Research Bio
Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D. is Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. Dr. van Wijngaarden has many research interests but has focused on the potential health effects of occupational and environmental exposures (primarily heavy metals, pesticides, and electromagnetic fields) in particular as they relate to the risk of developing cancer and neurologic conditions in both children and adults. Dr. van Wijngaarden is a member of the American College of Epidemiology, the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, and the Society for Epidemiologic Research. He has advised more than 40 graduate students in public health on their Master's theses and dissertation research projects, and has collaborated on a wide variety of clinical and epidemiological research projects within and outside the Medical Center.
2013 Jun
Abdolahi A, van Wijngaarden E, McClean MD, Herrick RF, Allen JG, Ganguly A, Bunin GR. "A case-control study of paternal occupational exposures and the risk of childhood sporadic bilateral retinoblastoma." Occupational and environmental medicine. 2013 Jun 0; 70(6):372-9. Epub 2013 Mar 16. |
2013 Jun
Lyngdoh T, Viswanathan B, Kobrosly R, van Wijngaarden E, Huber B, Davidson PW, Cory-Slechta DA, Strain S, Myers GJ, Bovet P. "Blood pressure and cognitive function: a prospective analysis among adolescents in Seychelles." Journal of hypertension. 2013 Jun 0; 31(6):1175-82. |
2013 Jan 9
Strain JJ, McSorley EM, van Wijngaarden E, Kobrosly RW, Bonham MP, Mulhern MS, McAfee AJ, Davidson PW, Shamlaye CF, Henderson J, Watson GE, Thurston SW, Wallace JM, Ueland PM, Myers GJ. "Choline status and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 5 years of age in the Seychelles Child Development Nutrition Study." The British journal of nutrition. 2013 Jan 9; :1-7. Epub 2013 Jan 09. |
2013
Stevens V, Concannon C, van Wijngaarden E, McGregor J. "Validation of the chronic disease score-infectious disease (CDS-ID) for the prediction of hospital-associated clostridium difficile infection (CDI) within a retrospective cohort." BMC infectious diseases. 2013 13:150. Epub 2013 Mar 26. |
2012 Nov
Guise JM, Nagel JD, Regensteiner JG, . "Best practices and pearls in interdisciplinary mentoring from Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Directors." Journal of women's health (2002). 2012 Nov 0; 21(11):1114-27. Epub 2012 Sep 20. |
