Judy Sparer, MD Lecturer Occupational Medicine 135 College St., Room 378 Office: 203-737-4030 Fax: 203-785-7391 e-mail: judy.sparer@yale.edu

Training

College
University of Michigan  - BS

Graduate School
Northwestern University - MSCE

Professional License
Certified Industrial Hygienist by American Board of Industrial Hygiene

Research Activities

Exposure assessment, occupational health issues of disadvantaged populations, occupational and environmental asthma prevention.

Clinical Activities

Worksite evaluation for patients with occupational exposures, occupational disease prevention at the worksite, hazardous exposures in manufacturing, construction, isocyanate exposure, occupational asthma, lead exposure.

Selected Publications

1. Sparer J, Stowe M, Bello D, Liu Y, Gore R, Youngs F, Cullen MR, Redlich CA, Woskie SR. 2004. Isocyanate exposures in autobody shop work: The SPRAY study. Journal of Occupational and Environ Hygiene 1(9):570-581.

2. Woskie SR, Sparer J, Gore R, Stowe M, Bello D, Liu Y, Youngs F, Redlich C, Cullen M. 2004. Determinants of isocyanate exposures in autobody repair and refinishing shops. Annals of Occupational Hygiene 48:393-403.

3. Vork KL, Hammond SK, Sparer J, Cullen MR. 2001. Prevention of lead poisoning in construction workers: A new public health approach. Am J Ind Med 39:243-253.

4. Fine JM, Gordon T, Chen LC, KinneyP, Falcone G, Sparer J, Beckett WS. 2000. Characterization of Clinical Tolerance to Inhaled Zinc Oxide in Naïve Subjects and Sheet Metal Workers.  J Occup Environ Med 42:1085-1091.

5. Liu Y, Sparer JA, Woskie SR, Cullen MR, Chung JS, Holm CT, Redlich CA. 2000. Qualitative assessment of isocyanate skin exposure in auto body shops: a pilot study. Am J Ind Med 37(3):265-274.

6. Redlich CA, Sparer J, Cullen MR. 1997. Sick Building Syndrome. The Lancet 349:1013-6.

7. Sparer J, McManus K, Welch LS, Cullen MR. 1988. Effects of exposure to ethylene glycol ethers on shipyard painters: Evaluation of exposure. Am J Ind Med 14:497-507.

8. Redlich CA, Beckett WS, Sparer J, Barwick KW, Relly CA, Miller H, Siegal S, Cullen MR. 1988. Liver disease associated with occupational exposure to the solvent dimethylformamide. Ann Intern Med 105:680-86.

9. Redlich C, Sparer J, Cowan D, Beckett W, Miller H, Chemiack M, Cullen MR. 1987. Outbreak of occupational hepatitis-Connecticut. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports 36:101-102

10. Cullen MR, Rado T, Waldrorn JA, Sparer J, Welch LS. 1983. Bone marrow injury in lithographers exposed to glycol ethers and organic solvents used in multicolor offset and ultraviolet curing printing processes. Arch  Environ Health 38:347-54.

11. Woskie S, Sparer J.  Occupational Hygiene, In: Hendric, Burge, Beckett & Churg (Eds.), Occupational Disorders of the Lung, Chapt. 34.