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Education:
- Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (1990)
- M.P.H., Occupational and Environmental Health, San Diego State University (1985)
- B.Sc., Genetics, University of California, Davis (1983)
Scholarly Areas: Biological Monitoring of Human Populations for Measurement of Exposure, Genetic Damage or Genetic Susceptibility
Exposure Assessment for Susceptible Populations, such as Children with Asthma
Biography: Dr. P.J.E. Quintana is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the Graduate School of Public Health. She received her B.S. in Genetics from the University of California at Davis, her M.P.H. in Occupational and Environmental Health from San Diego State University and her Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focus is on a) assessing human exposure to environmental agents though measurements in biological tissues and through personal exposure monitoring and b) studying genetic and environmental influences on the body’s ability to protect against damage from toxic exposure. Recent studies include investigating children''s asthma in relation to exposure to peaks in fine particulate air pollution, and levels of toxic pollutants in house dust in homes with young children. In conjunction with researchers at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, she has studied birth defects in Baja California, markers of DNA damage in placentas from a Tijuana hospital, and exposure to toxic air pollution inside vehicles crossing the US-Mexico border. She is currently the co-Director (with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee at the University of California at San Diego) of the new PhD program in Public Health, concentration in Global Health.
Selected Publications:
- Quintana, P.J.E., Delfino, R.J., Korrick, S., Ziogas, A., Kutz, F.W., Jones, E.L., Laden, F., and Garshick, E. (2004) Adipose tissue levels of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs and risk of non Hodgkin's lymphoma. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112: 854-861.
- Delfino, R.J., Quintana, P.J.E., Floro, J., Gastañaga, V., Samimi, B.S., Kleinman, M.T., Bufalino, C., Liu, LJ. S., Wu, C.-F., and McLaren, C. (2004) Association of FEV1 with personal and microenvironmental exposure to airborne particulate matter in asthmatic children. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112: 932-941.
- Quintana, P.J.E., Dodd-Butera, T., Shaputnic, C., Ramirez-Zetina, M., Batista, A.C., and Sierra, M.M. (2004) Inter-individual variation in levels of the detoxifying enzyme glutathione-S-transferase pi (GSTP1) in placentas from a Mexican population. Journal of Children’s Health. 2: 41-51.
- Matt, G.E., Hovell, M.F., Bernert, J.T., Song, S., Novianti, N., Juarez, T., Floro, J., Gehrman, C., Garcia, M., and Larson, S. (2004) Households contaminated by environmental tobacco smoke: sources of infant exposures. Tobacco Control. 13: 29-37.
- Quintana, P.J.E., Valenzia, J., Delfino, R.J., and Liu, L-J.S. (2001) Monitoring of 1-minute personal particulate matter exposures in relation to voice recorded time-activity data. Environmental Research. 87: 199-213.
- Quintana, P.J.E., Neuwirth, E.A.H., and Grosovsky, A.J. (2001) Inter-chromosomal gene conversion at an endogenous human cell locus. Genetics. 158: 757-767.
- Quintana, P.J.E., de Peyster, A., Hucke, R.K., and Sanudo, F.M. (2001) Surveying a hidden population for environmental and occupational health risks: migrant workers in North San Diego County, California. Journal of Border Health. 5: 3-14.
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