John J. Graff, MS, Ph.D.
jgraff@med.wayne.edu

Departmental Role

John Graff is an assistant professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Chief of Cancer Surveillance Research at the Karmanos Cancer Institute.   His research interests include cancer registry based investigations of mesothelioma, breast and oral cancers, and investigations of exposure to occupational and environmental asbestos.   Dr. Graff's current work as a coinvestigator in the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-related Cancers includes a population-based characterization of mesothelioma in metropolitan Detroit and a pilot study of vermiculite attic insulation exposures in relation to asbestos-related disease.    

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, BA, 1987

Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, MS, 1997

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, PhD, 2004

Training and Experience

Wayne State University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Biology Directed Study Research Assistant, 1992-1993

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Division of Epidemiology, Research Assistant, 1995-1997

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Division of Epidemiology, SEER Project Coordinator, 1997-1999

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, NCI Cancer Prevention and Control Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 1999-2002

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Project Manager, 1999-2002

Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Assistant Professor, 2002-present

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Population Studies and Prevention Program, Chief of Cancer Surveillance Research, Co-Investigator SEER Program, 2002-present

Primary Research Interests

Population-based investigations of cancer prevention and control

Racial disparities in cancer treatment and outcomes

Occupational and environmental epidemiology

Selected Publications

Refereed Journals:
ML Varterasian, JJ Graff, RK Severson, LK Weiss, AM Al-Katib, GP Kalemkerian. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: an Analysis of the Metropolitan Detroit SEER Database. CANCER INVESTIGATION 18(4): 55-63, 2000.

SM Gadgeel, RK Severson, JJ Graff, TY Kau, LK Weiss, GP Kalemkerian. Impact of Race in Lung Cancer: Analysis of Temporal Trends form a Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Database. CHEST 120(1):55-63, 2001.

JJ Graff, N Sathiakumar, M Macaluso, G Maldonado, R Matthews, E Delzell. Chemical Exposures in the Synthetic Rubber Industry and Lymphohematopoietic Cancer Mortality. J OCC ENV MED;47(9)916-932, 2005.

N Sathiakumar, JJ Graff, E Delzell, M Macaluso, G Maldonado, R Matthews. An Updated Study of Mortality Among North American Synthetic Rubber Industry Workers. OCCUP ENVIRON MED 62(12):822-829, 2005.

E Delzell, N Sathiakumar, JJ Graff, R Matthews. Styrene and Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality Among Synthetic Rubber Industry Workers. J OCC ENV MED 47(12):1235-1243, 2005.

E Delzell, N Sathiakumar, JJ Graff, M Macaluso, G Maldonado. An Updated Study of Mortality Among North American Synthetic Rubber Industry Workers. RES REP HEALTH EFF INST 132:1-77, 2006.

H Cheng, N Sathiakumar, JJ Graff, R Matthews, E Delzell. 1,3-Butadine and leukemia among synthetic rubber industry workers: exposure-response relationships. 2006. CHEM BIOL INTERACT, in press.

LX Clegg, ME Reichman, BF Hankey, BA Miller, YD Lin, NJ Johnson, SM Schwartz, L Bernstein, VW Chen, MT Goodman, SL Gomez, JJ Graff, CF Lynch, CC Lin, BK Edwards.  Quality of race, Hispanic Ethnicity, and Immigrant Status in Population-based Cancer Registry Data: Implications for Health Disparity Studies. CANCER CAUSES CONTROL, 18(2): 177-87, 2007.

Other published materials:
JJ Graff , AG Schwartz, K Schwartz, F Vigneau, P Lai. Cancer in Metropolitan Detroit - 2005. Metropolitan Detroit Cancer
Surveillance System, 2005.

Current Funded Research: