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Research Interests
- Occupational Disease and Hazard Surveillance
- Occupational and Environmental Cancer
- Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease
- Occupational and Environmental Heart Disease
- Occupational Exposure Assessment
Current Research
- CAREX Canada: The National Occupational and Environmental Surveillance Unit
- Surveillance of Work-related disease in BC (The CHSPR-WorkSafe BC Partnership)
- Work-related Heart Disease among Firefighters and Paramedics
- Assessing the Health Impact of Asbestos Exposure
- Lung disease and Cancer among Sawmill Workers
- Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease/Childhood Respiratory Disease
- Collaborative Studies of Occupational Risk Factors for Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Bridge Graduate Students
- Perry Hystad
Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Risk in Canada
- Nina Clark
The effect of air pollution on incidence of childhood respiratory disease
Other Graduate Students
- Tracy Kirkham
PhD student, School of Environmental Health
- Imelda Wong
PhD student, School of Environmental Health
- Niki Garzia
PhD student, School of Population and Public Health
- Cornel Lencar
MSc student, School of Environmental Health
Current Courses Taught
- OCCH 507 Research methods in Exposure Assessment and Epidemiology
- OCCH 511 Occupational Health and Illness Processes (with Susan Kennedy)
- HCEP 530 Epidemiology of Occupational and Environmental Health
- SPPH 515 Surveillance
- SPPH 530 Epidemiology of Occupational and Environmental Health
Selected
Publications
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (Journal Articles)
Sbihi H, Davies HW, Demers PA. Hypertension in noise-exposed sawmill workers: A Cohort study. Occup Environ Med (in press).
Alamgir H, Koehoorn M, Ostry A, Tompa E, Demers PA. Epidemiology of Work-Related Injuries Requiring Hospitalization among Sawmill Workers in British Columbia, 1989-1998. Euro J Epidemiol 2007;22(4):273-80.
Friesen MC, Demers PA, Spinelli JJ, Lorenzi MF, Le ND. Comparison of two indices of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for a retrospective cohort study of aluminum smelter workers. Occup Environ Med 2007;64:273-278.
Alamgir H, Koehoorn M, Ostry A, Tompa E, Demers PA. Costs and Compensation of Work-Related Injuries in British Columbia Sawmills. Occup Environ Med 2007 Mar;64(3):196-201.
Friesen MC, Davies HW, Teschke K, Ostry A, Hertzman C, Demers PA. Impact of the specificity of the exposure metric on exposure-response relationships in a large retrospective occupational cohort. Epidemiology 2007;18:88-94.
Koehoorn M, Demers PA, Hertzman C, Village J, Kennedy SM. Work organization and musculoskeletal injuries among a cohort of health care workers. Scand J Work Environ Health 2006;32(4):285-293.
Spinelli JJ, Demers PA, Le ND, Friesen MD, Lorenzi MF, Fang R, Gallagher RP. Cancer risk in aluminum reduction plant workers (Canada). Cancer Causes Controls 2006;17(7):939-948.
Friesen MC, Demers PA, Spinelli JJ, ND Le. From expert-based to quantitative retrospective exposure assessment at a Söderberg aluminum smelter. Ann Occup Hyg 2006;50(4):359-370.
Demers PA, Friesen MC, Davies HW, Hertzman C, Marion S, Ostry A, Teschke K. Cancer and Occupational Exposure to Pentachlorophenol and Tetrachlorophenol. Cancer Causes Controls 2006;17(6):749-758.
Alamgir H, Koehoorn M, Ostry A, Tompa E, Demers PA. An evaluation of hospital discharge records as a tool for serious work-related injury surveillance. Occup Environ Med 2006;63(4):290-296.
Friesen MC, MacNab YC, Marion SA, Demers PA, Davies HW, Teschke K. Mixed models and empirical Bayes estimation for retrospective exposure assessment of dust exposures in Canadian sawmills. Ann Occup Hyg 2006:50(3):281-288.
Friesen MC, Davies HW, Teschke K, Marion S, Demers PA. Predicting historical dust and wood dust exposure in sawmills: Model development and validation. J Occup Environ Hyg 2005;2:650-658.
Davies HW, Teschke K, Kennedy SM, Hodgson MR, Hertzman C, Demers PA. Occupational Exposure to Noise and Increased Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction Death. Epidemiology, 2005;16(1):25-32.
Teschke K, Spierings J, Marion SA, Demers PA, Davies HW, Kennedy SM. Reducing attenuation in exposure-response relationships by exposure modeling and grouping – The relationship between wood dust exposure and lung function. Am J Indust Med 2004;46:663-667.
