Metabolomic signatures of the long-term exposure to air pollution and temperature.
Nassan FL, Kelly RS, Kosheleva A, Koutrakis P, Vokonas PS, Lasky-Su JA, Schwartz JD.
Environ Health. 2021 Jan 07. 20(1):3. PMID: 33413450
Dr. Koutrakis' research activities focus on the development of human exposure measurement techniques and the investigation of sources, transport, and the fate of air pollutants. In collaboration with his colleagues in the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, he has developed ambient particle concentrators and high volume samplers that can be used to conduct human and animal inhalation studies. He has also developed a personal ozone monitor, a continuous fine particle measurement technique and several other sampling methods for a variety of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. These novel techniques have been used extensively by air pollution scientists and human exposure assessors in United States and worldwide.
Dr. Koutrakis has conducted a number of comprehensive air pollution studies in the United States, Canada, Spain, Chile, Kuwait, Cyprus and Greece that investigate the extent of human exposures to gaseous and particulate air pollutants. Other research interests include the assessment of particulate matter exposures and their effects on the cardiac and pulmonary health.
Dr. Koutrakis is the Head of the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program and the Director of the EPA/Harvard University Center for Ambient Particle Health Effects.
Dr. Koutrakis is a member national and international committees and the past Technical Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. He has published over 170 peer reviewed papers in the areas of air quality, exposure and health effects assessment and instrumentation.
Nassan FL, Kelly RS, Kosheleva A, Koutrakis P, Vokonas PS, Lasky-Su JA, Schwartz JD.
Environ Health. 2021 Jan 07. 20(1):3. PMID: 33413450
Kouis P, Papatheodorou SI, Kakkoura MG, Middleton N, Galanakis E, Michaelidi E, Achilleos S, Mihalopoulos N, Neophytou M, Stamatelatos G, Kaniklides C, Revvas E, Tymvios F, Savvides C, Koutrakis P, Yiallouros PK.
BMC Pediatr. 2021 Jan 06. 21(1):13. PMID: 33407248
Zanobetti A, Coull BA, Luttmann-Gibson H, van Rossem L, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kloog I, Schwartz JD, Oken E, Bobb JF, Koutrakis P, Gold DR.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Jan 05. 10(1):e016935. PMID: 33372530
Silva E, Huang S, Lawrence J, Martins MAG, Li J, Koutrakis P.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2020 Dec 18. PMID: 33337293
Papatheodorou S, Yao W, Vieira CLZ, Li L, Wylie BJ, Schwartz J, Koutrakis P.
Environ Int. 2021 Jan. 146:106285. PMID: 33395935
Martins M, Lawrence J, Ferguson S, Wolfson JM, Koutrakis P.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2020 Nov 20. PMID: 33216704
Lawrence J, Martins M, Liu M, Koutrakis P.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2020 Nov 16. PMID: 33198592
Wei Y, Wang Y, Wu X, Di Q, Shi L, Koutrakis P, Zanobetti A, Dominici F, Schwartz JD.
Am J Epidemiol. 2020 11 02. 189(11):1316-1323. PMID: 32558888
Li L, Blomberg AJ, Spengler JD, Coull BA, Schwartz JD, Koutrakis P.
Nat Commun. 2020 10 13. 11(1):5002. PMID: 33051463
Huang S, Taddei P, Lawrence J, Martins MAG, Li J, Koutrakis P.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2020 Oct 08. PMID: 33030417
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