Lydia B. Zablotska, MD, MPA, PhD

Minsk State Medical School, Belarus, MD, May 1993, Medicine
Askew School of Public Administration, Florida State University, MPA, August 1997, Public Policy and Health Administration/Policy
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, PhD, May 2003, Epidemiology

• 1993-1995
  National Medical Residency, Internal Medicine, Lviv State Medical School, Ukraine
• 1996
  Administrative and Research Internship, Center for Clinical Effectiveness, Ford Health System
• 1997-2000
  Graduate Research Assistant, Project "Effects of the Chornobyl Accident on Thyroid Cancer and Leukemia," Dr. G. Howe (PI), Department of Epidemiology, MSPH, Columbia University
• 2000-2003
  Staff Associate, Project "Effects of the Chornobyl Accident on Thyroid Cancer and Leukemia," Dr. G. Howe (PI), Department of Epidemiology, MSPH, Columbia University
• 2003-2006
  Epidemiologist, Project "Effects of the Chornobyl Accident on Thyroid Cancer and Leukemia," Dr. G. Howe (PI), Department of Epidemiology, MSPH, Columbia University
• 2003-2004
  Instructor, Department of Epidemiology, Dr. E.Susser (Chairman), MSPH, Columbia University
• 2004-2005
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Dr. E.Susser (Chairman), MSPH, Columbia University
• 2005-2008
  Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Dr. E.Susser (Chairman), MSPH, Columbia University
• 2008-present
  Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dr. R. Hiatt (Chairman), School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

• 1993
  Graduation with Distinction (Summa Cum Laude), Minsk State Medical School, Minsk, Belarus
• 1995
  Senator E. Muskie Scholarship for Graduate Studies for Outstanding Students from the Commonwealth of Independent States, U.S. Agency for International Development
• 2003
  Sydney Kark Award in Epidemiology for doctoral students committed to work in international health, MSPH, Columbia University
• 2003
  Young Investigator Award, 12th International Congress of Radiation Research, Brisbane, Australia
• 2004
  Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prize, MSPH, Columbia University
• 2005
  Dean's Award for Innovation in the Curriculum, MSPH, Columbia University
• 2006
  New Investigator's Award, American Statistical Association's Conference on Radiation and Health, Monterey Beach, CA
• 2006
  Item Writing Committee, National Board of Public Health Examiners
• 2007
  Young Investigator Award, 13th International Congress of Radiation Research, San Francisco, CA
• 2007
  Invited Participant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Workshop on Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Etiologic Factors, Precursors, and Disease, Washington, DC
• 2008
  Invited Speaker, American Statistical Association's Conference on Radiation and Health, Vail, CO

