Office: 1260-5 Mayo Phone: (612)626-4855 igreaves@umn.edu B.Med.Sci., Monash University, Australia M.B., B.S., Monash University, Australia Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australia Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Research and Teaching Interests

Research interests include lung disorders caused by airborne exposures in the workplace and the general environment; asthma; lung function in health and disease; agricultural health and safety problems; and global health issues.

Administrative

Director, Midwest Center for Occupational Safety and Health

Selected Publications

Sexton K, Adgate JL, Church TR, Hecht SS, Ramachandran G, Greaves IA, Fredrickson AL, Ryan AD, Carmella SG, Geisser MS. Children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: Evidence for ethnic/racial differences in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Environ Health Perspect 112: 392-397, 2004.

Gray JE, Greaves IA, Bustos DM, Krabbenhoft DP. Environmental mercury and methyl mercury contamination from the Palawan Quicksilver Mine, Philippines. Med Geol Newsletter 6: 7-10, 2003.

Sexton K, Adgate JL, Church TR, Greaves IA, Ramachandran G, Fredrickson AL, Geisser MS, Ryan AD. Recruitment, retention, and compliance results from a probability study of children’s environmental health in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Environ Health Perspect 111: 731-736, 2003.

Gray JE, Greaves IA, Bustos DM, Krabbenhoft DP. Mercury and methylmercury contents in calcine, water, and sediment at the Palawan Quicksilver Mine, Philippines. Environ Geol 43: 298-307, 2003.

Torres EB, Greaves IA, Gapas JL, Ong TT. Occupational health in the Philippines. In: Ladou J (ed.), Occupational Health in Developing Countries, Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 17: 455-468, 2002.

Hecht SS, Ye M, Carmella SG, Fredrickson A, Adgate JL, Greaves IA, Church TR, Ryan AD, Mongin SJ, Sexton K. Metabolites of a tobacco-specific lung carcinogen in the urine of elementary school-aged children. Cancer Epidemiol Biomar Prev 10: 1109-1116, 2001.

Hirschhorn N, Feldman RG, Greaves IA. Abraham Lincoln's blue pills: Did our 16th president suffer from mercury poisoning? Perspec Biol Med 44: 315-332, 2001.

Committee on Health Effects of Waste Incineration, National Research Council. Waste Incineration and Public Health. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 335 pp.

Greaves IA. Not-so-simple silicosis: A case for public health action. Am J Ind Med 37: 245-251, 2000.

Greaves IA. The automobile as a confined space for toxic hazards. Am J Ind Med 38: 481-482, 2000.

Sexton K, Greaves IA, Church T, Adgate JL, Ramachandran G, Tweedie R, Fredrickson A, Geisser M, Sikorski M, Fischer G, Jones D, Ellringer P. Measurement of chidren's environmental exposures and related health effects: School-based study recruitment in economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. J Exp Anal Environ Epidemiol 10: 682-694, 2000.

Eisen, E.A., Holcroft, C.A., Greaves, I.A., Wegman, D.H., Woskie, S.R. and Monson, R.R. A strategy to reduce healthy worker effect in a cross-sectional study of asthma and metalworking fluids. Am J Ind Med, 31: 671-677, 1997.

Greaves, I.A., Monson, R.R., Smith, T.J., Pothie, L.J,. Eisen, E.A., Kriebel, D., Woskie, SR, Kennedy, SM and Shalat, S. Respiratory health of automobile workers exposed to metal-working fluid aerosols: Respiratory symptoms. Am J Ind Med, 32: 450-459, 1997.

Koscheyev, V.S., Leon, G., Greaves, I.A.. Lessons learned and unsolved problems after large-scale disasters. Prehosp Dis Med 12: 49-60, 1997.

Woellner, R.C., Hall, S., Greaves, I.A.. Schoenwetter, W.F. Epidemic of asthma in a wood products plant using methylene diphenyl diisocyanate. Am J Ind Med 31: 56-63, 1997.

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