CU Anschutz In The News

“Epidemiologists are a little bit challenged to try and sort out when we find these associations — is it because of these other pollutants or is it because of nitrogen dioxide?” said Jon Samet, an epidemiologist with the Colorado School of Public Health. But Samet argues that just because there are other sources of NO2 doesn’t mean gas stoves are a nonissue. These factors make it all the more challenging to isolate the gas stove’s role.

Essentially, public health needs rebuilding, said Dr. Jon Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Officials need to rebuild public health staffing, better integrate health care and public health systems, stockpile supplies to provide better respiratory protection to workers in high-risk industries in case of future risk and invest in updating public health databases, among other steps, Samet said.

There's a unique art display in Aurora featuring the photography of a local storm chaser. Jason Persoff is a doctor. He's also an associate professor of medicine and teaches med students, residents and nurses at the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus. "I'm what's called a hospitalist," he said. "It's my job is to usher you through the system on the inpatient end after you leave the emergency department."

Katherine James, an epidemiologist and engineer at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is leading the research on a study that has her partnering with hundreds of well o owners to learn more about metal contamination in water — an issue of increasing concern in the Mountain West. She came up with the idea about 15 years ago when she was working on her dissertation in the valley.

“Imagine a beach ball filled with fluid in your stomach all the time,” said Dr. Joseph Cleveland, Jr., a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

“There is wide variation in symptoms from woman to woman,” Nanette F. Santoro, MD, professor in the divisions of reproductive endocrinology and infertility and reproductive sciences in the department of obstetrics and gynecology and the E. Stewart Taylor Chair of OB/GYN at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, told Endocrine Today. “Some women report no hot flashes, but they are relatively few. There are also large differences in how much symptoms affect a woman’s quality of life.”