• Zablotska LB, Neugut AI. Lung carcinoma after radiation therapy in women treated with lumpectomy or mastectomy for primary breast carcinoma. Cancer. 2003 Mar; Vol.97(6): 1404-11.
• Chornobyl Thyroid Diseases Study Group of Belarus, Ukraine and the USA. A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases following the Chornobyl accident: Objectives, Design and Methods. Rad Res 2004 Apr;161(4):481-92.
• Zablotska L. B., Ashmore J. P. and Howe G. R., Analysis of mortality experience amongst Canadian nuclear power industry workers following chronic low-dose exposure to ionizing radiation. Rad Res 2004 Jun;161(6):633-41.
• Howe G. R., Zablotska L. B., Fix J.J., Egel J., Buchanan J. Analysis of the mortality experience amongst U.S. nuclear power industry workers following chronic low-dose exposure to ionizing radiation. Rad Res 2004 November, 162(5): 517-526.
• Zablotska L.B., Angevine A., Neugut A.I. Therapy-Induced Thoracic Malignancies. Clinics of North America, Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2004 Mar;25(1):217-24. Review.
• Hatch M., Ron E., Bouville A., Zablotska L., Howe G. The Chernobyl Disaster: Cancer Following the Accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Epidemiol Rev. 2005;27(1):56-66. Review.
• Zablotska L.B., Chak A., Das A., Neugut, A.I. Increased Risk of Squamous Cell Esophageal Cancer after Adjuvant Radiation Therapy for Primary Breast Cancer. Am J Epidemiol 2005 Feb 15; 161(4): 330-7.
• Das A., Thomas S., Zablotska L.B., Neugut A.I., Chak A. Association of esophageal adenocarcinoma with other subsequent primary cancers. J Clin Gastroenterol 2006 May-Jun;40(5):405-11.
• Ahsan H., Chen Y., Parvez F., Zablotska L., Argos M., Hussain I., Momotaj H., Levy D., Cheng Z., Slavkovich V., van Geen A., Howe G.R., Graziano J.H. Arsenic exposure from drinking water and risk of premalignant skin lesions in Bangladesh: baseline results from the health effects of arsenic longitudinal study. Am J Epidemiol 2006 Jun 15;163(12):1138-48.
• Tronko, M. D.; Howe, G. R.; Bogdanova, T. I.; Bouville, A. C.; Epstein, O. V.; Brill, A. B.; Likhtarev, I. A.; Fink, D. J.; Markov, V. V.; Greenebaum, E.; Olijnyk, V. A.; Masnyk, I. J.; Shpak, V. M.; McConnell, R. J.; Tereshchenko, V. P.; Robbins, J.; Zvinchuk, O. V.; Zablotska, L. B.; Hatch, M.; Luckyanov, N. K.; Ron, E.; Thomas, T. L.; Voilleque, P. G.; Beebe, G. W., A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the chornobyl accident: thyroid cancer in Ukraine detected during first screening. J Natl Cancer Inst 2006, 98, (13), 897-903.
• Likhtarov I, Kovgan L, Vavilov S, Chepurny M, Ron E, Lubin J, Bouville A, Tronko N, Bogdanova T, Gulak L, Zablotska L, Howe G. Post-Chernobyl thyroid cancers in Ukraine. Report 2: risk analysis. Radiat Res. 2006 Aug; 166(2):375-86.
• Tronko, M. D., Brenner, A. V., Olijnyk, V. A., Robbins, J., Epstein, O. V., McConnell, R. J., Bogdanova, T. I., Fink, D. J., Likhtarev, I. A., Lubin, J. H., Markov, V. V., Bouville, A. C., Terekhova, G. M., Zablotska, L. B., Shpak, V. M., Brill, A. B., Tereshchenko, V. P., Masnyk, I. J., Ron, E., Hatch, M. & Howe, G. R. Autoimmune thyroiditis and exposure to iodine 131 in the Ukrainian cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: results from the first screening cycle (1998-2000). J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91, 4344-51 (2006).
• Bogdanova TI, Zurnadzhy LY, Greenebaum E, McConnell RJ, Robbins J, Epstein OV, Olijnyk VA, Hatch M, Zablotska LB, Tronko MD. A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: pathology analysis of thyroid cancer cases in Ukraine detected during the first screening (1998-2000). Cancer. 2006 Dec 1;107(11):2559-66.
• Terry MB, Knight JA, Zablotska L, Wang Q, John EM, Andrulis IL, Senie RT, Daly M, Ozcelik H, Briollais L, Santella RM. Alcohol metabolism, alcohol intake, and breast cancer risk: a sister-set analysis using the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2007.
• Crew KD, Gammon MD, Terry MB, Zhang FF, Zablotska LB, Agrawal M, Shen J, Long CM, Eng SM, Sagiv SK, Teitelbaum SL, Neugut AI, Santella RM. Polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts, and breast cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Oct;16(10):2033-41.
• McConnell, R. J., Brenner, A. V., Oliynyk, V. A., Robbins, J., Terekhova, G. M., Fink, D. J., Epshtein, O. V., Hatch, M., Shpak, V. M., Brill, A. B., Shelkovoy, Y. A., Zablotska, L. B., Masnyk, I. J., Howe, G. R. & Tronko, M. D. Factors associated with elevated serum concentrations of anti-TPO antibodies in subjects with and without diffuse goitre. Results from the Ukrainian-American Cohort Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases Following the Chornobyl Accident. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2007 Dec; 67(6), 879-90.
• Zablotska, L., Bogdanova, T., Ron, E., Epshtein, E. V., Robbins, J., Likhtarev, I., Hatch, M., Markov, V. V., Bouville, A., Olijnyk, V. A., McConnell, R., Shpak, V., Brenner, A., Terekhova, T., Greenebaum, E., Tereshchenko, V. P., Fink, D., Brill, A. B., Zamotayeva, G. A., Masnyk, I. J., Howe, G. & Tronko, M. A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: Dose-response analysis of thyroid follicular adenomas detected during first screening in Ukraine (1998-2000). Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Feb; 167(3):305-12.
• Siegel, A. B., McBride, R.B., El-Serag, H.B., Hershman, D., Brown, R.S. Jr., Zablotska, L., Neugut, A.I. The risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with previous malignancy. Cancer Invest. 2008 Jun;26(5):511-5.
• Zablotska, L., Chen, Y. Graziano, J.H., Parvez, F., van Geen, A., Howe, G.R., Ahsan, H. Protective Effects of B-vitamins and Antioxidants on the Risk of Arsenic-Related Skin Lesions in Bangladesh. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Aug; 116(8):1056-62.
• O'Kane P, Shelkovoy E, McConnell RJ, Shpak V, Parker L, Bogdanova TI, Brenner A, Naida Y, Frangos A, Zablotska L, Robbins J, Greenebaum E, Zurnadzhy LY, Masnyk I, Tronko M, Hatch M. Differences in Sonographic Conspicuity According to Papillary Thyroid Cancer Subtype. Results from the Ukrainian-American Cohort Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases Following the Chornobyl Accident. Am J Roentgenol. 2008 (accepted).
• Romanenko, A.Ye., Bebeshko, V., Hatch, M., Bazyka, D., Finch, S., Dyagil, I., Reiss, R., Chumak, V., Bouville, V., Gudzenko, N., Zablotska, L., Pilinskaya, M., Lyubarets, T., Bakhanova, E., Babkina, N., Trotsiuk, N., Ledoschuk, B., Belayev, Yu., Dybsky, S., Ron, E., Howe, G.R. The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders Among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: I. Study Methods. Rad Res 2008 December, 170(6).
• Chumak, V. V., Romanenko, A. Y., Voilleque, P., Bakhanova, E., Gudzenko, N., Hatch, M., Zablotska, L., Golovanov, I., Luckyanov, N., Sholom, S., Kryuchkov, V., Bouville, A., The Ukrainian-American Study Of Leukemia And Related Disorders Among Cleanup Workers From Ukraine: II. Estimation of bone-marrow doses. Rad Res 2008 December, 170(6).
• Romanenko, A.Ye., Finch, S., Hatch, M., Lubin, J., Bebeshko, V.G., Bazyka, D.A., Gudzenko, N., Dyagil, I.S., Reiss, R., Bouville, A., Chumak, V.V., Belayev, Y., Masnyk, I., Ron, E., Howe, G.R. , Zablotska, L.B. The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders Among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: III. Radiation risks. Rad Res 2008 December, 170(6).