Environmental & Occupation Health Faculty
| Linder, Stephen H., PhD Professor & Associate Director, Institute for Health Policy Research interests: Policy studies; social theory; media studies; climate change and health Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E1023Email: stephen.h.linder@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9494 |
| Symanski, Elaine , PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Development of quantitative methods for modeling occupational and environmental exposures; retrospective exposure assessment for workplace contaminants; investigation of health effects related to occupational and environmental exposures Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E643Email: elaine.symanski@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9238 |
| Morandi, Maria T., PhD Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Research interests: Indoor and outdoor air pollution characterization; environmental and occupational exposure assessment; outdoor, indoor and personal air pollution measurement methods; health effects of air pollutants Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W634Email: maria.t.morandi@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9288 |
| Stock, Thomas H., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Assessment of community and occupational pollutant exposures; characterization of major determinants of indoor and outdoor air quality; evaluation of air monitoring and industrial hygiene methods Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W622Email: thomas.h.stock@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9279 |
| Emery, Robert John, DrPH Associate Professor of Occupational Health Research interests: Comprehensive approaches to health and safety; health and safety program outcome measures; health and safety for special populations; occupational radiation protection; hazardous waste management; emergency preparedness and response, training Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1022Email: robert.j.emery@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9469 |
| Amick, Benjamin C., PhD Professor Research interests: Work organization and health; social epidemiology and health disparities; work stress, labor markets, disability; epidemiology of musculoskeletal injuries; ergonomics and organizational change Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E1009Email: benjamin.c.amick@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9496 |
| Hacker, Carl S., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Public health law; environmental law; Behavior of environmentally sustainable organizations; modeling vector populations; effect of pollutants on ecosystems Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W312Email: carl.s.hacker@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9185 |
| Carson, Arch I., MD Assistant Professor of Occupational Medicine Research interests: Occupational lung disease; industrial toxicology; international occupational health; occupational health surveillance systems Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1030Email: arch.carson@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9465 |
| Mackey, Thomas A., PhD Professor of Nursing Research interests: Quality improvement and changes in diabetic patient outcomes in an academic nurse practitioner primary care practice and manage patient violence; nurse practitioner clinic based practices Campus: Houston — Office:Email: thomas.a.mackey@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-3250 |
| Schecter, Arnold J., MD Professor Research interests: Exposure assessment; environmental epidemiology; persistent organic pollutants (POPS), especially dioxins and related compounds and also brominated flame retardants; Agent Orange; Dioxins in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; the USA; Russia; Israel and Palestinian Areas; Germany; China; and Japan Campus: Dallas — Office: 00V V8.112EEmail: arnold.j.schecter@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (214) 648-1096 |
| Frankowski, Ralph F., PhD Professor Research interests: Design and analysis of clinical experiments; traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular disease Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1008Email: ralph.f.frankowski@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9320 |
| Smolensky, Michael H., PhD Professor Research interests: Biological rhythms in relation to the health effects of shift work, hypertension, cardiovascular accidents and pulmonary disease; sleep disorders; time series statistical methods, international health Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W606Email: michael.h.smolensky@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9237 |
| Felknor, Sarah A., DrPH Associate Professor & Deputy Director, Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness Research interests: Occupational health and safety management; workplace risk assessment; injury surveillance systems; organizational safety climate; worker safety training; program evaluation; public health systems in Latin America Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1028Email: sarah.a.felknor@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9464 |
| Hewett-Emmett, David , PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Molecular evolution; human genetic variation; gene families. Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E517Email: david.hewett-emmett@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9835 |
| Chappell, Cynthia L., PhD Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Research interests: Parasitology; gastrointestinal parasites; immune response to parasites Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W118AEmail: cynthia.l.chappell@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9026 |
| Whitehead, Lawrence W., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Exposure assessment; occupational epidemiology; environmental health, industrial noise Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1016Email: lawrence.whitehead@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9458 |
| Delclos, George P., MD Professor Research interests: Occupational hazards of healthcare workers; occupational and environmental respiratory disease; international aspects of occupational health Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1018Email: george.delclos@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9459 |
