PubMed search for Ken M. Loud

Areas of Specialization/Research Interests:
Cancer risk assessment and genetic counseling
Strategies for improving access to cancer genetic services
Genetic and environmental causes of cancer susceptibility
Integration of clinical genetic services into public and private health care programs
Genetic counseling for preconceptional, perinatal and postnatal indications

Education:
M.S. Genetic Counseling, University of South Carolina, 1988
B.S. Zoology, North Carolina State University, 1980

Board Certfication:
1993, Genetic Counseling, American Board of Genetic Counseling

Selected Publications:
King, L.C., Loud, K., Tejada, S.B., Kohan, M.J., Lewtas, J. (1983). Evaluation of the release of mutagens and 1-nitropyrene from diesel particles in the presence of lung macrophages in culture. Environmental Mutagenesis, 5, no. 4, 577-88.

Moore, M.M., Loud, K., Templeton, R.K. (1984). The evaluation of the use of 10% rather than 20% horse serum in the cloning and selection of TK-/- mutants of L5178Y/TK+/- mouse lymphoma cells. Mutation Research, 140, no. 4, 215-18.

Hatch, G.E., Boykin, E., Graham, J.A., Lewtas, J., Pott, F., Loud, K., Mumford, J.L. (1985). Inhalable particles and pulmonary host defense: in vivo and in vitro effects of ambient air and combustion particles. Environmental Research, 36, no. 1, 67-80.

Loud, K. (1988). The student genetic counselor. Strategies In Genetic Counseling: Political Influences from Society to the Workplace. Proceedings of the Eight Annual Education Conference of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, 65-66.