Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Web Site - Brian S. Schwartz, MD, MS

PEOPLE

Current Doctoral Students

• 2003-pres Keson Theppeang, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, “Relations of bone mineral density, blood lead levels, bone lead levels, and the apolipoprotein E and vitamin D receptor genotypes”
• 2004-pres Jing Feng, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, “The built environment and obesity risk among adolescents in rural Pennsylvania”

Past Doctoral Students

• 2001-2005 Megan Weil, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, “Environmental mercury exposure and neurobehavioral function in older adults”
• 1999-2002 Mark Lustberg, Dept of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, "The G894T exon 7 polymorphism in endothelial nitric oxide synthase and blood pressure in a cohort of lead-exposed workers from Korea"
• 1999-2001 Rebecca Malouin, Dept of International Health, "Implementation and evaluation of a longitudinal, randomized educational intervention to increase use of protective behaviors against tick bites in an area of endemic Lyme disease in Baltimore County, Maryland" (funded by CDC CCU314846)
• 1994-99 Barbara S. Glenn, Department of Epidemiology (co-advisor with Dr. Walter Stewart), "Sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase and individual susceptibility to the effect of lead on blood pressure"
• 1996-99 Kyu-Yoon Hwang, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, "Erythrocyte membrane protein phosphorylation - a biomarker of lead exposure and susceptibility in Korea lead workers"
• 1995-99 Patricia Tassler, Department of Epidemiology (co-advisor with Dr. Josef Coresh), "The effects of lead on peripheral nervous system function in children and adults”
• 1993-97 Martin Sanders, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (co-advisor with Dr. G. Gurri-Glass), "Host antibody responses to tick salivary gland proteins: novel approaches to the development of biologic markers of tick exposure"