CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: David Quincy Rich
Present Title: Assistant
Professor
Office Address: University of
Medicine & Dentistry of
Department
of Epidemiology, Room #209
Citizenship:
Education:
1994 B.S.
– Public Health
1999 M.P.H. - Epidemiology
& Quantitative Methods Dentistry of
Public Health.
2004 Sc.D. - Epidemiology
& Environmental Health
Academic Appointments:
2005-Present Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
2005-Present Member
Division of Environmental Epidemiology and Statistics
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
2004-2005 Post-Doctoral Fellow
Exposure, Epidemiology, & Risk Program
Department of Environmental Health
2004-2005 Post-Doctoral Fellow
Division of Aging, Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professional
Societies
1999 - Present International Society of Member
Environmental Epidemiology
2005 – Present Society for Epidemiologic Research Member
2005 – Present International Society of Exposure Member
Analysis
Journal Publication Reviews
American Journal of Epidemiology
Environmental Health Perspectives
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations
Environmental Health
Membership on UMDNJ committees
2005 – 2006 IST Educational Governance Committee
2005 – 2007 UMDNJ Strategic Planning Advisory
Committee
2006 – Present Biopharma
Initiative - Admissions Committee
2006 – Present UMDNJ
SPH Committee on Technology
2006 – Present UMDNJ
SPH – Chair of Ad-hoc Website Committee
Honors and Awards:
1990-1994 General Honors Program (B.S.)
1993-1994 George H. Cook Scholar (B.S.)
1994 B.S. (with Honors)
Teaching Responsibilities
2006-Present Epidemiology
Research Methods
Instructor
30 Students (MPH and PhD students)
45 Contact Hours/45 Preparation hours per semester
2005-Present Department of Epidemiology Journal Club
Coordinator
15 PhD Students and Faculty Members
16 Contact Hours/24 Preparation hours per semester
Brigham and Women’s
Hospital
2004-2005 Advanced SAS Programming
Instructor
15 Fellows (10 MD research fellows)
8 Contact Hours/ 8 Preparation hours per semester
2005 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology (ID 215)
Teaching Fellow
40 students (MS and ScD students)
45 Contact Hours/35 Preparation hours per semester
2001-2002 Principles of Epidemiology (EPI 200)
Teaching Fellow
100 Students (MS and ScD students)
25 Contact Hours/ 12 Preparation hours per semester
2001 Principles of Epidemiology (EPI 200s)
Teaching Fellow
50 Students (MS and ScD students)
30 Contact Hours/ 15 Preparation hours per semester
2001-2002 Introduction to Epidemiology (NSCI E-161)
Teaching Fellow
85 Students (various academic degrees)
20 Contact Hours/ 20 Preparation hours per semester
1998 Principles
and Methods of Epidemiology (PHCO 0502)
Teaching Fellow
50 Students (MPH students)
45 Contact Hours/ 20 Preparation hours per semester
1999 Infectious Disease
Epidemiology (EPID 0552)
Teaching Fellow
30 Students (MPH students)
45 Contact Hours/ 15 Preparation hours per semester
Student Mentoring
1. Wing Chow, PharmD, MPH
UMDNJ, SPH - Master of Public Health Graduated May 2007
Fieldwork Project: “Association between Type II diabetes mellitus and nonvertebral fractures”
2. Stella ManChun Tsai, PhD
UMDNJ, SPH – Doctor of Philosophy To Graduate October 2007
3. Agha
NJIT – Doctor of Philosophy Current Doctoral Candidate
4.
UMDNJ SPH – Doctor of Philosophy Current Doctoral Candidate
5. Sampada Gandhi, MBBS, MPH
UMDNJ SPH - Doctor of Philosophy Current Doctoral Student
6. Advise 25+ MPH students
Invited Lectures
4/2003 Hourly ambient
air pollution and ICD detected cardiac arrhythmias in
Lecturer
- Seminar Series
Environmental
Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health
30
Students, Post-doctoral fellows, and Faculty members
4/2004 Association of
ICD detected ventricular arrhythmias and ambient air pollution in
Lecturer
- Seminar Series
Exposure,
Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health
30 Students, Post-doctoral fellows, and Faculty members
6/2004 How to read a scientific paper.
