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Faculty Bio - Evelyn O. Talbott, Dr. P.H.
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
A526 Crabtree Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh,PA 15261
Voice: 412-624-3074
FAX: 412-624-7397
E-mail: eot1@pitt.edu



Research Interests

My major interests are in cardiovascular disease risk factors in women including women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. I am also very involved in environmental risk factors such as air pollution and their effect on cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Most recently I have been working in the area of environmental public health tracking and linking health outcomes to putative environmental risk factors.


Education & Training
  • Bethany College - B.S. Biology, 1969
  • University of Pittsburgh - M.P.H. Epidemiology, 1971
  • University of Pittsburgh - Dr.P.H. Epidemiology, 1976

Positions and Honors

2002 - Present Professor, Dept of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh,

1990 - Present Assoc. Prof., Dept of Epidemiology, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh,

1997 - Present Associate Professor, (Secondary Appt.) Department of Speech Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh

1992 - Present Member, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,

1983 - 1990 Assistant Director, Center for Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Protection Agency

1978 - 1989 Assist. Prof., Dept of Epidemiology, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh,

1976 - 1978 Instructor, Department of Epidemiology, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh,

1972 - 1975 Teaching Fellow: Doctoral Student, Dept of Epidemiology, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh

1971 - 1972 Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Department of Community Medicine,




Honors

1988 - Present Delta Omega, Public Health Society

1984 - 1987 Special Emphasis Research Career Award (CDC/NIH)

1970 - 1972 U.S. Public Health Service Training Grant

1998 Elected Fellow, American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention



Memberships

  • American Heart Association
  • International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
  • Androgen Excess and PCOS Society
  • American Academy of Endocrinology

Teaching

Epi 2220 - Environmental Epidemiology offered 2008


Current Projects

  • CDC Academic Partners in Environmental Public Health Tracking: 1 U19EH000103-02
    This CDC funded project has as its primary goals to 1) facilitate environmental health capacity building 2) evaluate existing environmental health surveillance methodologies and 3) foster development of innovative strategies and tools to assess possible links between hazards, exposures and health effects. The projected date for initial national implementation is June of 2009. The project will involve the evaluation of data linkage of health outcomes including childhood birth defects, autism, blood lead levels, childhood cancer and adverse reproductive outcomes such as low birth weight and IUGR with environmental hazard and environmental exposure data for use by health departments for surveillance and potential public health


  • NICHD National Children's Study: HHSN26720070002
    This contract is for the establishment of study centers for the National Children's Study in Westmoreland County and in Marion County. The National Children's Study (NCS) is a longitudinal cohort that will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of approximately 100,000 children.


  • Pittsburgh Aerosol Research Inhalation Epidemiology Study:
    Electric Power Research Institute has funded the University of Pittsburgh to conduct the Pittsburgh Aerosol Research Inhalation Epidemiology Study (PARIES) which is an academic research project to examine the relationship between air pollution and several health endpoints, particularly cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity and mortality, in the Pittsburgh region during the period 1999-2006. Health outcomes to be included are daily mortality, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits. The principal and co-investigators on the project are Richard Bilonick, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Evelyn Talbott, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. (2009-2010)

Past projects

  • Risk of CHD in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  • Allegheny County Air Pollution Study

Selected publications (in chronological order)

Talbott EO, Kuller LH, Detre KM, and Perper JA: Biologic and Psychosocial Risk Factors in Sudden Cardiac Death among White Women. Am J Cardiol 1977;39(6):858-64.

LaPorte R, Talbott E. Effects of low levels of lead exposure on cognitive function-a review. Arch Environ Health 1978;33:235-9.

Cottington E, Matthews KA, Talbott EO, Kuller LH. "Environmental Events Preceding Sudden Death in Women." J Psycho Med 1980;42(6):567 74.

Talbott EO, Burgess R, Murphy P, and Kuller LH. "Blood Lead Levels Among High Risk Children in Detroit, Michigan." Am J Public Health 1982;72(11):1288 1290.

Ahmed O, Orchard T, Sharma T,Talbott E, Kuller L. "Declining Mortality From Stroke in Allegheny County." Stroke 1987;181-4.

Marsh GM, Callahan CM, Pavlock D, Leviton LC, Talbott EO, Hemstreet G. A Protocol for Bladder Cancer Screening and Medical Surveillance Among High-Risk Groups: The Drake Health Registry Experience. J Occup Med 1990; 32(9):881-886.

Leviton LC, Marsh GM, Talbott EO, Callahan CM. "Drake Chemical Workers Health Registry Study II: Coping with Community Tension over Toxic Exposures." Am J Pub Hlth 1991;81(6):689-693.

Talbott EO, Day RD, Marsh GM, Haile-Cattledge TY, McKenna M, Case BW. "Trends in Cancer Mortality in Kanawha County, W. Virginia, 1950-1984." Sci Tot Environ 1992;139-54.

Talbott E, Brink LA, Burks A, Engberg R. "Evidence for a dose-response relationship between cumulative noise exposure and blood pressure levels." Archives Environm Health 1999, 54(2):71-78.

Talbott E, Glad JA,* Mattison D, Sampson S, Bramowitz E. The Feasibility of Tracing a Population Exposed to Pesticides in Breast Milk to Create a Registry. Pesticides, People and Nature, 1999:1:53-58.

Talbott E, Youk A, McHugh K, Murphy B, Shire J, Zhang A, Engberg R. "Mortality among Residents of Three Mile Island Accident Area: 1979-1992." Environ Health Prespectives 2000; 108 (6):545-552.

