Department of Environmental Health

What an interesting winter we have had with waves of winter mixed with spring. It has been challenging on our health and our furnaces. This year the 2012 AIHce Conference and Expo is just 100 miles from home! Our Environmental and Occupational Hygiene students, faculty and our own Academy of Kettering Fellows should make a strong showing. The AIHce web-site promises new and interesting information, educational sessions, and exhibitors, it even has its own mobile App. Ever evolving, the Department of Environmental Health added a division of Public Health, last September. The MPH program in Public Health was transferred from another department and is getting its feet wet in DEH and settling in nicely with the help of all the divisions within the department the MPH Program is growing in concentrations. As in the past and the future, we gauge our achievements on our students and our alumni and their accomplishments in life. While reading this latest newsletter you will find all the little bits and pieces from the lives of our current students and our alumni that make us all successful, and keep us tied together. Dear Academy of Kettering Fellows - In this greeting as in others, I wish to remind you, if someone gave to the department or to the division of Environmental and Occupational Hygiene and helped you pay for your education, please pass it forward and help another student with their education. In these times with funding so difficult to get – you may also choose to support a junior faculty member.

F rom the D i rec to r : Shuk -Me i Ho , PhD

I n s i d e t h i s i s s ue :

Director’s Corner 2

PRP News 3

TRT Corner 8

Current Students 12

Faculty News 16

Alumni News 24

Thank Yous 30

Department of Environmental Health Division of

Environmental & Occupational Hygiene Newsletter - Winter 2012

EOH-Director’s CORNER…………….…...Carol Rice, PhD, CIH The busy schedule continues…

The best news is that we expect ERCs to be funded through June 2013, albeit with a

small budget cut. These are not days to be greedy—most of the dollar$ we want is

certainly better than $0! The OH (Comprehensive Practice and Occupational Safety

and Ergonomics) HSAT and Biomonitoring were all approved for funding for 5 years

based on the competitive renewal and site visit; we hope to collect for each of the five

years.

The next funding hurdle is to get into the FY13 budget. See http://eh.uc.edu/erc/

saveerc.asp for the most up-to-date information. The ERC was cut from the Presi-

dent’s recommendations, so we moving to work with decision makers to assure that

Congress acts. If you ,now someone who does not receive regular ERC updates by e

-mail and would like to, please ask them e-mail [email protected].

The review of PhD programs in the Department has proceeded through the review by

the Dean, and external reviewer and a UC committee. EOH got the highest rating in

the Department. Hats off to all of you, our products, who really made the record of

EOH outstanding.

Classes have been reformatted for the semester system, beginning in August 2012.

Internships will be short this summer, as we end on the quarter system and begin ear-

lier than usual.

The first interdisciplinary trip is described on the blog at http://eh.uc.edu/erc/blog/.

Follow us on Twitter @uc_erceoh.

Send news for the Spring Newsletter…and read on to catch up on alumni and faculty

activities and to meet the current students…

Division of Environmental & Occupational Hygiene Newsletter - Winter 2012

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Occupational health and safety professionals and students gathered in Kettering

Laboratory to view poster presentation of the proposed work of 2011-2012 awardees

and to listen to presentations of the results of work of 2010-2011 awardees. The pur-

pose of the PRP is to increase and encourage research in occupational health and

safety and to provide an incentive to those in other disciplines to pursue occupational

and safety based research.

The PRP Symposium brings together individuals from many disciplines that are inter-

ested in occupational safety and health. Current and future students are allowed the

opportunity to meet and network with individuals that are active in many disciplines re-

lated to their studies. The PRP also allows future graduate students from other institu-

tions the opportunity to visit the University of Cincinnati campus, learn about the

graduate programs offered through the Department of Environmental Health, and to

meet current students for personal interaction and feedback.

