Marty S. Kanarek, Ph.D., M.P.H.


Professor of Population Health Sciences and Environmental Studies

 

Phone: (608) 263-1626, (608) 263-2880
Fax: (608) 263-2820
Email: mkanarek@wisc.edu
 

 

 
Marty Kanarek is Professor of Population Health Sciences and Environmental Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley and his M.P.H. in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota. He worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1972-78 before coming to Wisconsin.  He currently serves as Chair of the Graduate Program in Population Health and Vice Chair of the Department and Chair of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Certificate Program for Undergraduates.


Research Interests

His research interests include environmental epidemiology -- indoor and outdoor air pollution, lead poisoning prevention, PCB and mercury contaminants in fish, drinking water and cancer and other studies of the human health effects of pollution. 


Affiliations/Associations:

Fellow, American College of Epidemiology


Representative Publications:

Kanarek, M.S., Conforti, P.M., Jackson, L.A., Cooper, R.C., and Murchio, J.C. Asbestos in drinking water and cancer incidence in the San Francisco Bay Area. American Journal of Epidemiology, 112:54-72, 1980.

Conforti, P.M., Kanarek, M.S., Jackson, L.A., Cooper, R.C., and Murchio, J.C. Asbestos in drinking water and cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1969-1974 incidence. Journal of Chronic Disease, 34:211-224, 1981.

Kanarek, M.S., Conforti, P.M., and Jackson, L.A. Chrysotile asbestos in drinking water from asbestos-cement pipe. Environmental Science and Technology, 15:923-925, 1981.

Caplenas, N.R, Kanarek, M.S. and Dufour, A.P. Source and extent of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the paper industry. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 42:779-785, 1981.

Young, T.B., Kanarek, M.S., and Tsiatis, A.A. Epidemiologic study of drinking water chlorination and Wisconsin female cancer mortality. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 67:1191-1198, 1981.

Lower, G.M., Jr. and Kanarek, M.S. Retinoids, Urinary bladder carcinogenesis, and chemoprevention: a review and synthesis. Nutrition and Cancer, 3:109-115, 1981.

Dally, K.A. Hanrahan, L.P. Woodbury, M.A., and Kanarek, M.S. Formaldehyde exposure in non-occupational environments. Archives of Environmental Health, 36:277-284, 1981.

Lower, G.M., Jr. and Kanarek, M.S. The mutation theory of chronic non-infectious disease: relevance to epidemiologic theory. American Journal of Epidemiology, 115:803-817, 1982.

Lower, G.M., Jr., and Kanarek, M.S. Conceptual foundations of chemoprevention: a critical analysis. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 26:107-115, 1982.

Kanarek, M.S. and Young, T.B. Drinking water treatment and risk of cancer death in Wisconsin. Environmental Health Perspectives, 46:179-186, 1982.

Lower, G.M., Jr. and Kanarek, M.S. Risk, susceptibility and the epidemiology of proliferative neoplastic disease: descriptive vs. mechanistic approaches. Medical Hypotheses, 9:33-49, 1982.

Quackenboss, J.J., Kanarek, M.S., Spengler, J.D., and Letz, R. Personal monitoring for nitrogen dioxide exposure: methodological considerations for a community study. Environment International, 8:249-258, 1982.

Kanarek, M.S. The San Francisco Bay epidemiology studies on asbestos in drinking water and cancer incidence: relationship to studies in other locations and pointers for further research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 53:105-106, 1983.

Lower, G.M., Jr. and Kanarek, M.S. Conceptual/operational criteria of causality: relevance to systematic epidemiologic theory. Medical Hypotheses, 11:217-244, 1983.

Hanrahan, L.P., Dally, K.A., Anderson, H.A., Kanarek, M.S. and Rankin, J. Formaldehyde vapor in mobile homes: a cross-sectional survey of concentrations and irritant effects. American Journal of Public Health, 74:1026-1027, 1983.

Kanarek, M.S. and Gottlieb, M.S. Outline to the investigation of an environmental exposure. Ecology of Disease, 2:409-410, 1983.

Caplenas, N.R. and Kanarek, M.S. Thermotolerant non-fecal source Klebsiella pneumoniae: Validity of the fecal coliform test in recreational waters. American Journal of Public Health, 74:1273-1275, 1984.

Hanrahan, L.P., Anderson, H.A., Dally, K.A., Eckmann, A.D., and Kanarek, M.S. Formaldehyde concentrations in Wisconsin mobile homes. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 34:1164-1167, 1985.

Gottlieb, M.S., Kanarek, M.S., and Sacks, A.B. Integration of environmental and population health data: a paradigm for ongoing surveillance and evaluation. The Environmental Professional, 7:248-254, 1986.

Quackenboss, J.J., Spengler, J.D., Kanarek, M.S., Letz, R. and Duffy, C.P. Personal exposure to nitrogen dioxide: relationship to indoor/outdoor air quality and activity patterns. Environmental Science and Technology, 20:775-783, 1986.

Young, T.B., Wolf, D.A., and Kanarek, M.S. Case-control study of colon cancer and drinking water trihalomethanes in Wisconsin. International Journal of Epidemiology, 16:190-197, 1987.

Kaaraka, P.A., Kanarek, M.S. and Lawrence, J.R. Assessment and control of indoor air pollution resulting from woodburning appliance use. Environment International, 15:635-642, 1989.

Radamacher, J., Young, T.B. and Kanarek, M.S. Nitrates in drinking water and stomach cancer in Wisconsin. Archives of Environmental Health, 47:292-294, 1992.

Dar, E., Kanarek, M.S., Anderson, M.S., and Sonzogni, W. Fish consumption and reproductive outcomes in Green Bay, WI. Environmental Research 59:189-201, 1992.

