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Maureen Murtaugh is a nutrition epidemiologist and associate professor in the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Murtaugh holds an adjunct appointment in the Division of Nutrition, College of Health.
Dr. Murtaugh earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences with a focus on maternal child nutrition from the University of Connecticut. She joined the faculty and staff at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center and Rush University where clinical practice, research and teaching. In 1999 she decided to retool her career with a post-doctoral fellowship in Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota working with investigators in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
Research Interests
She conducts research on the role of nutrition in development of chronic disease. She is currently principal investigator of a study to establish norms of bone health for Navajo people and another to validate a dietary history questionnaire for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Select Publications
Murtaugh MA, Curtin K, Sweeney C, Wolff RK, Holubkov R, Caan BJ, Slattery ML. Dietary intake of folate and co-factors in folate metabolism, MTHFR polymorphisms, and reduced rectal cancer.
Cancer Causes Control. 2007 Jan 23; [Epub ahead of print]
Sweeney C, Wolff RK, Byers T, Baumgartner KB, Giuliano AR, Herrick JS, Murtaugh MA, Samowitz WS, Slattery ML. Genetic admixture among Hispanics and candidate gene polymorphisms: potential for confounding in a breast cancer study? Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Jan;16(1):142-50.
Slattery ML, Sweeney C, Edwards S, Herrick J, Baumgartner K, Wolff R, Murtaugh M, Baumgartner R, Giuliano A, Byers T. Body size, weight change, fat distribution and breast cancer risk in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2006 Nov 2; [Epub ahead of print]
Murtaugh MA, Sweeney C, Ma KN, Potter JD, Caan BJ, Wolff RK, Slattery ML. Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms, dietary promotion of insulin resistance, and colon and rectal cancer. Nutr Cancer. 2006;55(1):35-43.
Sweeney C, Curtin K, Murtaugh MA, Caan BJ, Potter JD, Slattery ML. Haplotype analysis of common vitamin D receptor variants and colon and rectal cancers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Apr;15(4):744-9.
Slattery ML, Curtin K, Wolff R, Ma KN, Sweeney C, Murtaugh M, Potter JD, Levin TR, Samowitz W. PPARgamma and colon and rectal cancer: associations with specific tumor mutations, aspirin, ibuprofen and insulin-related genes (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 2006 Apr;17(3):239-49.
Slattery ML, Sweeney C, Murtaugh M, Ma KN, Caan BJ, Potter JD, Wolff R. Associations between vitamin D, vitamin D receptor gene and the androgen receptor gene with colon and rectal cancer. Int J Cancer. 2006 Jun 15;118(12):3140-6.
Slattery ML, Sweeney C, Edwards S, Herrick J, Murtaugh M, Baumgartner K, Guiliano A, Byers T. Physical activity patterns and obesity in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Jan;38(1):33-41. |