All current graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Cincinnati are

encouraged to attend the Symposium. A keynote speaker started each day and each

of the two days was filled with presentations of last year’s awardees work. Presenta-

tions ranged from nursing research on productivity and bullying to work-related heat

syncope to Tai Chi as a possible way to decrease cardiovascular risk factors in fire-

fighters. Exposure to such a wealth of research provides each attendee with new in-

sight into different disciplines. Each presentation brought forth new ideas and new

questions were formulated in the minds of future awardees.

12th Annual Pilot Research Project (PRP) Symposium October 13-14, 2011

By Adrienne Eastlake (EOH, Biomonitoring Concentration)


12th Annual Pilot Research Project (PRP) Symposium...Cont.

POSTER SESSION

Tiffany Poole-Wilson (PhD Student) presenting poster

POSTER SESSION

discussion with Dr. Grinshpun and Dr. Kandhia (Central State)

POSTER SESSION

discussion with Dr. Reponen


Dr. Boat, Dean of UC College of Medicine, listening to poster presentations

Drs. Susan Davis and Susan Kennerly of UC Nursing with

Dr. Kuchinsky of NIOSH

Dean Boat with attendees at the PRP reception


FULL HOUSE

PRP SYMPOSIUM SESSION

& NETWORKING

PICNIC/DINNER


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Balmes University of California,

Berkeley, CA

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Traci Galinski NIOSH Cincinnati, OH

Discussion time with Dr. Rice

and Dr. Zimmermann (Purdue

University)


Steering Committee: Dr. Tiina Reponen, Chairperson and Drs. Jay Kim, Occupational Safety and Health Engineering (OSHE), Amit Bhattacharya, Environmental and Occu-pational Hygiene (EOH), Susan Kennerly, Occupational Health Nursing (OHN) and Jim Lockey, Occupational Medicine (OM);

Stakeholders: Fire Chief, B.J. Jetter, PhD and William Lovett, MD, Medical Director, Fire Department, Sycamore Township; District Chief Keith Burkert, Cincinnati Fire De-partment.

Targeted Research Training (TRT) program has started with full steam with the com-petitive renewal of the ERC this summer. The TRT program is initially focused on car-diovascular risk factors among firefighters and has three focus areas: heat stress, ul-trafine particle exposure and workplace culture. TRT students were selected by the Steering committee based on faculty recommendations as listed below.

(1) Assessment and control of firefighters’ exposures to heat stress (P.I. Dr. Bhatta-charya).

Students: Joe Sullivan, OSHE MS (faculty advisor: Dr. Schulz); Georganne Kin-cer, OHN MS (faculty advisors: Drs. Kennerly and Bhattacharya).

(2) Assessment and control of firefighters’ and first responders’ exposures to ul-trafine particles and chemicals (P.I. Dr. Reponen).

Students: James Kelley, OSHE MS (faculty advisor: Dr. Son); Kevin He EOH PhD (faculty advisor: Dr. Grinshpun); Barbara Alexander EOH MS (faculty advi-sor: Dr. Rice)

(3) Workplace culture in relation to physical activity and post-event stress (P.I. Dr. Kennerly).

Students: Tasha Turner-Bicknell, OHN MS (faculty advisors: Drs. Kennerly and Gillespie)

Targeted Research Training (TRT) Corner


October 2011 live fire burn data collection was conducted when Sycamore firefighters were training in the Cincinnati burn house. Students helping Georganne in the data collection were: Courtney Kopko and TashaTurnell-Bicknell from OHN and Ashutosh Mani, Barbara Alexander and Umesh Singh from EOH.

Courtney, Ashutosh and Georganne plotting the strategy for the day.

Barbara interviewing study participant.

Georganne taking pulse.

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Targeted Research Training (TRT) Corner...Cont.

Kevin He conducting pilot experiments on the penetration of combustion particles

through firefighter respirators.

Barbara Alexander extracting chemicals from samples taken from firefighters’ respirators.