Falk C, Hanrahan L, Anderson HA, Kanarek MS, Draheim L, Needham L, Patterson D, Jr. and the Great Lakes Consortium.  Body burden levels of dioxin, furans and pcbs among frequent consumers of Great Lakes sport fish.  Environmental Research A80:S19-S25, 1999.

Hanrahan, L. Falk C, Anderson HA, Draheim L, Kanarak MS, Olson J, and the Great Lakes Consortium.  Serum PCB and DDE levels of frequent Great Lakes sport fish consumers - a first look.  Environmental Research A80:S26-S37, 1999.

Dorgan CB, Dorgan CE, Kanarek MS, Willman AJ, Health and productivity benefits of improved indoor air quality.  ASHRAE Technical Paper 4161, ASHRAE Transactions.  vol 104, Pt. 1, Feb. 1998.

Flashinski RA, Taha T, Kanarek MS. Childhood lead poisoining: From past to present. Wisconsin Medical Journal 1996;95:583-587.

Anderson H, Falk C, Fiore B, Hanrahan L, Humphrey HE, Kanarek MS, et. al.  Consortium for the health assessment of Great Lakes sport fish consumption.  Toxicology and Industrial Health.  12:369-373, 1996.

Moss ME, Kanarek MS, Anderson HA, Hanrahan LP, and Remington PL.  Osteosarcoma, seasonality, and environmental factors in Wisconsin, 1979-1989.  Archives of Environmental Health 50:235-241, 1995.

Petterson DE, Remington PL, Kuykendall MA, Kanarek MS, Diedrich JM, and Anderson HA.  Behavioral risk factors of Chippewa Indians living on Wisconsin reservations.  Public Health Reports 109:820-823, 1994.

T Taha, T., Kanarek, M.S., Schultz, B.D., Murphy, A. A prospective study of the effectiveness of low-cost household paint abatement to reduce blood lead levels in children. Environmental Research A 81:334-338, 1999.

Schubert, C., Knobeloch, L., Kanarek, M.S., Anderson, H.A. Public response to elevated nitrate in drinking water wells in Wisconsin. Archives of Environmental Health 54:242-247, 1999.

Steenport, DM, Anderson, HA, Hanrahan, LP, Falk, C, Draheim, LA, Kanarek, MS, Nehls-Lowe, and the Great Lakes Consortium. Fish consumption habits and advisory awareness among anglers who fish the Fox River. Wisconsin Medical Journal 99:43-46, 2000.

McElroy, J.A., Newcomb, P.A., Trentham-Dietz, A. , Hampton, J.M., Kanarek, M.S., and Remington, P.L. Endrometrial cancer incidence in relation to electric blanket use. American Journal of Epidemiology 156:262-267, 2002.

McElroy, JA, Kanarek, MS, Trentham-Dietz, A, Robert, SA, Hampton, JM, Newcomb, PA,
Anderson, HA and Remington, PL. Potential exposure to PCBs, DDT and PBDEs from Sport caught fish in relation to breast cancer risk in Wisconsin. Environmental Health Perspectives 112:156-162, 2004.

Anderson HA, Hanrahan, LP, Smith, A, Draheim, L, Kanarek, M., Olsen J. The role of sport-fish consumption advisories in mercury risk communication: a 1998-1999 12 state survey of women 18-45. Environmental Research 95:315-24, 2004.

Weisskopf, MG, Anderson, HA, Hanrahan, LP, Kanarek, MS, Falk, CM, Steenport, DM, and Draheim, LA. Maternal exposure to Great Lakes sport-caught fish and dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene, but not polychlorinated biphenyls, is associated with reduced birth weight. Environmental Research 97: 149-162, 2005.

Powell, MC and Kanarek, MS. Nanomaterial Health Effects—Part 1: Background and Current Knowledge.  Wisconsin Medical Journal.  105, No.2: 14-18, 2006.

Monteon, ML, Arcari, CM, Remington, PL, Kanarek, MS and Oemig, TV. Tuberculosis cases in Wisconsin: Documentation of treatment improvement and completion of treatment, 2000-2002.  J Public Health Management Practice: 12(3):253-260, 2006.

Powell, MC and Kanarek, MS. Nanomaterial Health Effects--Part 2:Uncertainties and Recommendations for the Future. Wisconsin Medical Journal: 105(3): 18-23, 2006.

McElroy, JA, Gangon, RE, Newcomb, PA, Kanarek, MS, Anderson, HA, Vanden Brook, J, Trentham-Dietz, and  Remington, PL.  Risk of breast cancer for women living in rural areas from adult exposure to atrazine from well water in Wisconsin.  Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology: 17: 207-214 2007.

Kanarek, MS. Nanomaterial health effects:  Part 3: Conclusion: Hazardous Issues and the Precautionary Principle. Wisconsin Medical Journal: 106(1): 16-19, 2007.

Kanarek, N. and Kanarek, MS. Smoking Cessation in Clinical Trials and Public Health Studies: A Research Ethical Imperative. Annals of Epidemiology ( IN PRESS for Dec 2007 issue).

Kanarek, MS and Anderson, HA. Environmental Epidemiology: Looking to the Future. Annals of Epidemiology:17 (11):911-913, 2007.


Courses Taught:

PHS 797, 798, 802, 820

PHS 471, Introduction to Environmental Health

PHS 502, Air Pollution and Human Health

Contact Information:

Marty S. Kanarek, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Population Health Sciences
687 WARF Building
610 North Walnut Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53726-2397

Phone: (608) 263-1626, (608) 263-2880
Fax: (608) 263-2820
Email: mkanarek@wisc.edu

Updated 10/23/07

 

 

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