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W. Douglas Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor of
Epidemiology
Grants & Contracts
A Regional Multi-Institutional Academic Partnership for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking, 9/15/05 to present (funded by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, via a subcontract from the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ) -- This partnership is one of four academic-based groups funded by the CDC to provide
methodologic expertise for its building of national-level and state-level networks for the ongoing evaluation of
environmental health problems.
Environmental and Occupational Health in Maine, 6/1/07 to present (funded by the Maine Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, Augusta, ME) -- USM faculty and staff work collaboratively with state government to track emerging environmental issues affecting
human health in Maine, to conduct studies of exposure-disease associations, and to evaluate the impact of public health interventions.
Capacity Building for Epidemiology in Maine, 1/1/01 to present (funded by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
Augusta, ME) --
This project entails collaborative applied epidemiologic analysis and evaluation in the areas of chronic diseases and maternal and
child health.
Interaction of Radiation, BRCA1/2 and Breast Cancer, 9/1/02 to 8/31/07 (funded by the National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, via a subcontract from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY) --
This project has been undertaken to study the joint contributions of radiation damage and
mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the etiology of breast cancer.
Breast Cancer, Radiation Exposure,
and the ATM Gene, 9/30/99 to 8/31/04 (funded by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, via a subcontract from the Mount Sinai Medical
Center, New York, NY) --
The goal of this project is to study the possible hypersensitivity to radiation-induced breast
cancer in women with a mutation of the ATM gene.
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