Audrey Saftlas

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University of Iowa
College of Public Health
Epidemiology
Professor (with Tenure)Appointed: 2004
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Mailing Address

C-21M General Hospital
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (319) 384-5013
Fax: (319) 384-5004
audrey-saftlas@uiowa.edu
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/directory/faculty-detail.asp?emailAddress=audrey-saftlas@uiowa.edu

Qualifications

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1987.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Epidemiology, 1986.
M.P.H., University of Michigan, Epidemiology, 1979.
B.A., Clark University, Biology, 1977.

Expertise and Research Interests

My research interests and current projects include the following:
Epidemiology of maternal morbidity, mortality, and adverse pregnancy outcomes, especially pregnancy-induced hypertension, intrauterine growth retardation, and preterm delivery
Effect of domestic violence and psychosocial stress on maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes
Epidemiology of breast and cervical cancer, especially studies of mammographic density as a risk factor or a breast cancer biomarker
Vulvar disease
Treatment of cervical dysplasia and risk of preterm delivery in New Zealand.

Other Expertise

I have served as co-author of the following book chapters:
1) Saftlas AF, Lawson HW, Atrash HK. Pregnancy-related morbidity. In: From Data to Action: CDC Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants and Children. (eds. US Dept of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1995, 129-39.
2)Atrash HK, Saftlas AF. Induced Abortion. In: Women and Health. (eds. Marlene B. Goldman and Maureen Hatch) 2000, 160-70.

Associate Editor, American Journal of Epidemiology 2001-

I have served as a referee for the following publications:
1) American Journal of Epidemiology
2) Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
3) American Journal of Public Health
4) Annals of Epidemiology
5) Cancer
6) Cancer Causes and Control
7) Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention
8) Epidemiology
9) International Journal of Epidemiology
10)Journal of the American Medical Women's Association
11)Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
12)Journal of the National Cancer Institute
13)Obstetrics and Gynecology
14) Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology Journal

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Birth or Congenital Defects, Child or Maternal Health, Death or Mortality, Epidemiology, Female Genital Disorders, Hypertension, Perinatal Disorders, Pregnancy Disorders, Public Health, Reproductive Disorders, Stillbirth, Urogenital Diseases, Women's Health.

Additional Terms:

Reproductive Epidemiology, Women's Health.

Memberships

American College of Epidemiology
American Public Health Association
North American Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy
Society for Epidemiologic Research
Society for Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiologic Research

Honors and Awards

2006, Invited Faculty, Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Student Workshop, Seattle, Washington
2003, Who's Who in Health Sciences Education (Academic Keys),
2001, nTITLE Training Award, University of Iowa
1999, 2nd place, Best Overall Poster, American College of Epidemiology Meeting
1992, Member, Delta Omega
1991, Achievement Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
1989, Public Health Service Citation, U.S. Public Health Service
1987, Nominee, Outstanding Young Women of America
1986-1987, National Research Service Award (postdoctoral), National Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University
1983-1986, National Research Service Award (predoctoral), National Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Previous Positions

2000-2004, Associate Professor (with Tenure), University of Iowa, College of Public Health, Epidemiology
1998-2000, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, College of Public Health, Epidemiology
1996-1998, Assistant Professor, Yale University, School of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
1993-1995, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University, School of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
1991-1993, USPHS/CDC Assignment, Epidemiologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences
1990-1993, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
1989-1991, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Reproductive Health
1987-1993, Commissioned Officer, United States Public Health Service, Rank of Commander
1987-1989, Epidemic Intelligence Services (EIS) Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Reproductive Health
1986-1987, Epidemiologist, ICF, Inc./Clement Associates, Washington, DC
1986-1987, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Epidemiology
1984-1987, Guest Scientist, National Cancer Institute, Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Environmental Studies Section
1980-1982, Epidemiologist, Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit SEER Registry
1979-1980, Research Associate, State of Michigan Toxic Substance Control Commission

