Researchers' Profiles - Dionne Gesink Law

Dr. Dionne Gesink Law is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include infectious diseases, reproductive and environmental epidemiology. Dionne has her doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003). Her dissertation focused on the spatial and spatiotemporal distribution of sexually transmitted infections. Dionne continued her training for three more years as a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. During that time, she continued her work on sexually transmitted infections and investigated the effects of environmental exposures (polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDE, obesity) on reproduction (primarily fertility). Dionne then moved into an academic position at Montana State University where she and colleague, Elizabeth Rink, began building a program investigating sexual health and sexually transmitted infections in northern frontier populations. Today, Dionne and Beth continue to work with communities and colleagues in Greenland, Denmark, Canada, and the United States to improve sexual health and reduce sexually transmitted infections in the north.

Publications:

• Gesink Law DC, Rink E, Hazard RN, Kops L. The epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in a northern frontier state. In preparation for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
   
• Rink E, Gesink Law DC. The Use of Community Based Participatory Research to Investigate STIs Among American Indians in Montana. In preparation.
   
• Gesink Law DC, Serre MA, Leone PA, Miller, WC. Alternative measures for spatiotemporal analyses. Submitted.
   
• Gesink Law DC, Rink E, Mulvad G, Koch A. Sexual Health and Sexually transmitted infections in the Arctic. Submitted.
   
• Hampton KH, Serre ML, Gesink Law DC, Miller WC, Pilcher CD. Adjusting for Sampling Variability in Sparse Data: A Bayesian Maximum Entropy Approach to Disease Mapping. Submitted.
   
• Al-Tayyib AA, Miller WC, Rogers S, Leone PA, Gesink Law DC, Ford CA, Rothman RE. Evaluation of risk score algorithms for detection of chlamydial and gonococcal infections in an emergency department setting. Accepted to Academic Emergency Medicine. September 27, 2007
   
• Harwell TS, Gesink Law DC, Ander JL, Helgerson SD. Increasing State Public Health Professionals Proficiency in Using PubMed. Journal of the Medical Library Association. Accepted 2007.
   
• Gesink Law DC, Longnecker MP. Obesity and time to pregnancy. Human Reproduction. 2007 Feb;22(2):414-20
   
• Gesink Law DC, Bernstein K, Serre ML, Schumacher CM, Leone PA, Zenilman JM, Miller WC, Rompalo AM. Modeling a Syphilis Outbreak through Space and Time Using the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Approach. In Press at Annals of Epidemiology.
   
• Law DCG, Klebanoff MA, Brock JW, Longnecker MP. Maternal Serum Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and 1,1-dichoro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE) and Time to Pregnancy. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2005. 162(6): 1-10.
   
• Law DCG, Serre ML, Christakos G, Leone PA, Miller WC. Spatial Analysis and Mapping of Sexually Transmitted Diseases to Optimize Intervention and Prevention Strategies. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2004. 80: 294-299.
   
• Gesink Law D. Seismic Risk Models. Chapter 6. In: Brun SE, Etkin DA, Law DG, Wallace L, White R. Coping with Natural Hazards in Canada: Scientific, Government and Insurance Industry Perspectives. Environment Canada Publication. June 1997.

email: dionne.gesinklaw@utoronto.ca