Dr. Mark Goldberg
Division of clinical Epidemiology,
McGill University Health Center - RVH, 687 Pine Avenue West, R4.29, Montreal QC
H3A 1A1
Tel: (514) 934-1934 x36917
Fax: (514) 843-1493 Email: mark.goldberg@mcgill.ca
Alternative web site: http://www.clinepi.mcgill.ca/goldbergmark.htm
WHAT’S
NEW
Op-Ed article in the Montreal Gazette, November 24, 2010 "Climate
change is here: Action is needed before it is too late to stave off
catastrophic climate change" Mark
Goldberg, Peter Brown, Gail Chmura, Nicolas Kosoy, Thomas
Naylor (with correction)
Climate change is a real and present danger
Our new study showing an
association between traffic-related air pollution and postmenopausal breast
cancer has just been published (October, 2010) on-line in Environmental Health
Perspectives. Please see: Crouse, D; Goldberg, MS; Ross, NA; Chen, H; Labrèche, F. "Postmenopausal Breast Cancer is
Associated with Exposure to Traffic-related Air Pollution in Montreal, Canada:
A Case-Control Study"
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1002221
I am proud to announce the publication of the third
edition of Medical Uses of Statistics, edited by John C. Bailar
and David C. Hoaglin. I have two chapters in this
book, as does Prof. Nancy Mayo, Division of Clinical Epidemiology. It is
published by John Wiley and sponsored by the New England journal of Medicine.
Risk of heart attack in middle-aged athletes
See presentations for how to minimize your risk
Dr. Goldberg is an occupational
and environmental epidemiologist. He obtained a B.Sc. in physics (1975), a MSc
degree (1985) and PhD degree (1991) in epidemiology and biostatistics from
McGill University. From 1990 until 1996, he worked in the Montreal public
health department as an epidemiologist and from 1996-2000 he was a professor at
the INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier,
University of Quebec. He is currently professor at McGill University in the
Department of Medicine and associate member in the Department of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, Department of Occupational Health, in the Department of
Oncology, and the McGill School of Environment. He held until 2008 a Chercheur-Boursier
from the Fonds de recherche
en santé du Québec and an Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health
Research.
RESEARCH
ACTIVITIES
Past
My research has and continues to
be multi-faceted, including both clinical and environmental epidemiological
studies. In the past, I have
obtained grants, conducted studies, and/or published that includes: 1) the
accuracy of assessing occupational exposure in case-control studies (my masters
thesis); 2) cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort of synthetic textiles
workers (my doctoral dissertation) and Australian textile manufacturing
workers; 3) the long-term health effects of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; 4)
health effects arising from exposures to ambient biogas produced in municipal
solid waste sites; 5) environmental and occupational causes of disease,
including investigations of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, lung
cancer; 6) the long- and
short-term health effects from exposures to pollutants in ambient air; 7) biostatistical and epidemiologic methodological
investigations; 8) the effects of smoking on back pain; 9) the health effects
of diagnostic radiographs in women diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic
scoliosis; 10) health services related to treatment for breast cancer surgery;
11) stroke; 12) estimating the need for radiotherapy in cancer; 12) a cohort
study to estimate age-, gender- and risk factor-specific incidence rates of
stroke and heart disease using longitudinal cohorts; and 13) a study in
palliative medicine of patterns of care among cancer patients in end-of-life
(Bruno Gagnon, PI (McGill)).
Current
My current research program
consists of completing a number of ongoing research projects as well as
initiating new ones. The following projects are currently underway: 1) a
case-control study of gene-environment interactions in postmenopausal breast
cancer; 2) a longitudinal study of the acute effects of air pollution on health
among persons potentially susceptible to urban air pollution; 3) a panel study
in congestive heart failure to determine whether air pollution affects
essential indicators of health status; 4) a cohort study of persons with
implanted cardioverter defibrillators to identify
triggers for interventions for ventricular tachycardia; 5) a population-based
cohort study in Ontario to investigate long-term effects of air pollution; 6) a
study of traffic-related air pollution and socioeconomic gradients in the
incidence of cancer; and 7) a panel in childhood asthma to determine whether
air pollution from refineries affects respiratory health.
Research Opportunities for Graduate Students and
Postdoctoral Fellows
For more information please see:
Current Scientific Operating Grants
SAS Macro for Ordinal Regression
Case-control power program (FORTRAN)
Cohort power program (FORTRAN)
"Splus function for natural splines in
GLM (and Cox) models - For a copy of the paper describing the functions, please
email me or see Comp Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Documentation to the Splus
functions for natural splines
Splus
function for natural splines- numerical
calculation(GLM version)
Splus function for natural splines-
plot function(GLM version)
Splus
function for natural splines- numerical
calculation(Cox version)
Splus function for natural splines-
plot function(Cox version)
Scannable daily diary for CHF study
Courses
513-676B - Special Topics: The Design, Conduct, &
Analyses of Cohort Studies
513-606 - Introduction to Epidemiology
Lecture: Air Pollution, McGill School of Environment,
March 2003
Projects
Breast Cancer Gene-Environment Study
Supplementary material from review of long
term effects of air pollution
Review of Outdoor Air Pollution
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An introductory lecture to environmental epidemiology. This is a 5-part lecture on environmental epidemiology that I developed. It is available on the web at the Epidemiology Supercourse web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ |