypes with the goal of a broadly effective polyvalent vaccine for HIV; experimental design and analysis using microarrays and gene chips; statistical analysis of telemetry data; mathematical modeling of spontaneous mutagenesis; rapid multivariate diagnostic tests for tuberculosis; pattern recognition using dynamic programming, hidden Markov modeling, and neural networks.

Bhagavathi A. Narayanan, Associate Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1986 (cell biology), M.Sc. 1979 (advanced biology), B.Sc. 1977 (zoology and chemistry), Madras (India). Postdoc 1993-1995 (cell and molecular biology), Medical (South Carolina).
Prostate and colon cancer chemoprevention; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; genomic and proteomic approaches; potential molecular targets; biomarkers.

Narayanan K. Narayanan, Assistant Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1982 (environmental sciences), M.Sc. 1975 (biology), B.Sc. 1973 (chemistry and biology), Madras (India). Postdoc 1993-1996 (environmental carcinogenesis; bioinformatics and computational biology), Medical (South Carolina).
Chemopreventive proteomics; omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid against prostate cancer; proteomic profiling of differentiation inducing proteins.

Margareta Nordin, Professor (Research); Director, ERBI Program; Director, NYUHJD-OIOC. Med.Dr.Sci. 1982 (occupational orthopedics), B.S. 1969 (biology), Göteborg.
Occupational musculoskeletal disorders, low back pain; prevention of injury, prevention of disability; motor control; biomechanics; ergonomics.

Qingshan Qu, Assistant Professor. M.D. 1969 (medicine), B.S. 1965 (premedical science), Beijing Medical College.
Pulmonary toxicology; biomarker application and risk assessment.

William N. Rom, Professor, Medicine, Environmental Medicine; Professor, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. M.P.H. 1973 (environmental medicine), Harvard; M.D. 1971 (medicine), Minnesota; B.A. 1967 (political science), Colorado.
Environmental and occupational lung diseases; molecular mechanisms of lung cancer; tuberculosis (TB)/AIDS; interferon-gamma therapy for TB, and TB vaccine and immune response; environmental policy, wilderness preservation, and global warming.

Toby G. Rossman, Professor. Ph.D. 1968 (basic medical sciences); B.A. 1964 (biology), New York.
Spontaneous mutagenesis; genotoxicity of metal compounds; mechanisms of resistance to metals; arsenic carcinogenicity.

Nirmal Roy, Assistant Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1982 (biochemistry), Calcutta; B.Sc. 1975 (physiology), Presidency College (Calcutta).
Molecular biology of the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor pathway; DNA lesions and mutations induced by xenobiotic compounds.

Yongzhao Shao, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1994 (mathematical statistics), M.A. 1993 (mathematics), Tufts; M.S. 1987 (statistics), B.S. 1985 (mathematics), Beijing Normal.
Genetic linkage/association analysis; genetic epidemiology; statistical inference; design of experiments; likelihood theory; mixture models.

Ali Sheikhzadeh, Research Assistant Professor; ERBI Doctoral Student Adviser; Assistant Director of Research, NYUHJD-OIOC. Ph.D. 1997 (environmental health sciences), M.A. 1989 (ergonomics and biomechanics), New York; B.S. 1985 (electronics engineering technology), Texas Southern (Houston).
Occupational biomechanics; biomechanical modeling and testing; electromyography; ergonomic product evaluation.

Roy E. Shore, Professor Emeritus. Dr.P.H. 1982 (epidemiology), Columbia; Ph.D. 1969 (psychology and statistics), M.A. 1967 (psychology), Syracuse; B.A. 1962 (psychology), Houghton College.
Environmental and genetic epidemiology of cancer; radiation epidemiology; epidemiologic methods.

Jerome J. Solomon, Professor; Director, Graduate Program in Environmental Health Sciences; Director, Analytical Chemistry Resource, NYU/NCI Cancer Institute. Ph.D. 1972 (physical chemistry), Cornell; B.S. 1966 (chemistry), Brooklyn College (CUNY); Postdoc 1972-1975 (chemical physics), Rockefeller.
DNA-carcinogen interaction; biological consequences of DNA adducts; mass spectrometry in carcinogenesis and environmental research.

Bernard G. Steinetz, Research Professor. Ph.D. 1954 (zoology and endocrinology), Rutgers; B.A. 1950 (biology), Princeton.
Environment of the newborn: a possible role of milk-borne hormones in phenotypic expression of inherited hip dysplasia; role of hormones in protection against environmental carcinogen-induced breast cancer afforded by early pregnancy; role of hormones in the modulation of insulin resistance of pregnancy.