| Waring, Stephen C., PhD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Research interests: Neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS/PDC of Guam); zoonotic diseases (emerging zoonoses and agents of bioterrorism); Public Health preparedness; epidemiologic methods. Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E629Email: stephen.c.waring@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9241 |
| Hixson, James E., PhD Professor Research interests: Molecular genetics of common diseases including cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes; SNP discovery and analysis in population-based studies of common diseases; allelic effects on gene expression and protein function related to common diseases and measured risk factors. Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W422Email: james.e.hixson@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9834 |
| Perkins, Jimmy L., PhD Professor Research interests: Chemical exposure assessment; risk communication; risk analysis; dermal exposure; statistical applications Campus: San Antonio — Office: SPH 210Email: jimmy.l.perkins@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (210) 562-5502 |
| Cooper, Sharon P., PhD Professor and Regional Dean, San Antonio Region Campus Research interests: Occupational injury, surveillance of injury and illnesses in farm workers, working adolescents Campus: San Antonio — Office: SPH 208Email: sharon.p.cooper@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (210) 562-5508 |
| Schroder, Gene D., PhD Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Outreach Programs Research interests: Ecosystem structure and dynamics; environmental contaminating rodent ecology Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W224Email: gene.d.schroder@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9224 |
| Cech, Irina M., PhD Professor Research interests: Environmental health, policy and regulatory process; GIS, water quality, contamination and hazardous waste management; chemical and biological factors related to birth defects; international health Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E1005Email: irina.cech@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9227 |
| Herbold, John R., PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Director, Center for Biosecurity & Public Health Preparedness Research interests: Epidemiology; environmental health; infectious disease; animal-human issues; military medicine. Campus: San Antonio — Office: SPH 215Email: john.r.herbold@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9420 |
| Douglas, Tommy C., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Antibody; apolipoprotein; gene expression; genetics; immunogenetics; immunoglobulin; immunology Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W632Email: tommy.c.douglas@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9830 |
| Smith, Mary Ann, PhD Assistant Professor & Associate Dean for Student Affairs Research interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of nephrotoxicity; in-vitro toxicology; environmental justice Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W214Email: mary.a.smith@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9236 |
| Burau, Keith D., PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Job exposure matrix development and applications to epidemiological studies; spatial/temporal analysis in epidemiology; occupational exposure analysis; automated ECG/VCG analysis; clinical data systems Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1042Email: keith.d.burau@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9472 |
| DuPont, Herbert L., MD Professor of Infectious Diseases & Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Research interests: Worldwide study of the epidemiology; microbiology; genetic susceptibility, treatment and prevention of acute diarrhea Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E729Email: herbert.l.dupont@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9366 |
| Waller, Kim , PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Preventable risk factors for birth defects; low birth weight; fetal death; birth defects; screening programs; association of serum biomarkers (measured early in pregnancy) and pregnancy outcome. Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E619Email: kim.waller@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9155 |
| Shipp, Eva M., PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Occupational injury / illness among agricultural and adolescent workers, back injury, vulnerable populations Campus: San Antonio — Office: SPH 211Email: eva.m.shipp@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (210) 562-5524 |
| Jiang, Zhi-Dong , MD Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases Research interests: Epidemiology of travelers’ diarrhea; genetic factors for acute diarrhea; enteric pathogens Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E741Email: zhi-dong.jiang@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9371 |
| Mena, Kristina , PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Water quality, food safety, microbial risk assessment Campus: El Paso — Office: 097 110BEmail: kristina.d.mena@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (915) 747-8514 |
| Vela Acosta, Martha S., MD Assistant Professor Research interests: Occupational health and safety; migrant and seasonal farmworkers; border health; hearing loss; training evaluation; industrial hygiene and risk assessment Campus: Brownsville — Office: RAC N1.202HEmail: martha.s.vela.acosta@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (956) 882-5163 |
| Gibbs, Shawn G., PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Biofilms, wastewater-drinking water cross-connections, microbial release from confined animal feeding operations, bioaerosols, indoor air pollution, and effects of microorganism exposure on reproductive health in women Campus: El Paso — Office: 097 110CEmail: shawn.g.gibbs@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (915) 747-8582 |
| Sexton, Ken, ScD Professor and Director, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Research interests: Human exposure analysis; health risk assessment; environmental risk management; environmental health policy; business environment interactions Campus: Houston — Office: RAC N1.202FEmail: ken.sexton@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9460 |
| Pompeii, Lisa, PhD Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Research interests: Occupational epidemiology, injury epidemiology, pregnancy health and work, health disparities Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1020Email: lisa.pompeii@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9474 |