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.
2014 Apr
Roizen NJ, Magyar CI, Kuschner ES, Sulkes SB, Druschel C, van Wijngaarden E, Rodgers L, Diehl A, Lowry R, Hyman SL. "A community cross-sectional survey of medical problems in 440 children with down syndrome in new york state." The Journal of pediatrics.. 2014 Apr; 164(4):871-5. Epub 2013 Dec 22. |
2014 Apr
van Wijngaarden E, Harrington D, Kobrosly R, Thurston SW, O'Hara T, McSorley EM, Myers GJ, Watson GE, Shamlaye CF, Strain JJ, Davidson PW. "Prenatal exposure to methylmercury and LCPUFA in relation to birth weight." Annals of epidemiology.. 2014 Apr; 24(4):273-8. Epub 2014 Jan 16. |
2014 Mar
Simning A, Conwell Y, van Wijngaarden E. "Cognitive impairment in public housing residents living in Western New York." Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 2014 Mar; 49(3):477-85. Epub 2013 May 26. |
2014 Jan 17
Kobrosly RW, van Wijngaarden E, Seplaki CL, Cory-Slechta DA, Moynihan J. "Depressive symptoms are associated with allostatic load among community-dwelling older adults." Physiology & behavior.. 2014 Jan 17; 123:223-30. |
2014
Hoffmire CA, Magyar CI, Connolly HV, Fernandez ID, van Wijngaarden E. "High prevalence of sleep disorders and associated comorbidities in a community sample of children with down syndrome." Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.. 2014 10(4):411-9. Epub 2014 Apr 15. |
