Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.
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University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 668
Rochester, New York 14642
Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Swan is also a Professor in Environmental Medicine. She received an M.S. in Biostatistics from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California-Berkeley. From 1981 to 1998, she served as Chief of the Reproductive Epidemiology Section at the California Department of Health Services.
Dr. Swan is known for her work on the impact of environmental exposures on male and female reproductive health and has served on the National Academy of Science's Committee on Hormone-Related Toxicants. Since 1998, she has been Principal Investigator of the Study for Future Families, a multi-center pregnancy cohort study examining environmental causes of geographic variation in reproductive health endpoints in men, women and children.
Current Appointments
- Professor - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (SMD)
- Professor - Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
- Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine (SMD)
| Education | ||
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| PhD Statistics | Univ of Cal Berkeley | 1963 |
| MS Statistics | Columbia University | 1959 |
| BS Mathematics | Cuny City College | 1957 |
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| Sathyanarayana, Sheela; Karr, Catherine J.; Lozano, Paula; Brown, Elizabeth; Calafat, Antonia M.; Liu, Fan; Swan, Shanna H.;. "Baby care products: possible sources of infant phthalate exposure". Pediatrics 121 (2008): 260-8 [PubMed ID: 18245401]. |
| Sathyanarayana, S; Calafat, A; Liu, F; Swan, SH. "Maternal and infant urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations: Are they related?". Env Research (2008). |
| Swan, SH. "Environmental phthalate exposure in relation to reproductive outcomes and other health endpoints in humans". Env Research On-line (2008). |
| Euling SY; Herman-Giddens ME; Lee PA; Selevan SG; Juul A; Sørensen TI; Dunkel L; Himes JH; Teilmann G; Swan SH. "Examination of US puberty-timing data from 1940 to 1994 for secular trends: panel findings." Pediatrics. 2008; 121 Suppl 3():S172-91. |
| Buck Louis GM; Gray LE; Marcus M; Ojeda SR; Pescovitz OH; Witchel SF; Sippell W; Abbott DH; Soto A; Tyl RW; Bourguignon JP; Skakkebaek NE; Swan SH; Golub MS; Wabitsch M; Toppari J; Euling SY. "Environmental factors and puberty timing: expert panel research needs." Pediatrics. 2008; 121 Suppl 3():S192-207. |
