Mark R. Cullen, MD Professor of Medicine and Public Health Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine 135 College Street Room 373 Fax: 203-785-7391 Appointments: 203-785-6434 e-mail: mark.cullen@yale.edu

Education

M.D., Yale University, 1976
A.B., Harvard University, 1971
Residency, Yale University

Research Activities

Clinical aspects of occupational and environmental diseases, occupational lung diseases, effects of socio-economic status and work organization on occupational injury and diseases.

Clinical Activities

Occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Selected Recent Publications

1. Cullen MR. 1999. Occupational health in the 20th century: Spiraling to the future. Ann Rev Pub Health 20:1-13. 
2. Omenn GS, Goodman GE, Thornquist MD, Balmes J, Cherniack MG, Cullen MR, et al. 1996. Effects of the combination of beta-carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer incidence, total mortality and cardiovascular mortality in smokers and asbestos workers. New Eng J Med 334:1150-55. 
3. Cullen MR, Merrill WW. Association between neutrophil concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage and recent losses in diffusing capacity in men formerly exposed to asbestos. Chest 102:682-7. 
4. Cullen MR, Lopez-Carrillo L, Alli B, Pace PE, Shalat SL, Baloyi RS. 1991. Chrysotile asbestos and health in Zimbabwe. II: Health survey among active miners and millers. Am J Indust Med 19:171-82. 
5. Cullen MR, Cherniack MG, Rosenstock L. 1990. Medical Progress: Occupational Medicine. New Eng J Med 322:594-601 (part 1), 675-83 (part 2). 
6. Cullen MR, Cherniack MG. 1989. The spectrum of occupational disease in an academic hospital-based referral center in Connecticut, 1979-87. Arch Intern Med 149:1621-6. 
7. Welch LS, Cullen MR. 1988. Effects of exposure to ethylene glycol ethers on shipyard painters. III: Hematologic effects. Am J Indust Med 14:527-36. 
8. Cullen MR, Kominsky JR, Rossman MD, Cherniack, MG, Rankin JA, Balmes JR, et al. 1987. Chronic beryllium disease in a precious metal refinery: clinical epidemiologic and immunologic evidence for continuing risk from exposure to low level beryllium fume. Am Rev Resp Dis 135:201-8. 
9. Schottenfeld RS, Cullen MR. 1985. Occupation-induced post-traumatic stress disorders. Am J Psych 142:198-202. 
10. Cullen MR, Robins JM, Eskenazi B. 1983. Adult inorganic lead intoxication - presentation of 31 new cases and a review of recent advances in the literature. Medicine (Baltimore) 62:221-47.