Funding Received

  • University of Auckland (subcontract on grant from NIH): Pregnancy Outcome After Treatment of Cervical Dysplasia, $86,269, Sep 30, 1999 to Aug 31, 2002.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Maternal-Fetal HLA Sharing and Risk of Preeclampsia (PI: Saftlas), $2,071,057, Sep 1, 1995 to Mar 31, 2005.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Etiologic Factors for Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension, $350,000, Sep 1, 1995 to Aug 31, 2000.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Domestic Abuse in Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes (PI: Saftlas), $1,676,490, Jun 1, 2001 to May 31, 2005.
  • Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Workshop on the Public Health Response to Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation Treatments in the Military and Civilian Population (PI: Stolwijk, Co-Investigator: Saftlas), $80,000, Aug 1, 1995 to Jul 31, 1996.
  • NIH/NICHD K23: Clinical Epidemiologic and Biologic Studies of Donor Human Milk and Breastfeeding (PI: Colaizy, Primary Mentor: Saftlas), 2007 to 2012.
  • NIH/NICHD R21: Intimate Partner Violence in a Women's Health Clinic Population (PI: Saftlas), $125,000, 2007 to 2009.
  • NIH/NIAID R21: Impact of LEEP on Cervical Length and Secretions (PI: Saftlas), $125,000, 2007 to 2009.
  • CDC R49: Is Motivational Interviewing an Effective Intervention for Women Coping with IPV? (PI: Saftlas), $250,473, 2006 to 2009.
  • NIH K23: A New Tool to Diagnose Female Urinary Incontinence (PI: Bradley, Co-Mentor: Saftlas), $110,187, 2005 to 2009.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Case Control Study of Ovarian Cancer (PI: Risch, Co-Investigator: Saftlas), 1997 to 1998.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Effects of Asthma Severity and Medication in Pregnancy (PI: Bracken, Co-Investigator: Saftlas), 1996 to 1998.