Newly-developed UC Personal Ultrafine Particle Sensor for testing firefighter respirators


Kelley James is using newly-developed UC Personal Ultrafine Particle Sensor for testing firefighter respirators.

James Sullivan is using the University of Cincinnati's custom made spinning machine for spinning carbon nanotubes into a thread. These will be used as a thermal interface to protect firefighters from overheating.


Meet Our Current Students

Barbara M. Alexander E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University Prior Graduate Degree: MS Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati; PhD Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: June 2012 Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Rice Summer Internship: National Institute for Occupational Health, Cincinnati, Ohio. Analyzed data on flavoring exposures. Collected air samples at a rubber plant. Re-searched firefighter exposures and recycling of e-waste. Job Preference: Industrial Hygienist with emphasis on chemical exposures Type of Employer: Academia, government or industrial

Anna Barrett E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Biology, University of South Florida Prior Graduate Degree: MPH, University of South Florida Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: 2014 Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Rice

Felix Boachie E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: June 2012 Research advisor: Dr. Glenn Talaska

Kevin L Dunn E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Institution: Thomas More College/ University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Degree: Management / Environmental Science Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Industrial Hygiene Thesis Topic: Constructing a job exposure matrix for a phosphate mining cohort. Expected Graduation Date: June 2012 Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Rice Job Preference: Currently working for NIOSH


Adrienne Eastlake E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Natural Resources and Allied Health Sciences, The Ohio State University Current Certifications: Medical Technologist (ASCP) Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Industrial Hygiene (specialization in Biomonitoring) Expected Graduation Date: June 2012 Research Advisor: Dr. Glenn Talaska Summer Internship: Nanotechnology Research Center, NIOSH, Cincinnati, OH Geographical Preference: Cincinnati, Ohio and surrounding area

Kanistha Chatterjee E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Environmental Science, MS Biology University of Toledo Graduate Degree in Progress: PhD Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: August 2015 Previous Work Experience: Research work in bioaerosols, antibiotic resistant bacte-ria, environmental pathogens in water, soil and air and characterizing pathogen com-munities originating in land-applied waste materials.

Cheryl Fairfield Estill E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Industrial Engineering, Purdue University Prior Graduate Degree: MS Industrial and Systems Engineering (Industrial Ergonom-ics), Virginia Tech University Graduate Degree in Progress: PhD Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: 2015 Previous Work Experience: I have worked for NIOSH for over 20 years in Engineer-ing, Ergonomics and Industrial Hygiene.


Ashutosh Mani E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Technology in Soil and Water Resources Engi-neering (Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Graduate Degree in Progress: PhD Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: December 2012 Thesis Topic: Development of a practical method to identify fallers among Parkinson Disease patients Research Advisor: Dr. Amit Bhattacharya, Dr. Carol Rice, and Dr. Freddy Revilla Job Preference: Academia or Industry (I am open to options) Type of Employer: Government or Industry Geographical Preference: None

Brad Knipper Email: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Environmental Studies and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis, University of Cincinnati Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Industrial Hygiene Expected Graduation Date: June 2012 Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Rice Summer Internship: Industrial Hygiene Intern with Dynamac Corporation Type of employer: Government Job Preference: Full-Time Industrial Hygienist Geographical preference: In the greater Cincinnati area

Xinjian (Kevin) He Email: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technol-ogy Graduate Institution: MS Industrial Hygiene, West Virginia University Thesis Topic: Respirator Protection Study Research Advisor: Dr. Sergey Grinshpun Summer Internship: Nanotechnology Research Center, NIOSH, Cincinnati, OH

J’ai Watson E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Expected Graduation Date: 2013 Previous Work Experience: Internship at Hillrom

Angela Wills E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Allied Health Sciences (Biomechanics), University of Cin-cinnati Graduate Degree in Progress: MS Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Expected Graduation Date: June 2012 Thesis Topic: MSDs in server/wait staff. Research Advisor: Dr. Kermit Davis Summer Internship: NIOSH


