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, Schwartz K, Davis F, Wacholder S, Graubard B, Chow W. Hypertension and risk of renal cell carcinoma among White and Black Americans. Epidemiology 2011; 22:797-804.
• Colt JS, Karagas M, Schwenn M, Baris D, Johnson A, Stewart P, Verrill C, Moore L, Lubin J, Ward M, Samanic C, Rothman N, Cantor KP, Beane Freeman L, Schned A, Cherala S, Silverman A. Occupation and bladder cancer in a population-based case-control study in Northern New England. OEM 2011,68:239-249.
• Colt JS, Rothman N, Severson RK, Hartge P, Cerhan JR, Chatterjee N, Cozen W, Morton LM, De Roos A, Davis S, Chanock S, Wang SS. Organochlorine exposure, immune gene variation, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood 2009; 113:1899-905.
• Colt JS, Gunier RB, Metayer C, Nishioka MG, Bell EM, Reynolds P, Buffler PA, Ward MH. Household vacuum cleaners vs. the high-volume surface sampler for collection of carpet dust samples in epidemiologic studies of children. Environmental Health 2008; Feb 21;7:6.
• Colt JS, Hartge P, Davis S, Cerhan JR, Cozen W, Severson RK. Hobbies with solvent exposure and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Causes Control 2007;18:385-90.
• Colt JS, Cyr MJ, Zahm SH, Tobias GS, Hartge P. Inferring past pesticide exposures: A matrix of individual active ingredients in home and garden pesticides used in past decades. Environ Health Perspect 2007; 115(2): 248-54.

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