Ostry AS, Kelly S, Demers PA, Mustard C, Hertzman C. A Comparison between the Effort-Reward Imbalance and Demand Control Models. BMC Public Health 2003;3:10.
Ronald LA, Davies HW, Bartlett K, Kennedy SM, Teschke K, Dennekamp M, Demers PA. β(1→3)-glucan Exposure Levels Among Workers in Four British Columbia Sawmills. Ann Agricultural Environ Med 2003;10:21-29.
Fransman W, McLean D, Douwes J, Demers PA, Leung V, Pearce N. Respiratory symptoms and occupational exposures in New Zealand plywood mill workers. Ann Occup Hyg 2003;47(4):287-295.
Friesen MC, Demers PA, Spinelli JJ, Le ND. Validation of a semi-quantitative job exposure matrix at a Söderberg aluminum smelter. Ann Occup Hyg 2003 47: 477-48.
Luce D, Leclerc A, Bégin D, Demers PA, Gerin M, Orlowski E, Kogevinas M, Belli S, Bugel I, Bolm-Audorf U, Brinton LA, Comba P, Hardell L, Hayes R, Magnani C, Merler E, Preston-Martin S, Vaughan T, Zheng W, Boffetta P. Sino-nasal cancer and occupational exposures: a pooled reanalysis of twelve case-control studies. Cancer Causes Controls 2002;13(2):147-157.
Ostry A, Barrotevena M, Hershler R, Marion SA, Demers PA, Teschke K, Hertzman. The effects of de-industrialization on working conditions and self-reported health in a sample of manufacturing workers. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56(7):506-509.
Hall A, Teschke K, Davies H, Demers PA, Marion S. Exposure levels and determinants of softwood dust exposures in BC Lumber Mills, 1981 – 1997. Am Indust Hyg Assoc J 2002;63(6):709-714.
Rongo L, Besselink A, Douwes J, Barten F, Msamanga GI, Dolmans WMV, Demers PA, Heederik D. Respiratory symptoms and dust exposure among workers in small-scale wood industries in Tanzania. J Occup Env Med 2002;44(12):1153-1160.
Ostry AS, Marion S, Demers PA, Hershler R, Kelly S, Teschke K, Mustard C, Hertzman C. A comparison of expert-rater methods for assessing psychosocial job strain. Scand J Work Environ Health 2001:27(1):70-75.
Spirtas R, Fleming LE, Demers PA, Weisburger EK. TLV carcinogenicity categories: recent modifications. Appl Occup Environ Hyg 2001;16(9):875-883.
Ostry A, Marion S, Green L, Demers PA, Hertzman C. Measuring psychosocial job strain with the Job content Instrument using experienced job evaluators. Am J Indust Med 2001;39(4):397-401.
Ostry AS, Hershler R, Kelly S, Demers P, Teschke K, Hertzman C. Effects of de-industrialization on unemployment, re-employment, and work conditions in a manufacturing workforce. BMC Public Health 2001;1:15.
Ostry A, Marion SA, Green L, Demers PA, Hershler R, Kelly S, Teschke K, Hertzman C. Downsizing and industrial restructuring in relation to changes in psychosocial conditions of work in British Columbia sawmills. Scand J Work Environ Health 2000;26(3):273-277.
Heacock H, Hertzman C, Hershler R, Threlfall W, Demers P, Gallagher R, Hogg R, Marion SA, Teschke K, Dimich-Ward H, Kelly S, Ostry A. Childhood cancer in the offspring of male sawmill workers exposed to chlorophenate fungicides. Environ Health Persp 2000;108(6):499-503.
Ostry A, Marion SA, Green L, Demers PA, Hershler R, Kelly S, Teschke K, Hertzman C. The relationship between unemployment, technological change and psychosocial work conditions in British Columbia sawmills. Critical Public Health 2000;10 (2):179-192.
Demers PA, Teschke K, Kennedy SM, Davies H, Leung V. Exposure to dust, resin acids, and monoterpenes in softwood lumber mills. Am Indust Hyg Assoc J 2000;61(4):521-528.
Laforest L, Marchand JL, Luce D, Goldberg P, Orlowski E, Bégin D, Gérin M, Demers PA, Leclerc A. Occupational exposures and cancer of the larynx and hypopahrynx: a case-control study. Occup Environ Med 2000;57(11):767-773.
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Paul Demers
Professor
Director - School of Environmental Health
M.Sc. Industrial Hygiene (1987) University of Washington, Ph.D. Epidemiology (1991) University of Washington
School of Environmental Health, The College for Interdisciplinary Studies
and School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine
Room 360B, 3rd Floor, Library Processing Centre
Tel: 604-822-0585
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