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Faculty

Full-time faculty and adjunct faculty with professional qualifications comprise the graduate faculty of the EOHS Track.



Jack Caravanos, DrPH, CIH
Associate Professor, Track Coordinator

Email jcaravan@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-7569, Professional Bio


Professional Interests:
Urban lead contamination (sources and dispersion of lead contaminated dust), International environmental site assessments, environmental exposure and risk assessments. Kneedragger.

Primary Teaching Areas:
Environmental Health, Environmental Chemistry, Hazard Assessment and Remediation, Environmental and Industrial Hygiene Laboratory.

Selected Publications:
1. Weiss A,  Caravanos J, Blaise M, Jaeger R; Distribution of Lead in Urban Roadway Grit and its Association with Elevated Steel Structures;  Chemosphere. 2006 Jun 19; [Epub ahead of print];
2.
Caravanos J, Weiss A, Jaeger R; Long Term Exterior Dust Lead Loadings in New York City; Environmental Research, Vol 100/2 pp 159-164, 2006
3. Caravanos J, Weiss A, Blaise M, Jaeger R; A Survey of Spatially Distributed Exterior Dust Lead Loadings in New York City; Environmental Research, Vol 100/2 pp 165-172, 2006
4. S. Klitzman, J. Caravanos, C. Belanoff, L. Rothenberg; A multi-hazard, multi-strategy approach to home remediation. Environmental Research, Vol 99(3):294-306. Nov. 2005
5. S. Klitzman, J. Caravanos, D. Deitcher, L. Rothenberg,  C. Belanoff, R. Kramer, L Cohen,;  Prevalence and Predictors of Residential Health Hazards: Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 2: 293-301; June 2005

Education:
BS, 1977, Hunter College CUNY, NYC
MS, 1979, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn
DrPH, 1984, Columbia University



Mark Goldberg, Ph.D., CIH
Associate Professor

Email agoldber@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-7555, Professional Bio


Professional Interests:
Silica exposures, Construction Industry Health & Safety


Susan Klitzman, DrPH, MPH
Professor
, UPH Program Director
Email sklitzma@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-5155, Professional Bio


Research & Professional Interests:
An environmental epidemiologist, whose research has focused on the impact of the urban workplace, ambient and residential environment on human health and well-being, and on designing, implementing and evaluating interventions and policies to reduce the deleterious effects of hazardous workplace and environmental exposures. Prior to joining the faculty of Hunter College in 1999, directed programs in childhood lead poisoning prevention, occupational and environmental epidemiology and employee health and safety at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Currently serves on the New York City Board of Health. Most recently, research has focused on the impact of substandard housing and its related exposures (e.g. deteriorated lead paint, mold, vermin and safety hazards) on children's health and on policies to improve housing and other urban environmental conditions.Residential Env Health Hazards, Assessment and Intervention, Epidemiology

Primary Teaching Areas:

Biostatistics, epidemiology, research methods, environmental health and safety, public health policy.

Selected Publications:
1. Leighton J, Klitzman S, Sedlar S, Matte T and Cohen N, The effect of lead-based paint hazard re mediation on blood lead levels of lead poisoned children in New York City, Environmental Research, 92(3): 182-190, 2003.
2. Klitzman S and Freudenberg N, Assessing The short-term impact of the World Trade Center attack on the health of New York City: Implications for the public health and health care infrastructures, American Journal of Public Health, 93(3): 400-405, 2003.
3. Saegert S, Klitzman S, Freudenberg N, Cooperman-Mrozek J and Nassar S, Healthy Housing: A Structured Review of Published Evaluations of U.S. Interventions to Improve Health by Modifying Housing in the United States, 1990-2001, American Journal of Public Health, 93(9):1471-1477, 2003.
4. Klitzman S, Caravanos, Deitcher D, Rothenberg L, Belanoff C, Kramer R and Cohen L, Prevalence and predictors of residential health hazards: A pilot study, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 2(6): 293-301, 2005.
5. Klitzman S, Caravanos, Belanoff C and Rothenberg L, A multi-hazard, multi-strategy approach to home remediation: Results of a pilot study, Environmental Research 99(3): 294-306, 2005.

Education:
BA, 1978, SUNY Binghamton
MPH, 1982, Columbia University
DrPH, 1985, Columbia University



Richmond-Bryant, Jennifer , Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
,
Email:
jrichmon@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-7580, Professional Bio

Professional Interests:
Use of a variety of laboratory, field, and computational techniques to study the dispersion of airborne particulate matter. Recent research has explored aerosol dispersion in a residential urban street canyon and infiltration from the canyon into homes. Work included some numerical research on the impact of building topography on aerosol concentrations in street canyons. Prior to joining the faculty of Hunter College in 2005, worked as an environmental project scientist for Alion Science and Technology through a contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development.Pollution. Reserach areas: dispersion in urban neighborhoods, indoor air quality, computational & experimental fluid dynamics, particulate matter transport.