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Tiffany Poole Wilson E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate Degree: BS Chemical Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Prior Graduate Degree: MS Occupational Safety and Health Graduate Degree in Progress: PhD Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Expected Graduation Date: June 2014 Thesis Topic: Documenting amount of manual lifting performed by nurses in hospital settings Research Advisor: Dr. Kermit Davis Summer Internship: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America, Inc Job Preference: Academia or Industrial Geographical Preference: East Coast


Dr. Amit Bhattacharya’s collaboration with Dr. Eva Shipp of Texas A & M Health Sciences Center (School of Rural Public Health) has re-sulted in a NIOSH sponsored 5 year project through their Agriculture Center. In this project, quantitative posturography technique devel-oped at his laboratory will be used to determine the effect of pesticide on the neuromotor functions of adolescent farmers at the Texas-Mexico border. Later this summer, he and Cyndy Cox (Sr. Research assistant in his lab) will be travelling there for training Dr. Shipp’s staff. Dr. Bhattacharya’s Bone Shock Absorbance technology has successfully completed its 2nd clinical trial and moving forward into its ultimate test i.e. can it predict osteoporosis related fracture? Potential venture capital groups have shown strong interest in supporting this project-more to come!

Dr. Kermit Davis continues to provide research support to Hill- Rom, Inc. who has established a dedicated ergonomic laboratory to sup-port their designers and engineers. Ongoing projects are focusing on better bed designs with regard to both the patient and caregiver. The collaboration includes literature reviews, plot studies, strategic plan-ning, and research projects. Dr. Davis was elected as Secretary-Treasurer for the national Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Several students continue to work on completion of their Master’s theses: Kendell Smith: investigating the impact of nuisance noise of lifting mechanics; Todd Ramsey: evaluating adjustable height inter-ventions for palletizing tasks; Tiffany Poole Wilson: investigating the frequency of patient handling tasks in hospitals; and Angela Wills: in-vestigating the biomechanical demands for servers and wait staff when completing common serving tasks.

Faculty News


Dr. Sergey Grinshpun continues directing the Center of Health-Related Aerosol Studies, which is engaged in research on the assess-ment of exposure to airborne particles and microorganisms, respira-tory protection against bioaerosols and nano-particles, bioaerosol in-activation and air purification. Dr. Grinshpun was recently awarded a new five-year grant from the US Department of Defense to further ex-pand his multi-institutional research program on the development and evaluation of new-generation materials for destroying aerosolized bio-logical threat agents. His team also continues studying the human ex-posure to traffic pollutants (with a focus on children) and the respira-tory protection against aerosol particles. In August, Dr. Grinshpun gave invited lectures in several major research institutions of China (Fudan University in Shanghai, CDC in Nanjing, Peking University in Beijing and others).

Dr. Tiina Reponen Dr. Tiina Reponen keeps on adding new projects. One of these is a CDC/HUD funded grant to assess the impact of “green” housing on indoor air quality and human health. Cincinnati and Boston (Harvard School of Public Health) are the first metropoli-tan areas included in this multicenter study. Another new adventure is the Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) award that was granted to her by a Finnish research funding program. This collaborative pro-ject will take her to Finland and other European countries several times during the next four years. She also continues her exposure as-sessment work in several other projects and directs the ERC Targeted Research Training program (TRT).


Dr. Carol Rice It has been a very busy summer and fall. The RCF pro-ject has recently been renewed for five years, and the most recent manuscript submission is on x-ray results and the analysis of lung tis-sue. Several reports are being prepared regarding exposure to Libby amphibole, and work is progressing on an assessment of exposures to those born after 1980 and exposed while growing up in this area of Montana. The Midwest Consortium centers trained about 15,000 work-ers and community residents in the Midwest last year—so that program continues to empower many to reduce exposures. I have just gotten back from India, where I gave talks on Hazard Evaluation, Ergonomics (with some coaching by Dr. B), Qualitative and Quantitative Air Sam-pling, and Control Banding, toured sandstone quarrying and stone dressing operations, took MIHS students on seven field visits and danced a lot at the alumni reunion—a few aspects are shown in the ac-companying photos. And for the first time, I saw hard hats for head car-riers at a large commercial building construction site.

