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Theses (3)

2021

MPhil (epidemiology), University of Cambridge

Diurnal Distribution of Physical Activity Energy Expenditure and Associations with Cardiometabolic Parameters in the Fenland Cohort

2014

PhD (physiology), University College Cork

Redox Remodelling in Diaphragm Muscle Adaptation to Chronic Sustained Hypoxia 

 

2010

BSc (physiology), University College Dublin

Erythropoietin-Stimulated Wound Repair in Primary Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells

 

Publications (57)

2024 (3)

Lewis P, Christoforou R, Wild U, Ha PP, Schweiker M, Erren TC (2024)  Architecture, light, and circadian biology: A scoping review. Sci Total Environ. Accepted

 

Hurst A, Morfeld P, Lewis P, Erren TC (2024) Daylight saving time transitions and risk of heart attack – A systematic review and meta-analysis. Dtsch Arztebl Int. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2024.007

Lewis P, Gottlieb J, Morfeld P, Hellmich M, Erren TC (2024) Perinatal photoperiod associations with bipolar disorder and depression: A systematic review and cross-sectional analysis of the UK Biobank database. Psychiatry Res. 335:115878. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115878

2023 (5)

Lewis P, Wild U, Pillow JJ, Foster RG, Erren TC (2023) A systematic review of chronobiology for neonatal care units: What we know and what we should consider. Sleep Med Rev. 73:202872. doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2023.101872

 

Erren TC, Lewis P, Shaw DM (2023) Brave (in a) new world: an ethical perspective on chatbots for medical advice. Front Public Health. 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1254334

 

Erren TC, Wild U, Lewis P (2023) Poster presentations and poster session organization: modern conferences. Trends Pharmacol Sci. In Press

 

Erren TC, Wallraff J, Wild U, Shaw DM, Lewis P (2023) Rudolph, the kids’ ward reindeer: a scoping review of the effects of support animals on the well-being of healthcare staff. J Occup Med Toxicol. 18(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s12995-023-00395-1

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Lewis P, Erren T C(2023) In Reply. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 120(3):40. doi:10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0349

2022 (3)

Erren TC, Timmermann B, Lewis P, Morfeld P (2022) Flying with High Visibility – Complex Mortality in Germany in Times of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. Rev Med Suisse. 18(779):823-5. doi:10.53738/revmed.2022.18.779.823

 

Erren TC, Wild U, Lewis P (2022) Christmas and New Year “Dietary Titbits” and Perspectives from Chronobiology. Nutrients. 14(15). doi:10.3390/nu14153177

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Lewis P, Erren T (2022) Increased Mortality in Germany and in the Individual German States During the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 119(33-34):560-1. doi:10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0208

2021 (10)

Erren TC, Lewis P (2021) Towards standard assessments of sleep as an exposure: an initiative for an important research area. Sleep Med. 88:187-8. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2021.10.001

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2021) Comment on “COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health”. Environ Health Perspect. 129(9):98001. doi:10.1289/ehp10144

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2021) Secret hiding places in the eye and beyond: what about after SARS-CoV-2 infection? Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 259(12):3815-6. doi:10.1007/s00417-021-05323-9

 

Erren TC, Lewis P, Morfeld P (2021) Factoring in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Seasonality: Experiences From Germany. J Infect Dis. 224(6):1096. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiab232

 

Lewis P, Morfeld P, Mohren J et al., (2021) Perinatal photoperiod associations with diabetes and chronotype prevalence in a cross-sectional study of the UK Biobank. Chronobiol Int. 38(3):343-59. doi:10.1080/07420528.2020.1849254

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Groß JV et al., (2021) COVID-19: Spatial resolution of excess mortality in Germany and Italy. J Infect. 82(3):414-51. doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2020.10.020

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Groß JV et al., (2021) COVID-19: Heterogeneous Excess Mortality and “Burden of Disease” in Germany and Italy and Their States and Regions, January-June 2020. Front Public Health. 9:663259. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.663259

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Groß JV et al., (2021) Before, During, and After the First Wave of COVID-19: Mortality Analyses Reveal Relevant Trends in Germany and its States until June 2020. Gesundheitswesen. 83(8-09):e41-e8. doi:10.1055/a-1531-5507

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Groß JV et al., (2021) [COVID-19: Mortality in Germany 2020 – Reply to the Letter]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 146(6):427. doi:10.1055/a-1385-7759

 

Morfeld P, Timmermann B, Groß VJ et al., (2021) [COVID-19: How did mortality change? – Mortality of women and men in Germany and its federal states until October 2020]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 146(2):129-31. doi:10.1055/a-1334-0586

