Igor Burstyn
Associate Professor
Environmental and Occupational Health
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
"Dr. Igor Burstyn is an accomplished educator and researcher in the field of environmental and occupational health, with training in both epidemiology and occupational hygiene. His research primarily focuses on the identification of sources and the health impacts of occupational and environmental exposures, with particular interest in the effect of environmental in utero exposures on health of pregnant women and their children. Dr. Burstyn's methodological expertise lies in the area of measurement error and hierarchical data. He collaborates extensively both nationally and internationally. Dr. Burstyn is ready to take part in tackling any occupational health problems that the public or his colleagues bring to his attention. "
Research Interest
"Cancer, Community Based Participatory Research, Cardiovascular Disease, Data Analysis Methods, tatistical Modeling Environmental Exposures"
Publications
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"de Vocht F, Burstyn I, Cherrie JW: Time trends (1998-2007) in brain cancer incidence rates in relation to mobile phone use in England. Bioelectromagnetics 32(5):334-9 (2011) "
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"Slutsky A, An Y, Hu T(X), Burstyn I: Automatic approaches to clustering occupational description data for prediction of probability of workplace exposure to beryllium. The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC-2011), Kaohsiung,Taiwan, November 21-23, 2011, paper No.: G217 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4285761/publications/AntonClustering-eXpress.pdf) "
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"Burstyn, I: Peering through the mist: systematic review of what the chemistry of contaminants in electronic cigarettes tells us about health risks. BMC Public Health. 2014, 14:18. January 9, 2014 "