Lecturer
Summer session in
biostatistics and epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
12 Undergraduate
students
12/2004 Association
of fine particulate matter from different sources and the incidence of
ventricular arrhythmias in
Lecturer – Seminar
Series
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk
Program, Department of Environmental Health
30 Students, Post-doctoral fellows,
and Faculty members
2/2005 Effect of air
pollution control on mortality in
Lecturer
– Seminar Series
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of
Environmental Health
30 Students, Post-doctoral fellows, and Faculty members
9/2005 Review of case-crossover design in study of myocardial infarction and
heavy
Exertion
Lecturer – Journal club
Department of Epidemiology
UMDNJ –
15 Students, 4 faculty members
11/2005 Ambient
air pollution and mortality
Lecturer
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
UMDNJ –
20 Students
11/2005 Analysis
of case-controls studies
Lecturer
Epidemiologic Research Methods II
Department of Epidemiology
UMDNJ –
20 Students
3/2006 Case-crossover designs in air pollution studies
Lecturer
Environmental and
Occupational Epidemiology
Department of
Environmental and Occupational Health
UMDNJ –
20 Students
10/2006 Ambient air
pollution and episodes of
pacemaker-detected
paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Lecturer-Faculty meeting
Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
UMDNJ-RWJMS
and
30
Faculty
11/2006 Does air pollution
trigger ventricular arrhythmias?
Lecturer
Occupational
Medicine Residents Seminar Series
Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
UMDNJ-RWJMS
and
20
Faculty, Residents, and Staff
3/2007 Case-crossover designs in air pollution studies
Lecturer
Environmental and
Occupational Epidemiology
Department of
Environmental and Occupational Health
UMDNJ –
20 Students
Regional, National,
or International Contributions
11/2000 Comparison
of home lead dust reduction techniques on hard surfaces: the
Platform Presentation
Annual Meeting of American Public Health Association (APHA)
1/2001 Comparison of home lead dust reduction techniques: the
Invited Poster Presentation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, 2001 Grantees Meeting.
8/2002 Case-crossover analysis
of the effects of hourly air pollution on ICD-detected cardiac arrhythmias
Poster Presentation.
Annual Meeting of the International Society of
Environmental Epidemiology
7/2003 ICD detected
cardiac arrhythmias and ambient air pollution.
Invited
Seminar
Nelson Institute of
Environmental Medicine,
8/2003 Case-crossover
analysis of the effects of hourly air pollution on ICD-detected cardiac
arrhythmias.
Invited Seminar
Epidemiology
Branch, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.
7/2004 ICD detected
cardiac arrhythmias and ambient air pollution.
Invited
Seminar
6/2005 Increased stroke
incidence associated with residence in the southeastern
Poster Presentation
Annual Meeting of the
Society for Epidemiologic Research
10/2005 Major air pollution sources in
contribution to PM2.5.
Poster Presentation
Annual meeting of
the International Society for Exposure Analysis
10/2005 Decline in black smoke concentrations in
regional coal sales bans.
Oral Presentation.
Annual meeting of
the International Society for Exposure Analysis
12/2005 Case-crossover
analyses of the association between acute increases in
ambient air pollution
and risk of cardiac arrhythmias detected by implantable cardioverter
defibrillators.
Invited Seminar
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
6/2006 Acute increases in ambient air pollution and risk of cardiac
arrhythmias
detected by implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Invited Seminar
Committee Service
2005-2006 IST Educational Governance /
AcITac Committee
2005-Present UMDNJ President’s Strategic
Planning Advisory Committee
2006-Present Biopharma Educational Initiative
– Admissions Committee
2006-Present UMDNJ SPH Committee on Technology
2006-Present UMDNJ SPH – Chair of Website
Subcommittee
Grant Support:
A. Current
2006 - 2007 NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Sciences at the
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute – UMDNJ Robert
“Diabetic Susceptibility to the procoagulant effects of traffic
generated particulate air pollution”
Role: Principal Investigator
2006 - 2007 Foundation
of the
“Ambient air pollution and the risk of fetal growth restriction”
Role: Principal Investigator
2007 - 2009 Health Effects Institute
“Molecular and physiological responses to drastic changes in PM concentration and composition”
Role: Co-Investigator
2007 – 2010 American Heart Association – National
Research Program
Scientist Development Grant.
“Triggering of myocardial infarction by
ambient fine particles and fine particle
components”
Role:
Principal Investigator
Publications
A. Refereed Articles
in Journals
1. Jobanputra NK, Jones R, Buckler G, Cody RP, Gochfeld M, Matte TM, Rich DQ,
Rhoads GG. Accuracy and reproducibility of blood lead testing in commercial laboratories. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine 1998;152:548-553.
2. Rich DQ, Yiin LM, Rhoads GG, Glueck DH, Weisel C, Lioy PJ. A field comparison of two methods for sampling lead in household dust. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 1999;2:106-112.
3. Rich DQ, Rhoads GG, Wartenberg D, Sweatlock J. A retrospective follow-up study of the effects of home lead abatements on childhood blood lead levels. Journal of Environmental Health 2001; 63(10):9-15.
