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Researchers´ Profiles - Grace Egeland

Grace Egeland is Canada Research Chair In Environment, Nutrition, and Health and associate professor at the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment and the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Montréal, Canada.

She received her PhD in epidemiology from the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1989. She was recruited to the McGill chair from the University of Bergen, Norway. Prior to that, she was an epidemiologist with the Alaska State Department of Health and Social Services in Anchorage, Alaska, and has been active in the American Society and International Union for Circumpolar health

She has received research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Cree Board of Health and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami of Canada. Her research Interests include: chronic disease impact of dietary change in the health of aboriginal populations; gestational diabetes and maternal child health; public health impact of environmental policy regarding food contamination; and the interplay of environmental and nutritional exposures in human health.

She currently teaches two courses on “Analysis of Nutrition Data” and “Nutrition in Developing Countries”.

Selected Publications:

  • Chan HM, Egeland GM. Fish Consumption, Mercury Exposure and Heart Disease: A Review (in press).
     
  • Kuhnlein HV, Receveur O, Soueida R, Egeland GM. Arctic Indigenous Peoples Experience the Nutrition Transition with Changing Dietary Patterns and Obesity (in press).
     
  • Egeland GM, Tverdal A, Selmer RM, Meyer HE. Socioeconomic status and coronary heart disease risk factors and mortality: Married residents, three counties, Norway. (Norsk Epidemiologi 2003; 13 (1): 155-162.
     
  • Kuhnlein HV, Chan HM, Receveur O, Egeland GM. Canadian Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Food Systems and POPs. In: Fenge T and Downey D (eds.). Northern Lights Against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats at the Top of the World. Montreal: McGill-Queens’s University Press, 2003, 22-40.
     
  • Egeland GM, Skjærven R, Irgens L.M. Reproductive health of daughters of pregestational diabetic women. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2002;16:290-296.
     
  • Egeland GM, Tverdal A, Meyer HE, Selmer RM. A Man’s Heart and a Wife’s Education. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:799-805.
     
  • Hollund BE, Moen BE, Egeland GM, Florvaag E, Omenaas E. Occupational exposure to hairdressing chemicals and immunoglobulin E synthesis. Scand J Work Environ Health 2002; 22(4):264-269.
     
  • Egeland GM, Irgens LM. Is a multiple birth pregnancy a risk factor for gestational diabetes? American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2001;185:1257-6.
     
  • Egeland GM, Meyer H, Selmer R, Tverdal A, Vollset SE. Cod liver oil consumption, smoking, and coronary heart disease mortality: Three Counties, Norway. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2001;60:143-149.
     
  • Egeland GM, Skjærven R, Irgens L.M. Birth characacteristics of women who develop gestational diabetes: population based study. British Medical Journal 2000;321:546-7.
     
  • Landen MG, McCumber BJ, Asay ED, Egeland GM. Oubreak of boils in an Alaskan village. Western Journal of Medicine 2000;172:235-239.
     
  • Kvaavik E, Meyer HE, Selmer RM, Egeland GM, Tverdal A. Dietary habits in a Norwegian county by gender, education and marital status. Journal of the Norwegian Medical Society. Tidskr Nor Lægeforen 1999; 119:3406-9.
     
  • Egeland GM, Ponce R, Knecht R, Bloom NS, Fair J, Middaugh JP. Trace metals in ancient hair from the Karluk archaeological site, Kodiak, Alaska. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1999;58:52-56.
     
  • Egeland GM, Perham-Hester KA, Gessner BD, et al. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Alaska, 1977 through 1992: An Administrative Prevalence Derived from Multiple Data Sources. American Journal of Public Health 1998;88(5):781-786.
     
  • Ponce RA, Egeland GM, Middaugh JP, Becker PR. Twenty years of trace metal analyses of marine mammals in Alaska: Evaluation and summation. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1998;57 Suppl 1:576-81.
     
  • Egeland GM, Ponce RA, Middaugh JP. A public health perspective on the evaluation of subsistence food safety. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1998;57 Suppl 1: 572-5.
     
  • Egeland GM and Middaugh JP. Fish consumption. Letter to the editor. Science 1998;279:640-641.
     
  • Egeland GM and Middaugh JP. Balancing fish consumption benefits with mercury exposure. Science 1997; 278:1904-1905.
     