Primary Teaching Areas:

Ventilation, Air Quality, Noise and Radiation, Industrial Site Visits, Environmental Health Sciences

Selected Publications:
1. Richmond-Bryant, J., Eisner, A.D., Brixey, L.A., Wiener, R. (2006) “Short-term dispersion of indoor aerosols: Can it be assumed the room is well-mixed?” Building and Environment.  41: 156-163.
2. Richmond-Bryant, J., Eisner, A.D., Brixey, L.A., Wiener, R. (2006) “Transport of small airborne particles within a room.” Indoor Air.  16, 48-55.
3. Richmond-Bryant, J., Eisner, A.D., Flynn, M.R.  (2006)  “Considerations for modeling particle entrainment into the wake of a circular cylinder.”  Aerosol Science & Technology.  40: 42-51.
4. Richmond-Bryant, J., Flynn, M.R. (2004) “Applying the discrete vortex method in environmental fluid mechanics: A study of the time-averaged near wake behind a circular cylinder.” Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 4:455-463.
5. Richmond-Bryant, J. (2003) “Verification testing in computational fluid dynamics: An example using Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes methods for two-dimensional flow in the near wake of a circular cylinder.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 43: 1371-1389.
6. Heist, D.K., Richmond-Bryant, J., Eisner, A., Conner, T. (2003) “Development of a versatile aerosol generation system for use in a large wind tunnel.” Aerosol Science & Technology. 37: 293-301.

Education:
BSE, 1996, Cornell University
MS, 1997, University of Michigan
Ph.D., 2003, University of North Carolina



Mirer, Frank , Ph.D., CIH
Professor
Email:
fmirer@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-7651
Professional Interests:
Franklin E. Mirer is a toxicologist and certified industrial hygienist.  His main professional interests are risk assessment and policy in support of safety and health standards, and exposure assessment in the occupational environment. As Director of the UAW Health and Safety Department he participated in each round of automobile industry collective bargaining since 1976.  He served on a number of advisory committees to NIOSH, the OSHA Metalworking Fluid Standards Advisory Committee, several National Research Council committees, and an IARC Working Group.  Dr. Mirer delivered testimony before OSHA regarding a dozen health and safety standards, and has testified before House and Senate Committees on occupational safety and health and regulatory policy matters, including ergonomics.

Primary Teaching Areas:
Toxicology, environmental chemistry, risk assessment, safety and health law

Selected Publications:
1. “Updated epidemiology of workers exposed to metalworking fluids provides sufficient evidence for carcinogenicity.” Mirer, F.E.,  Appl Occup Environ Hyg. 18(11):902-12 (2003).2. “Distortions of the “Mis-Read” Book: Adding Procedural Botox to Paralysis by Analysis,” Mirer, F.E.  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 9: 1129-1145 (2003)
3. ”A Survey of Mortality at Two Automotive Engine Manufacturing Plants,” Park, R.M., Mirer, F.E., American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 30:664-673(1996)
4. "Mortality Among Workers at a Stamping and Assembly Complex," Park R., J. Krebs and F.E. Mirer, Amer. J. Ind. Med., 26:  449-463(1994)
5.  "Cumulative Trauma Disorders of the Hand and Wrist in the Auto Industry, Nelson, N.A., Park, R.M., Silverstein, M.A., and Mirer, F.E., American Journal of Public Health, 82(11):  1550-1552(1992). 

  .Education:
AB, 1966, Columbia University
AM, 1967, Harvard University
Ph.D., 1972, Harvard University


David Kotelchuck, Ph.D., MPH, CIH
Associate Professor Emeritus (retired)
Email dkotelch@hunter.cuny.edu

Tel: 212-481-4357, Professional Bio


Professional Interests:
Occupational epidemiology, asbestos exposures, Hospital Health and Safety

Adjunct Faculty

Benjamin Alter, P.G.
Vice President, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., balter@gza.com

John Antonopoulos, PhD, CSP
Retired Professor / Safety Consultant - MTA, John.Antonopoulos@nyct.com

Howard Bader, MS, PE
Tiffany-Bader Environmental Services, NJ, hbader1@nyc.rr.com

Vincent Coluccio, MS, DrPH
TRC Environmental Inc., vcoluccio@hvc.rr.com

Peter Crosby , MS
EAS Inc., staternj@comcast.net

Phil Taylor, MS
Port Authority of NY/NJ, taylorehs@optonline.net,

John Tiffany, MS
Tiffany-Bader Environmental Services, TBEnvir@aol.com


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