4. Rich DQ, Rhoads GG, Yiin L-M, Zhang J, Bai Z, Adgate JL, Ashley PJ, Lioy PJ.
Comparison of home lead dust reduction techniques on hard surfaces: the New Jersey Assessment of Cleaning Techniques (NJACT) Trial. Environmental Health Perspectives 2002; 110(9):889-893.
5. Yiin L-M, Rhoads GG, Rich DQ, Zhang J, Bai Z, Adgate JL, Ashley PJ, Lioy PJ.
Comparison of
Techniques to Reduce Residential Lead Dust in Carpet and on Upholstery: The
6. Bai Z, Yiin L-M, Rich DQ, Adgate JL, Ashley PJ, Lioy PJ, Rhoads GG, Zhang J. Field Evaluation and Comparison of Five Methods of Sampling Lead Dust on Carpets. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 2003; 64(4):528-532.
7. Whang W, Mittleman MA, Rich DQ, Wang
PJ, Ruskin JN, Tofler GH, Muller JE, Albert
CM; for the TOVA Investigators. Heart failure and the risk of shocks in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Results from the Triggers of Ventricular Arrhythmias (TOVA) Study. Circulation 2004;109:1386-1391.
8.
9. Dockery DW, Luttmann-Gibson H, Rich DQ, Link MS, Mittleman MA, Gold DR,
Koutrakis P, Schwartz JD, Verrier
RL. Association of particulate air
pollution with arrhythmias recorded by implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
Environmental Health Perspectives 2005;113:670-674.
10. Rich DQ, Schwartz J, Mittleman MA,
Luttmann-Gibson H, Link M, Catalano PJ, Speizer FS, Dockery DW. Association of ambient air
pollution and ICD-detected ventricular arrhythmias in
11. Rich
DQ, Mittleman MA,
Link MS, Schwartz J, Luttman-Gibson H, Catalano PJ,
Speizer FE, Gold DR, Dockery DW. Increased
risk of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation episodes associated with acute increases
in ambient air pollution. Environmental Health Perspective 2006;114:120-123.
12. Rich DQ, Kim MH, Turner JR, Mittleman MA, Schwartz J, Catalano PJ, Dockery DW.
Association of ventricular
arrhythmias detected by implantable cardioverter defibrillator and ambient air
pollutants in
13. Rich DQ, Gaziano JM, Kurth T. Geographic patterns in overall and specific
cardiovascular disease incidence in
apparently healthy
B. Reports:
1. Dockery
DW, Luttmann-Gibson H, Rich DQ, Link MS, Schwartz JD, Gold DR,
Koutrakis P, Verrier RL, Mittleman MA. 2005b. Part II. Association of
air pollution with confirmed arrhythmias recorded by implanted defibrillators.
Health Effects Institute Research Report 124. Particulate air pollution and
nonfatal cardiac events.
C. Abstracts accepted for presentation:
1. Rich DQ, Freudenberger R,
Ohman-Strickland P, Cho Y, Kipen H. Acute
changes in
right
heart pressures and ambient fine particle concentrations. Poster Discussion
Session at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology -
2. Rich DQ, Dockery DW, Mittleman MA. Ambient air pollution and the risk of
paroxysmal
atrial fibrillation episodes, in dual-chamber pacemaker patients. Poster
Session at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology -
3. Rich DQ, Kamat L, Lu S-E, Demissie K. Ambient particulate air pollution and the
risk
of
fetal growth restriction. Oral Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology -
D. Abstracts (Not
presented):
1. Singh JP, Whang W, Mittleman M, Wang
P, Merlan JC, Rich DQ, Muller JE,
Ruskin JE, Albert CM. Smoking Is
Associated With Increased Risk of Shocks After Cardioverter Defibrillator
Implantation (TOVA Study).
2. Luttmann-Gibson H, Gold D, Link M,
Mittleman MA, Rich DQ, Schwartz J,
Verrier RL, Dockery DW. Risk of cardiac
arrhythmias related to time of the day and to air pollution during different
exposure periods in a cohort of patients with implanted cardioverter
defibrillators. International Society of Environmental Epidemiology,
3. Mittleman MA, Rich DQ, Whang W, Wang PJ, Ruskin JN, Muller JE, Albert CM for the
TOVA Investigators. Moderate exertion and
ICD discharge for ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation. The Triggers of
Ventricular Arrhythmia Study. American Heart Association,
4. Albert CM, Whang W, Rich DQ, Wang PJ, Ruskin JN, Muller JE, Mittleman MA for
the TOVA Investigators. Driving and ICD discharge for ventricular
tachycardia and fibrillation: The Triggers of Ventricular Arrhythmia Study.
American Heart Association,