Joel D Kaufman

About

Joel D. Kaufman is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. His educational background includes an MD from the University of Michigan obtained in 1986 and an MPH in Environmental Health from the University of Washington completed in 1990. His research focuses on environmental and occupational health, with particular interests in clean air, sustainable communities, environmental health, occupational medicine, pollution, and wildfires. Kaufman has contributed to understanding the health impacts of air pollution, environmental exposures, and community health, as evidenced by his recent publications on topics such as air pollution and brain structure, outdoor air pollution and cancer risk, and neighborhood environmental factors affecting health outcomes.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Environmental health
• Gerontology
• Psychiatry
• Environmental science
• Psychology
• Ecology
• Biology
• Demography

Selected publications

• Association of Dysanapsis With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Older Adults

  JAMA · 2020 · 190 citations

  Importance: Smoking is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet much of COPD risk remains unexplained. Objective: To determine whether dysanapsis, a mismatch of airway tree caliber to lung size, assessed by computed tomography (CT), is associated with incident COPD among older adults and lung function decline in COPD. Design, Setting, and Participants: A retrospective cohort study of 2 community-based samples: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung…

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• Comparison of Particulate Air Pollution From Different Emission Sources and Incident Dementia in the US

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2023 · 143 citations

  Importance: Emerging evidence indicates that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution may increase dementia risk in older adults. Although this evidence suggests opportunities for intervention, little is known about the relative importance of PM2.5 from different emission sources. Objective: To examine associations of long-term exposure of total and source-specific PM2.5 with incident dementia in older adults. Design, Setting, and Participants: The Environmental Predictors of Co…

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• Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution, APOE-ε4 status, and cognitive decline in a cohort of older adults in northern Manhattan

  Environment International · 2020 · 130 citations

  BACKGROUND: There is mounting evidence that long-term exposure to air pollution is related to accelerated cognitive decline in aging populations. Factors that influence individual susceptibility remain largely unknown, but may involve the apolipoprotein E genotype E4 (APOE-ε4) allele. OBJECTIVES: We assessed whether the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and cognitive decline differed by APOE-ε4 status and cognitive risk factors. METHODS: ] particulate matter) and th…

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• Cardiopulmonary Impact of Particulate Air Pollution in High-Risk Populations

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2020 · 121 citations

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• Long-term exposure to air pollution and trajectories of cognitive decline among older adults

  Neurology · 2020 · 116 citations

  OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and cognitive decline in older adults residing in an urban area. METHODS: ]) levels in the year prior to enrollment and measures of global and domain-specific cognition, adjusting for sociodemographic factors, temporal trends, and censoring. RESULTS: and across functional cognitive domains. We found no evidence of an association between pollution and cognitive function in NOMAS. CONCLUSION: WHICAP particip…

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Recent grants

• Integrative Environmental Health Sciences Facility Core

  NIH · $34.7M · 1997–2027

• NIH Grant R01OH003445

  NIH · $839k · 2002

• NIH Grant R01ES023500

  NIH · $3.2M · 2020

Frequent coauthors

• Lianne Sheppard

  University of Washington

  247 shared

• R. Graham Barr

  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  217 shared

• Adam A. Szpiro

  University of Washington

  204 shared

• Timothy V. Larson

  University of Washington

  179 shared

• Kiang Liu

  Northwestern University

  175 shared

• James H. Stein

  172 shared

• Richard A. Kronmal

  University of Washington

  155 shared

• Patrick L. Kinney

  Boston University

  142 shared

Labs

• Department of EpidemiologyPI

Education

• Ph.D., Epidemiology

  University of Washington

  1990

• M.S., Epidemiology

  University of Washington

  1985

• B.S., Public Health

  University of California, Berkeley

  1983

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