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Dr. Mark R. Cullen
Overview and Educational Background
Dr. Mark R. Cullen began his medical career by earning a bachelors degree at Harvard University. He then attended Yale University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Yale-New Haven Hospital focusing on Internal Medicine. Dr. Cullen in board certified in both Internal Medicine and Preventative Medicine. His current position is as a Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Director of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Professional Highlights and Clinical Research
Dr. Cullen's research interests focus on asbestos-related cancer, chronic beryllium disease, isocyanate asthma, work organization and occupational injury and diseases. His clinical work focuses on occupational and environmental diseases especially in endocrine and hematologic effects and issues with chemical sensitivities.
As a professor, Dr. Cullen focuses his instruction on modem occupational and environmental medicine concepts of clinical epidemiology in addition to the approaches of populational epidemiology and animal toxicology. In 1979 Dr. Cullen supported the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program in the Department of Internal Medicine. The program eventually led to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fellowship in 1985. The program follows work related diseases such as asbestosis, an illness caused by exposure to asbestos.
Awards and Affiliations and Publications
In the medical community, Dr. Cullen is best known for his contribution to bringing recognition to occupational and environmental medicine as a subspecialty. He is a member of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health as well as being named to the Board of Scientific Counselors at NIOSH. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine and awarded a Public Health Service (SHS) research grant. The grant is used to develop methods for the diagnosis and control of occupational asthma in auto body shop workers. The grant will also be used to determine immunologic markers for sensitization to isocyantes.
As well as serving on several committees at the Institute of Medicine he peer reviewed publications concerning the Persian Gulf War and Agent Orange. He has published a number of scholarly articles as well as worked as a co-editor of the first and second editions of the Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine. In 2007 he published "Air emissions from an aluminum refinery and community symptoms: An assessment of the relationship," in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. That same year he co-authored, "Repeated Measures study of seven lipids and liver enzymes in workers with occupational exposure to ammonium perfluoroctanoate," which also appeared in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Cullen has also written over 50 articles on the effects on job related stress and exposure to asbestos, lead, oil and solvents.
During his career, Dr. Cullen has received a number of honors and awards including Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine and the Harriet Hardy Award among others. Currently, Dr. Cullen is serving as a consultant to large corporations and continues to develop research collaborations between the academic and private sectors.
Contact Information
Dr. Mark Cullen
Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine
135 College Street, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 785-6434
Source
Yale University School of Medicine Physician Profile