Kathleen M. McCarty, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Professor McCarty’s interests are related to environmental and molecular epidemiology. Her main research projects involve investigating variability in biomarker response, genetic susceptibility, and gene-environment interactions.
Her main research is related to metals exposure in the environment as well as environmental exposures and breast cancer. Dr McCarty has investigated inorganic arsenic exposure through drinking water in Bangladesh, and currently studies inorganic arsenic exposure and skin cancer in Romania. She is currently investigating polycylic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and organochlorine exposure and breast cancer risk and survival in the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (LIBCSP).
Dr. McCarty has a secondary appointment in the Global Health Initiative at Yale University and is involved with the World Health Organization and in several international research projects.
Courses Taught
EHS 510a Contemporary Issues in Environmental Health
EHS 510b Principles of Environmental Health Sciences
Education
Sc.D. Harvard School of Public Health, 2005
S.M. Harvard School of Public Health, 2003
M.P.H. Yale University School of Medicine, 2000
Awards & Honors
Science Communications Fellow, 2009
Visiting Scientist, World Health Organization - Geneva, Switzerland, 2009
Visiting Scientist, Chulabhorn Research Institute – Bangkok, Thailand, 2008
Alvin T-Viola D Fuller American Cancer Society Fellowship, 1996
Professional Services
International Advisory Committee member, Third WHO International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment: From Research and Knowledge to Policy and Action - Busan, Republic of Korea, 2009
Organizing Committee, Metals in the environment: Health and national child development Planning and implementing plans of action - Montevideo, Uruguay, 2009
Organizing Committee, International Conference on "Environmental Epidemiology: a Tool for the Environmental Determinants of Health" International Society of Doctors for the Environment - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009
USA Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, The Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Health and the Environment (CEECHE): A Platform for Health - Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2008
Yale Affiliations
Yale Cancer Center
Yale Global Health Initiative
In the News
Science Communication Fellows Named for 2009
NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program Former Student Success Stories
Selected Publications
McCarty, K.M., Santella, R.M., Steck, S.E., Cleveland, R.J., Ahn, J., Ambrosone, C.B., North, K., Sagiv, S.K., Eng, S.M., Teitelbaum, S.L., Neugut, A.I., Gammon, M,D. PAH–DNA Adducts, Cigarette Smoking, GST Polymorphisms, and Breast Cancer Risk. Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 117, Number 4, April 2009.
McCarty, K.M., Smith, T.J., Zhou, W., Gonzalez, E., Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Ryan, L., Su, L., Christiani, D.C. Polymorphisms in XPD (Asp312Asn and Lys751Gln) genes, sunburn and arsenic-related skin lesions. Carcinogenesis. 2007 Aug;28(8):1697-702.
McCarty, K.M., Chen, Y.C., Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Hsueh, Y.M., Su, L., Smith, T., Ryan, L., Christiani, D.C. Arsenic Methylation, GSTT1, GSTM1, GSTP1 Polymorphisms, and Skin Lesions. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(3): 341-345, 2007.
McCarty, K.M., Ryan, L., Houseman, E.A., Williams, P.L., Miller, D.P., Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Smith, T., Gonzalez, E., Su, L., Christiani, D.C. A Case-control Study of GST Polymorphisms and Arsenic Related Skin Lesions. Environmental Health 6(6): 5, 2007.
Craft, E.S., Donnelly, K.C., Neamtiu, I., McCarty, K.M., Bruce, E., Surkova, I., Kim, D., Uhnakova, I., Gyorffy, E., Tesarova, E., Anderson, B. Prioritizing Environmental Issues Around the World: Opinions from an International Central and Eastern European Environmental Health Conference. Environmental Health Perspectives 114(12): 1813-1817, 2006.
McCarty, K.M., Houseman, E.A., Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Smith, T.J., Ryan, L.M., Christiani, D.C. The Impact of Diet and Betel Nut Use on Skin Lesions Associated with Drinking Water Arsenic in Pabna, Bangladesh. Environmental Health Perspectives 114(3): 334-340, 2006.
McCarty, K.M., Senn, D.B., Kile, M.L., Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Christiani, D.C. Antimony: An Unlikely Confounder in the Relationship Between Well Water Arsenic and Health Outcomes in Bangladesh. Environmental Health Perspectives 112(8): 809-811, 2004.
McCarty, K., Swallow, J., Vanderslice, R., Combs, W.S. Jr. Water Systems to Report Drinking Water Quality to All Customers: How Can Health Professionals Prepare for the Questions that these Reports will Generate? Medicine and Health Rhode Island 83(5): 140-143, 2000.
For a further list of Professor McCarty’s publications, please see PubMed. |
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