Carrie A Redlich, MD, MPH, BA
Professor of Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and of Environmental Health SciencesCards
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Professor of Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and of Environmental Health Sciences
Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
Biography
Dr. Redlich, a graduate of Williams College and Yale University School of Medicine, is trained in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and occupational and environmental medicine. Her clinical practice and research interests focus on occupational and environmental lung diseases, in particular work-related asthma, and health effects and prevention of exposure to isocyanates, chemicals widely used to produce polyurethane foams and coatings and other products.
Appointments
Occupational & Environmental Medicine Program
DirectorDualOccupational & Environmental Medicine Program
ProfessorPrimaryEnvironmental Health Sciences
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Asthma & Airways Disease Program
- Environmental Health Sciences
- General Internal Medicine
- GEOHealth-MENA program
- Internal Medicine
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Program
- Occupational & Environmental Lung Diseases Program
- Occupational & Environmental Medicine Program
- Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
- Status of Women in Medicine Committee (SWIM)
- Winchester Center for Lung Disease
- Yale Medicine
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Fellow
- University of Washington (1989)
- MPH
- Yale University (1988)
- Fellow
- Yale University School of Medicine (1987)
- Resident
- Yale University School of medicine (1986)
- Intern
- Yale University School of Medicine (1983)
- MD
- Yale University (1982)
- BA
- Williams College, Biology (1978)
Research
Overview
Medical Research Interests
ORCID
0000-0001-6486-6725
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Publications Timeline
Research Interests
Adam V Wisnewski, PhD, D(ABMLI)
Jian Liu
Martin Slade, MPH, PhD
Mridu Gulati, MD
Qing Liu
Margaret Pisani, MD, MPH, FCCP
Occupational Exposure
Isocyanates
Asthma
Environmental Health
Occupational Medicine
Publications
2025
Sinusitis and rhinitis among US veterans deployed to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan after September 11, 2001
Maccarone J, Redlich C, Timmons A, Korpak A, Smith N, Nakayama K, Baird C, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan V, Hart J, Koutrakis P, Kuschner W, Ioachimescu O, Jerrett M, Montgrain P, Proctor S, Wendt C, Wongtrakool C, Wan E, Blanc P, Garshick E. Sinusitis and rhinitis among US veterans deployed to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan after September 11, 2001. Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology Global 2025, 4: 100367. DOI: 10.1016/j.jacig.2024.100367.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOdds ratioIncreased risk of rhinitisVeterans Affairs (VA) medical centersExposure categoriesInterviewer-administered questionnaireRisk of rhinitisPost-9/11 veteransPost-deployment veteransPost-deploymentAssociated with rhinitisDeployment-related exposuresDeployment exposuresSelf-reportLogistic regressionVeteransMedical CenterIncreased riskSmokingParticipantsClinical evaluationOrdinal scoresPost-9/11Duration of exposureRhinitisToxicant exposure
2024
Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure and Severity of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Data from the IPF-PRO Registry.
Sack C, Wojdyla D, MacMurdo M, Gassett A, Kaufman J, Raghu G, Redlich C, Li P, Olson A, Leonard T, Todd J, Neely M, Snyder L, Gulati M. Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure and Severity of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Data from the IPF-PRO Registry. Annals Of The American Thoracic Society 2024 PMID: 39531618, DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.202404-382oc.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricConceptsAssociated with worse qualityExposure to air pollutionGene-environment interactionsQuality of lifePollution exposureEffects of long-term exposure to air pollutionLong-term exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub> anLong-term exposure to air pollutionWorse qualityParticipant's residential addressQuality of life measuresNon-Hispanic whitesExposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub>Multi-pollutant modelsYears of follow-upCox proportional hazards modelsLower FVC %Residential addressesProportional hazards modelIPF-PRO RegistryMultivariate regression modelEffect modificationEuroQol scoresLife measuresEnrollment dateAssociations Between Rhinitis and Lower Respiratory Tract Symptoms Following Deployment-related Occupational and Environmental Exposures Among US Veterans
Maccarone J, Blanc P, Timmons A, Korpak A, Smith N, Nakayama K, Baird C, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan V, Hart J, Koutrakis P, Kuschner W, Ioachimescu O, Montgrain P, Proctor S, Redlich C, Wendt C, Wan E, Wongtrakool C, Garshick E. Associations Between Rhinitis and Lower Respiratory Tract Symptoms Following Deployment-related Occupational and Environmental Exposures Among US Veterans. 2024, a3099-a3099. DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2024.209.1_meetingabstracts.a3099.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCharacterization of Non-deployment-related Military Occupational and Environmental Inhalational Exposures and Their Association With Chronic Respiratory Health Outcomes Among US Veterans
