• Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Human and ecological risk assessment, environmental justice, and biological monitoring. Identification of occupational and environmental risks associated with business and government operation and appropriate management methods for reducing negative consequences.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
University of Oklahoma Ph.D. (1993) M.S. (1979) B.S. (1977),
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center M.P.H. (1989)

APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS:
July 2001 - present Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
January, 1995 - June 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
1993 - 1995 Assistant Secretary of the Environment, State of Oklahoma.
1990 - 1993 Limnologist/Technical Writer, Oklahoma Conservation Commission.
1988 - 1990 Chief of Laboratory Services, Oklahoma City-County Health Department.

PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
North American Association for Environmental Education
Oklahoma Clean Lakes Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Phillips, ML, BL Elledge, HG Basara, RA Lynch, and DT Boatright, "Recurrent Critical violations of the Food Code in Retail Food Service Establishments", Journal of Environmental Health 68(10):24-30, 2006.
• Lynch, Robert A., Margaret L. Phillips, Brenda L. Elledge, Sridhar Hanumanthaiah, and Daniel T. Boatright, “A preliminary evaluation of the effect of glove use by food handlers in fast food restaurants”, Journal of Food Protection 68:187-190, 2005.
• Phillips, M.L., 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.
• Phillips ML, BL Elledge, HG Basara, RA Lynch, and DT Boatright, "Recurrent critical violations of the Food Code in retail food service establishments", submitted to the American Journal of Public Health, October, 2004.
• 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.
• Elledge B.L., R.A. Lynch, D.T. Boatright DT, and M.L. Phillips, "An Evaluation of the Retail Inspection Process In Oklahoma", Food Protection Trends 24(3):166-174, 2004.
• Lynch, R.A., B.L. Elledge, C.C. Griffith, and D.T. Boatright, "A Comparison of Food Safety Knowledge of Restaurant Managers by Sources of Training and Experience", Journal of Environmental Health 66(2):9-14, 2003.
• Malcoe, L.H., R. Lynch, M. Kegler, and V. Skaggs., "Lead Sources, Behaviors, and Socioeconomic Factors in Relation to Blood Lead in Rural Native American and White Children: A Community-Based Assessment", Environmental Health Perspectives 110 (Suppl.):221-231, 2002.
• Meo, M., W. Focht, L. Caneday, R. Lynch, F. Moreda, B. Pettus, E. Sankowski, Z. Trachtenberg, B. Vieux, and K. Willett, "Negotiating Science and Values with Stakeholders in the Illinois River Basin," Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38(2):541, 2002.
• Fechter, L.D., D.L. Johnson, and R.A. Lynch
, "The Relationship of Particle Size to Olfactory Nerve Uptake of a Non-Soluble Form of Manganese into Brain," NeuroToxicology 23:177-184, 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.
• Lynch, R., D.T. Boatright, and S.K. Moss, "The Potential Impacts of Contaminated Imported Candy of Children's Blood Lead Levels," Public Health Reports 115:537-543, 2000.
• Crozier-Kegler, Michelle, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Robert A. Lynch, and Sally Whitecrow-Ollis, "A Community-Based Intervention to Reduce Lead Exposure Among Native American Children," Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology 2:121-132, 2000.
• Lynch, R.A., M.L. Phillips, and P. Jones, "Adverse Impact on Ponds from Organic Debris Deposited by Tornados," Journal of Environmental Health 63(5):9-15, 2000.
• Lynch, R.A., L.H. Malcoe, V.J. Skaggs, and M.C. Kegler, "The Relationship Between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community," Journal of Environmental Health 63(3):9-15, 2000.
• Kegler, M., L. Malcoe, S. Kegler, R. Lynch, and R. Tolliver, "Caregiver Beliefs and Behaviors in the Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning," Family and Community Health 22(1):50-65, 1999.
• Atalay, A., T. Pyle, and R. Lynch, "Strategy for Restoration of Brine Contaminated Land," Journal of Soil Contamination 8(3):307-328, 1999.
• Meo, M., B. Vieux, J. Sipes, R. Lynch, W. Focht, K. Willett, and L. Caneday, "Ecological Risks, Stakeholder Values, and River Basins: Testing Management Options for the Illinois River," Proceedings of the 1999 Water and Watersheds Program Review. USEPA/NSF. Silver Springs, MD, 1999.
• Meo, M., B. Vieux, J. Sipes, R. Lynch, W. Focht, K. Willett, and L. Caneday, "Ecological Risks, Stakeholder Values, and River Basins: Testing Management Options for the Illinois River," Proceedings of the 1998 Water and Watersheds Program Review. USEPA/NSF. Corvallis, OR, 1998.
• Boatright, D., L. Belsten, and R. Lynch, Risk Communication: A Bibliography of Risk Communication and Environmental Health Risk Literature. National Environmental Health Association. Denver, CO, 1996.
• Lynch, R., "Interstate Nutrient Management," Proceedings of the Southern Regional Information Exchange Group. SRIEG-10. No. 32. SRDC Publication Number 180, 1994.
• Lynch R. and L. Pfiester, "Crystal Lake Revisited," Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 61:49-57, 1981.
• Pfiester, L., R. Lynch, and J. Skvarla, "Occurrence, Growth and SEM Portrait of Woloszynskia reticulata Thompson (Dinophyceae)," Transactions of the American Microscopal Association 99(2):213-217, 1980.
• Pfiester, L. and R. Lynch, "Amoeboid Stages and Sexual Reproduction of Cystodinium bataviense and its similarity to Dinococcus (Dinophyceae)," Phycologia 19(3):178-183, 1980.
• Pfiester, L., R. Lynch, and T. Wright, "The Algae of the Dam River Dam Area," Southwest Naturalist 24:149-164, 1979.