AESEHL / About Us
Our goal is to protect and promote human health by providing a healthy environment.
AESEHL operates within the Environmental Health Department of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health (ranked #6 among schools of public health). Our primary work involves developing methods and assessing human exposures to commonly used chemicals such as pesticides, flame retardants, plasticizers, heavy metals, etc.
Co-Principal Investigator & Research Professor: Dana Boyd Barr, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator & Professor: P. Barry Ryan, MS, PhD
Research Assistant Professor: Parinya Panuwet, MS, PhD
Sr. Research Project Coordinator, NCS: Priya E. D’Souza, MPH
Sr. Research Project Coordinator, PDK: Jordan Cohen, MPH
AESEHL houses five mass spectrometry-based instruments:
- GC-MS with CI
- GC-MS/MS with EI
- LC-MS with ESI
- LC-MS/MS with ESI and ACPI
- ICP-MS
and is one of only three laboratories in the United States that utilize tandem mass spectrometry-based methods in environmental health research.
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AESEHL / Dana Boyd Barr
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Dana Boyd Barr
Professor (Graduate Faculty)
Principal Investigator and co-director of AESEHL
Department of Environmental Health
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Education:
BS, 1987, Brenau University
PhD, 1994, Georgia State University
Address:
Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, NE
Claudia Nance Rollins Bldg, Room 2007
Atlanta, GA 30322
dbbarr@emory.edu
tel: 404-727-9605
fax: 404-727-8744
Cources taught:
EH 500: Perspectives/Environ Health
EH 500D: Persp In Environmental Health
Selected Committees and Offices:
- President, International Society of Exposure Science (2011-2013)
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 2006 -2011
- Elected as Treasurer, International Society of Exposure Science (2003-2006; $500K budget). Served as member of the ISES Executive Committee.
- Ad Hoc Member of EPA's Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel, 2006
- Steering Team Member for the ILSI/HESI Integration of Biomonitoring Data into Risk Assessment Technical Workgroup, 2004-present.
- Ad hoc member of the German Research Foundation's Hazardous Substances in the Environment Subcommittee for designating official methods for measuring environmental and occupational exposures.
- Consulted and collaborated with the World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, US Food and Drug Administration and the Haitian Ministry of Health in the outbreak of renal failure due to diethylene glycol poisoning, 1996. Consultation with a private laboratory hired by the pharmaceutical plan allowed them to obtain a DEG result in acetaminophen preparations similar to those found at CDC.
- Co-director of laboratory core for Cincinnati's Children's Environmental Health Center, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH. 2001-present
- Member, Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction's Expert Panel on 2-Diethylhexyl-phthalate, 2005
- President, Southern Section of the Association for Official Analytical Chemists, 2008-2009
- Member of Chemical Exposures workgroup of the multi-agency National Children's Study. Along with other workgroup members, drafted a 200 page guidance paper on exposure assessment for the study advisory committee.
Research Interests:
After a 23-year career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I am embarking on a new endeavor in academia. I am pleased to have joined the faculty at Emory's RSPH in 2010. I plan on developing an analytical core in the Department of EH to assist Emory and external researchers in exposure assessment, but also plan to pursue my own research that includes better understanding biomarkers and developing a framework for their interpretation. I am also interested in maternal and child health. I have just joined a study at Emory looking at neurological effects in infants whose moms were exposed to pesticides during pregancy in Thailand (SAWASDEE Thai birth cohort study).
I am currently President of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES; www.isesweb.org) and just finished a 5-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (www.nature.com/jes).
Personal Interests:
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AESEHL / P. Barry Ryan
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P. Barry Ryan
Professor (Graduate Faculty)
Principal Investigator and co-director of AESEHL
Department of Environmental Health
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Education:
BS, 1973, University of Massachusetts
MS, 1975, University of Chicago
PhD, 1979, Wesleyan University
Address:
Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road NE
Claudia Nance Rollins Bldg, Room 2041
bryan@emory.edu
tel: (404) 727-3826
fax: (404) 727-8744
Additional Appointment:
Department of Chemistry
Cources taught:
EH 500: Perspectives/Environ Health
EH 524: Risk Assessment
Other professional efforts:
- Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Jointly Appointed
- Member, International Society for Exposure Analysis
- Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2006 - 2010
- Ad Hoc Member, Human Subjects Review Board, United States Environmental Protection Agency 2007
- Member, Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children's Study 2003 - 2007
- Ad Hoc Member, Science Advisory Panel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, FIFRA 2004 - 2006
Research Interests:
Personal Interests:
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