Patrice Sutton, MPH
Recall Academic Coordinator
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
School of Medicine

As a contractor to California's state health department from 1987 to 2006, she was responsible for conducting all aspects of research investigations spanning a disparate range of issues, including lead poisoning, tuberculosis, asthma, and pesticide-illness. She has extensive experience collaborating with directly-impacted workplace and community-based populations, labor, and governmental and non-governmental organizations in the development of research strategies and policy recommendations. She also has extensive experience as a volunteer in support of communities and workers impacted by the nuclear weapons production cycle and has published over fifty peer-reviewed scientific articles and government technical reports.

• The risk of bias in observational studies of exposures (ROBINS-E) tool: concerns arising from application to observational studies of exposures.
  Systematic reviews 2018 Bero L, Chartres N, Diong J, Fabbri A, Ghersi D, Lam J, Lau A, McDonald S, Mintzes B, Sutton P, Turton JL, Woodruff TJ
• Exposure to Formaldehyde and Effects on Asthma Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  ISEE Conference Abstracts 2018 Juleen Lam, Erica Koustas, Patrice Sutton, Amy M. Padula, Michael Cabana, Hanna Vesterinen, Evans Whitaker, Natalyn Daniels, Tracey Woodruff
• Reviews in Environmental Health: How Systematic are they?.
  ISEE Conference Abstracts 2018 Patrice Sutton, Natalyn Daniels, Juleen Lam, Hannah Archibald, Kristin Davis, Hazel Tesoro, Tracey Woodruff
• In: Yen and Jaffe's Reproductive Endocrinology. Edited by Strauss and Barbieri
  Environmental Factors and Reproduction 2018 Sutton, P, Zlatnik M, Woodruff TJ, Giudice, LC.
• Estimating the health benefits of environmental regulations.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2017 McGartland A, Revesz R, Axelrad DA, Dockins C, Sutton P, Woodruff TJ
• Developmental PBDE Exposure and IQ/ADHD in Childhood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
  Environmental health perspectives 2017 Lam J, Lanphear BP, Bellinger D, Axelrad DA, McPartland J, Sutton P, Davidson L, Daniels N, Sen S, Woodruff TJ
• Response to correspondence by Heather Lynch, Julie Goodman and Nancy Beck Re: "Application of the Navigation Guide systematic review methodology to the evidence for developmental and reproductive toxicity of triclosan".
  Environment international 2017 Johnson PI, Sutton P, Koustas E, Vesterinen HM, Woodruff TJ
• Daily Environment Report, 20 DEN B-1
  Practitioner Insights: The Peril and Imperative of TSCA Reform. 2017 Woodruff, T. J. & Sutton, P.
• Environmental Health: An Emerging New Normal in Healthcare
  Environmental Health: An Emerging New Normal in Healthcare. 2016 Sutton, P., Giudice, L. C., Conry, J. C., Woodruff, T. J.
• A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Multiple Airborne Pollutants and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  PloS one 2016 Lam J, Sutton P, Kalkbrenner A, Windham G, Halladay A, Koustas E, Lawler C, Davidson L, Daniels N, Newschaffer C, Woodruff T
• Estimating and Valuing Health Impacts of Formaldehyde Exposure to Improve Decision-Making.
  ISEE Conference Abstracts 2016 Juleen Lam*, Patrice Sutton, Amy Padula, Michael Cabana, Erica Koustas, Hanna Vesterinen, Evans Whitaker, Natalyn Daniels, Tracey Woodruff
• Exploring the Association between Developmental PBDE Exposure and IQ/ADHD Effects: Application of the Navigation Guide Systematic Review Methodology.
  ISEE Conference Abstracts 2016 Juleen Lam, David Bellinger, Bruce Lanphear, Daniel Axelrad, Jennifer McPartland, Patrice Sutton, Lisette Davidson, Natalyn Daniels, Saunak Sen, Tracey Woodruff*
• Application of the Navigation Guide systematic review methodology to the evidence for developmental and reproductive toxicity of triclosan.