Publications

  • Beydoun H, Saftlas AF (Sep 2008) Physical and mental health outcomes of prenatal maternal stress in human and animal studies: a review of recent evidence., Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology, 22 (5), 438-66 Abstract
  • Wallis AB, Saftlas AF (Aug 2008) A gram of prevention: a modest increase in fiber consumption may reduce risk of preeclampsia., American journal of hypertension : journal of the American Society of Hypertension, 21 (8), 849-50 Abstract
  • Wallis AB, Saftlas AF, Hsia J, Atrash HK (May 2008) Secular trends in the rates of preeclampsia, eclampsia, and gestational hypertension, United States, 1987-2004., American journal of hypertension : journal of the American Society of Hypertension, 21 (5), 521-6 Abstract
  • Wallis AB, Saftlas AF (Mar 2008) Untangling an epidemiological knot: migraine and preeclampsia., American journal of hypertension : journal of the American Society of Hypertension, 21 (3), 245 Abstract
  • NIH State-of-the-Science Panel (panel member) (2007) National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention, Am J Clin Nutr, 85(suppl), 257S-64S
  • Beydoun H, Saftlas AF, Harland K, Triche E (2006) Combining conditional and unconditional recruitment incentives could facilitate telephone tracing in surveys of postpartum women, J Clin Epidemiol, 59 (7), 732-8
  • Sadler L, Saftlas AF (2006) Pregnancy risks associated with LEEP, Contemporary OB/GYN, In Press
  • Saftlas AF, Beydoun H, Triche E, Immunogenetic Determinants of Preeclampsia and Related Pregnancy Disorders - a Systematic Review, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 106(1), 162-72, Jul 2005
  • Kennedy CM, Nygaard IE, Saftlas A, Burns TL, Torner JC, Galask RP, Vulvar Disease: a Pelvic Floor Pain Disorder?, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 192(6), 1829-34; discussion, Jun 2005 Abstract
  • Beydoun H, Saftlas AF, Association of Human Leucocyte Antigen Sharing With Recurrent Spontaneous Abortions, Tissue Antigens, 65(2), 123-35, Feb 2005
  • Saftlas AF, Logsden-Sackett N, Triche E, Waldschmidt M, Field E, Optimizing Buccal Cell DNA Yields in Mothers and Infants for HLA Genotyping, American Journal of Epidemiology, In Press, 2005
  • Saftlas AF, Logsden-Sackett N, Wang W, Woolson R, Bracken MB, Work, leisure-time physical activity, and risk of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension, American Journal of Epidemiology, 160(8), 758-65, Oct 2004 Abstract
  • Triche EW, Saftlas AF, Belanger K, Leaderer BP, Bracken MB (Sep 2004) Association of asthma diagnosis, severity, symptoms, and treatment with risk of preeclampsia., 104 (3), 585-93 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Waldschmidt M, Logsden-Sackett N, Triche E, Field E, Optimizing buccal cell DNA yields in mothers and infants for human leukocyte antigen genotyping, American Journal of Epidemiology, 160(1), 77-84, July 2004
  • Sadler L, Saftlas A, Wang W, Exeter M, Whittaker J, McCowan L, Treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and risk of preterm delivery, Jama : the Journal of the American Medical Association, 291(17), 2100-6, 2004 Abstract
  • Bracken MB, Triche EW, Belanger K, Saftlas A, Beckett WS, Leaderer BP, Asthma symptoms, severity, and drug therapy: a prospective study of effects on 2205 pregnancies, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 102(4), 739-52, October 2003 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Levine RJ, Klebanoff MA, Martz KL, Ewell MG, Morris CD, Sibai BM, Abortion, changed paternity, and risk of preeclampsia in nulliparous women, American Journal of Epidemiology, 157(12), 1108-14, June 2003 Abstract
  • Grosso LM, Rosenberg KD, Belanger K, Saftlas AF, Leaderer B, Bracken MB, Maternal caffeine intake and intrauterine growth retardation, Epidemiology (cambridge, Mass.), 12(4), 447-55, July 2001 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Koonin LM, Atrash HK, Racial disparity in pregnancy-related mortality associated with livebirth: can established risk factors explain it?, American Journal of Epidemiology, 152(5), 413-9, 2000 Abstract
  • Eras JL, Saftlas AF, Triche E, Hsu CD, Risch HA, Bracken MB, Abortion and its effect on risk of preeclampsia and transient hypertension, Epidemiology, 11(1), 36-43, Jan 2000 Abstract
  • Atrash HK, Saftlas AF, Induced Abortion, in 'Women and Health' (Marlene B. Goldman and Maureen Hatch, eds.), p. 160-170, 2000
  • Sadler L, Belanger K, Saftlas A, Leaderer B, Hellenbrand K, McSharry JE, Bracken MB, Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and small-for-gestational-age birth, American Journal of Epidemiology, 150(7), 695-705, 1999 Abstract
  • James AT, Bracken MB, Cohen AP, Saftlas A, Lieberman E, Interpregnancy interval and disparity in term small for gestational age births between black and white women, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 93(1), 109-12, Jan 1999 Abstract
  • Shepard MJ, Saftlas AF, Leo-Summers L, Bracken MB, Maternal anthropometric factors and risk of primary cesarean delivery, American Journal of Public Health, 88(10), 1534-8, October 1998 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Byrne C, Fibroglandular breast tissue assessments by mammography and MR imaging, AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, 170(5), 1397-8, May 1998 Abstract
  • Lundsberg LS, Bracken MB, Saftlas AF, Low-to-moderate gestational alcohol use and intrauterine growth retardation, low birthweight, and preterm delivery, Annals of Epidemiology, 7(7), 498-508, October 1997 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Mellinger-Birdsong AK, Stolwijk JA, The Public Health Response to Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation: a Workshop. Introduction, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 115(5), 387, November 1996 Abstract
