Donald Milton

Dr. Milton leads multidisciplinary investigations of the health effects of bioaerosols with three major themes: 1) the relationship of asthma onset and exacerbation to exposure to allergens and microbial products, 2) investigation and prevention of airborne infection transmission, and 3) exhaled breath analysis. His asthma research includes studies of occupational asthma and the impact of ambient bioaerosols on asthma exacerbation, especially the impact of low level, early life endotoxin exposure on the risk of childhood allergy and asthma. His research on mechanisms and prevention of airborne infection transmission includes productivity effects of rhinovirus colds in office workers and asthmatic children, mathematical models, and laboratory and epidemiological studies of control methods for influenza and agents of biological warfare and terrorism. Exhaled breath analysis is a unifying theme with ongoing work on exhaled gas and particle phase biomarkers for lung inflammation and studies of exhaled particles as the vehicle of airborne communicable disease transmission.

Professor and Director, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park; Adjunct Professor, Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland College Park

Milton Lab / Aerobiology Biomarkers Lab

M.D., 1980, The Johns Hopkins University
Dr.P.H., 1989, Harvard University