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 as it applies to environmental exposures and genetic susceptibility to cancer and non-cancer endpoints. Her main research projects involve environmental cofactors, genetic susceptibility, arsenic exposure and health outcomes; gene-environment interactions and breast cancer risk; biomarker development and translational research.
Education
Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health, 2005
M.P.H., Yale School of Public Health, 2000
Selected Publications
McCarty, K.M., Smith, T.J., Zhou, W., Gonzalez, E. Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Ryan, L., Su, L., and Christiani, D.C. Polymorphisms in XPD(Asp312Asn and Lys751Gln) Genes, Sunburn and Arsenic Related Skin Lesions. Carcinogenesis, in press, 2007.
McCarty, K.M., Chen, Y.C., Quamruzzaman, Q., Rahman, M., Mahiuddin, G., Hsueh, Y.M., Su, L., Smith, T., Ryan, L., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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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