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About DCEG

Joanne S. Colt, M.S., M.P.H.

Assistant Branch Chief

Location: Executive Plaza South, Room 8002
Phone: 301-435-4704
Fax: 301-402-1819
E-mail: coltj@mail.nih.gov

 Joanne S. Colt, M.S., M.P.H.

Biography

Ms. Colt received an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. She joined the NCI as an Epidemiologist in 1986, where her research has focused on environmental causes of cancer, with special emphasis on pesticides and organochlorines in relation to the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and childhood leukemia. Her interests also include bladder and kidney cancer etiology. Before joining the NCI, Ms. Colt was an environmental consultant for 19 years, primarily in the fields of solid waste management and stratospheric ozone protection.

Research Interests

  • Assessing exposure to home and garden pesticides through the use of residential carpet dust samples and questionnaires
  • Studying the association between exposure to pesticides and organochlorine compounds and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and childhood leukemia
  • Hypertension versus antihypertensive medications in the etiology of kidney cancer
  • Occupational exposures and bladder cancer risk
  • Bladder cancer prognosis and survival

Selected Publications

  • Colt JS et al. Comparison of pesticide levels in carpet dust and self-reported pest treatment practices in four U.S. sites. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 2004; 14:74-83.
  • Colt JS et al. Occupation and bladder cancer risk in a population-based case-control study in New Hampshire. Cancer Causes and Control 2004; 15:759-69.
  • Colt JS et al. Organochlorine compounds in carpet dust and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Epidemiology 2005; 16: 516-25.
  • Colt JS et al. Residential insecticide use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2006;15: 251-7.
  • Colt JS et al. Inferring Past Pesticide Exposures: A Matrix of Individual Active Ingredients in Home and Garden Pesticides Used in Past Decades. Environ Health Perspect 2007; 115: 248-54.
  • Colt JS et al. Hobbies with solvent exposure and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Causes Control 2007;18:385-90.
  • Colt JS et al. Organochlorine exposure, immune gene variation, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood. 2008 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Collaborators

DCEG Collaborators

  • Dalsu Baris, M.D.; Kenneth Cantor, Ph.D.; Wong-ho Chow, Ph.D.; Joseph Coble, Ph.D.; Laura Beane Freeman, Ph.D.; Patricia Hartge, Sc.D.; Jay Lubin, Ph.D.; Lee Moore, Ph.D.; Lindsay Morton, Ph.D.; Mark Purdue, Ph.D.; Nathaniel Rothman, M.D.; Claudine Samanic, M.S.; Debra Silverman, Sc.D.; Sholom Wacholder, Ph.D.; Sophia Wang, Ph.D.; Mary Ward, Ph.D.; Shelia Zahm, Ph.D.

Other Scientific Collaborators

  • Patricia Buffler, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • David Camann, M.S., Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
  • James Cerhan, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  • Wendy Cozen, D.O., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Faith Davis, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Scott Davis, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
  • Anneclaire De Roos, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA
  • Marcia Nishioka, Ph.D., Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH
  • Peggy Reynolds, Ph.D., California Department of Health, Oakland CA
  • Kendra Schwartz, M.D., Wayne State University, Detroit MI
  • Richard Severson, Ph.D., Wayne State University, Detroit, MI