Shane S. Que Hee, Ph.D.
squehee@ucla.edu
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.
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).
He served as:
A member of the peer-review committee of Hazardous Substances Data Bank of the National Library of Medicine from 1985-1989.
Vice-Chairperson of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences from 1992 through 1994.
An ad-hoc member of the Study Section for Epidemiology and Disease Control of the National institutes of Health in 1996-1998.
Member of the Board of Scientific Scholars, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2000-2004).
He presently serves as a:
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists (FAIC).
Member of the Biological Monitoring Committee of the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
Member of the Joint Editorial Board of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
Reviewer of 20 peer-reviewed journals.
Reviewer of grant applications to four federal agencies.
Professional Registered Industrial Hygenist.
Some important journal articles of his include:
1. TI Quickenden, SS Que Hee. Weak luminescence from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the existence of mitogenetic radiation. Biochem Biophys Research Commun 60: 764-770, 1974.
2. 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 60: 1033-1042, 1988.
3. 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 80: 286-297, 1986.
4. 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 50: 3351-3366,1990.
5. YW Lin, SS Que Hee. Permeation of a malathion formulation through nitrile gloves. Appl Occup Environ Hyg 13: 286-298, 1998.
6. SW Tsai, SS Que Hee. A new passive sampler for aldehydes. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J, 60:463-473, 1999.
7. SH Yim, SS Que Hee. Bacterial mutagenicity of some tobacco aromatic nitrogen bases and their mixtures. Mutat. Res., 492: 13-27, 2001.
8. RN Phalen, SS Que Hee. Permeation of Captan Through a Disposable Nitrile Gloves. J. Hazardous Materials B100: 95-107, 2003.
Current Doctoral Students
Robert Phalen
Wenhai Xu