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
A Study of Methods used to Account for Concurrent Analgesic Use in Randomized Controlled Trials of Pain Interventions: A Meta-Epidemiologic Study with Meta-Analysis
Balaji Sridhar | MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) | 2024 | View
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.
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Joel D. Kaufman, Timothy V. Larson, Coralynn Sack, Sverre Vedal | View
Wildfire smoke tied to increased risk of ER visits
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Tania M Busch Isaksen, Elena Austin, Lianne Sheppard, Coralynn Sack | View
Are dairy workers more susceptible to allergies and asthma?
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Peter Rabinowitz, Coralynn Sack, Sverre Vedal | View
Protecting the health of cannabis workers
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Coralynn Sack, Christopher D. Simpson, Debra Cherry | View
Our most-read stories of 2021
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Karen Levy, Elena Austin, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson, Kristie L. Ebi, Jeremy J Hess, Coralynn Sack, Howard Hu, Marissa Baker, Martin A. Cohen, John Meschke, Esther Min, Gerard A. Cangelosi, Nicole Errett, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Elizabeth Gribble (Walker) | View
“The risk is real”
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Tania M Busch Isaksen, Nicole Errett, Coralynn Sack, Elizabeth Gribble (Walker) | View
Cadmium exposure and COVID-19
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Coralynn Sack, Howard Hu | View
Cadmium, found in cigarettes and some foods, linked to higher death rates in people with flu or pneumonia
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Coralynn Sack, Howard Hu | View
More research and consistent workplace rules are needed to protect worker health and safety in the cannabis industry
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Christopher D. Simpson, Noah S. Seixas, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Coralynn Sack | View
Washington's smoky air looks scary, but UW physician says trust your body's defenses.