Office: 1239 Mayo Building (612) 625-7934 balex@umn.edu Ph.D. Epidemiology, University of Washington M.S. Environmental Health, Colorado State University

Research and Teaching Interests

Occupational and environmental epidemiology with specific reference to occupational determinants of reproductive health, cancer, traumatic injury, and the use of biological markers in epidmeiological research.

Publications

1. Alexander BH, Olsen GW, Burris JM, Mandel JH, Mandel JS. Mortality of Employees of a Perfluorooctanesulfonyl Fluoride Manufacturing Facility. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2003 ;60: 722-729.

2. Bonauto DK, Keifer M, Rivara FP, Alexander BH. A community-based telephone survey of work and injuries in teenage agricultural workers. Journal of Agricultural Safety & Health 2003;9(4):303-17.

3. Acquavella JF, Alexander BH, Mandel JS, Gustin C, Baker B, Chapman P, Bleeke M.Glyphosate Biomonitoring for Farmers and their Families: Results from the Farm Family Exposure Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004; 112:321-326

4. Sigurdson AJ, Hauptmann M, Chatterjee N, Alexander BH, Doody MM, Rutter JL, Struewing JP. Kin-cohort estimates for familial breast cancer risk in relation to variants in DNA base excision repair, BRCA1 interacting and growth factor genes. BMC Cancer 2004, 4:9

5. Findorff MJ, McGovern PM, Wall M, Gerberich SG, Alexander BH. Risk Factors for Work-Related Violence in a Health Care Organization. Injury Prevention 2004 (10: 296-302)

6. Mateus Pereira LH. Sigurdson AJ. Doody MM. Pineda MA. Alexander BH. Greene MH. Struewing JP. CHEK2:1100delC and female breast cancer in the United States. [Letter] International Journal of Cancer. 112(3):541-3, 2004 Nov 10.

7. Alexander BH, Bloemen L, Allen RH. Summary of sessions on the epidemiology of agricultural exposure and cancer: Oxford International Symposiums on Agriculture Exposures and Cancer. Scand J Work Environ Health 2005;31 Suppl 1:5-7.

8. Acquavella JF, Gustin C, Alexander BH, Mandel JS. Implications for epidemiologic research on variation by pesticide in studies of farmers and their families. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 2005;31 Suppl 1:105-9; discussion 63-5.

9. Mandel JS, Alexander BH, Baker BA, Acquavella JF, Chapman P, Honeycutt R. Biomonitoring for farm families in the farm family exposure study. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 2005;31 Suppl 1:98-104; discussion 63-5.

10. Ferguson KR, Gerberich SGG, Alexander BH, Church TR, Ryan AD, Mongin SJ, Renier CM, Zhang X, French LR, Masten A. Tractor-Related Injuries: A Population-Based Study of a Five-State Region in the Upper Midwest American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2005 (47:254-264)

11. Yoshinaga S, Hauptmann M, Sigurdson AJ, Doody MM, Freedman DM, Alexander BH, Linet MS, Ron E, Mabuchi K. Non-melanoma skin cancer in relation to ionizing radiation exposure among u.s. radiologic technologists. International Journal of Cancer 2005 (115:828-834)

12. Baker BA, Alexander BH, Mandel JS, Acquavella JF, Honeycutt R, Chapman P. Farm Family Exposure Study: Methods and Recruitment Practices for a Biomonitoring Study of Pesticide Exposure. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 2005 (15:491-499).

13. Acquavella JF, Alexander BH, Mandel JS, Burns CJ, Gustin C. Exposure Misclassification in Epidemiologic Studies of Agricultural Pesticides: Insights from Biomonitoring Studies of Farmers. Epidemiology 2006 (17:69-74).

14. Linet MS, Freedman DM, Mohan AK, Doody MM, Ron E, Mabuchi K, Alexander BH, Sigurdson A, Hauptmann M. Incidence of haematopoietic malignancies in US radiologic technologists. Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2005;62(12):861-7.

15. Sigurdson AJ, Hauptmann M, Alexander BH, Doody MM, Thomas CB, Struewing JP, Jones IM. DNA damage among thyroid cancer and multiple cancer cases, controls, and long-lived individuals. Mutation Research 2005;586(2):173-88.

16. Peretz C, Alexander BH, Nagahama SI, Domino KB, Checkoway H. Parkinson's disease mortality among male anesthesiologists and internists. Movement Disorders 2005 (In Press)

17. Alexander BH, Burns CJ, Bartels MJ, Acquavella JF, Mandel JS, Gustin C, Baker B. Chlorpyrifos Exposure in Farm Families: Results form the Farm Family Exposure Study. 2004 Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 2006 (In Press)

18. Doody, MM, , Freedman DM, Alexander BH, Hauptmann M, Hill DA, Tarone R, Rao RR, Mabuchi K, Ron E, Sigurdson AJ Linet MS. Breast Cancer Incidence in U.S. Radiologic Technologists. Cancer 2006 (In Press)

19. Zabel EW, Alexander BH, Mongin SJ, Doody, MM, Sigurdson AJ, Linet MS, Freedman DM, Hauptmann M, Mabuchi K, Ron E. Thyroid Cancer Incidence and Employment as a Radiologic Technologist International Journal of Cancer 2006 (In Press)

20. Stredrick DL, Garcia-Closas M, Pineda MA, Alexander BH, Doody MM, Lissowska J, Brinton LA, Peplonska B, Bhatti P, Chanock SJ, Struewing JP, Sigurdson AJ. The ATM missense mutation Ser49Cys and risk of breast cancer. In press, Human Mutation.

CHAPTERS
1. Alexander BH, Rivara FP. Occupational Injuries. In: Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2nd Edition. Rosenstock L, Cullen MR, Brodkin, CA, and Redlich CA eds. Elsevier Saunders., Philadelphia, 2004.