• Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Occupational and Environmental Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Occupational and environmental hazard exposure assessment; determinants of exposure; psychosocial hazards of work; criteria for evaluation of environmental science.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, M.H.S., 1989, Industrial Hygiene.
• University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, M.S., 1982; Ph.D., 1987, Physical Chemistry
• Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, A. B., 1980, Chemistry

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2004 - Present - Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2003 - 2004 - Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2002 - 2003 - Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1996 - 2002 - Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1995 - 1996 - Environmental Health and Safety Advisor, Mobil Technology Company.
1991 - 1995 - Industrial Hygienist, Mobil Research and Development Corporation.
1991 - Project Manager/Senior Industrial Hygienist, Kaselaan & D'Angelo Associates.
1989 - 1991 - Staff Supervisor-Industrial Hygienist, USS Division of USX Corporation.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

• Lynch RA, ML Phillips, BL Elledge, and DT Boatright, "Safe handling of food: a microbiological evaluation of the effect of glove use by food handlers in fast food restaurants", accepted for publication in the Journal of Food Protection.
• Robert A. Lynch, Margaret L. Phillips, Brenda L. Elledge, and Daniel T. Boatright, “A preliminary evaluation of the effect of glove use by food handlers in fast food restaurants”, accepted for publication in Journal of Food Protection.
• M.L. Phillips, B.L. Elledge, H.G. Basara, R.A. Lynch, and D.T. Boatright, "Recurrent Critical violations of the Food Code in Retail Food Service Establishments", Journal of Environmental Health 68(10):24-30 (2006).
• Johnston, Karen L., Margaret L. Phillips, Nurtan A. Esmen and Thomas A. Hall, “Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence Program for Estimating Occupational Exposures”, Annals of Occupational Hygiene 49(2):147-153 (2005).
• M. L. Phillips, N. A. Esmen, T. A. Hall, and R. Lynch, “Determinants of Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds in Four Oklahoma Cities”, Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 15:35-46 (2005).
• B. L. Elledge, R. A. Lynch, D. T. Boatright, and M. L. Phillips, "An Evaluation of the Retail Inspection Process In Oklahoma", Food Protection Trends 24(3):166-174 (2004).
• M. L. Phillips, N. A. Esmen, D. Wang, and T. A. Hall, "Temporal and Spatial Variation in Monitoring of Urban Air Pollutants," in Chemicals in the Environment: Fate, Impacts, and Remediation (R.L. Lipnick, R.P. Mason, M.L. Phillips, and C.U. Pittman, Eds.).  American Chemical Society Monograph, Washington DC, 2002.
  
• R. L. Lipnick, R. P. Mason, M. L. Phillips, and C. U. Pittman, Jr., "Chemicals in the Environment: An Overview," in Chemicals in the Environment: Fate, Impacts, and Remediation (R.L. Lipnick, R.P. Mason, M.L. Phillips, and C.U. Pittman, Eds.).  American Chemical Society Monograph, Washington DC, 2002.
  
• R. L. Lipnick, R. P. Mason, M. L. Phillips, and C. U. Pittman, Editors, Chemicals in the Environment: Fate, Impacts, and Remediation.  American Chemical Society (2002).
  
• D. L. Johnson and M. L. Phillips, "UV Disinfection of Soluble Oil Metalworking Fluids," American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 63(2):178-183 (2002).
• M. L. Phillips, T. A. Hall, N. A. Esmen, R. Lynch, and D. L. Johnson, "Use of Global Positioning System Technology to Track Subjects' Location During Environmental Exposure Sampling," Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 11:207-215 (2001).
  
• M. L. Phillips, C.C. Meagher, and D.L. Johnson, "What is 'Powder-Free?'  Characterization of Powder Aerosol Produced During Simulated Use of Powdered and Powder-Free Latex Gloves," Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 58:479-481 (2001).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips, Nurtan A. Esmen, and Joseph Costantino, "The Reliability of Multiple Regression and an Alternative Method for Extracting Task-Specific Exposure Estimates from Time-Weighted Average Data," Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,16:56-65 (2001).
  
• Robert A. Lynch, Margaret L. Phillips, and Paige Jones, "Adverse Impact on Ponds from Organic Debris Deposited by Tornados," Journal of Environmental Health 63(5):9-15 (2000).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips, Thomas A. Hall, Krishnamurthy Sekar, and Jeanine L. Tomey, "Assessment of Medical Personnel Exposure to Nitrogen Oxides During Inhaled Nitric Oxide Treatment of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients," Pediatrics, 104, 1095-1010 (1999).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips and Nurtan A. Esmen, "Computational Method for Ranking Task-Specific Exposures Using Multi-Task Time-Weighted Average Samples," Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 43, 201-213 (1999).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips, "Industrial Hygiene Investigation of Static Magnetic Fields in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facilities," Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 5, 353-358 (1990).
  
• M. L. Phillips and J. Jonas, "Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals. VII. Calculation of Sodium-23 Quadrupole Coupling Constants in Lamellar Phases of Sodium Alkanoates," Journal of Chemical Physics, 86, 4294-4295 (1987).
  
• M. L. Phillips and J. Jonas, "Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals. 6. Structural Parameters of Solid and Liquid Crystal Phases of Anhydrous Short-Chain Sodium Alkanoates," Liquid Crystals, 2, 335-343 (1987).
  
• M. L. Phillips, T. M. Barbara, S. Plesko, and J. Jonas, "Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals. V. Deuterium NMR Study of Sodium n-Alkanoates," Journal of Chemical Physics, 84, 5143-5151 (1986).
  