2020 (12)

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2020) SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and physical distancing: risk for circadian rhythm dysregulation, advice to alleviate it, and natural experiment research opportunities. Chronobiol Int. 37(7):1106-9. doi:10.1080/07420528.2020.1772811

 

Erren TC, Lewis P, Morfeld P (2020) The riddle of shiftwork and disturbed chronobiology: a case study of landmark smoking data demonstrates fallacies of not considering the ubiquity of an exposure. J Occup Med Toxicol. 15:10. doi:10.1186/s12995-020-00263-2

 

Erren TC, Lewis P, Shaw DM (2020) COVID-19 and “natural” experiments arising from physical distancing: a hypothetical case study from chronobiology. Chronobiol Int. 37(7):1115-7. doi:10.1080/07420528.2020.1779993

 

Erren TC, Lewis P, Shaw DM (2020) The COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical and Scientific Imperatives for “Natural” Experiments. Circulation. 142(4):309-11. doi:10.1161/circulationaha.120.048671

 

Erren TC, Mohren J, Lewis P (2020) Studying birth month and mortality: what about the perinatal photoperiod? Bmj. 368:m863. doi:10.1136/bmj.m863

 

Erren TC, Schmiedehausen S, Groß JV, Lewis P (2020) What if …. the Moon provides zeitgeber signals to humans? Mol Psychiatry. 25(11):2646-7. doi:10.1038/s41380-018-0216-0

 

Lewis P, Erren TC (2020) COVID-19: science must not be the boy who cried wolf. J Epidemiol Community Health. 74(8):676. doi:10.1136/jech-2020-214448

 

Lewis P, Hellmich M, Fritschi L et al., (2020) Perinatal photoperiod and childhood cancer: pooled results from 182,856 individuals in the international childhood cancer cohort consortium (I4C). Chronobiol Int. 37(7):1034-47. doi:10.1080/07420528.2020.1740724

 

Lewis P, Oster H, Korf HW et al., (2020) Food as a circadian time cue – evidence from human studies. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 16(4):213-23. doi:10.1038/s41574-020-0318-z

 

Lewis P, Shaw DM, Wild U, Erren TC (2020) (Side) effects of the rule of the road and neurophysiology on traffic safety: A hypothesis. Environ Res. 183:109246. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109246

 

Lewis P, Wild U, Erren TC (2020) Working from home during and after COVID-19: watch out for erythema ab igne when using laptops. Br J Gen Pract. 70(697):404. doi:10.3399/bjgp20X712037

 

Yang L, Lewis P, Park Y (2020) Exercise Timing and Cancer Treatment: Avenues for Chronobiological Research. Chronobiol Med. 2(2):52-6. doi:10.33069/cim.2020.0006

2019 (6)

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2019) Chronotype and beyond: 17 building blocks to reconcile and explore internal time architecture. Chronobiol Int. 36(3):299-303. doi:10.1080/07420528.2018.1549564

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2019) Hypothesis: ubiquitous circadian disruption can cause cancer. Eur J Epidemiol. 34(1):1-4. doi:10.1007/s10654-018-0469-6

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2019) Hypothesis: Folklore perpetuated expression of moon-associated bipolar disorders in anecdotally exaggerated werewolf guise. Med Hypotheses. 122:129-33. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2018.11.004

 

Erren TC, Morfeld P, Groß JV et al., (2019) IARC 2019: “Night shift work” is probably carcinogenic: What about disturbed chronobiology in all walks of life? J Occup Med Toxicol. 14:29. doi:10.1186/s12995-019-0249-6

 

Lewis P, Depp C (2019) A single, open access journal may prevent the primary publishing problems in the life sciences. Account Res. 26(6):391-6. doi:10.1080/08989621.2019.1582340

 

Lewis P, Erren TC (2019) The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2018: Added value – and reflection – for participants, institutes and disciplines. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 40(1):1-4.

