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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Gerald Marcellus Ridenour |
1941 - 1966 | Professor of Environmental Health |
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Nicholas Arthur Milone |
1949 - 1974 | Professor of Environmental Health |
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William C. Gibson |
1950 - 1961 |
Professor of Public Health Engineering Interim Dean of Public Health |
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Isadore A Bernstein |
1953 - 1990 |
Professor of Biological Chemistry Professor of Environmental & Industrial Health |
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William W. Joy |
1956 | Assistant Professor of Public Health Engineering |
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Paul M Giever |
1957 - 1970 | Associate Professor of Industrial Health |
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Ayers Brinser |
1961 - 1967 | Professor of Environmental Health, Resource Economics |
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Donald E. Barber |
1961 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Environmental Health |
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Morton S. Hilbert |
1961 - 1987 | Professor of Environmental Health |
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Rolf A. Deininger |
1964 - 2006 | Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Rolf Hartung |
1964 - 1997 |
Professor of Environmental Toxicology Research Scientist |
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Bruce Chin |
1965 - 2001 |
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Associate Research Scientist Institute of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Khalil H. Mancy |
1965 - 2000 |
Professor of Environmental Chemistry Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences Research Scientist in the Institute of Environmental Sciences |
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Arnold P. Jacobson |
1965 - 1995 |
Professor of Environmental Health Research Scientist, Institute of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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James E. Carey Jr. |
1967 - 2008 |
Assistant Professor Emeritus of Radiation Physics Assistant Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Ian T. T. Higgin |
1967 - 1985 | Professor of Epidemiology, Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Ernst J. Siegenthaler |
1967 - 1985 | Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Siba Gopal Chakarbarti |
1968 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Dohrman H. Byers |
1969 - 1981 | Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Robert H. Gray |
1969 - 2004 |
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Research Scientist, Environmental Health Interim Chair, Environmental Health |
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Frizell Vaughan |
1969 - 1995 |
Associate Professor of Environmental & Industrial Health Associate Research Scientist |
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Peter G. Meier |
1970 - 2002 | Professor of Environmental and Health Services |
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Don G. Brown |
1973 | Assistant Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Milagros Simmons |
1975 - 2000 | Associate Professor Environmental Health Sciences |
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Rudy J. Richardson |
1975 - 2019 |
Associate Professor of Neurology Professor of Toxicology |
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Charles G. Hudson |
1977 - 1980 | Assistant Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Arthur Oleinick |
1978 - 2006 | Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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F. DeWolfe Miller |
1979 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health and Epidemiology |
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Lawrence J. Fine |
1980 | Associate Professor of Occupational Medicine Department of environmental ad Industrial Health |
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Caesar M. Briefer |
1981 - 1999 |
Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of Occupational Medicine Director of Health Services |
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James E. Martin |
1981 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Steven P. Levine |
1982 - 2003 | Professor of Industrial Health |
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Peggie Hollingsworth |
1982 - 2001 | Assistant Research Scientist |
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Adam Drewnowski |
1983 - 1998 | Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health, Psychology, Psychiatry |
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Stephen Paul Ethier |
1984 - 2004 |
Professor of Radiation Oncology Ruth Tuttle Freemen Research Professor of Radiation Oncology Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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W. Monroe Keyserling |
1984 - 2019 |
Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Richard P. Garrison |
1985 - 2006 | Associate Professor of Industrial Health |
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Vasantha Padmanabhan |
1985 - 2019 |
Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Molecular & Integrative Physiology Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Rita Karen Loch-Caruso |
1986 - 2020 |
Professor of Program in the Environment Professor of Toxicology |
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Walter N. Piper |
1987 - 2007 | Professor of Toxicology |
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Edward T. Zellers |
1987 - 2020 | Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Kenneth E. Noll |
1989 - 1990 | Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Alfred Franzblau |
1989 - 2022 |
Professor of Occupational Medicine - School of Public Health Associate Professor of Internal Medicine |
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Cheryl L. Rock |
1990 | Assistant Professor of Nutritional Science |
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Gerald J Keeler |
1990 - 2011 |
Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences Professor of Geological Sciences Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Jerome Nriagu |
1993 - 2010 |
Professor of Environmental Chemistry Research Professor, Human Growth, Center Human Growth & Development |
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Betsy Lozoff |
1993 - 2018 |
Professor of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Research Professor, Center for Human Growth & Development |
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Donna M. Matheson |
1994 - 1997 | Assistant Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Randall J. Ruch |
1996 | Assistant Professor of Toxicology |
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Srimathi Kannan |
1997 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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James H. Vincent |
1998 - 2008 |
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Chair of the Department of Environmental and Industrial Health |
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Mohamed K. Khan |
1999 - 2004 |
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Sergey M. Chernyak |
2003 - 2020 | Associate Research Scientist |
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Howard Hu |
2006 - 2012 | Professor & Chair of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Niladri Basu |
2007 - 2013 | Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Science |
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Andrew David Maynard |
2010 - 2015 | Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Kelly Kay Ferguson |
2013 - 2015 | Research Assistant Professor |