Association of environmental lead toxicity and hematologic outcomes in patients with advanced kidney disease.
Paudel S, Geetha P, Kyriazis P, Specht A, Hu H, Danziger J.
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2022 Dec 22. PMID: 36549667
My long-term research interests are to develop novel technologies to increase understanding of the role of environmental exposures in human health. My academic background has a strong focus on physics and the sub disciplines of medical and health physics and exposure assessment. My research focuses on exposure assessment and, in particular, x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and its uses in public health. I have particular interest in identifying individual exposure levels to metals and health outcomes resultant from exposures. I have developed a handheld XRF for non-invasive measurement of cumulative exposure to toxicants in bone. I have also been developing a method utilizing a novel bench-top XRF allows us to replace typical expensive, destructive, and costly ICP-MS methods for elemental exposure assessment of a variety of different biomarkers and source exposure markers.
B.S., 2012, Honors Physics
Purdue University
PhD, 2016, Medical Physics
Purdue University
Paudel S, Geetha P, Kyriazis P, Specht A, Hu H, Danziger J.
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2022 Dec 22. PMID: 36549667
Hoover C, Specht AJ, Hemenway D.
Prev Med. 2023 Jan. 166:107377. PMID: 36493866
Zhang X, Wells EM, Specht AJ, Weisskopf MG, Weuve J, Nie LH.
J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2022 Dec. 74:127077. PMID: 36155421
Ahmid K, Specht A, Morikawa L, Ceballos D, Wylie S.
J Environ Manage. 2022 Nov 01. 321:115904. PMID: 36104879
Golden CD, Ayroles J, Eurich JG, Gephart JA, Seto KL, Sharp MK, Balcom P, Barravecchia HM, Bell KK, Gorospe KD, Kim J, Koh WH, Zamborain-Mason J, McCauley DJ, Murdoch H, Nair N, Neeti K, Passarelli S, Specht A, Sunderland EM, Tekaieti A, Tekiau A, Tekoaua R, Timeon E.
Front Public Health. 2022. 10:890381. PMID: 35719655
Johnson KM, Specht AJ, Hart JM, Salahuddin S, Erlinger AL, Hacker MR, Woolf AD, Hauptman M, Karumanchi SA, O'Brien K, Wylie BJ.
Matern Child Health J. 2022 Jan. 26(1):185-192. PMID: 35020085
Bhatia M, Specht AJ, Ramya V, Sulaiman D, Konda M, Balcom P, Sunderland EM, Qureshi A.
Environ Sci Technol. 2021 10 05. 55(19):13113-13121. PMID: 34529917
Hoover C, Hoover GG, Specht AJ.
Environ Res. 2021 11. 202:111642. PMID: 34252431
Specht AJ, Zhang X, Young A, Nguyen VT, Christiani DC, Ceballos DM, Allen JG, Weuve J, Nie LH, Weisskopf MG.
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 05. 32(3):427-433. PMID: 34211112
Hampton JO, Specht AJ, Pay JM, Pokras MA, Bengsen AJ.
Sci Total Environ. 2021 Oct 01. 789:147998. PMID: 34051503