Dr. Glenn Talaska still runs amok in the halls of Kettering. Glenn was named to the World Trade Center First Responder Scientific/Technical Committee which recently recommended to add certain cancers to the list of included disorders for the First Responders. He continues to be the Vice-chair of the ACGIH BEI Committee and Secretary of the Inter-national Commission on Occupational Health’s Scientific Committee on Occupational Toxicology. Glenn is leading the Biomonitoring Program in the UC ERC. The lab includes Brenda Schuman and has added Dr. Shalina Bhatnagar as a post doctoral fellow. Felix Boachie and Adri-enne Eastlake are working on their MS theses in the lab. Current pro-jects include relationship between 1-hydroxyprene and DNA adduct levels in coke oven and tunnel workers and urinary bladder cancer risk reduction strategies for smokers. Glenn is bike commuting to work regularly.


Dr. Rice’s trip to India to lecture at the Master in Industrial Hygiene and Safety (MIHS) at the Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India.

Started in 1997 in collaboration with our IH program at Kettering

A few aspects are shown in the accompanying photos below:

Lecturing MIHS Students about Hazard Evaluation, Ergonomics (with some coaching by Dr. B), Qualitative and Quantitative Air Sampling, and Control Banding

toured sandstone quarrying and stone dressing operations

Dancing at the MIH Reunion Party December 2011


Hard hats for head carriers at Construction sites


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DR. JUDY JARRELL RETIRES AFTER 24 YEARS OF SERVICE as The Director of the Continuing Education Program of NIOSH Education and

Research Center (ERC) in the Department of Environmental Health

During her tenure as director of this program she has been re-sponsible for the development and successful presentation of more than 50 new courses. With very few exceptions, Dr. Jarrell was not the content expert. Rather, she identified and negotiated with subject matter experts, both from the University and from lo-cal industry, to facilitate the development and presentation of these courses.

As Director of the Continuing Education program Dr. Jarrell has been called upon to interact extensively with local, state, and federal governmental agencies. The types of training courses offered by this program are often driven by regulations or other certifi-cation/licensure maintenance requirements. This necessitates involvement with gov-ernmental agencies, as a facilitator and advisor in the process of regulation develop-ment, and as an advisor/liaison between the regulating bodies and the persons being regulated. For example, she traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify at a U.S.EPA hearing on lead regulations as well as to Columbus, Ohio, to testify at Cincinnati Ohio Department of Health and Ohio EPA hearings. She was also involved with the City of Cincinnati as a member (and vice-chair) of the City of Cincinnati Advisory Committee for Lead Poisoning Prevention for several years. In addition to responsibilities within the Department for graduate studies, Dr. Jarrell also chaired the College of Medicine Committee on Graduate Education. In this ca-pacity, she was called upon to substitute for the College of Medicine Associate Dean in University Graduate Council meetings from time to time. In 1997, the Department of Environmental Health underwent a comprehensive reor-ganization. Dr. Jarrell was asked at that time to take over the directorship of the Graduate Studies Program (~150 graduate students) and became the Associate Director for Education of the Environmental Health Department in addition to her re-sponsibilities as CE Director. She accepted the challenge and made several organiza-tional and policy changes within the Graduate Studies Program. Those changes were given the Director’s and faculty’s approval.


