Faculty & Staff

Lee S. Newman, MD, MA - Professor

Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
Department of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary Science and Critical Care Medicine
Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
4200 East Ninth Ave, B164
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: (303) 315 0880
Fax: (303) 315 7642
Lee.Newman@uchsc.edu

Education:
1975 BA Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1977 MA Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Social Psychology)
1980 MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
1980-1983 Intern/Resident Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN (Internal Medicine)
1984-1987 Fellowship University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO (Pulmonary Science)
Areas of Clinical Interest:
For the past 20 years, Dr. Newman's clinical practice has focused on occupational lung disorders. He consults internationally to government, industry and labor organizations on occupational health in the workplace.
Clinic Location:
Dr. Newman does not currently see patients at UCHSC.
Teaching Interests:
Co-Director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program
Research Interests:
Occupational lung and allergic disorders, pulmonary immunology, toxicology, and granulomatous diseases
Recent Publications:
Glazer CS, Newman LS. Occupational interstitial lung disease. Clin Chest Med 2004; 25:467-78.
Sackett HM, Maier LA, Murphy JR, Silveira LJ, Mroz MM, Ogden LG, McInerney JR, Newman LS. Beryllium Medical Surveillance at a Former Nuclear Weapons Facility During Cleanup Operations. JOEM 2004; 46:953-61.
Rabin DL, Thompson B, Brown KM, Judson MA, Huang X, Lackland DT, Knattrud GL, Yeager, Jr. H, Rose C, Steimel J, on behalf of the ACCESS Research Group. Sarcoidosis: social predictors of severity at presentation. Eur Respir J 2004;24:601-08.
Sawyer RT, Day BS, Fadok VA, Chiarappa-Zucca M, Maier LA, Silveira L, Newman LS, Beryllium-ferritin: lymphocyte proliferation and macrophage apoptosis in chronic beryllium disease. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2004 Oct;31(4):470-7.
Newman LS, Rose CS, Bresnitz EA, Rossman MD, Barnard J, Frederick M et al. A Case Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis: Environmental and Occupational Risk Factors. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004; 170:1324-30.
Sawyer RT, Parsons CE, Maier LA, Gillespie MM, Gottschall EB, Newman LS. Beryllium-induced TNF-a production by CD4+ T cells is mediated by HLA-DP. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2004; 1:122-30.
Barnard J, Rose CS, Newman LS, Canner M, Martyny JW, McCammon C, Terrin M, Bresnitz E, Rossman M, Thompson B, Rybicki B, Weinberger SE, Moller DR, McLennan G, Hunninghake G, DePalo L, Baughman RP, Iannuzzi MC, Judson MA, Knatterud GL, Teirstein AS, Yeager H, Johns CJ, Rabin DL, Cherniack R, ACCESS Research Group. Job and Industry Classification Associated with Sarcoidosis in A Case Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis (ACCESS) J Occup Environ 2005; 47:226-34.
Sawyer RT, Dobis DR, Goldson M, Velsor L, Maier LA, Fontenot AP, Silveira L, Newman LS. Beryllium-stimulated Reactive Oxygen Species and Macrophage Apoptosis Free Radic Biol Med. 2005 Apr 1;38(7):928-937.
Newman LS, Mroz MM, Balkissoon R, Maier LA. Beryllium Sensitization Progresses to Chronic Beryllium Disease: A Longitudinal Study of Disease Risk. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005; 171:54-60.
Pott GB, Palmer BE, Sullivan AK, Silveira L, Maier LA, Newman LS, Kotzin BL, Fontenot AP. Frequency of Beryllium-Specific, Th1-Type Cytokine-expressing CD4+ T Cells in Patients with Beryllium-induced Disease. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005; 115:1036-1042.
Rybicki BA, Walewski JL, Maliark MJ, Kian H, Iannuzzi MC, ACCESS Research Group. The BTNL2 Gene and Sarcoidosis Susceptibility in African Americans and Whites. Am J Hum Genet 2005; 77:491-99.
Newman LS, Mroz MM, Ruttenber AJ. Lung fibrosis in plutonium workers. Radiat Res 2005; 164:123-131.
Kreider ME, Christie JD, Thompson B, Newman LS, Rose CS, Barnard J, Bresnitz E, Judson MA, Lackland DT, Rossman MD, ACCESS Research Group. Relationship of Environmental Exposures to the Clinical Phenotype of Sarcoidosis. Chest 2005; 128:207-15.
Iannuzzi MC, Iyengar SK, Gray-McGuire C, Elston RC, Baughman RP, Donohue JF, Hirst K, Judson MA, Kavuru MS, Maliarik MJ, Moller DR, Newman LS, Rabin DL, Rose CS, Rossman MD, Teirsten AS, Rybicki BA. Genome Wide Search for Sarcoidosis Susceptibility Genes in African Americans. Genes Immun 2005; 6:509-18.
Yeager H, Rossman MD, Baughman RP, Teirstein AS, Judson MA, Terrin ML, Rabin DL, Iannuzzi MC, Rose C, Bresnitz EA, DePalo L, Hunninghake G, Johns CJ, McLennan G, Moller DR, Newman LS, Rybicki B, Weinberger SE, Knatterud GL, Cherniak R, ACCESS Research Group. Pulmonary Findings at Onset in a Case Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis (ACCESS) Sarcoid Vasc and Dif Lung Dis 2005;22:147-53.

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