2018 (4)

 

Erren TC, Groß JV, Lewis P (2018) Computing sleep deficiency. J Sleep Res. 27(3):e12630. doi:10.1111/jsr.12630

 

Lewis P (2018) Is hypoxia-induced skeletal muscle dysfunction lost in space or just a matter of a time? J Physiol. 596(15):2959-60. doi:10.1113/jp276033

 

Lewis P, Foster RG, Erren TC (2018) Ticking time bomb? High time for chronobiological research. EMBO Rep. 19(5). doi:10.15252/embr.201846073

 

Lewis P, Korf HW, Kuffer L et al., (2018) Exercise time cues (zeitgebers) for human circadian systems can foster health and improve performance: a systematic review. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 4(1):e000443. doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2018-000443

2017 (8)

 

Erren TC, Groß JV, Wild U et al., (2017) Crediting animals in scientific literature: Recognition in addition to Replacement, Reduction, & Refinement [4R]. EMBO Rep. 18(1):18-20. doi:10.15252/embr.201643618

 

Erren TC, Lewis P (2017) Can yesterday’s smoking research inform today’s shiftwork research? Epistemological consequences for exposures and doses due to circadian disruption at and off work. J Occup Med Toxicol. 12:29. doi:10.1186/s12995-017-0175-4

 

Erren TC, Morfeld P, Lewis P (2017) Computing circadian misalignment: Why not combine sleep timing and duration to assess accumulated sleep deficiency? Chronobiol Int. 34(10):1321-4. doi:10.1080/07420528.2017.1371729

 

Erren TC, Shaw DM, Lewis P (2017) Small groups, open doors: Fostering individual and group creativity within research communities. Med Hypotheses. 109:56-8. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2017.09.018

 

Lewis P, Erren TC (2017) Perinatal light imprinting of circadian clocks and systems (PLICCS): A signature of photoperiod around birth on circadian system stability and association with cancer. Chronobiol Int. 34(6):782-801. doi:10.1080/07420528.2017.1315125

 

Lewis P, Erren TC (2017) Perinatal Light Imprinting of Circadian Clocks and Systems (PLICCS): The PLICCS and Cancer Hypothesis. Front Oncol. 7:44. doi:10.3389/fonc.2017.00044

 

O’Halloran KD, Lewis P (2017) Respiratory muscle dysfunction in animal models of hypoxic disease: antioxidant therapy goes from strength to strength. Hypoxia (Auckl). 5:75-84. doi:10.2147/hp.S141283

 

O’Halloran KD, Lewis P, McDonald F (2017) Sex, stress and sleep apnoea: Decreased susceptibility to upper airway muscle dysfunction following intermittent hypoxia in females. Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 245:76-82. doi:10.1016/j.resp.2016.11.009

2016 (3)

 

Lewis P, O’Halloran KD (2016) Diaphragm Muscle Adaptation to Sustained Hypoxia: Lessons from Animal Models with Relevance to High Altitude and Chronic Respiratory Diseases. Front Physiol. 7:623. doi:10.3389/fphys.2016.00623

 

Lewis P, O’Halloran KD (2016) Sex differences in murine sternohyoid muscle tolerance of acute severe hypoxic stress. Physiol Res. 65(5):843-51. doi:10.33549/physiolres.933169

 

Lewis P, Sheehan D, Soares R et al., (2016) Redox Remodeling Is Pivotal in Murine Diaphragm Muscle Adaptation to Chronic Sustained Hypoxia. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 55(1):12-23. doi:10.1165/rcmb.2015-0272OC

2015 (3)

 

Lewis P, McMorrow C, Bradford A, O’Halloran KD (2015) Improved tolerance of acute severe hypoxic stress in chronic hypoxic diaphragm is nitric oxide-dependent. J Physiol Sci. 65(5):427-33. doi:10.1007/s12576-015-0381-8

 

Lewis P, Sheehan D, Soares R et al., (2015) Chronic sustained hypoxia-induced redox remodeling causes contractile dysfunction in mouse sternohyoid muscle. Front Physiol. 6:122. doi:10.3389/fphys.2015.00122

 

Williams R, Lemaire P, Lewis P et al., (2015) Chronic intermittent hypoxia increases rat sternohyoid muscle NADPH oxidase expression with attendant modest oxidative stress. Front Physiol. 6:15. doi:10.3389/fphys.2015.00015

Guidelines (1)

AWMF: Occupational Medicine Guideline for Working with Infrared Radiation

[In German]

Wild U, Lewis P, Groß JV, Dietrich C, Pinger A, Erren TC (2019)

 

https://register.awmf.org/de/leitlinien/detail/002-010

Conferences (19)

As presenter:

2024 International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (Santiago, Chile)

“The natural experiment of Daylight Saving Time & Acute Myocardial Infarction”

 

 2024 German Society for Occuptaional and Environmental Medicine (Münich, Germany)

“Towards circadian health: A scoping review of the effects of architecture on light exposures”

 

 2022 European Biological Rhythms Association (Zürich, Switzerland)

“Diurnal Distributions of Physical Activity Energy Expenditure & Associations with Cardiometabolic Health Parameters”

 

2022 German Society for Sleep Medicine (Wiesbaden, Germany)

“On the giant experiment of time changes: Meta-analyses on heart attacks and science pragmatism for permanent standard time (winter time).”