Dr. Jarrell developed, organized, and presented some special activities. A few exam-ples are given below: 2001 – International Conference on Biomechanics & Ergonomics; Cairo, Egypt; 12 countries represented, with over 100 people in attendance. Deans from the U.C. Col-leges of Medicine, Nursing, and Engineering were also in attendance. 2006 – International Conference on Nanotechnology; Cincinnati, Ohio; approximately 500 people attended. 2011 – Partnering with NIOSH to present two national conferences (July and Septem-ber). One of the goals Dr. Jarrell established for the program was the offering of training in a “distance-learning” format (satellite, or Internet). During Autumn quarter, 1998 the Environmental Health Department offered its first distance learning course utilizing the distance learning electronic classroom at our neighboring College of Nursing. The Ohio State University participated in the offering of this course. The graduate program also offered an Internet-based “Bioinformatics” course as well. Learning, whether formal or informal, is a lifelong endeavor for everyone. The reason it is so much a part of every healthy person’s life is that, through learning, people are empowered to meet their and their loved ones’ needs. Lifelong learning empowers! For that reason, Dr. Jarrell, as Professor Emerita, will be returning to the Continuing Education Program on a limited basis to teach in her highly regarded train-the-trainer courses, and be principal investigator on a long-term efficacy study of the OSHA train-the-trainer courses.


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It is with sadness that we note the passing of Dr. John Palassis this fall after a short illness. John was a caring and careful teacher of many of our EOH students. He is shown in the center of this photo with the Evaluation of Workplace Exposure class in 2009. John helped to start many careers, and always had a smile to share. That legacy continues. Dr. Rice remembers…. “He was not a graduate of Kettering, but helped in my class for many years (so lots of grads knew him). The health and safety checklists he devel-oped continue to educate teachers and students around the world. He retired from my class when he retired from NIOSH, but even for that, he had mentored new talent to do surveys with our students. It is an honor to have worked with him—a very spe-cial guy, indeed.”

In memory of ……DR. JOHN PALASSIS’s contributions


Alumni News

In March 2011, Kristen Hahn Schulz (MS, 2005) and Jessica Beatty Spears (MS, 2008) joined Environmental Resources Management Inc, after a number of years at Arcadis. New contact information: [email protected]; [email protected]. Both are doing product stewardship at this Cincinnati consulting firm.

Jean Mangharam (MS, 1998) Jean presented invited ERC Special Seminar to ERC faculty and students in June 2011. Title of her seminar was : “Legislating and Enforc-ing Occupational Safety and Health Laws to Prevent Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Experiences from Western Australia” She is currently employed as Princi-pal Scientific officer/Inspector, Human Factors & Ergonomics Worksafe, Department of Commerce, Perth, WA, Australia. Here are some photos during reunion dinner at Buca di Beppo.

L to R: Lian Luo (currently at NIOSH), Dr. Grinshpun, Marisol & Jack Lu (PhD, 2001), Dr. Rice, Dr. Bhattacharya, Jean Mangharam Backrow: Cyndy Cox (Sr, Reserch Assistant in Bhattacharya lab) and her son Ben Cox (starting medical school in 2012)

Josh Harney (MS, 1998) has left Cincinnati Children's Hospital for Concentra here in Cincinnati. He will continue as a member of the ERC External Advisory Board.


Cara Pennline (MS, 2007) married Thomas Mitchell on October 1 (see photo). She writes that in addition to be-coming a Mitchell, she is leaving NC OSHA and joining SEM Products in Rock Hill, SC (near Charlotte where they live) to become EHS manager. The company makes paints and other coatings and adhesives, mainly for the automotive industry. Lots of exciting changes.

