Summary
Department info at: http://goo.gl/opezWG
Research Interests:
Occupational physician and epidemiologist with expertise in occupational lung diseases.
Specific Research areas:
1) Asbestos-related diseases, in particular lung cancer and mesothelioma
2) Occupational asthma, COPD, ILD
3) Occupational exposure methods, and development of new efficient web-based tools
4) Gene-environment interactions in occupational lung diseases
5) Climate change and occupational health co-benefits
Current Research Projects:
I am currently working on the HSE-COPD study in the UK Biobank, a cohort set up to improve our understanding of the environmental and genetic causes of common diseases that recruited 500,000 men and women aged 40-69 from the UK general population.
The overarching goal of the HSE-COPD study is to identify the occupational causes of COPD and related burden in the UK general population in order to implement focused preventive strategies at workplace.
TEACHING:
Course organizer and lecturer on epidemiology and statistical methods, occupational lung diseases and occupational health surveillance.
Publications
Journals
Reynolds CJ, Sisodia R, Barber C, et al. , 2023, What role for asbestos in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Findings from the IPF job exposures case-control study., Occup Environ Med
De Matteis S, Murgia N, 2022, Work-related interstitial lung disease: what is the true burden?, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Vol:26, ISSN:1027-3719, Pages:1001-1005
De Matteis S, Jarvis D, Darnton L, et al. , 2022, Lifetime occupational exposures and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk in the UK Biobank cohort, Thorax, Vol:77, ISSN:0040-6376, Pages:997-1005
Ratanachina J, Amaral A, De Matteis S, et al. , 2022, Association of respiratory symptoms and lung function with occupation in the multinational Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study, European Respiratory Journal, ISSN:0903-1936
Visona SD, Crespi E, Belluso E, et al. , 2022, Reconstructing historical exposure to asbestos: the validation of 'educated guesses', Occupational Medicine-oxford, ISSN:0962-7480