Jerrold L Abraham, M.D.

Professor, Pathology
M.D.: 1970, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco

2152 Weiskotten Hall
Upstate Medical University
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210

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Research Program and Department Affiliations

Pathology

Research Interests

Environmental and occupational pulmonary diseases; Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis; Gadolinium toxicity; scanning electron microscopy and x-ray microanalysis studies

Case BW and Abraham JL. Heterogeneity of exposure and attribution of mesothelioma: Trends and strategies in two American counties. Inhaled Particles X (2008) Annals Occup Hyg (in press) 

Naqvi AH, Hunt A, Burnett BR, Abraham JL. Pathologic Spectrum and lung dust burden in giant cell interstitial pneumonia (hard metal disease, cobalt pneumonitis): Review of 100 cases. Arch Envir Occup Health 63:51-70, 2008.

Abraham JL and Thakral C. Tissue Distribution and Kinetics of Gadolinium and Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. Eur J Radiol. 66:200-207, 2008

Abraham JL, Chandra S, Thakral C, Abraham JM. SIMS imaging of Gadolinium isotopes in tissue from Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis Patients: Release of Free Gd from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents. App Surf Sci 255:1181-1184, 2008

Thakral C and Abraham JL. Automated Scanning Electron Microscopy and x-ray Microanalysis for in situ Quantification of Gadolinium Deposits in Skin. J. Electron Microsc; doi: 10.1093/jmicro/dfm020; 56:181-187, 2007

Nasr MR, Savici D, Tudor L, Abou Abdallah D, Newman N, Abraham JL. Inorganic Dust Exposure Causes Pulmonary Fibrosis in Smokers: Analysis Using Light Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy. Arch Envir Occup Health 61:53-60, 2007

Abraham JL. Analysis of Fibrous and Non-Fibrous Particles. Ch 18. in Rom W (ed) Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 4^th Edition, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 277-297, 2006

Boyd AS, Zic JA, Abraham JL. Gadolinium Deposition in Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy. J Am Acad Dermatol.  doi 10.1016/j.jaad.2006.10.048; 56:27-30, 2007

Crawford JA, Hargrave TM, Hunt A, Liu CC, Anbar RD, Hall GE, Naishadham D, Czerwinski MH, Webster N, Lane SD, Abraham JL. Issues in Design and Implementation in an Urban Birth Cohort Study: the Syracuse AUDIT Project. J Urban Health 83:741-759, 2006

Sawyer RT, Abraham JL, Daniloff E, Newman LS. Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy Demonstrates Retention of Beryllium in Chronic Beryllium Disease Granulomas. J Occup Environ Med 47:1218-1226, 2005.

Abraham JL, Case BW, Burnett BR and Trent T. Lung-Retained Fiber in Pets Confirms Environmental Exposure to Naturally-Occurring Asbestos in Western El Dorado County, California. American Thoracic Society meeting, May 2005

Hunt A, Abraham JL, Judson B and Berry CL. Toxicologic and Epidemiologic Clues from the Characterization of the London 1952 Smog Fine Particulate Matter in Archival Autopsy Lung Tissues. Environ Health Perspect 111:1209-1214, 2003

Hunt A, Abraham JL, Crawford JA, DeStefano P, Garback C, LaMoy M, Naishadham D and Hall G. Levels of Household particulate matter (PM) and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) exposure in the first year of life in a cohort at risk for asthma. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2003, 167; A852

Wright RS, Abraham JL, Harber P, Burnett BR, Morris P and West P. Fatal Asbestosis 50 years after Brief High Intensity exposure in a Vermiculite expansion plant. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 165:1145-1149, 2002

Abraham JL, Burnett BR, and Hunt A. Quantification of non-fibrous and fibrous particulates in human lungs: Twenty-year update on pneumoconiosis database. Ann Occup Hyg. 46 (Suppl. 1): 397-401, 2002

Hull MJ, Abraham JL, and Case BW. Mesothelioma Among Workers in Asbestiform Fiber-Bearing Talc Mines in New York State. Ann Occup Hyg. 46 (Suppl. 1): 132-135, 2002

Abraham JL, Siwinski G & Hunt A. Ultrafine particulate exposures in indoor, outdoor, personal and mobile environments: effects of diesel, traffic, pottery kiln, cooking and HEPA filtration on micro-environmental particle number concentration. Ann Occup Hyg. 46 (Suppl. 1): 406-411, 2002

Hull MJ and Abraham JL. Aluminum welding fume-induced pneumoconiosis. Human Pathology 33:819-825, 2002

Boyd AS. Seger D. Vannucci S. Langley M. Abraham JL. King LE Jr. Mercury exposure and cutaneous disease. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 43:81-90, 2000

Barker Griffith, AE, Streeten BW Abraham, JL, Schaeffer, DP and Norton SW. Potato gun ocular injury. Ophthalmology 105:535-538, 1998.

Schwarz Y, Kivity S, Fischbein A, Abraham JL, Fireman E, Moshe S, Dannon Y, Topilsky M, Greif J. Evaluation of workers exposed to dust containing hard metals and aluminum oxide. Am J Ind Med 1998; 34:177-182.

Hunt, A, Burnett, BR, Basford, T and Abraham, JL. Lead and other metal in play-kit and craft items composed of vinyl and leather. Am J Publ Health 87:1724-1727, 1997.

Abraham, J.L., Hunt, A., Burnett, B. Lung pathology and mineralogy associated with high pulmonary burden of metal particles: Fe, Ti, Al and Cr in a pneumoconiosis database. Inhaled Particles VIII. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 41, Suppl. 1:522-530,1997.

Abraham, J.L., Wiesenfeld, SL. Two cases of fatal PMF in an ongoing epidemic of accelerated silicosis in oilfield sandblasters: lung pathology and mineralogy. Inhaled Particles VIII. Ann Occup Hyg 41 (Suppl 1): 440-447, 1997

Schoning, P., Abraham, J.L., Burnett, B.R. Silicate and Metal Dust in lungs of Greyhounds. Am J Vet Res 57:1006-1009, 1996

Abraham, J.L. and Hunt, A. Contamination of the environment by Cobalt in the vicinity of a cemented tungsten carbide manufacturing plant. Envir. Res. 69:67-74, 1995

Keller, C.A., Frost, A., Cagle, P.T., Abraham, J.L. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a painter with elevated pulmonary concentrations of titanium. Chest 108:277-280, 1995

Additional Information

Director, Environmental and Occupational Pathology

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