Coralynn Sack, MD, MPH
About
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.
Education
- BA, Princeton University
- MD, University of Buffalo
- MPH, University of Washington
Affiliations
Mentorship
Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. 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 | 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 | 2023 | View
Cannabis Allergy in Occupationally Exposed Cannabis Workers, Recreational Users and Non-Users
Dorian Kenleigh | MPH | 2022 | View
A Proposed Algorithm for the Identification of Occupational COPD in a Cohort of Washington Workers
Bonnie Ronish | MPH | 2022 | View
Identification of black carbon in the brain using Raman microscopy.
Anthony Norman | MPH | 2021 | View
Research
Interests: Pulmonary and respiratory disease care. Health effects of air pollution. Occupational health and safety.
Publications
Selected publications
- Severe Silicosis in Engineered Stone Fabrication Workers - California, Colorado, Texas, and Washington, 2017-2019.
- Ambient air pollution and pulmonary vascular volume on computed tomography: the MESA Air Pollution and Lung cohort studies.
- Air pollution and subclinical interstitial lung disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) air-lung study.
- Pretreatment with Antioxidants Augments the Acute Arterial Vasoconstriction Caused by Diesel Exhaust Inhalation.