• Assistant Professor

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
801 NE 13th St, Room 327
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Tel: (405) 271-2229 x48053

E-mail: Jennifer-Peck@ouhsc.edu

Research Interests
Reproductive, Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Environmental Exposures to Endocrine Active Compounds

Current Projects

Environmental Chemicals and Congenital Hearing Loss
Funded by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) and the OUHSC College of Public Health Junior Faculty Research Initiation Award
This pilot study evaluates the extent of maternal exposure to endocrine active compounds and the prevalence of mild hearing loss in an Oklahoma birth cohort.  Associations between environmental contaminant concentrations and congenital hearing loss will be explored.
Role: Principal Investigator

Insecticide Exposure and Genitourinary Malformations
Funded by the CDC through the Texas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention
The objective of this study is to investigate the association between mosquito control spraying and genitourinary malformations in the Houston/Galveston region.
Role: Principal Investigator

Phthalate Exposure Assessment in Hmong Couples of Reproductive Age
Funded by the Center for Environmental and Rural Health Pilot Program and the Women’s Interdisciplinary Health Research Award, Texas A&M University
Two pilot studies are conducted within a cohort of Hmong immigrants in Green Bay, Wisconsin to estimate the prevalence and variability of phthalate exposure in this study population. 
Role: Principal Investigator

Mammographic Density and Invasive Breast Cancer
PI: Etta Pisano - Funded by the National Cancer Institute
This study assesses whether changes in mammographic density explain the increased breast cancer risk associated with estrogen and progestin therapy within the Women’s Health Initiative study population.
Role: Co-Investigator                   
                                                     
Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Envrionment (LIFE)
PI: Anne Sweeney -Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development  
This prospective pregnancy study evaluates the role of environmental contaminants and lifestyle factors on time to pregnancy. 
Role:Consultant

Education and Training

University of Texas at Arlington                              B.A.                 1989            Sociology
Texas A&M University                                               M.S.                1992            Sociology
Texas A&M University                                               M.S.                1995            Epidemiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill          Ph.D.              2000            Epidemiology

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Richardson BE, Hulka BS, David Peck JL, Hughes CL, Van den Berg BJ, Christianson RE, Calvin JA.  Levels of maternal serum alpha fetoprotein in pregnant women and subsequent breast cancer risk. American Journal of Epidemiology 1998; 148:719-27.

Richardson BE, Peck JD, Warmuth JK.  Mean arterial pressure, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and preeclampsia: evaluation as independent risk factors and as surrogates for high maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein in estimating breast cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2000;9:1349-55.

Peck JD, Hulka BS, Savitz DA, Baird D, Poole C, Richardson BE.  Steroid hormone levels during pregnancy and incidence of maternal breast cancer.  Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2002; 11: 361-368.  

Peck JD, Hulka BS, Poole C, Savitz DA, Baird D, Richardson BE.  Accuracy of fetal growth indicators as surrogate measures of steroid hormone levels during pregnancy.  American Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 157:258-266.

A McTiernan, C. Martin, J David Peck, A. Aragaki, R Chlebowski, E. Pisano, CY Wang, R Brunner, K Johnson, J Manson, C Lewis, J Morley Kotchen, B Hulka, for the Women’s Health Initiative Mammogram Density Study Investigators.  Estrogen Plus Progestin Use and Mammographic Density in Postmenopausal Women: Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trial. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005; 97:1366-76.

Kornosky JL, Peck JD, Sweeney AM, Gasior DM, Adelson P and Schantz SL.  Reproductive characteristics of Southeast Asian immigrants pre- and post migration. Journal of Minority and Immigrant Health (In press).

Published Reports

Peck, J and Alexander K (2003).  Maternal, Infant and Child Health in Rural Areas.  In Gamm LD, Hutchison LL, Dabney BJ and Dorsey AM (eds), Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010: Volume 1.  College Station, Texas: The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health, Southwest Rural Health Research Center, pp.151-164.

Peck, J and Alexander K (2003).  Maternal, Infant and Child Health in Rural Areas: A Literature Review.  In Gamm LD, Hutchison LL, Dabney BJ and Dorsey AM (eds.), Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010: Volume 2.  College Station, Texas: The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health, Southwest Rural Health Research Center, pp.85-96.

Hutchison, L and Peck, J. (2004).  Immunizations and Infectious Diseases in Rural Areas.  In Gamm, L. and Hutchison, L. (eds.), Rural Healthy People 2010: A companion document to Healthy People 2010.  Volume 3.  College Station, Texas: The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health, Southwest Rural Health Research Center. www.srph.tamushsc.edu/rhp2010.