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Shane Que Hee

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Fax Number: 310-794-2106
Work Phone Number: 310-206-5790
310-206-7388

Work Email Address: squehee@ucla.edu

Research Interests: His research area is the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of environmental and industrial hygiene chemistry that encompasses workplace and environmental identification, analysis, control, and prevention of chemical health hazards to humans and to environmental biota. His interests range from development of methods for sampling and analysis of chemicals (organic and inorganic), metabolites, and adducts in environmental(air, water, soils) and biological media to developing predictive mathematical models, toxicology, epidemiology, and risk assessment. He is the Director of the Environmental Chemistry track and a member of the Industrial Hygiene track. He heads the UCLA School of Public Health Mass Spectrometry (organic analyses) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (inorganic analyses) facility.

His four books were published on: 1. The phenoxy herbicides, the chemical defoliants of the Vietnam war (The Phenoxyalkanoic Herbicides. Volume 1: Chemistry, Analysis, and Environmental Pollution, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1981, 321pp).
2. Biological monitoring-the relationship of concentrations of markers in body fluids to exposure concentrations of xenobiotics (Biological Monitoring: An Introduction, Van Nostrand Reinhold (now Wiley-Interscience) , New York, 1993, 650 pp).
3. Hazardous waste management for environmental and industrial hygienists (Hazardous Waste Analysis, Government Institutes, Bethesda, MD, 1999, 700 pp).
4. Biological monitoring for field industrial hygienists (Biological Monitoring Guide, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Fairfax, VA, 2004).

He has also organized several scientific symposia around his major research interests for the following:
American Chemical Society (Sampling and Analysis of Complex Mixtures of Gases and/or Vapors, 1985; Biological Monitoring for Health Effects, 1986; AIDS: Chemical, Workplace Issues and Biological Monitoring, 1988; Safety and Health in the Electronics Industry, 1990).
American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (Analytical Chemistry Aspects of Biological Monitoring, 1996; Analytical Chemistry State of the Art in Biological Monitoring, 1999; Biological Monitoring/Medical Surveillance programs in Academic and Corporate Workplaces, 2001; Biological Environmental Exposure Level for Methylene Dianiline, 2003; Biological Monitoring in Government Agencies, 2004).

Bio: Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and a faculty member of the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, came to the Department in 1989 from the University of Cincinnati where he had been Assistant and Associate Professor since 1978. As of the end of 2005, he has 150 peer-reviewed publications including 110 in peer-reviewed journals, 23 book chapters, 4 books, and six EPA criteria document authorships.

Selected Publications:

RN Phalen, SS Que Hee. Permeation of Captan Through a Disposable Nitrile Gloves.. J. Hazardous Materials 2003; B100: 95-107.

SH Yim, SS Que Hee. Bacterial mutagenicity of some tobacco aromatic nitrogen bases and their mixtures. Mutat. Res. 2001; 492: 13-27.

SW Tsai, SS Que Hee. A new passive sampler for aldehydes. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 1999; 60: 463-473.

YW Lin, SS Que Hee. Permeation of a malathion formulation through nitrile gloves. Appl Occup Environ Hyg 1998; 13: 286-298.

MA Newman, SS Que Hee, R Schoeny, L Lowry. Biological monitoring screening of patients provided antineoplastic drugs including adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, 5-fluorouracil, methotrexate and vincristine. Cancer Research 1990; 50: 3351-3366.

SS Que Hee, JR Boyle. Simultaneous multielemental analysis of some environmental and biological samples by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). Anal Chem 1988; 60: 1033-1042.

OJ Igwe, SS Que Hee, WD Wagner. Interaction between 1,2-dichloroethane and tetraethylthiuram disulfide [Disulfiram (DSF)]. II. Hepatotoxic manifestations with possible mechanism of action. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1986; 80: 286-297.

TI Quickenden, SS Que Hee. Weak luminescence from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the existence of mitogenetic radiation. Biochem Biophys Research Commun 1974; 60: 764-770.
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
UCLA School of Public Health, COEH
BOX 951772
56-085 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Fax Number: 310-794-2106
Work Phone Number: 310-206-5790
310-206-7388

Work Email Address: squehee@ucla.edu

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