  Environment international 2016 Johnson PI, Koustas E, Vesterinen HM, Sutton P, Atchley DS, Kim AN, Campbell M, Donald JM, Sen S, Bero L, Zeise L, Woodruff TJ
• Moving from awareness to action on preventing patient exposure to toxic environmental chemicals.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2016 Sutton PM, Giudice LC, Woodruff TJ
• Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
  Journal of epidemiology and community health 2016 Portier CJ, Armstrong BK, Baguley BC, Baur X, Belyaev I, Bellé R, Belpoggi F, Biggeri A, Bosland MC, Bruzzi P, Budnik LT, Bugge MD, Burns K, Calaf GM, Carpenter DO, Carpenter HM, López-Carrillo L, …
• GRADE: Assessing the quality of evidence in environmental and occupational health.
  Environment international 2016 Morgan RL, Thayer KA, Bero L, Bruce N, Falck-Ytter Y, Ghersi D, Guyatt G, Hooijmans C, Langendam M, Mandrioli D, Mustafa RA, Rehfuess EA, Rooney AA, Shea B, Silbergeld EK, Sutton P, Wolfe MS, Woodruff…
• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals.
  International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 2015 Di Renzo GC, Conry JA, Blake J, DeFrancesco MS, DeNicola N, Martin JN, McCue KA, Richmond D, Shah A, Sutton P, Woodruff TJ, van der Poel SZ, Giudice LC
• Fetal growth and maternal glomerular filtration rate: a systematic review.
  The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians 2015 Vesterinen HM, Johnson PI, Atchley DS, Sutton P, Lam J, Zlatnik MG, Sen S, Woodruff TJ
• Application of the Navigation Guide Systematic Review Methodology to Assessing the Potential Developmental and Reproductive Hazards of Triclosan.
  ISEE Conference Abstracts 2014 Paula Johnson, Hanna Vesterinen, Patrice Sutton, Dylan Atchley, Saunak Sen, Lisa Bero, Tracey Woodruff*
• California Breast Cancer Prevention Initiatives: Setting a research agenda for prevention.
  Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) 2014 Sutton P, Kavanaugh-Lynch MH, Plumb M, Yen IH, Sarantis H, Thomsen CL, Campleman S, Galpern E, Dickenson C, Woodruff TJ
• Counseling patients on preventing prenatal environmental exposures--a mixed-methods study of obstetricians.
  PloS one 2014 Stotland NE, Sutton P, Trowbridge J, Atchley DS, Conry J, Trasande L, Gerbert B, Charlesworth A, Woodruff TJ
• The Navigation Guide - evidence-based medicine meets environmental health: integration of animal and human evidence for PFOA effects on fetal growth.
  Environmental health perspectives 2014 Lam J, Koustas E, Sutton P, Johnson PI, Atchley DS, Sen S, Robinson KA, Axelrad DA, Woodruff TJ
• The Navigation Guide - evidence-based medicine meets environmental health: systematic review of human evidence for PFOA effects on fetal growth.
  Environmental health perspectives 2014 Johnson PI, Sutton P, Atchley DS, Koustas E, Lam J, Sen S, Robinson KA, Axelrad DA, Woodruff TJ
• The Navigation Guide - evidence-based medicine meets environmental health: systematic review of nonhuman evidence for PFOA effects on fetal growth.
  Environmental health perspectives 2014 Koustas E, Lam J, Sutton P, Johnson PI, Atchley DS, Sen S, Robinson KA, Axelrad DA, Woodruff TJ
• The Navigation Guide systematic review methodology: a rigorous and transparent method for translating environmental health science into better health outcomes.
  Environmental health perspectives 2014 Woodruff TJ, Sutton P
• Chapter 20 Environmental Factors and Reproduction.