  • Sweeney MH, Calvert GA, Egeland GM, Fingerhut MA, Halperin WE, Piacitelli LA. Review and update of the results of the NIOSH medical study of workers exposed to chemicals contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin. Teratogenicity Carcinogenicity and Mutagenicity 1997-98;17:241-7.
     
  • Middaugh JP and Egeland GM. Intellectual function of children exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls in utero. Letter to the editor. New England Journal of Medicine 1997;336:660-661.
     
  • Backer LC, Egeland GM, Ashley DL, et al. Exposure to regular gasoline and ethanol oxyfuel during refueling in Alaska. Environmental Health Perspectives 1997;105:850-855.
     
  • Schnorr T, Steenland K, Egeland G, et al. Mortality of workers exposed to toluene diisocyanate in the polyurethane foam industry. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1996;53:703-707.
     
  • The Alaska Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Steering Committee. The Alaska Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Project. Federal Practitioner 1996;59:54-56.
     
  • Egeland GM, Perham-Hester K, Hook EC. Use of capture-recapture analyses in fetal alcohol syndrome surveillance in Alaska. American Journal of Epidemiology 1995;141(4):335-341.
     
  • The Alaska Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Steering Committee. Alcohol-related knowledge, attitude, belief and behavior (KABB) surveys of Alaskan health professionals. Alaska Medicine 1995;37(1):5-10.
     
  • Egeland GM, Sweeney M, Fingerhut M, Wille K, Schnorr TM, Halperin WE. Total serum testosterone and gonadotropins in workers exposed to dioxin. American Journal of Epidemiology 1995;141(5):476-478.
     
  • Egeland GM, Sweeney M, Fingerhut M, Wille K, Schnorr TM, Halperin WE. Total serum testosterone and gonadotropins in workers exposed to dioxin. American Journal of Epidemiology 1994;139(3):272-281.
     
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Frequent alcohol consumption among women of childbearing age: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1991. MMWR 1994;43(18)328-335. Also reprinted in JAMA 1994;271(23):1820-1821.
     
  • CDC. Prevalence and characteristics of alcohol consumption and fetal alcohol syndrome awareness in Alaska. MMWR 1994;43:3-6
     
  • CDC. Linking multiple data sources in fetal alcohol syndrome surveillance – Alaska. MMWR 1993;42: 312-314.
     
  • Cauley JA, Kwoh KC, Egeland GM, et al. Serum sex hormones and severity of osteoarthritis of the hand. Journal of Rheumatology 1993;20:1170-5.
     
  • Egeland GM, Bloom T, Schnorr TM, Hornung RW, Surada T, Wille K. Fluorocarbon 113 exposure and cardiac dysrhythmias among aerospace workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 1992;22:851-857.
     
  • Egeland GM, Burkhart GA, Schnorr TM, Hornung RW, Fajen JM, Lee ST. Effects of exposure to carbon disulfide on low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations and diastolic blood pressure. British Journal of Industrial Medicine 1992;49:287-293.
     
  • Schnorr TM, Grajewski BA, Hornung RW, Thun MJ, Egeland GM, Murray WE, Conover DL, Halperin WE. Video display terminals and the risk of spontaneous abortion. New England Journal of Medicine 1991;324:727-733.
     
  • Beusterien KM, Etzel RA, Agocs MM, Egeland GM, Socie EM, Rouse MA, Mortensen BK. Indoor air mercury concentrations following application of interior latex paint. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 1991;21:62-64.
     
  • Egeland GM, Kuller LH, Matthews KA, et al. Hormone replacement therapy and lipoprotein changes during early menopause. Menopause Digest 1991;4:31.
     
  • Egeland GM, Kuller LH, Matthews KA, Kelsey SF, Cauley J, Guzick D. Premenopausal determinants of menopausal estrogen use. Preventive Medicine 1991;20:343-349
     
  • Egeland GM, Kuller LH, Matthews KA, Kelsey SF, Cauley J, Guzick D. Hormone replacement therapy and lipoprotein changes during early menopause. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1990;76:776-782.
     
  • Meilahn EN, Matthews KA, Egeland GM, Kelsey SF. Characteristics of women with hysterectomies. Maturitas 1989,11: 319-329.
     
  • Egeland GM, Matthews KA, Kuller LH, Kelsey SF. Characteristics of noncontraceptive hormone users. Preventive Medicine 1988; 17 (4):403-411.

email: grace.egeland@mcgill.ca
     
 
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