Intermediate Term Training

Fall 1996

Helga Bardos

Assistant Professor
Debrecin University College of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology and Hygiene

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Principles of Epidemiology, Occupational Health, Environmental Health

Mentor: Jeffrey Murray, Department of Pediatrics

Sonia Ftacnikova, PhD

Co-director, Science and Technology Assistance Agency
Bratislava, Slovakia

(formerly)
Radiation Researcher
Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine
Department of Radiation Detriment
Bratislava, Slovakia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, International Marketing, Radiation Cancer Biology, Principles of Epidemiology, Occupational Health, Environmental Health

Mentor: Burt Kross, PhD. P.E.
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

Professional Interests

• Effects of ionizing radiation.
• Radiation protection.
• Ethics in research.

Workshops

• April 98. RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICAL ISSUES. S. Ftacnikova and Erling Anderson.
• June 99. ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH. S. Ftacnikova and Branko Kontic.

Research Projects funded through Iowa

1999. ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD POLICIES AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH: COMPARISON OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC AND USA. Sonia Ftacnikova and Erling Anderson.

Gabriel Gulis, MSc, PhD

Assistant Visiting Professor
Department of Health Promotion
The University of Southern Denmark

(Previously) Director of National Center
for Health Promotion, Bratislava, Slovakia
Head of Department of Epidemiology of
Non-Communicable Diseases, Trnava University, Slovakia
Head of the Regional Environment Office, Trnava, Slovakia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Environmental Health, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Occupational Health, Principles of Epidemiology

Mentor: Pamela Willard, RN, MS, College of Nursing

Professional Interests

• Health impact assessment
• Environmental health: waste management, drinking water
• Public health policy
• Public health promotion

Workshops

• Jun 97. COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION. G. Gulis and P. Willard.
• Jun 98. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING. G. Gulis and P. Willard.
• Oct 99- Jun 00. SERIES ON HEALTH PROMOTION FOR THE NEWS MEDIA, G. Gulis and Guest Lecturers.

Research Projects funded through Iowa

1997. PILOT FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COHORT STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND CANCER (ERICA) IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC. G. Gulis and James Cerhan.

Karol Hatiar, MSc, PhD

Head, Department of Ergonomics and Biometrics
Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine
Bratislava, Slovakia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Occupational Health, Environmental Health, Principles of Epidemiology

Mentor: Thomas Cook, PhD, PE, Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Health

Professional Interests

Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal system diseases.

Workshops

• Jun 97. REDUCING WORKPLACE INJURIES - Ergonomics . K. Hatiar and T. Cook.
• Jun 98. REDUCING WORKPLACE INJURIES - Ergonomics . K. Hatiar and T. Cook.
• Jun 99. INJURIES IN CONSTRUCTION - Ergonomics . K. Hatiar, A. Madajova and T. Cook.
• Sep 99. ERGONOMICS (A series of eight 1-day workshops). K. Hatiar, T. Cook and staff.

Research Projects funded through Iowa

1997. WORK RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL COMPLAINTS AMONG UNIONIZED CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC. Karol Hatiar and Thomas Cook (University of Iowa).

Vlasta Hladikova, MS, PhD

Research Chemist
Institute of Preventive and clinical Medicine
Department of Xenobiotics (Toxicology)
Bratislava, Slovakia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Principles of Epidemiology, Occupational Health, Environmental Health

Mentor: Jerald Schnoor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professional Interests

• Food chemistry and chemical engineering.
• Determinations of toxic and essential elements (Cd, Pb, Hg, Ni, Cr, Zn, Cu) in environmental samples, food and biological materials.

Workshop

Dec 97. HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT. V. Hladikova and J. Schnoor.

Research Projects funded through Iowa

• 2000. OCCURRENCE OF COPPER AND ZINC IN AMBIENT AIR OF SELECTED LOCATIONS IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC. V. Hladikova and J. Schnoor.
• 2003. ENVIRONMENTAL MN/CU STATUS IN RELATION TO CREUTZFELD-JAKOB DISEASE, V. Hladikova, M. Ursinyova, E. Mitrova, D Slivarichova, I. Carikova

Alzbeta Kaiglova, MVDr, PhD

Scientist
Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine
Department of Environmental Toxicology
Bratislava, Slovakia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Environmental Health, Principles of Epidemiology, Occupational Health

Mentor: Peter Thorne, PhD
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health
College of Public Health

Professional Interests

Effects of environment on animal and children's health.

Projects

• Toxic contamination as possible risk factors for allergy development in childhood
• A Prospective Laboratory and Epidemiological Investigation of Allergic Diseases among Central European Children: Placental Uptake and Transfer of Environmental Chemicals Relating to Allergy in Childhood Years , an international project of the 5th Framework Programme for Scientific Research, EU.

Workshop

Nov 97. PULMONARY TOXICOLOG . A. Kaiglova and P. Thorne.

Research Projects funded through Iowa

2000. IMPACT OF PLACENTAL CONTAMINATION ON TH1/TH2 CYTOKINE SECRETION IN CORD BLOOD AND ALLERGY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD. A. Kaiglova and P. Thorne.

Branko Kontic, PhD

Researcher and Adviser
Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Scientist and Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Health
Nova Gorica Polytechnic, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Problems in Preventive Medicine, Responsible Conduct in Research, Occupational Health, Environmental Health, Principles of Epidemiology, Health Services Research I

Mentor: David Wyant, PhD
Department of Health Management and Policy
College of Public Health

Professional Interests

• Environmental health risk assessment
• Environmetal inventory analysis
• Strategic environmental analysis

Workshops

• Oct 97. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH POLICY. B. Kontic, G. Gulis, and D. Wyant.
• Jun 99. ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH. B. Kontic and Sonia Ftacnikova.

Jana Tulinska, MD, PhD

Department Head
Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine
Department of Immunotoxicology
Bratislava, Slovakia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Principles of Epidemiology, Occupational Health, Environmental Health

Mentor: Lar Fuortes, MD
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

Professional Interests

• Immunology
• Immunotoxicology
• Allergy and immunosuppression
• Molecular epidemiology
• Biomarkers and biomonitoring
• Occupational exposures
• Mineral fibers, styrene, PAHs, PCBs

Workshops

• Sep 97. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY. J. Tulinska and L. Fuortes.
  Research Projects funded through Iowa
• 1998. BIOMONITORING OF OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO STYRENE IN A SLOVAK PLASTICS LAMINATION PLANT, J. Tulinska and L. Fuortes.
• 2001. ASSESSMENT OF BIOMARKERS FOR GENOTOXIC AND IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS OF ASBESTOS IN EXPOSED WORKERS FROM A SLOVAKIAN ASBESTOS-CEMENT PLANT. J. Tulinska and L. Fuortes.
• 2003. MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF GENOTOXIC AND IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS OF MINERAL FIBERS, J. Tulinska and L. Fuortes.

Janja Vaupotic, PhD

Post-doctoral Associate
Institute Jozef Stefan
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Fogarty Training in Iowa

Courses: Responsible Conduct in Research, Industrial Hygiene I, Environmental Health, Principles of Epidemiology, Occupational Health

Mentor: Stephen Reynolds, PhD, PE
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

Professional Interests

• Radiation effects and protection.
• Radon.

Workshop

Sep 97. FUNDAMENTAL OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE. J. Vaupotic, S. Reynolds.