  Yen \u0026 Jaffe\u0027s Reproductive Endocrinology 2014 Jessica Trowbridge, Patrice Sutton, Tracey J. Woodruff, Linda C. Giudice
• Exposure to Toxic Environmental Chemicals During the First 1000 Days: What Do Reproductive Health Professionals Think, Say and Do about It?
  Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society 2014 Sutton, P, Woodruff, TJ, Conry, J, Giudice, LC.
• In: Yen and Jaffe's Reproductive Endocrinology Edited by Strauss and Barbieri
  Environmental Factors and Reproduction 2014 Trowbridge, J, Sutton, P, Woodruff, TJ, Giudice, LC.
• Occupational and Environmental Exposures. In: Glass' Office Gynecology, Edited by Michele G. Curtis
  Occupational and Environmental Exposures. In: Glass' Office Gynecology, Edited by Michele G. Curtis. 2014 Sutton P, Perron J, Giudice LC, Woodruff TJ.
• In Support of EHP's Proposal to Adopt the ARRIVE Guidelines.
  Environmental health perspectives 2013 Vesterinen HM, Johnson PI, Koustas E, Lam J, Sutton P, Woodruff TJ
• The Navigation Guide - Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Environmental Health: PFOA and Fetal Growth.
  ISEE Conference Abstracts 2013 Paula Johnson, Patrice Sutton, Dylan Atchley, Erica Koustas, Juleen Lam, Saunak Sen, Karen Robinson, Daniel Axelrad, Tracey Woodruff
• Risk communication and decision tools for children's health protection.
  Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews 2013 Sutton P, Woodruff TJ
• S-119.
  Epidemiology 2012 Tracey J. Woodruff, Patrice Sutton
• S-120.
  Epidemiology 2012 Erica Koustas, Patrice Sutton, Juleen Lam, Karen A. Robinson, Saunak Sen, Daniel A. Axelrad, Tracey J. Woodruff
• S-142.
  Epidemiology 2012 Erica Koustas, Juleen Lam, Patrice Sutton, Daniel Axelrad, Tracey Woodruff, Saunak Sen
• Toxic environmental chemicals: the role of reproductive health professionals in preventing harmful exposures.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2012 Sutton P, Woodruff TJ, Perron J, Stotland N, Conry JA, Miller MD, Giudice LC
• A collaborative effort to address the distribution of plutonium-contaminated sludge in Livermore, California.
  New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS 2012 Sutton P, Cabasso J, Barreau T, Kelley M
• Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health, Volume 4, Chapter 11, pp.227-261. Edited by Robert Friss
  Reproductive Environmental Health 2012 Sutton P, Perron J, Woodruff TJ.
• The University of California Obstetrics and Gynecology Women's Health Review, Edited by Philip J. Di Saia, Gautam Chaudhuri, Linda C. Giudice , Thomas R. Moore, Manual Porto and Lyoyd H. Smith
  Reproductive Environmental Health 2012 Perron J, Sutton P, Woodruff TJ.
• Conrad and Becker's "10 Criteria" fall short of addressing conflicts of interest in chemical safety studies.
  Environmental health perspectives 2011 Sutton P, Woodruff TJ, Vogel S, Bero LA
• An evidence-based medicine methodology to bridge the gap between clinical and environmental health sciences.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2011 Woodruff TJ, Sutton P, Navigation Guide Work Group
• Reproductive health and the industrialized food system: a point of intervention for health policy.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2011 Sutton P, Wallinga D, Perron J, Gottlieb M, Sayre L, Woodruff T
• Pesticides Matter. A Primer for Reproductive Health Clinicians
  Pesticides Matter. A Primer for Reproductive Health Clinicians 2011 Sutton, P, Perron, J, Giudice, L, Woodruff, TJ.
• Reproductive environmental health.
  Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology 2010 Sutton P, Giudice LC, Woodruff TJ
• Pulling back the curtain: improving reviews in environmental health.
  Environmental health perspectives 2010 Woodruff TJ, Sutton P
• The Navigation Guide. The Science Behind Practice
  Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society 2010 Sutton P, Conry J, Rodriguez, P, Woodruff TJ.