Nancy Hopf (PhD, 2009) writes an update regarding the Oslo tragedy this summer (2011), during which her sister was injured: “The bombing in Oslo, Norway, on June 22, 2011 was a car bomb that went off in a government building, killing 8 people and wounded many others. On a personal note, I do believe the Norwegians are still griev-ing, and trying to comprehend why this took place in a normally peaceful country. When I spoke with friends and family right after the attack, I had the same emotions as right after the terror attack on 9/11. The devastation and feeling of despair is over-whelming. Explaining to my daughter (4 years old) why her aunt had to have 17 stitches in her head was also difficult. Her aunt Line (who survived the bomb-ing attack) is doing well, and have been fortunate to have psychological help for her and her family, in addition to sessions with colleagues at work in dealing with the 8 that did not make it. Line explains that it was easier for her as she was physically wounded - people could see that she was suffering - while others who do not have scars on the outside was not given the same attention, and therefore suffers more quietly. We will spend our holidays with my family and our friends in Oslo this year, and I am looking forward (and know I am fortunate to be able) to giving them big hugs. Wish you all a peaceful new year (2012)!”


Chad Brenneman (MS, 2010) writes that he got married to Jenilee Baker on October 15, 2011 after more than 6 years of dating (see photo). Congratulations to both! They live in Lima, OH, where Chad is employed at P&G.

Michael Connors (MS, 1975): One of Kettering’s leaders retires from OSHA after 37 years. Labor Department bids farewell to Michael Connors, after 37 years of helping protect American workers. Late-breaking newsletter material at http://www.dol.gov/_sec/newsletter/2012/20120105-3.htm.

Gretchen Hall Wunderlich (MS, 1995) is pursuing a teaching certificate to broaden job opportunities with three growing children. But she has not left health and safety behind. Her research question is: How does development and implementation of student safety teams increase students' awareness of safety and health in a biology laboratory. Carol Rice had a wonderful visit with the entire family, plus grandpa, just before the 2010 AIHce in Portland.

Faye Grimsley (PhD, 2001) began a 5-month special leave from Tulane University on January 1 as the Yerby Visiting Associate Professorship of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is based in the Department of Environ-mental Health and will be working on topics in occupational hygiene, indoor air quality and exposure assessment.

Mike Cornett (MS, 1988) wrote that his daughter selected The Ohio State University, and entered this fall (2011) to study actuarial science. His son is a junior in high school. Mike ended with: “Time flies....”

Neil Davis (MS, 1976) writes that he is still at OSHA, Directorate of Standards and Guidance. He is co-author of a new pocket guide for noise in construction that should be available by the time this Newsletter is posted. This pocket guide was written for workers and small contractors and emphasizes administrative and engineering controls, supplemented by PPE and audiologiometric.


Hongxia Wang (PhD, 2005) has moved to Toledo and is job hunting. If you know of jobs in the area, please let us know and we will get you connected. The children are growing up--Nora is in 3rd grade and Nathan is in preschool! See photo.

Loren Anderson (MS, 1975) retired from PPG on January 3, 2012. Look for him to be wearing a name badge with a new employer at AIHce 2012. His personal e-mail is [email protected]. He has a nice new position with Golder a global engi-neering, construction and technical services company, as the Global Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Services Leader. http://www.golder.com/eu/en/modules.php?name=News&sp_id=581&page_id=420

James Couch (MS, 2006) was awarded long-term training from NIOSH and is at the University of Michigan. Melissa Findlay Couch (MS, 2003) left Patheon and is work-ing at Materon in northern Ohio. They are living in Toledo, to cut the commute for each to a manageable level.

Russ Wiener (PhD, 1987) writes that he is involved in the “SaveTheEPA” campaign. Still at Research Triangle Park, he continues as a federal government employee Un-ion representative.


Seung-Hyun Cho (PhD, 2005) recently got married to Hee Suk (Henry) Lee, who is an alumnus of the Epidemiology program. They are happy parents of a healthy son, Dainiel Lee. Seung-Hyun continues her work at the RTI Center for Aerosol Technology and welcomes any words of wisdom about how to balance work and family life.

Dr. Richard Fulwiler (ScD, 1968) , adjunct professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, has been awarded the Distinguished Ser-vice Award for 2011 from the American Industrial Hygiene Association. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/businesspeople/2011/07/05/dr-fulwiler-wins-award/

Don Seiler (MS, 1989) was named Compliance Plan and Variance Work Process Leader at Dow on June 30; he retains the duties of Regulatory Services Leader for Health and Safety that began in 2009. He joined Dow upon graduation from UC.

