Professional Summary
Sung Kyun Park is an environmental epidemiologist. After he obtained his doctoral degree, he has worked as a research fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Sung Kyun has been a co-investigator of Michigan-Harvard Metals Epidemiology Research Group (MERG) since 2005. He also worked as an occupational epidemiologist for the Wonjin Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health in Korea.
Courses Taught
EHS675: Data Analysis for Environmental Epidemiology
Education
Sc.D., Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard University, 2005
M.P.H., Envirohnmental Health, Seoul National University, 2000
B.S., Food Science and Technology, Seoul National University, 1998
Research Interest & Projects
Dr. Park's research focuses on health effects of environmental exposures, such as air pollution, heavy metals, and noise, in aging populations. He is investigating the associations of exposures to air pollution, lead, cadmium and noise with subclinical cardiovascular outcomes (heart rate variability, homocysteine), lung function, and age-related diseases (diabetes, hearing loss, osteoporosis, cataract) in the Normative Aging Study, a longitudinal study of aging. He has a specific interest in gene-environment and nutrient-environment interactions. Dr. Park is leading studies on air pollution and electrocardiographic outcomes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). He is also working on the effects of heavy metals on hearing loss and cardiovascular disease using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES).
Selected Publications
Park S. K., Mukherjee B., Xia X., Sparrow D., Weisskopf M. G., Nie H., Hu H. (2009). Bone Lead Level Prediction Models and Their Application to Examining the Relationship of Lead Exposure and Hypertension in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III) J Occup Environ Med, (in press)
Park S. K., Tucker K. L., O'Neill M. S., Sparrow D., Vokonas P. S., Hu H., Schwartz J. (2009). Fruit, vegetable and fish consumption and heart rate variability: the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study Am J Clin Nutr, 89(3), 778-786.
Park S. K., Hu H., Wright R. O., Schwartz J., Cheng Y., Sparrow D., Vokonas P. S., Weisskopf M. G. (2009). Iron metabolism genes, low-level lead exposure and QT interval. Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(1), 80-85.
Lampe B. J., Park S. K., Robins T., Mukherjee B., Litonjua A. A., Amarasiriwardena C., Weisskopf M., Sparrow D., Hu H. (2008). Association between 24-hour urinary cadmium and pulmonary function among community-exposed men: The VA Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 116(9), 1226-1230.
Park S. K., O'Neill M. S., Vokonas P. S., Sparrow D., Spiro A. III, Tucker K. L., Suh H., Hu H., Schwartz J. (2008). Traffic-related particles are associated with elevated homocysteine: the VA Normative Aging Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 178(3), 283-289.
Park S. K., O'Neill M. S., Vokonas P. S., Sparrow D., Wright R. O., Coull B., Nie H., Hu H., Schwartz J. (2008). Air Pollution and Heart Rate Variability: Effect Modification by Chronic Lead Exposure. Epidmeiology, 19(1), 111-120.
Park, S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Stunder, B.J.B., Vokomas, P.S., Sparrow, D., Koutrakis, P. and Schwartz, J. (2007). Source location of air pollution and cardiac autonomic function: trajectory cluster analysis for exposure assessment. Journal Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 17(5), 488-497.
Park, S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Wright, R.O. Hu, H., Vokomoas, P.S., Sparrow, D. , Suh, H. and Schwartz, J. (2006). HFE geotype, particulate air pollution, and heart rate variability: a gene-environment interaction. Circulation, 114(25), 2798-2805.
Park, S.K., Schwartz, J., Weisskopt, M., Wright, R.O., Coull, B., Sparrow, D., Vokomas, P.S., Nie, H. and Hu, H. (2006). Low-level lead exposure, metabolic syndrome and heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(11), 1718-1724.
Park S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Vokonas, P.S., Sparrow, D. and Schwartz, J." (2005). Effects of air pollution on heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(3), 304-309.
Professional Affiliations
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Society for Epidemiologic Research
Korean Society of Environmental Health
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