Hosseini R, Blanc P, Garshick E, Timmons A, Korpak A, Slade M, Smith N, Nakayama K, Baird C, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan V, Wongtrakool C, Hart J, Kuschner W, Ioachimescu O, Montgrain P, Proctor S, Wendt C, Wan E, Redlich C. Characterization of Non-deployment-related Military Occupational and Environmental Inhalational Exposures and Their Association With Chronic Respiratory Health Outcomes Among US Veterans. 2024, a2881-a2881. DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2024.209.1_meetingabstracts.a2881.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLong-term Air Pollution Exposure Is Associated With Increased Severity of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the IPF-PRO Registry
Sack C, Wojdyla D, Macmurdo M, Gassett A, Kaufman J, Raghu G, Redlich C, Li P, Olson A, Leonard T, Todd J, Neely M, Snyder L, Gulati M, on behalf of the IPF-PRO Registry investigators. Long-term Air Pollution Exposure Is Associated With Increased Severity of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the IPF-PRO Registry. 2024, a1798-a1798. DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2024.209.1_meetingabstracts.a1798.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDeployment-related Cigarette Smoking Behaviors and Pulmonary Function Among U.S. Veterans
Maccarone J, Sterns O, Timmons A, Korpak A, Smith N, Nakayama K, Baird C, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan V, Hart J, Koutrakis P, Jerrett M, Kuschner W, Ioachimescu O, Montgrain P, Proctor S, Redlich C, Wendt C, Blanc P, Garshick E, Wan E. Deployment-related Cigarette Smoking Behaviors and Pulmonary Function Among U.S. Veterans. Military Medicine 2024, 189: 2030-2038. PMID: 38536226, DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usae049.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsPack-yearsEver-smokersMultivariable linear regression models assessed associationsLinear regression models assessed associationsRegression models assessed associationsVeterans Affairs sitesModels assessed associationsPost-9/11 veteransLand-based deploymentsPack-years smokingEffects of smokingPulmonary functionCigarette smoking behaviorDeployed veteransInverse associationSmoking intensityLevels of ambient particulate matterSmoking behaviorU.S. veteransVeteransSmokingCigarette smokingAmbient particulate matterMultiple deploymentsFEV1%-predictedPreventing the Continuing Tragedy of Silicosis—Reply
Hua J, Rose C, Redlich C. Preventing the Continuing Tragedy of Silicosis—Reply. JAMA Internal Medicine 2024, 184: 224-224. PMID: 38109101, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6635.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDevelopment and evaluation of a questionnaire to capture environmental and occupational inhalational exposures in adults with fibrotic interstitial lung disease
Swaminathan A, McFatrich M, Mkumba L, Wright L, Redlich C, Snyder L, Reeve B, Patel D, Gulati M. Development and evaluation of a questionnaire to capture environmental and occupational inhalational exposures in adults with fibrotic interstitial lung disease. Respiratory Research 2024, 25: 372. PMID: 39407223, PMCID: PMC11481565, DOI: 10.1186/s12931-024-03000-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsCognitive interviewsContent validityExposure questionnaireMultidisciplinary teamSemi-structured interview guideEvidence of content validityFibrosing ILDsInterstitial lung diseaseRelevant exposuresFibrotic interstitial lung diseaseClinically relevant exposuresTrained interviewersInterview guideAssessment QuestionnaireQuestionnaireInterviewsLung diseaseAdultsTeamClinicPatientsSource of misunderstandingOccupational inhalation exposureValidityDisease
2023
Chronic respiratory symptoms following deployment-related occupational and environmental exposures among US veterans
Garshick E, Redlich C, Korpak A, Timmons A, Smith N, Nakayama K, Baird C, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan V, Hart J, Koutrakis P, Kuschner W, Ioachimescu O, Jerrett M, Montgrain P, Proctor S, Wan E, Wendt C, Wongtrakool C, Blanc P. Chronic respiratory symptoms following deployment-related occupational and environmental exposures among US veterans. Occupational And Environmental Medicine 2023, 81: 59-65. PMID: 37968126, PMCID: PMC10872566, DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2023-109146.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsChronic respiratory symptomsRespiratory symptomsUS veteransPit smokeChronic bronchitisInhalational exposureInterviewer-administered questionnaireCross-sectional studySmoke exposureHeavy exposureVGDFDeployment exposuresSymptomsExposure itemsItem reductionEnvironmental exposuresScore incrementsWheezeBronchitisExposure frequencyVeteransExposureLogit linkMonthsSmokeEVALUATION OF CONTENT VALIDITY OF A NEW EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE IN PATIENTS WITH FIBROSING INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES
SWAMINATHAN A, MCFATRICH M, MKUMBA L, WRIGHT L, REDLICH C, SNYDER L, REEVE B, OLSON A, GULATI M. EVALUATION OF CONTENT VALIDITY OF A NEW EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE IN PATIENTS WITH FIBROSING INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES. CHEST Journal 2023, 164: a5103-a5104. DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.07.3304.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
honor Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Fellowship
National AwardDrexel University College of MedicineDetails07/01/2014United States
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Board Certifications
Occupational Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 1990
Internal Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 1986
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- August 15, 2023Source: Scientific American
Americans Have Breathed More Wildfire Smoke in Eight Months Than in Entire Years
- August 10, 2023
Severe Silicosis Outbreaks Among Engineered Stone Workers (Discoveries & Impact August 2023)
- June 09, 2020
Yale Shifted Focus to COVID-19 Trials in One Week
- May 14, 2020
Third Virtual Dean's Workshop Describes Extraordinary Patient Care Measures
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