Gene-Environment Interactions:

For everyone wishing to be kept abreast of the latest developments in Gene-Environment studies including: Students and post-doctoral researchers in biostatistics, immunology, epidemiology, occupational health, molecular epidemiology, pulmonology and rheumatology and researchers investigating novel treatments for cancer, pneumoconiosis, lupus and scleroderma, as well as environmental epidemiologists and toxicologists and environmental policy makers.

Dr. David Christiani received his Degree of Medicine from Tufts University in 1976, followed by a Masters of Science and a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is now Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology and Director of the Occupational Health Program at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He directs the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Northeast Specialty Hospital, and directs the Occupational Medicine Section of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Christiani's major research interests include occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology. Dr. Christiani is at the forefront of developing new standards of methodological work, specifically, the development and adaptation of new laboratory techniques to epidemiology, and in adapting these techniques to the conditions of the industrializing world.

Dr. Fraser completed her MD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed post-doctoral fellowship training in rheumatology at the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital (now the Brigham and Women's Hospital) followed by public health and biostatistics training at the Harvard University School of Public Health, before establishing her laboratory at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research. Dr. Fraser is interested in the interrelationships between genetic modulation of xenobiotic biotransformation, environmental exposures and racial and ethnic variation in predisposition to connective tissue diseases.