• S. Plesko, M. L. Phillips, R. Cassell, and J. Jonas, "Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals. IV. Structural Effects in Sodium Methylpentanoates," Journal of Chemical Physics, 80, 5806-5813 (1984).
  
• J. E. Bonekamp, I. Artaki, M. L. Phillips, S. Plesko, and J. Jonas, "Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals. 3. Sodium-23 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Ionic Mesophase of Sodium n-Alkyl Carboxylates," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 87, 4991-4995 (1983).
  
• M. L. Phillips and M. T. Spitler, "The Role of Electron-Hole Recombination at MoS2 Photoeletrodes," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 128, 2137-2141 (1981).
  

OTHER PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:

• Johnston, K.L., M.L. Phillips, T.A. Hall, and N. Esmen, “Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence Program for Estimating Occupational Exposures”, American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA (2004).
• Phillips, M.L., N.A. Esmen, R. Lynch, D.L. Johnson, and T.A. Hall, “Determinants of Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds in Ambient Air: The Oklahoma Urban Air Toxics Study”, American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, TX (2003).
• Phillips, M.L., D.T. Boatright, B. Elledge, and H. Basara: "Recurrent Critical Violations in Food Service Establishments," American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (2002).
• Phillips, M.L.: "It's Not (Yet) in the Book: Educating EHS Professionals to Confront Unprecedented Menaces," Association of Schools of Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Conference: Responding to a New Environment, Pittsburgh, PA (2002).
• Phillips, M.L. and T.J. Havel: "Determination of Ultraviolet Power Output of Submergible Germicidal Lamp Using In-Situ Chemical Actinometry," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition, San Diego, CA (2002).
• Esmen, N.A., T.A. Hall, M.L. Phillips, and G.M. Marsh: "Chemical Process Based Reconstruction of Exposures: Estimation of Task Based Exposures - Method Selection," Occupational Hygiene 2002, Sheffield, U.K. (2002).
• Esmen, N.A., J. Broda, T.A. Hall, M.L. Phillips, and G.M. Marsh: "Chemical Process Based Reconstruction of Exposures: Estimation of Task Based Exposures - A Case Study," Occupational Hygiene 2002, Sheffield, U.K. (2002).
• Mead, K.R., D.L. Johnson, N.A. Esmen, and M.L. Phillips: "Reduced-Scale Water Modeling of a Freestanding Local Exhaust Hood," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2002).
• Esmen, N.A., T.A. Hall, M.L. Phillips, E.P. Jones, and G.M. Marsh: "Chemical Process Based Reconstruction of Exposures: Coupled Vinyl Chloride - Chloroprene Exposures During Process Control Sampling," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2002).
• Hall, T.A., N.A. Esmen, M.L. Phillips, E.P. Jones, and G.M. Marsh: "Chemical Process Based Reconstruction of Exposures: Chloroprene Exposure During Boil-over in Open Kettle Synthetic Rubber Production," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2002).
• Phillips, Margaret L. and Candida C. West: "Professional Credentialing for EHS Practitioners:  What Are the Needs?", Association of Schools of Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Conference: Sustaining the Environmental Health Workforce (2001).
• Hall, T., M. Phillips, A. Gibson, N. Esmen, D. Johnson, R. Lynch, and S. Moss (2001): "xposures to Ambient Volatile Organic Air Contaminants in a Lightly Industrialized City," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2001).
  
• Phillips, M.L., N.A. Esmen, D.L. Johnson, T.A. Hall, R.A. Lynch, and A. Gibson (2001): "Permeability of Single-Family Dwellings: Implications for Indoor Air Quality," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2001).
  
• M.L. Phillips, D. Wang, N.A. Esmen, and T.A. Hall, "Diurnal Behavior of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants in Oklahoma City and Tulsa," American Chemical Society 220th National Meeting (2000).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips, Rod Clinkenbeard, Thomas A. Hall, David L. Johnson, Robert Lynch, and Nurtan A. Esmen, "Use of GPS Technology to Track Subjects' Location During Environmental Exposure Sampling," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2000).
  
• N.A. Esmen, T.A. Hall, D.L. Johnson, R.A. Lynch, M.L. Phillips, D. Wang, and R. Clinkenbeard, "PM10 and PM2.5 Correlation in Two Medium Size Metropolitan Areas," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2000).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips and Bob Angelo, "Addressing Exposure to Optical Radiation," Professional Development Course presented at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (2000).
  
• Daniel Boatright, Michael Brandt, and Margaret Phillips, "An Environmental Health Partnership: Bringing Students to the Science," Public Health Reports, 114, 384-387 (1999).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips, "Modeling Ozone Concentration" (Letter to the Editor), Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 14, 268-270 (1999).
  
• Nurtan A. Esmen and Margaret L. Phillips, "An Efficient Sampling Design Method to Determine Task Based Exposure Distribution," American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (1998).
  
• Margaret L. Phillips, Ph.D. and Jennifer T. Parkhurst, Ph.D., "Is Losing Your Soul an Occupational Hazard?: Protecting Human Dignity in the Workplace," Professional Development Course presented at American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (1996).
  
• Margaret Levin Phillips, "Risk Assessment" in: Designing an Effective OSHA Compliance Program (Clark Boardman Callaghan, Deerfield, Illinois, 1993).
  
• Sponsor and technical advisor, Industrial Hygiene Law Project, Amicus Curiae Brief in IUAW v. Johnson Controls in the United States Supreme Court (1990).