Howard Kipen, M.D., MPH
Director, OH; Director, OH Clinic
Professor
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Research Interests:

Controlled Human Exposure Research; Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology; Air pollution particles and cardiovascular disease; Medically Unexplained Symptoms and the Environment; Health Effects of WTC on Firefighters and General Population

Publications:

Clauw DJ, Engel CC, Aronowitz R, Jones DPhil E, Kipen HM, Kroenke K, Ratzan S, Sharpe M, Wessely S. Unexplained Symptoms after Terrorism and War: An Expert Consensus Statement. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 45(10):1040-8, 2003.

Boyd KC, Hallman WK, Wartenberg D, Fiedler N, Brewer NT, Kipen HM. Reported Exposures, Stressors, and Life Events Among Gulf War Registry Veterans. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 45(12):1247-1256, 2003.

Tarlo SM, Liss GM, Greene JM, Purdham J, McCaskell L, Kipen H, Kerr M. Work-attributed symptom clusters (Darkroom disease) among radiographers versus physiotherapists: associations between self-reported exposures and psychosocial stressors. Amer J Indus Med 45:513-21,8 2004.

Brewer NT, Hallman WK, Kipen HM, Fiedler N. Why Do People Report Better Health by Phone Than By Mail? Med Care 2004; 42(9):875-883.

Fiedler N, Giardino N, Natelson B, Ottenweller JE, Weisel C, Lioy P, Lehrer P, Ohman-Strickland P, Kelly-McNeil K, Kipen H. Responses to controlled diesel vapor exposure among chemically sensitive Gulf War veterans. Psychosom Med. 2004 Jul-Aug;66(4):588-98.

Laumbach, RJ and Kipen, HM. Bioaerosols and sick building syndrome: particles inflammation, and allergy. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2005; 5:135-39.

Laumbach RJ, Fiedler N, Gardner CR, Laskin DL, Fan ZH, Zhang J, Weschler CJ, Lioy PJ, Devlin RB, Ohman-Strickland P, Kelly-McNeil K, Kipen HM. Nasal effects of a mixture of volatile organic compounds and their ozone oxidation products. JOEM 2005; 47(11): 1182-1189.

Kipen HM and Laskin DL. Smaller is not always better: nanotechnoloy yields nanotoxicology. AM J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2005; 289:L696-97.

Fiedler NF, Laumbach R, Kelly-McNeil K, Lioy P, Fan ZH, Zhang J, Ottenweller J, Ohman-Strickland P, Kipen H. Health effects of a mixture of indoor air volatile organics, their ozone oxidation products, and stress. Environ Health Perspect 2005; 113(11):1542-8.

Fiedler N, Ozakinci G, Hallman W, Wartenberg D, Brewer NT, Barrtt DH, Kipen HM. Military deployment as a risk factor for psychiatric illness among Gulf War and Era Veterans. Br J Psychiatry. Expected publication date: May, 2006.

Awards and Honors:

1998 Sixth Annual Alice Hamilton Lecturer, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

1992 Adolph G. Kammer Merit in Authorship Award, American College of Occupational and Environment Medicine

1992-1997 Environmental and Occupational Medicine Academic Award, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

1989 Teaching and Service Incentive Award, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

1978 Alpha Omega Alpha

1976 Research Training Fellowship, Department of Physiology, UCSF

1974 Phi Beta Kappa

1974 California Heart Association Student Research Fellowship, Institute of Environmental Stress, UC Santa Barbara