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  Tamar Lasky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
tlasky@mail.uri.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., May 1984, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • M.S.P.H., December 1980, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • B.A. (Biology, May 1976, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

Research Interests:

Pharmacoepidemiology, Children’s Health, Food Safety, Vaccine Safety, Systematic literature review

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles:

 Siscovick D, Weiss NS, Fletcher RH, Lasky T: The incidence of primary cardiac arrest during vigorous exercise.  New England Journal of Medicine 1984;311:874-877.

Stolley PD, Lasky T: Shortcuts in Drug Evaluation.  Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 1992;52(1):1-3.

Lasky T, Stolley PD: Selection of Cases and Controls. Epidemiologic Reviews 1994;16(1):17-22.

Lasky T and Silbergeld E: p53 Mutations Associated with Breast, Colon, Liver, Lung, and Ovarian Cancers, Environmental Health Perspectives, 1996; 104(12):1324-      1331.

Lasky T and Magder L: Hepatocellular Carcinoma p53 G>T Transversions at Codon 249: The “Fingerprint” of Aflatoxin Exposure?,Environmental Health Perspectives, 1997;        105(4): 392-397.

Lasky T, Terracciano GJ, Magder L, Koski CL, Ballesteros M, Nash D, Clark S, Haber P, Stolley P, Schonberger LB, Chen RT: Guillain-Barré Syndrome and the Influenza Vaccines of 1992-93 and 1993-94,  The New England Journal of Medicine, 1998; 339(25): 1797-1802.

Lasky T:  Foodborne Illness- Old Problem, New Relevance.  Epidemiology. 2002 September 2002; 13(5):593-598.

Lasky T, Sun W, Kadry A, Hoffman M:  Mean Total Arsenic Concentrations in Chicken 1989-2000 and Estimated Exposures for Consumers of Chicken.  Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004 January 112:18-21.

Ward RM, Benitz WE, Benjamin DK, Blackmon L,  Giacoia G,  Hudak M, Lasky T, Rodriguez W, Selen A: Criteria Supporting the Study of Drugs in the Newborn, Clinical Therapeutics, 2006 September: 28 (9);1385-1398.

Books:

1.          Popkin B, Lasky T, Litvin J, Spicer D, Yamamoto ME: The Infant Feeding Triad: Mother, Infant and Household. New York, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. 

2.          Stolley PD, Lasky TInvestigating Disease Patterns: The Science of Epidemiology, Scientific American Library, W.H. Freeman,1995. 

3.          Lasky T: Epidemiologic Principles and Food Safety, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007.

 


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