Talbott EO, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Guzick DS, Kuller LH, McHugh KP, Zborowski JV. "Evidence for Association Between Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Premature Carotid Atherosclerosis in Middle-Aged Women. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2000;2414-2421.

Talbott EO, Youk AO, McHugh-Pemu K, Zborowski JV, Long Term Follow-up of the Residents of the Three Mile Island Accident Area: 1979-1998. Env Health Perspectives 2002.

Talbott EO, Youk AO, McHugh-Pemu K, Zborowski JV, Long Term Follow-up of the Residents of the Three Mile Island Accident Area: 1979-1998. Env Health Perspectives 2003; 111(3): 341-348.

Talbott EO, Zborowski JV, Sutton-Tyrrrell K, McHugh-Pemu KP, Guzick D. ACardiovascular risk in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Infert Reprod Med Clin N Am 2003:14:603-0622

Talbott EO, Zborowski JV, Boudreau M. Do women with polycystic ovary syndrome have increased risk of cardiovascular disease? Mierva Ginecol 2004:56:27-39

Talbott EO, Zborowski JV, Boudreaux MY, McHugh-Pemu KP, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Guzick DS. The relationship between C-reactive protein and carotid intima-media wall thickness in middle-aged women with polycystic ovary syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89(12):6061-7.

Talbott EO, Zborowski JV, Boudreaux M. Do women with polycystic ovary syndrome have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease: Review of the evidence. Elsevier, International Congress Series 2004:1266:233-240.

Talbott E, Zborowski JV, Rager JR, Boudreaux MY, Edmundowicz DA, Guzick DS. Evidence for an association between dimensions of the metabolic cardiovascular syndrome and coronary and aortic calcification among women with polycystic ovary syndrome. J Clin Endorcrinol Metab 2004;89(11):5454-61.

Talbott EO, Zborowski JV, Boudreaux MY, McHugh-Pemu KP, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Guzick DS. The relationship between C-reactive protein and carotid intima-media wall thickness in middle-aged women with polycystic ovary syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89(12):6061-7.

Talbott E. Risk of cancer as a result of community exposure to gasoline vapors. Arch Environ Occup Health 2005;60(1):53; discussion 53.

Boudreaux MY, Talbott EO, Kim KE, Brooks, MM, Witchel SF. Risk of T2DM and impaired fasting glucose among PCOS subjects: Results of an 8-year follow-up. Curr Diab Rep 2006;6(1):77-83.

Ramos RG, Talbott EO, Youk A, Karol MH. Community urbanization and hospitalization of adults for asthma. J Environ Health 2006;68(8):26-32, 44.

Talbott EO, Zborowski JV, Rager JR, Kim KE, Xu X, Orchard TJ. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): A significant contribution to overall burden of type 2 diabetes in women. J Womens Health 2007;16(2):191-7.

Talbott EO. Can the concept of environmental public health tracking work in a real-life setting? JOEM 49; March 2007.

Ali R, Wheitner D, Talbott EO, Zborowski J. Connecting environmental health data to people and policy: Integrating information and mobilizing communities for Environmental Public Health Tracking. J Commun Health 2007, Oct;32(5):357-74

Davis EL, El Khoudary SR, Talbott EO, Davis J, Regan LJ. Safety and efficacy of the use of intravesical and oral pentosan polysulfate sodium for interstitial cystitis: A randomized double blind clinical trial. J Urology, 2007:179(1):177-185

Xu, X Talbott, E, Sharma, R, Zborowksi, J. Case-crossover analysis of air pollution and cardiopulmonary hospitalizations using routinely collected health and environmental data for tracking. J Public Health Management Prac, May 2007.

Xu X, Talbott EO, Zborowski J. Cigarette smoking and leukemia risk in the TMI cohort: Use of the secondary datasets. Arch Environ Occup Health. 2007 May-Jun;62(3):131-7.

Talbott EO, Zborowski J, Rager J, Stragand JR. Is there an independent effect of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and menopause on the prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in middle-aged women. Vascular Health Risk Manage 2008:4(1):1-10.

Khalil N, Cauley JA, Wilson JW, Talbott EO, Morrow L, Hochberg MC, Hillier TA, Muldoon SB, Cummings SR. Relationship of Blood Lead Levels to Incident Nonspine Fractures and Falls in Older Women: The Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. J Bone Mineral Res 2008:Sept 23(9):1417-25. PMID: 18410230

Xu X, Dailey AB, People-Sheps M, Talbott EO, Li N, Roth J. Biirth weight as a risk factor for breast cancer: A meta-analysis of 18 epidemiological studies. J Womens Health;2009 (18):

Khalil N, Morrow LA, Needleman H, Talbott EO, Wilson JW, Cauley JA. Association of Cumulative Lead Exposure and Neurocognitive Function in an Occupational Cohort. Neuropsychology. 2009 Jan;23(1):10-9. PMID: 19210029

Khalil N, Wilson JW, Talbott EO, Morrow L, Hochberg MC, Hillier TA, Muldoon SB, Cauley, J. Association of Blood lead concentrations with mortality in older women: A prospective cohort study. Environ Health 2009:8:15. PMID: 19344498 [PubMed - in process] PMCID: PMC2670287

Pratt SR, Kuller L, Talbott EO, McHugh-Pemu K, Buhari Am, Xu X. Prevalence of hearing loss in Black and White elders: Results of the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Speech, Lang Hearing Res 2009;April 20 e pub ahead of print. PMID: 19380605