Roy Rando
professor

Department(s):
Environmental Health Sciences

Email:
rando@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Etiology and epidemiology of occupational and environmental lung disease; exposure assessment and environmental characterization; industrial hygiene chemistry

Professional Achievements:
Editorial Board, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 2004-present
Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), American Board of Industrial Hygiene, 1983-present
Champion of Public Health, Tulane University, 2001
Listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1996-1998
Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, 1983
Frank MacDonald Outstanding Student Award, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health

Professional Memberships:
American Academy of Industrial Hygiene
American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
American Industrial Hygiene Association

Educational Background:
ScD, evironmental health science, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
MSPH, environmental health sciences, Tulane University
BS, chemistry, University of New Orleans

Publications:
Rando RJ, Poovey HG, Mokadam D: Laboratory Comparison of Sampling Methods for Reactive Isocyanate Vapors and Aerosols. Isocyanates: Sampling, Analysis, and Health Effects, ASTM STP 1408, J. Lesage, I.D. Degraff, and R. S. Danchik, Eds., American Society for Testing Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 2002.

Poovey, HG. Rando, RJ: Workplace TRIG and Air-Purifying Respiratory Protection, Isocyanates: Sampling, Analysis, and Health Effects, ASTM STP 1408, J. Lesage, I.D. Degraff, and R.S. Danchik, Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 2002.

Krone CA, Ely JTA, Klingner T, Rando RJ: Isocyanates in Flexible Polyurethane Foams. Bulletin Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 70:328-335, 2003.

Lee CT, Friedman M, Poovey HG, Ie SR, Rando RJ, Hoyle GW: Pulmonary Toxicity of Polymeric Hexamethylene Diisocyanate Aerosols in Mice. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 188:154-164, 2003.

Chun-Ting Lee, Halet G. Poovey, Mitchell Friedman, Roy J. Rando, Gary W. Hoyle: An HDI Polyisocyanate Aerosol Exposure System for Large-Scale Animal Experiments. Amer. Ind. Hyg. Assoc. J., 64:439–444, 2003.

Glindmeyer HW, Lefante JJ, Rando RJ, Freyder L, Hnizdo E, Jones RN: Spray-Painting And Chronic Airways Obstruction. Amer. J. Ind. Med. 46:104-111, 2004.

Rando R, Poovey H, Mokadam D, Brisolara J, Glindmeyer H: Field performance of the Respicon for size-selective sampling of industrial wood processing dust. J. Occup. Environ. Hyg. 2:219-226, 2005.

McDonald JV, McDonald AD, Hughes J, Rando RJ, Weill H: Mortality from lung and kidney disease in a cohort of North American Industrial Sand Workers: an Update. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 49:367-373, 2005.

Rando RJ, Gibson RA, Kwon C, Poovey HG, Glindmeyer HW: On-filter determination of collected wood dust by diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier-transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS). J. Environ. Monit. 7:675-680, 2005.

Kalliny MI, Brisolara JA, Glindmeyer H, Rando R. A survey of size-fractionated dust levels in the U.S. wood processing industry. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2008 Aug;5(8):501-10.

Personal Statement:
Dr. Rando teaches in the topical areas of air sampling and analysis, exposure assessment, physical agents in the workplace, industrial ventilation, and occupational health. Since 1994, he has been the Academic Director of the MSPH program in industrial hygiene. Under Dr. Rando’s leadership, the program has been fully accredited by the American Board of Engineering and Technology (ASAC of ABET) since 1998.

Dr. Rando is an internationally-recognized expert on the industrial hygiene and hazards of isocyanates in the workplace. With over 50 publications in the peer-reviewed literature, he has a proven record of research in occupational and environmental respiratory disease, often accomplished as a Principal or Participating investigator on multidisciplinary research teams of faculty from within the Department, the School, the Health Sciences Center, the University, as well as from other institutions of higher learning. Currently, Dr. Rando’s research focus is on the assessment and epidemiology of respiratory disease and exposures among industrial wood processors, and lung cancer, silicosis, and renal disease risk in industrial sand workers.

Dr. Rando has had a variety of international academic and practice experiences. Under the auspices of the Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities and the Open Society Institute, Dr. Rando delivered lectures on occupational lung disease to local academicians, public health officials, and medical officers in Skopje, Macedonia and Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a consultant on an epidemiologic investigation of leukemia and occupational benzene exposure in Shanghai, PRC. Dr. Rando has served as faculty opponent (primary dissertation examiner) for the Department of Work Environment and Analytic Chemistry, University of Stockholm, in Hassleholm, Sweeden.

Contact Information:
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
1440 Canal Street, Suite 2100
New Orleans, LA 70112
Telephone: 504.988.3870
Fax: 504.988.1726
rando@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
graduate