EHSRC Investigator Detail
| R. William Field, PhD | |
| Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health |
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| Email: bill-field@uiowa.edu | |
| Phone: (319) 335-4413 | |
| EHSRC Role(s): | Director, Environmental Lung Disease Research Cluster |
| Co-Director, Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility | |
Dr. Field is an international expert on radon health effects and retrospective radon exposure reconstruction. He is also a co-investigator on both the DOE (former nuclear workers) and DOD (munitions workers) studies in Burlington, Iowa. His current activities include leading a combined Iowa-Missouri residential radon epidemiologic study. He is also participating with international collaborators in a combined analysis of all residential radon epidemiologic studies performed worldwide, with the goal of further refining the risk posed by residential radon exposure.
Recent Publications
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Lubin JH, Alavanja MC, Caporaso N, Brown LM, Brownson RC, Field RW, Garcia-Closas M, Hartge P, Hauptmann M, Hayes RB, Kleinerman R, Kogevinas M, Krewski D, Langholz B, Letourneau EG, Lynch CF, Malats N, Sandler DP, Schaffrath-Rosario A, Schoenberg JB, Silverman DT, Wang Z, Wichmann HE, Wilcox HB, Zielinski JM. Cigarette Smoking and Cancer Risk: Modeling Total Exposure and Intensity. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun 21; [Epub ahead of print]
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Sun K, Majdan M, Field DW, Field RW. Field comparison of commercially available short-term radon detectors. Health Phys. 2006 Sep;91(3):221-6.
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Bonner MR, Bennett WP, Xiong W, Lan Q, Brownson RC, Harris CC, Field RW, Lubin JH, Alavanja MC. Radon, secondhand smoke, glutathione-S-transferase M1 and lung cancer among women. Int J Cancer. 2006 Sep 15;119(6):1462-7.
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Steck DJ, Field RW. Dosimetric challenges for residential radon epidemiology. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2006 Apr;69(7):655-64.
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Field RW, Krewski D, Lubin JH, Zielinski JM, Alavanja M, Catalan VS, Klotz JB, Letourneau EG, Lynch CF, Lyon JL, Sandler DP, Schoenberg JB, Steck DJ, Stolwijk JA, Weinberg C, Wilcox HB. An overview of the North American residential radon and lung cancer case-control studies. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2006 Apr;69(7):599-631. Review.
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Krewski D, Lubin JH, Zielinski JM, Alavanja M, Catalan VS, Field RW, Klotz JB, Letourneau EG, Lynch CF, Lyon JL, Sandler DP, Schoenberg JB, Steck DJ, Stolwijk JA, Weinberg C, Wilcox HB. A combined analysis of North American case-control studies of residential radon and lung cancer. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2006 Apr;69(7):533-97.
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Neuberger JS, Mahnken JD, Mayo MS, Field RW. Risk factors for lung cancer in Iowa women: implications for prevention. Cancer Detect Prev. 2006;30(2):158-67. Epub 2006 Apr 3.