June

Spector

MD

MPH

Education & Training

• MD, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (2001–2005)
• Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2005–2008)
• MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (2008–2009)

Honors

• Randall Bass Award (2009)
• Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society (2009)
• Scholarly Project Forum Winner, Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (2009)
• Occupational Physicians Scholarship Fund Award (2008–2010)
• Housestaff Quality Improvement Project Award (2007)
• American Society of Nephrology Resident Travel Grant (2006)
• Graduated Cum Laude from Yale University (2005)
• Farr Scholar Award (2005)
• Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award (2005)
• Endocrine Society Summer Research Fellowship (2002)
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University (2001)
• Harvard College Scholarship (2001)
• Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship (2001)

Clinical Interests

• Contingent and immigrant worker safety and health
• Focal dystonia in musicians
• Occupational and environmental medicine
• Occupational heat-related illness
• Occupational health services and outcomes
• Work-related musculoskeletal disorder prevention and management

publication highlights

• Spector J, Kahn S, Jones M, Jayakumar M, Dalal D, Nazarian S. Migraine headache and ischemic stroke risk: An updated meta-analysis. American Journal of Medicine 2010;123(7):612–24.
• Spector JT, Adams D, Silverstein B. Burden of work-related knee disorders in Washington State, 1999 to 2007. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2011;53(5):537–47.
• Spector J, Navas-Acien A, Fadrowski J, Guallar E, Jaar B, Weaver V. Associations of blood lead with estimated glomerular filtration rate using MDRD, CKD-EPI and serum cystatin C-based equations. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2011;26:2786–2792.
• Spector JT, Turner JA, Fulton-Kehoe D, Franklin GM. Pre-surgery disability compensation predicts long-term disability among workers with carpal tunnel syndrome. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2012;55(9):816–32.
• Lam M, Krenz J, Perla M, Negrete M, Palmandez P, Spector JT. Identification of barriers to the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness in Latino farmworkers using activity-oriented, participatory rural appraisal focus group methods. BMC Public Health 2013(13):1004.