Alvaro Osornio Vargas

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Pediatrics Dept

Contact

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Pediatrics Dept
Email
osornio@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-7092
Address
3-591 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 1C9

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

children's environmental health air pollution particulate matter industrial emissions adverse birth outcomes childhood cancer congenital heart disease chemical mixtures cellular pathways


About

         Dr. Alvaro Osornio-Vargas research interest is in air pollution and related health effects, from the perspective of the exposure to chemical mixtures. Specifically, he has focused on the effects of particulate matter at the experimental level. Currently, he is working on a project mapping the distribution of children's disease (e.g., cancer, preterm births, congenital heart anomalies) and environmental variables in Alberta. He was trained and worked in Mexico City until August 2009, when he joined the Department of Paediatrics, University of Alberta to develop the research segment of a Children's Environmental Health initiative. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Rutgers School of Public Health and the School of Public Health, University of Alberta.



Clinical Interests

       I am a collaborator of the Children's Environmental Health Clinic.

http://www.chehc.ca/


Teaching

Upon my arrival at the University of Alberta, we developed and, now, teach the graduate course in Pediatrics, Children’s Health and the Environment. It compiles years of experience working with students from different backgrounds, non-governmental organizations, and professionals from various disciplines. These and my research experiences confirm my conviction that interdisciplinary collaborative work is essential to move forward the subject of environmental health.

PED 543

Courses

PAED 543 - Children's Health and the Environment

A seminar designed to address the growing evidence and to recognize the role of early life environmental exposures (biological, physical, chemical and social) as major determinants of child and adult health. Prerequisite or Corequisites: Consent of the Department.


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Featured Publications

Suarez RG, Osornio Vargas AR, Wine E

DIGESTIVE DISEASES AND SCIENCES. 2022 June; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-022-07597-3


Wine O., Spiers J., Kovacs Burns K., van Manen M., Osornio Vargas A.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY. 2022 May; 131 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.006


Muñoz-Pizza D.M., Villada-Canela M., Rivera-Castañeda P., Osornio-Vargas Á., Martínez-Cruz A.L., Texcalac-Sangrador J.L.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY. 2022 March; 129 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.12.022


Villeneuve P.J., Lam S., Tjepkema M., Pinault L., Crouse D.L., Osornio-Vargas A.R., Hystad P., Jerrett M., Lavigne E., Stieb D.M.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH. 2022 March; 204 (112344) 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112344


Wine O., Vargas A.O., Campbell S.M., Hosseini V., Koch C.R., Shahbakhti M.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022 January; 19 (3) 10.3390/ijerph19031473


Revista Bio Ciencias 8: (Suppl) Memorias de XXIV Congreso Nacional de Inmunología, Sociedad Mexicana de Inmunología. e1172. . 2022 January; https://doi.org/10.15741/revbio.08.Suppl.e1172


Morales-Rubio R., Amador-Muñoz O., Rosas-Pérez I., Sánchez-Pérez Y., García-Cuéllar C., Segura-Medina P., Osornio-Vargas Á., De Vizcaya-Ruiz A.

TOXICOLOGY. 2022 January; 465 (153026) 10.1016/j.tox.2021.153026


Bellinger C, Jabbar MSM, Wine O, Nielsen C, Serrano-Lomelin J, Osornio Vargas A, Zaiane O.

. Humanity Driven AI: Productivity, Well-being, Sustainability and Partnership. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2021 December; 10.1007/978-3-030-72188-6_10


Tilstra M.H., Tiwari I., Niwa L., Campbell S., Nielsen C.C., Allyson Jones C., Vargas A.O., Bulut O., Quemerais B., Salma J., Whitfield K., Yamamoto S.S.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021 October; 18 (20) 10.3390/ijerph182010575


Malakootian M., Nasiri A., Osornio-Vargas A.R., Faraji M.

Toxicology Research. 2021 October; 10 (5):1045-1051 10.1093/toxres/tfab085


Environ Health Perspect - ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2021.. 2021 August; https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isee.202


Vu K., Osornio-Vargas A., Zaïane O., Yuan Y.

Recent Developments in Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Sciences. AMMCS 2019. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol 343:633-643. Springer, Cham. 2021 August; 343 10.1007/978-3-030-63591-6_58


Environ Health Perspect - ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2021.. 2021 August; https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isee.202


Almaraz-De-Santiago J, Solis-Torres N, Quintana-Belmares R, Rodriguez-Castro A, Rivas-Santiago B, Huerta-García J, Mercado-Reyes M, Enciso-Moreno JA, Villagomez-Castro J, González-Curiel I, Osornio-Vargas A, Rivas-Santiago CE.

PEPTIDES. 2021 May; 142 (170581):1 - 12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2021.170581


Amjad S, Chojecki D, Osornio Vargas A, Ospina MB.

ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2021 May; 156 ((2021)106644) 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106644


Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2021; 203:A3175. . 2021 April; https://doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2021.203


Revista Bio Ciencias 8: (Suppl) Memorias de XXIV Congreso Nacional de Inmunología, Sociedad Mexicana de Inmunología. 2021 April; https://doi.org/10.15741/revbio.08.Suppl.e1172


Reyna MA, Schwander S, Avitia RL, Bravo-Zanoguera ME, Reyna ME, Nava ML, Siqueiros M, Osornio-Vargas A.

ATMOSFERA. 2021 February; https://doi.org/10.20937/ATM.52852


Serrano-Lomelin J., Hicks A., Kumar M., Johnson D.W., Chari R., Osornio-Vargas A., Crawford S., Bakal J., Ospina M.B.

PLoS One. 2021 February; 16 (2 February) 10.1371/journal.pone.0247527