Annette Caparaz Caneda (MS, 1990) is still in San Francisco and teaching part-time, in addition to a fulltime corporate job.

Eugene M. White (PhD, 1993) attended a global industry conference in Barcelona Spain in September 2011, and gave a presentation on advancing health and safety research for the metal working fluids industry.


Yulia Iossifova (PhD, 2006) celebrated her marriage in Atlanta this summer. In the photo from left: Dr. Clark, Yulia, Dr. Reponen and Joyce Brewer (M.S. 2006). Second photo reveals the most recent news: Yulia with her husband, Terry Carroll and their son Yosi (full name: Yosif Aiden Carroll). Yulia and Terry are lucky to have Yulia’s mother from Bulgaria staying with them and taking care of the baby as Yulia returned to work at the CDC/ATSDR.

Eric Glassford (MS, 2011) has settled into his job at Lovelace in Albuquerque. Ra-chel made the move with him.

LaMont Byrd (MS, 1990) received the 2011 Lorin Kerr Award for Activism at the 2011 annual meeting to the American Public Health Association. His nomination noted the following: Mr. Byrd is Director of Safety and Health for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, for whom he has worked for more than 20 years. Under his leadership, the Department of Health and Safety has expanded significantly. In just the past 10 years, over 50,000 Teamsters workers, in addition to other non-union workers and commu-nity partners, have benefited from the health and safety training offered by the Team-sters. Mr. Byrd is actively involved in providing technical and regulatory support to rank-and-file Teamsters members, IBT Trade Divisions, and Local Union Affiliates on issues related to transportation safety and ergonomics. He continues to demonstrate his commitment to improving the health and lives of workers across the country by en-suring that they are adequately trained to recognize and control potential hazards and reduce hazardous exposures.


We are also looking for some lost (to us) Kettering Fellows. If you have contact information for any of the following, please send it to [email protected]:

Bradley Aaron, 1994 Frank Bell Wanda Bloomfield – McNeil John Brodi John Bools Simon Bossa Floyd Bossard Kim Bostick, 1995 Lester Boston David P. Brown Krystyn Bussa, 1998 Chin Chen, 2004 Kyoo Tae Choe, 2004 Jill Cudnick, 1993 Steve Goodrum Christopher Gurbach Mark Gruenald Brenda Haas-Krieger Steven Haberman Roger Hallstein Margaret Harrington Ridha Hillawi Cuiling Huang, 1996 Pai-Tsang Huang, 1993

Mark Jenkins, 1997 Suresh Kalatoor, 1994 Usha Krishnan, 1996 Martin Lee, 1993 Ruohong Liang, 2000 Xuenjun Lin, 1998 Rubens Mazon, 1996 Regina McCartney, 1996 Brian Meier, 2005 Clinton Morley, 1997 Christine Newman, 1997 Timothy Rittgers, 2000 Elizabeth Salonick Lee Salvisji Joseph Schirmer Ronald Schuler Paul Schwartz Philip Schworer Josh Senter Gavin Smith, 1994 Robert Smith, 1993 Leslie Smith, 1996 Laura Stambaugh, 1998 Gary Swinehart

Lynn Tackett Wiley Taylor Keong Kok Teo, 2004 Mark Thompson Eric Thurston Pei-Jung Tsai, 1994 Russell Tye Jere Van Zandt Sylvia Vidris Richard Wolcott Scott Walker Thomas Walker Li-Hui Wang Mei-Hui Wang Zheng Wang, 1999 Wendell Ward Lisa Weider, 1998 Chaur Wen John West Maureen Willey Mark Wilson Lorraine Witten Cynthia Wolfe

Lost (To Us) Kettering Fellows

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