adjunct faculty

Dr. Paquette is an assistant professor in the Center for Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and a member of the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics (Division of Genetic Medicine). Dr.

Dr. Ronish is a board-certified pulmonologist and occupational and environmental medicine specialist at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. She is currently the medical director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, where she supervises and teaches residents and manages patients with a variety of occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses.

Dr. Cherukumilli is an assistant professor in the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) with adjunct appointments in Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). 

Helen Pineo is an urban planner and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on how development, regeneration and urban policy can support health and sustainability.

Dr. Pettan-Brewer received her veterinarian degree in Brazil and moved to the USA to pursue her career in Zoological/Wildlife Medicine with Dr. Murray E Fowler and Comparative Pathology.

Dr. Lampe's research interests relate to the mechanisms by which components of diet, particularly constituents of plant food, alter susceptibility to and risk of cancer.

Debra Cherry, M.D., M.S., is a board certified physician at Harborview, director of the UW Medicine Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency and a UW associate professor of General Internal Medicine and an adjunct associate professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. 

Gregory Bratman is the director of the Environment and Well-Being Lab in the Environmental and Forest Sciences and an Assistant Professor in the UW College of the Environment, in addition to being an Adjunct Assistant Professor with DEOHS.

What would it look like to equitably nourish a growing global population? More importantly, how do we get there – which inputs have more leverage within complex systems, and what evidence do decision-makers need in order to support public health? Dr.

Dr. Burkhart is a geographer and climate scientist and is an Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In this role, she works on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project, conducting research on environmental risks and methods to include exposure to suboptimal temperature. Dr.

Dr. Julianne Meisner is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) and an Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Global Health. A veterinarian with a PhD in Epidemiology, Dr. Meisner’s research interests focus on the intersection of human, animal and environmental health. 

Dr. Chunbai Zhang is an occupational medicine specialist in Seattle, Washington and is affiliated with Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle. He received his medical degree from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in 2004. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in UW's Division of Internal Medicine, and the director of Employee Occupational Health.

Dr. Libin Xu received his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He then underwent postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University, where his research expanded to chemistry and biology of lipid peroxidation underlying human diseases, as well as mass spectrometry-based lipidomics.

Dr. Pooja Tandon is a pediatrician and researcher at the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.  Dr.

Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana is a Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute. She conducts research focused on endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastics, including phthalates and bisphenol A in pregnancy and childhood health outcomes.

After receiving my academic training in Mechanical Engineering (fluid dynamics and combustion modeling), my efforts have been aimed at the development of instrumentation and methods for aerosol sampling and characterization.

Dr. Kelly earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Palmiter, developing transgenic and knockout mouse models to study the function of the metal-binding protein metallothionein.

One of the main questions addressed in Dr. Furlong's laboratory is the genetic variability of insecticide metabolism and sensitivity in humans. His research group has cloned and sequenced the cDNA's from humans, rabbits, and mice that encode paraoxonase (PON1) an HDL-associated enzyme that inactivates the toxic metabolites of several toxic organophosphate pesticides and nerve agents.

Dr. Michael Dodd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering (2001) and his M.S. in Environmental Engineering (2003) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D.

Alison Cullen joined the Evans School faculty at University of Washington in 1995. Her research involves the analysis of risks to human health and the environment, decision making in the face of risks which are uncertain or vary across populations, and the application of value of information and distributional techniques. 

David Beck is Director of Research for Life Sciences with the eScience Institute, the UW’s nexus for Data Science and Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering. He received his BS in Computer Science from Drexel University in 2000 and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Biomolecular Structure & Design from Medicinal Chemistry in 2006.