  • Stolwijk JAJ, Saftlas AF, Fleissner ML, Mather S, Workshop on the public health response to nasopharyngeal radium irradiation - September 1995, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC Surveillance Summaries, 45, 254-256, 1996
  • Saftlas AF, Lawson HW, Atrash HK, Pregnancy-related morbidity, in 'From Data to Action: CDC Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants and Children (U.S. DHHS, PHS, editor), p. 129-39, 1995
  • Sorenson SB, Saftlas AF, Violence and women's health. The role of epidemiology, Annals of Epidemiology, 4(2), 140-5, March 1994 Abstract
  • Tillman F, Gilchrist A, Saftlas AF, Welty T, et al, Risk factors for hypertension during pregnancy among Sioux Indians, IHS Provider, 19(3), 45-49, 1994
  • Herrinton LJ, Saftlas AF, Stanford JL, Brinton LA, Wolfe JN, Do alcohol intake and mammographic densities interact in regard to the risk of breast cancer?, Cancer, 71(10), 3029-35, 1993 Abstract
  • Senie RT, Saftlas AF, Brinton LA, Hoover RN, Is breast size a predictor of breast cancer risk or the laterality of the tumor?, Cancer Causes and Control, 4(3), 203-8, May 1993 Abstract
  • Iyasu S, Saftlas AK, Rowley DL, Koonin LM, Lawson HW, Atrash HK, The epidemiology of placenta previa in the United States, 1979 through 1987, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 168(5), 1424-9, May 1993 Abstract
  • Gilchrist A, Smith AN, Satlas Af, Rowley DL, Patterns of prenatal care use among Navajo and Sioux Indian women, IHS Provider, 18(10), 177-181, 1993
  • Zahniser SC, Kendrick JS, Franks AL, Saftlas AF, Trends in obstetric operative procedures, 1980 to 1987, American Journal of Public Health, 82(10), 1340-4, October 1992 Abstract
  • Franks AL, Kendrick JS, Olson DR, Atrash HK, Saftlas AF, Moien M, Hospitalization for pregnancy complications, United States, 1986 and 1987, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 166(5), 1339-44, May 1992 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Olson DR, Atrash HK, Rochat R, Rowley D, National trends in the incidence of abruptio placentae, 1979-1987, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 78(6), 1081-6, December 1991 Abstract
  • Young PL, Saftlas AF, Atrash HK, Lawson HW, Petrey FF, National trends in the management of tubal pregnancy, 1970-1987, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 78(5 Pt 1), 749-52, November 1991 Abstract
  • Iyasu S, Lynberg MC, Rowley D, Saftlas AF, Atrash HK, Surveillance of postneonatal mortality, United States, 1980-1987, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cdc Surveillance Summaries, 40(2), 43-55, July 1991 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Hoover RN, Brinton LA, Szklo M, Olson DR, Salane M, Wolfe JN, Mammographic densities and risk of breast cancer, Cancer, 67(11), 2833-8, 1991 Abstract
  • Nederlof KP, Lawson HW, Saftlas AF, Atrash HK, Finch EL, Ectopic pregnancy surveillance, United States, 1970-1987, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cdc Surveillance Summaries, 39(4), 9-17, December 1990 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Olson DR, Franks AL, Atrash HK, Pokras R, Epidemiology of preeclampsia and eclampsia in the United States, 1979-1986, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 163(2), 460-5, August 1990 Abstract
  • Lawson HW, Saftlas AF, Atrash HL, Ectopic pregnancy - United States, 1987, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC Surveillance Summaries, 39, 401-404, 1990
  • Lawson HW, Atrash HK, Saftlas AF, Finch EL, Ectopic pregnancy in the United States, 1970-1986, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cdc Surveillance Summaries, 38(2), 1-10, September 1989 Abstract
  • Lawson HW, Atrash HK, Saftlas AF, Koonin LM, Ramick M, Smith JC, Abortion surveillance, United States, 1984-1985, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cdc Surveillance Summaries, 38(2), 11-45, September 1989 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Wolfe JN, Hoover RN, Brinton LA, Schairer C, Salane M, Szklo M, Mammographic parenchymal patterns as indicators of breast cancer risk, American Journal of Epidemiology, 129(3), 518-26, March 1989 Abstract
  • Young PL, Saftlas AF, Atrash HK, Lawson HW, Smith JC, Abortion surveillance: preliminary analysis - United States, 1986-1987, Morbidty and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC Surveillance Summaries, 38, 662-663, 1989
  • Lawson HW, Atrash HK, Saftlas AF, Franks AL, Finch EL, Hughes JM, Ectopic pregnancy surveillance, United States, 1970-1985, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cdc Surveillance Summaries, 37(5), 9-18, December 1988 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Atrash HK, Franks AL, Hughes J, Ectopic pregnancy - United States, 1984 and 1985, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC Surveillance Summaries, 37, 367-369, 1988
  • Saftlas AF, Atrash HK, Franks AL, Smith J, Abortion surveillance: preliminary analysis - United States, 1970-1985, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC Surveillance Summaries, 37, 713-714, 1988
  • Wolfe JN, Saftlas AF, Salane M, Mammographic parenchymal patterns and quantitative evaluation of mammographic densities: a case-control study, AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, 148(6), 1087-92, June 1987 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Blair A, Cantor KP, Hanrahan L, Anderson HA, Cancer and other causes of death among Wisconsin farmers, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 11(2), 119-29, 1987 Abstract
  • Saftlas AF, Satariano WA, Swanson GM, Roi LD, Albert S, Methods of cancer case selection: implications for research, American Journal of Epidemiology, 118(6), 852-6, December 1983 Abstract

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