Faculty

Joel D Kaufman

Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Professor, Medicine - General Internal Medicine

206-616-3501

Education

MD University of Michigan, 1986
MPH Environmental Health, University of Washington, 1990

Contact

206-616-3501

Box 354695
4225 Roosevelt Way NE
Suite 302
Seattle, WA 98105

Research Interests

Clean Air, Sustainable Communities, Environmental Health, Occupational Medicine, Pollution, Wildfires

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Association of Air Pollution Exposure and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Oct 16)
Heart Rhythm
Cannon EJ, Kaufman JD, Austin TR, Misialek JR, Heckbert SR, Jacobs DR Jr, Lutsey PL

Long-term ambient air pollution is not associated with circulating soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor.
(2026 Oct)
Environ Epidemiol 10(5): e532
Ghazzal BZ, Ismail A, Huang Y, Gassett A, Farhat T, Elangovan R, Blakely P, Heckbert SR, Kaufman JD, Hayek SS

Air Pollution Triggers Metabolomic Signature of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Mice and Humans: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Development.
(2026 Nov)
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 46(11): e324277
Lin Y, Qiu X, Gupta R, Ramanathan G, Lu X, Yin F, Fiehn O, Zhang JJ, Kaufman JD, Zhu Y, Rosenfeld ME, Araujo JA

Short-term air pollution exposure and hospitalizations in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: data from the IPF-PRO Registry.
(2026 Sep 12)
Ann Am Thorac Soc
MacMurdo MG, Wojdyla DM, Gassett A, Kaufman JD, Raghu G, Redlich CA, Patel DC, Neely ML, Snyder LD, Gulati M, Sack C, IPF-PRO Registry investigators

Erratum to "Air pollution is linked to divergent cortical thickness patterns in brain regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease" [Neurotoxicology 115 (2026) 103495].
(2026 Sep)
Neurotoxicology 116(): 103551
Salminen LE, Wang X, Petkus AJ, Fennema-Notestine C, Elman JA, Hagler DJ Jr, Kaufman JD, Millstein J, Braskie MN, Liu J, Cho HJ, Kothapalli D, Thompson PM, Beavers DP, Espeland MA, Gatz M, Resnick SM, Frahmand I, Rapp SR, Finch CE, Chen JC, Kremen WS, Franz CE

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