Faculty

Catherine Karr

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

206-616-4355
ckarr@uw.edu

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2004
MD Medicine, University of Washington, 1999
MS Toxicology, University of Washington, 1989

Contact

206-616-4355
ckarr@uw.edu

UW DEOHS, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 301
Seattle, WA 98105

Bio

Catherine Karr MD PhD (she/her) is an environmental epidemiologist and pediatric environmental medicine specialist. She has a primary appointment in the University of Washington Department of Pediatrics, Joint in Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, and Adjunct in Epidemiology. Her studies focus largely on low resourced communities in the U.S. as well as other low and middle income nations (Kenya). Her work represents methods comprising merging of large datasets on environmental factors and pediatric health outcomes as well as small in depth research using community engaged research practice. Indoor and outdoor air pollution, lead and pesticide exposures are focus areas of her expertise. She also maintains a general pediatric practice at the UW Pediatric Clinic at Roosevelt and directs a UW based regional outreach and consultation service, the NW Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU).

Research Areas

Research Interests

  • Children's environmental health

Recent Publications (PubMed)

The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide Cohort.
(2023 Mar 24)
Am J Epidemiol
Knapp EA, Kress AM, Parker CB, Page GP, McArthur K, Gachigi KK, Alshawabkeh AN, Aschner JL, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Bendixsen CG, Brennan PA, Bush NR, Buss C, Camargo CA Jr, Catellier D, Cordero JF, Croen L, Dabelea D, Deoni S, D'Sa V, Duarte CS, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Ganiban JM, Gern JE, Giardino AP, Towe-Goodman NR, Gold DR, Habre R, Hamra GB, Hartert T, Herbstman JB, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Keenan K, Kerver JM, Koinis-Mitchell D, Lau B, Lester BM, Leve LD, Leventhal B, LeWinn KZ, Lewis J, Litonjua AA, Lyall K, Madan JC, McEvoy CT, McGrath M, Meeker JD, Miller RL, Morello-Frosch R, Neiderhiser JM, O'Connor TG, Oken E, O'Shea M, Paneth N, Porucznik CA, Sathyanarayana S, Schantz SL, Spindel ER, Stanford JB, Stroustrup A, Teitelbaum SL, Trasande L, Volk H, Wadhwa PD, Weiss ST, Woodruff TJ, Wright RJ, Zhao Q, Jacobson LP, Environmental Influences On Child Health Outcomes OBOPCF
Intergenerational transmission of stress: Multi-domain stressors from maternal childhood and pregnancy predict children's mental health in a racially and socioeconomically diverse, multi-site cohort.
(2023 Feb 3)
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
Bush NR, Noroña-Zhou A, Coccia M, Rudd KL, Ahmad SI, Loftus CT, Swan SH, Nguyen RHN, Barrett ES, Tylavsky FA, Mason WA, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ
Association of Severe Bronchiolitis during Infancy with Childhood Asthma Development: An Analysis of the ECHO Consortium.
(2022 Dec 22)
Biomedicines 11(1):
Nanishi M, Chandran A, Li X, Stanford JB, Alshawabkeh AN, Aschner JL, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Gern JE, Hartert T, Herbstman J, Hershey GKK, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Leve LD, Litonjua AA, McEvoy CT, Miller RL, Oken E, O'Shea TM, Paneth N, Weiss ST, Wright RO, Wright RJ, Carroll KN, Zhang X, Zhao Q, Zoratti E, Camargo CA Jr, Hasegawa K, Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Investigators
Erratum: "A Permutation Test-Based Approach to Strengthening Inference on the Effects of Environmental Mixtures: Comparison between Single-Index Analytic Methods".
(2023 Jan)
Environ Health Perspect 131(1): 19001
Day DB, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ, Mason WA, Szpiro AA
Response to "Comment on 'A Permutation Test-Based Approach to Strengthening Inference on the Effects of Environmental Mixtures: Comparison between Single-Index Analytic Methods'".
(2023 Jan)
Environ Health Perspect 131(1): 18002
Day DB, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ, Mason WA, Szpiro AA
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