Keynote Speaker Bios
Jonathan Hofmann, PhD, MPH
Dr. Hofmann is a Senior Investigator in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch in the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genomics. Dr. Hofmann is the principal investigator of the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture (BEEA) study, co-PI of the Agricultural Health Study, and he serves as the chair of the NCI Working Group on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Dr. Hofmann's research is focused on understanding the carcinogenic potential of pesticides and other agricultural exposures and PFAS. He also uses molecular epidemiologic approaches to investigate the etiology and natural history of multiple myeloma and its precursor monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS).
Douglas Walker, PhD
Dr. Walker is an Associate Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. He is an environmental engineer and analytical chemist with training in metabolomics and developing EWAS (exposome-wide association study) methodologies for environmental health and precision medicine research. Dr. Walker’s research focuses on development and application of advanced analytical strategies for measuring the occurrence, distribution and magnitude of previously unidentified environmental exposures and assisting in delineating the mechanisms underlying environment-related diseases in humans. Ongoing research projects are now focused on using high-throughput exposome methods to establish disease-exposome atlases, and development of methods for measuring biomarkers of complex exposures of emerging concern, including microplastics, e-waste and polyfluorinated chemicals. Dr. Walker leads the Comprehensive Laboratory for Untargeted Exposome Science (CLUES).
Jeanette Stingone, PhD
Dr. Stingone is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and Faculty at the Columbia Center for Environmental Health and Justice in Northern Manhattan. Dr. Stingone’s research couples data science techniques with epidemiologic methods to investigate how prenatal and early-life environmental exposures affect health and development throughout childhood and beyond. Currently, she is investigating how machine learning approaches can be used to uncover the combinations of multiple environmental exposures that contribute to disease and disability in children including birth defects, adverse neurodevelopment and early puberty. Dr. Stingone has a strong interest in the use of collective science initiatives to advance public health research, and works to develop methods and approaches for data harmonization across diverse studies of environmental health.