ShilpaNarasimhanGowdaMDMPH

Director, Occupational Medicine and Employee Health

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Office
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
2400 Canal St
New Orleans, LA 70119
Phone+1 800-935-8387

Dr. Shilpa Gowda is an occupational medicine physician in Waterville, ME and is affiliated with Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. She received her medical degree from Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has been in practice 5 years. She also speaks multiple languages, including Spanish. She is experienced in occupational and environmental lung disease, silicosis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, post-concussive syndrome, and occupational medicine.

University of Southern California/Los Angeles General Medical Center (USC/LA General)Internship, Surgery, 2012 - 2013
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown UniversityClass of 2012
University of WashingtonResidency, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Washington School of Public HealthMPH, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Outstanding Master's Student of the Year

Mt. Holyoke College Book Award 2003
Certificate of Achievement Department of Dermatology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2001-2002
Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Improvement 1997

PubMed

14 citations
Level VI Lymph Node Dissection Does Not Decrease Radioiodine Uptake in Patients Undergoing Radioiodine Ablation for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Don Yoo, Saad Ajmal, Shilpa Gowda, Jason T. Machan, Jack M. Monchik
World Journal of Surgery. 2012-03-20
46 citations
DNA Methylation Supports Intrinsic Epigenetic Memory in Mammalian Cells
Yong-Qing Feng, Romain Desprat, Haiqing Fu, Emmanuel Olivier, Chii Mei Lin
Plos Genetics. 2005-01-01
8 citations
Ambient air pollution and lung cancer risk among never-smokers in the Women's Health Initiative.
Shilpa N. Gowda, Anneclaire J. DeRoos, Rebecca P. Hunt, Amanda J. Gassett, Maria C. Mirabelli
Environmental Epidemiology. 2019-10-25

Journal Articles

Ambient Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Risk among Never-Smokers in the Women’s Health Initiative
Gowda, Shilpa N.; Deroos, Anneclaire J; Hunt, Rebecca P.; Gassett, Amanda J.; Mirabelli, Maria C.; Bird, Chloe E; Margolis, Helene G.; Lane, Dorothy; Bonner, Matthew, ..., Environmental Epidemiology, 10/25/2019

Shared Decision Making: Ethical Aspects within Occupational MedicineDecember 2019
Occupational Hearing Loss: What are Some Occupations Not Commonly Considered at Risk?9/1/2018
Evaluation of Indoor Environmental Quality Concerns in an Elementary SchoolMay 2017

Board of Directors, House of Delegates Rep to ACOEM, New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2018 - Present

Janelia Farm/Howard Hughes Medical Institute2007 - 2007
Brown University Dept of Biology/MedicineReceived Summer Research Assistantship Grant2005 - 2005
National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute/Howard Hughes Medical Institute2003 - 2004

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Air Pollution Researchhttp://deohs.washington.edu/student-research/shilpa-gowda
UW SPH Awardhttps://deohs.washington.edu/awards-2016