• Tuberculosis Engineering Controls.
  Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition 2009 Lorraine Conroy, John Franke, Byron Tepper, John Mehring, Derrick Hodge, Daniel Kass, William Charney, June Fisher, Patrice Sutton, Mark Nicas, Robert Harrison
• Implementing safer alternatives to lithographic cleanup solvents to protect the health of workers and the environment.
  Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene 2009 Sutton P, Wolf K, Quint J
• Advancing the Precautionary Agenda
  Advancing the Precautionary Agenda 2009 Patrice Sutton
• Primary prevention of occupational asthma: identifying and controlling exposures to asthma-causing agents.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2008 Quint J, Beckett WS, Campleman SL, Sutton P, Prudhomme J, Flattery J, Harrison R, Cowan B, Kreutzer R
• Glutaraldehyde exposures among workers making bioprosthetic heart valves.
  Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene 2007 Sutton PM, Quint J, Prudhomme J, Flattery J, Materna B, Harrison R
• Pesticide illness among flight attendants due to aircraft disinsection.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2007 Sutton PM, Vergara X, Beckman J, Nicas M, Das R
• Transforming Medical Waste Disposal Practices to Protect Public Health: Worker Health and Safety and the Implementation of Large-Scale, Off-Site Steam Autoclaves
  Transforming Medical Waste Disposal Practices to Protect Public Health: Worker Health and Safety and the Implementation of Large-Scale, Off-Site Steam Autoclaves 2006 Patrice Sutton, M.P.H.; Julia Quint, Ph.D.; Janice Prudhomme, D.O., M.P.H.; Elizabeth Katz, M.P.H., C.I.H.; Mary Deems, M.P.H.; Jennifer Flattery, M.P.H.; and Robert Harrison, M.D., M.P.H.
• A determination of healthcare worker exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in two Californian hospitals.
  The Journal of hospital infection 2002 Sutton PM, Mossman M, Reinisch F, Harrison RJ
• Iron deficiency associated with higher blood lead in children living in contaminated environments.
  Environmental health perspectives 2001 Bradman A, Eskenazi B, Sutton P, Athanasoulis M, Goldman LR
• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  Why aircraft disinsection? 2001 Das R, Cone J, Sutton PM.
• Tuberculosis isolation: comparison of written procedures and actual practices in three California hospitals.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2000 Sutton PM, Nicas M, Harrison RJ
• Farm worker illness following exposure to carbofuran and other pesticides - Fresno, CA, 1998
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1999 Das R, Harrison RJ, Sutton PM, et al.
• Is a tuberculosis exposure a tuberculosis exposure if no one is infected?
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1999 Sutton PM, Nicas M, Reinisch F, Harrison RJ
• Evaluating the Control of Tuberculosis Among Healthcare Workers: Adherence to CDC Guidelines of Three Urban Hospitals in California.
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1998 Patrice M. Sutton, Mark Nicas, Florence Reinisch, Robert J. Harrison
• Evaluating the control of tuberculosis among healthcare workers: adherence to CDC guidelines of three urban hospitals in California.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1998 Sutton PM, Nicas M, Reinisch F, Harrison RJ
• Lead levels in the household environment of children in three high-risk communities in California.
  Environmental research 1995 Sutton PM, Athanasoulis M, Flessel P, Guirguis G, Haan M, Schlag R, Goldman LR
• Occupational exposures in California wildland fire fighting.
  American Industrial Hygiene Association journal 1992 Materna BL, Jones JR, Sutton PM, Rothman N, Harrison RJ
• Elevated blood lead in California adults, 1987: results of a statewide surveillance program based on laboratory reports.
  American journal of public health 1990 Maizlish N, Rudolph L, Sutton P, Jones JR, Kizer KW
• Childhood lead exposure: still a problem in California
  California Pediatrician 1990 Hatch DL, Flattery J, Sutton PM, Goldman L.
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