 

2022 Prenatal Programming & Toxicity (Online)

“Perinatal daylight, the circadian timing system, and later life development: Signals of association with childhood cancer, diabetes, and chronotype”

 

2020 German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Online)  

 “Food and Exercise as Zeitgebers May Be Beneficial Against Shiftwork-Associated Disturbed Chronobiology”
 

2019 European Biological Rhythms Association (Lyon, France)

“Perinatal photoperiod associations with childhood cancer: Findings from 180,000 individuals on 4 continents from the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C)” 

 

2019 German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Erfurt, Germany)

“Kann perinatales Umweltlicht zu Krebsentwicklungen beitragen? Erster Test einer neuen Umwelthypothese an 160 000 Studienpersonen auf drei Kontinenten”

 

2018 Prenatal Programming & Toxicity (Torshavn, Faroe Islands)

“Can disease start with perinatal light? Opportunities for “old” and “new” birth cohort studies to test a novel environmental hypothesis”

 

 2017  European Biological Rhythms Association (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

“Can perinatal light imprinting of circadian clocks and systems (PLICCS) predispose to an increased risk of cancer?”

 

2015 International Hypoxia Symposium (Lake Louise, Canada)

“Redox-dependent metabolic and functional remodelling in mouse diaphragm following chronic sustained hypoxia”

 

2014 Physiological Society Annual Meeting (London, UK)

“Chronic sustained hypoxia induces temporal redox and metabolic remodelling and atrophy signalling in mouse diaphragm muscle”

 

2013 European Muscle Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Chronic hypoxia induces oxidation of proteins central to many homeostatic processes in mouse diaphragm muscle”

 

2013 Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Biomedical Sciences Annual Meeting (Cork, Ireland)

“Investigating the molecular mechanisms that underpin mouse respiratory muscle adaptation to chronic

hypoxia: a redox proteomics approach”

 

2013 International Hypoxia Symposia (Lake Louise, Canada)

“Chronic hypoxia induces differential time-dependent and muscle-specific oxidative changes to the skeletal muscle proteome” 

 

2012 Physiological Society Annual Meeting (Edinburgh, Scotland)

“Sex difference in hypoxic tolerance of mouse sternohyoid muscle”

 

2012 Irish Thoracic Society Annual Meeting (Limerick, Ireland)

“Chronic hypoxia alters redox homeostasis in mouse respiratory muscle”

 

2012 Irish Thoracic Society Annual Meeting (Limerick, Ireland)

“Tempol improves rat sternohyoid muscle power in-vitro”

 

2011 European Muscle Conference (Berlin, Germany)

“Chronic hypoxia does not affect rat respiratory muscle fibre oxidative capacity” 

Some selected conference abstracts as co-author (too many to list):

2024 German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine

“Zeitumstellungen und Herzinfarktrisiken: Ein Systematischer Review mit Metaanalyse”

Presented by Anke Hurst (doctoral student).

 

2023 German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine

“The effect of architecture and urbanisation on light-dark exposures and circadian biology: A scoping review”

Presented by Dr Rania Christoforou (collaborator from Health Living Spaces research group in Aachen) who won a poster prize. 

 

2020 German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine  

 “Welche Schichtarbeitsübergänge verursachen eine höhere chronobiologische Beanspruchung?
Presented by Serra Kurt (medical student) who also won a young researcher travel award from the DGAUM for this project. I co-supervised this medical student project.

2015 Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Annual Meeting 

“Oxidative enzyme activity in respiratory and non-respiratory muscle of hypoxic mice and human respiratory patients”

Presented by Dr Karen O’Conner (undergrad student at the time), this work was awarded a poster prize. I contributed to some of this work as a PhD student and I supervised some of the undergrad student work in the lab that went into this project.

 

2014 Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Annual Meeting

“Effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia on rat respiratory muscle metabolic and antioxidant enzyme activities”

Presented by Paul Lemaire (visiting Masters student at the time), this work was awarded a poster prize. contributed to some of this work as a PhD student and I co-supervised some of the undergrad student work in the lab that went into this project.

 

2013 Sleep & Breathing Conference (Montreal, Canada)

“NADPH oxidase inhibits rat sternohyoid muscle performance and expression is increased following chronic intermittent hypoxia”

Presented by Robbie Williams (Masters degree student at the time), this work was selected as an invited talk. I contributed to some of this work as a PhD student and I co-supervised some of the undergrad student work in the lab that went into this project.