Coralynn Sack joined the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and the Department of Medicine in 2018. She is a physician-scientist with clinical and research expertise in environmental and occupational lung disease. She received her MD from the University of Buffalo and MPH in epidemiology from the UW. She is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonology, critical care and occupational medicine. Her research activities integrate translational experimental design and epidemiologic studies to characterize environmental exposures, explore disease mechanisms and investigate health outcomes. Current research interests include the health effects of air pollution, occupational exposures in cannabis workers and the environmental causes of interstitial lung disease.
Pulmonary and respiratory disease care. Health effects of air pollution. Occupational health and safety.
Mentorship
Available to mentor master's students for autumn 2024. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
DEOHS Students Mentored
The Association between Occupational Toxic Inhalation Injuries to Cleaning and Disinfectant Exposures and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Washington State’s Workers' Compensation Claim Database
Steve Chun | MPH, Environmental Public Health (EPH) | 2023 | View
A Proposed Algorithm for the Identification of Occupational COPD in a Cohort of Washington Workers
Bonnie Ronish | MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) | 2022 | View
Cannabis Allergy in Occupationally Exposed Cannabis Workers, Recreational Users and Non-Users
Dorian Kenleigh | MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) | 2022 | View
Identification of black carbon in the brain using Raman microscopy.
Anthony Norman | MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) | 2021 | View
Research
Interests: Pulmonary and respiratory disease care. Health effects of air pollution. Occupational health and safety.
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Air pollution could be linked to higher rates of COVID-19, new study says