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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Bachelors
of Science, Environmental Engineering
June
1996
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health
Masters
of Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences
January
1998
Harvard School of Public Health
Doctor
of Science, Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk
June
2005
My
current research is focused on the human health effects of exposures to air
pollution, with an emphasis on traffic-related pollutants. My training and
interests include exposure assessment, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
My
primary project is the EPA-funded MESA Air study, which is
designed to investigate the long-term health effects of fine particulate air
pollution. As part of this project, our group is creating individual-level
estimates of exposure to be linked to repeated measures of sub-clinical
atherosclerosis and clinical events. This project is built upon the
NIH/NHLBI Multi-Ethnic Study of
Atherosclerosis (MESA) cohort.
Recently, I have been funded by the EPA along with Tim Larson to examine fine-scale spatial variation of coarse particles and their health effects in three MESA cities. We will explore links between coarse particles of natural and anthropagenic origins on respiratory and cardiovascular endpoints.
I am
also working on Dr. L.J. Sally Liu’s diesel school bus project. This
5-year study characterizes the exposures and pulmonary health of elementary
school children before and after the installation of different diesel
school bus retrofit technologies.
Another recent project of mine examined the association between traffic-related air pollution and noise within communities with the aim of better understanding the potential for confounding between these two environmental exposures in epidemiology investigations.
New projects that I am working on include an investigation of gene-environment interactions between air pollution and sudden cardiac arrest and an evaluation of associations between chronic air pollution exposures and fetal birth defects. Finally, I am currently analyzing daily changes in traffic congestion to see if they are associated with changes in daily mortality in the Seattle area.
Allen RW, Davies H, Cohen MA, Mallach G, Kaufman J, Adar SD. The relationship between traffic-generated air pollution and noise in 2 US Cities. Environ Res. 2009. E-pub ahead of print. Feb.
Van Hee VC, Adar SD, Szpiro A, Sheppard L, Roux AD, Barr RG, Bluemke DA, Gill EA, Kaufman J. Air pollution exposure and left ventricular mass and function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Resp Crit Care Med. 2009. E-pub ahead of print. January.
Adar SD, Davey ME, Sullivan JR, Compher M, and Liu LJS. Predicting airborne particulate levels aboard Washington school buses. Atmos Environ. 2008. 42(33): 7590-7599. Oct.
Adar SD, Kaufman J. Cardiovascular
disease and air pollution: Evaluating and improving epidemiological data
implicating traffic exposure. 2007. Inhal Toxicol. 19 Suppl 1:135-49.
Adar SD,
Adamkiewicz G, Gold DR, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Suh H. Ambient and
micro-environmental particles and exhaled nitric oxide before and after a
group bus trip. Environ Health Perspect. 2007. 115(4):507-512.
Adar SD, Gold DR, Coull BA, Schwartz
J, Stone PH, Suh H. Focused exposures to airborne traffic particles and
heart rate variability in the elderly. Epidemiol. 2007. 18(1):95-103.
Dubowsky SD,
Suh H, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Gold DR. Diabetes, obesity, and
hypertension may enhance associations between air pollution and markers of
systemic inflammation.
Environ Health Perspect.
2006. 114(7):992-8.
Dubowsky, SD, Wallace LA, Buckley TJ. The
contribution of traffic to indoor concentrations of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 1999. 9(4):312-21.
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