Ting-Chung Suen, Assistant Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1990 (tumor biology), Texas (Houston); B.S. 1984 (zoology), National Taiwan.
Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, breast cancer, transcriptional regulation of gene expression; effects of carcinogens on gene expression; gene chips and microarrays.

Hong Sun, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1997 (cell biology), M.S. 1993 (developmental biology), Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; B.S. 1987 (biology), Hubei.
Transcription factors; epigenetics; metal carcinogenesis; cell differentiation.

Moon-shong Tang, Professor. Ph.D. 1976 (molecular biology), M.S. 1975 (molecular biology), Texas (Dallas); B.S. 1966 (medical technology), National Taiwan.
Carcinogenesis and mutagenesis; DNA damage; DNA repair.

Kam-Meng Tchou-Wong, Associate Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1988 (molecular biology), Princeton; B.S. 1981 SUNY (Stony Brook).
p53 pathways in metal- and carcinogen-induced lung cancer; Wnt signaling pathways in lung fibrosis and cancer; chemoprevention of lung carcinogenesis; infection and ethnic disparities in diabetes risk and cardiovascular diseases.

George D. Thurston, Associate Professor. D.Sc. 1983 (environmental health sciences), M.S. 1978 (environmental health sciences), Harvard; B.Sc. 1974 (environmental engineering), B.A. 1974 (environmental studies), Brown.
Human health effects of inhaled air pollutants; asthma; aerosol science; acidic air pollution; air pollution meteorology and modeling; risk analysis.

Paolo G. Toniolo, Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Environmental Medicine. M.S.P.H. 1982 (epidemiology), Alabama (Birmingham); Public Health Specialist 1981, M.D. 1975, State University (Milan).
Cancer epidemiology; role of endogenous hormones in the etiology of chronic diseases; influence of diet on endogenous hormones in health and disease; health consequences of human exposure to hormonally active agents in the environment.

Diane Trainor, Instructor. Ph.D. 1989 (occupational safety and health), M.A. 1979 (occupational safety and health), New York; M.S. 1973 (environmental science), Minnesota.
Hazards control; occupational safety and health.

Chi-hong Tseng, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2004 (biostatistics), California (Los Angeles); M.S. 1994 (statistics), Iowa State; B.S. 1991 (physics), National Taiwan.
Survival analysis; measurement error models; design of clinical trials.

Sherri Weiser, Research Assistant Professor, Ergonomics and Biomechanics (ERBI); Senior Manager, Psychological Services, NYU/HJD-OIOC. Ph.D. 1989 (psychology), CUNY; B.S. 1978 (psychology), SUNY (Stony Brook).
Biopsychosocial models; low back pain; personality and health; occupational stress.

Isaac Wirgin, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1987 (biology), CUNY; M.A. 1980 (biology), City College (CUNY); B.A. 1969 (political science), Hofstra.
Molecular biology of carcinogenesis; cancer in aquatic organisms; population genetics and molecular evolution.

Judy Xiong, Assistant Professor (Research). Ph.D. 1991 (chemical engineering), Minnesota; M.S. 1981 (environmental chemistry, B.S. 1970 (chemistry), Beijing.
Occupational hygiene; environmental chemistry; aerosol science.

Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Associate Professor; Director, Environmental Epidemiology Program; Director, Program in Epidemiology and Prevention, NYU Cancer Institute. M.D. 1981 (medicine), Lille Medical School (France); M.S. 1983 (biostatistics), Paris XI.
Cancer epidemiology; methods in epidemiology and clinical trials.

Judith T. Zelikoff, Professor; Director, NYU/NIEHS Center Community Outreach and Education Program; Director, Superfund Basic Research Program, Community Outreach. Ph.D. 1982 (experimental pathology), UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School; M.S. 1976 (microbiology), Fairleigh Dickinson; B.A. 1973 (biology), Upsala College.
Immunotoxicology; development of immune biomarkers and alternative animal models for immunotoxicological studies; effects of inhaled pollutants on host resistance and pulmonary immune defense mechanisms; metal-induced immunotoxicity.

GRADUATE STEERING COMMITTEE

Judith D. Goldberg, Terry Gordon, Michael Marmor, Jerome J. Solomon (Chair), George Thurston, Isaac Wirgin, Judith T. Zelikoff.