Rosemary Sokas

Contact Information

E-mail: sokas@uic.edu

Address:
503 Sphw, M/c 922, M/C 923
1603 W. Taylor St
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: 312-355-4497

Academic Background

MD, Medicine, Boston Univ, 1974
MS, Physiology, Harvard Univ, 1981
MSPH, Public Health, Harvard Univ, 1980
BSMLS, Medical Science, Boston Univ, 1974

Research Interests

Applied, translational occupational safety and health organizational work targeting small businesses and vulnerable populations.

Teaching Interests

Problem-based occupational and environmental health/integration of EOHS into public health and primary care.

Publications

 Sokas RK, Simmens S, Sophar K, Welch LS and Liszewski T. Background Lead Levels in Construction Workers. Am J Industr Med, 1997; 31:188-194.

 Sokas RK, Moussa MAA, Gomes J, Anderson JAD, Achuthan KK, Thain AB and Abu Risheh Z. Noise-induced Hearing Loss, Nationality, and Blood Pressure. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1995; 28:281-288.

 Sokas RK, Fenton B, Foran J, Diserens D, Bargmann E, Fenton B, Schwartz W and Simmens S. Introducing Environmental Medicine into an Undergraduate Primary Care Requirement. Medical Ed, 1993; 27:410-415.

 Sokas RK, Atleson J and Keogh J. Shortened Forms of Provocative Lead Chelation. JOM, 1988;30:420-424.

Welch LS, Acherman YIZ, Haile E, Sokas RK, Sugarbaker PH. Asbestos and Peritoneal Mesothelioma among College-educated Men. Int J Occup Environ Health 2005; 11:254-258.

Ducatman AM, Vanderploeg JM, Johnson M, Rubin J, Harber P, Sokas R et al. Residency Training in Preventive Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2005; 28(4):403-412

Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Halperin WE, Sokas RK “Recognizing Occupational and Environmental Disease and Injury”, p. 131 - 147. In Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 5th ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2005.

Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK. “Occupational and Environmental Health: An Overview”, p. 3 – 20, In Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 5th ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2005.

Sokas RK, Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL “Preventing Occupational and Environmental Disease and Injury”, p. 148 - 171 In Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 5th ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2005.

Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK. (Eds) Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, 5th ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2005.

Cho CC, Sweitzer E, Oliva J, Nevarez J, Zanoni J, Sokas RK. An Interfaith Workers’ Center Approach to Workplace Rights: Implications for Workplace Safety and Health. JOEM 2007;49(3):275-281

Sokas RK, Nickels L, Rankin, K, Gittleman J, Trahan C. Trainer Evaluation of a Union-based 10-hour Safety and Health Hazard Awareness Program for U.S. Construction Workers. Int J Occup Environ Health 2007;13:56-63.

National Research Council. Review of the Worker and Public Health Activities Program Administered by the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and human Services. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2006.