George F. FriesDr. Fries has been a consultant since retiring from a Research Animal Scientist position in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture. The activities have involved issues related to the transmission of persistent organic contaminants through agricultural production systems to human foods. He participated in preparation of risk assessments of PCB-contaminated agricultural soils and potential aerial deposition of dioxins and furans on cattle pastures. Other activities have included service on review and advisory panels.
The focus of research by Dr. Fries during his service in ARS was on the uptake and fate of persistent insecticides and environmental pollutants in farm animals, uptake of toxic chemicals by plants, and evaluation of such factors as soil ingestion and management systems on levels of animal uptake and transport of toxic contaminants to human foods of animal origin. The research included a variety of persistent chemicals, including such chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides as DDT and hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. The research involved all major classes of farm animals including dairy and beef cattle, sheep, swine, and laying hens. Work was also carried out with laboratory species, such as rats, and microbial fermentation systems. In addition to the research in controlled laboratory settings, work was conducted in the field on farms that had excessive chemical residues in their animal products. Work in these areas led to an interest in identifying sources and pathways of animal exposure and the application of these findings human health risk assessments.
Dr. Fries was the Research Leader of the Pesticide Degradation Laboratory, Natural Resources Institute, ARS, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland from 1988 to 1993. In addition to carrying out his personal research, the duties included supervision of a multidisciplinary unit composed of seven professional scientists and a like number of support personnel. The mission of the laboratory was to conduct research on the movement and fate of pesticides and toxic chemicals in agricultural environments and to develop technology for waste disposal.
Roger O. McClellan Roger O. McClellan, DVM, MMS, DABT, DABVT, FATS is currently an advisor to public and private organizations on issues concerned with human health risk analysis, inhalation toxicology, and strategic business analysis for science-based organizations.
Dr. McClellan received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Washington State University in 1960 and a Master of Management Science degree from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He has more than 4 decades of experience in toxicology and human health risk analysis. He is the author or co-author of over 350 papers and edited 10 books in these fields including the 2 leading texts on inhalation toxicology/respiratory toxicology.
He is President Emeritus of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC, having served as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Institute from September 1988 through July 1999. The Institute has a mission of creating an improved knowledge base for understanding and assessing the adverse effects of exposure to chemicals. During his tenure, the organization achieved international recognition for the development of science undergoing important environmental and occupational health regulations.
Prior to his appointment as President of CIIT, Dr. McClellan was Director of the Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He began his career with Lovelace in 1966. During his 22 years with the Lovelace organization, he provided leadership for development of one of the world's leading research programs concerned with the toxic effects of airborne materials. The Institute continues operation today as a core element of the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute.
Dr. McClellan has served in an advisory role to numerous public and private organizations. He is past Chairman of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, Environmental Health Committee, Research Strategies Advisory Committee, and Member of the Executive Committee, Science Advisory Board, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; Member, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; Past Member, Advisory Council for Center for Risk Management, Resources for the Future; a former Member, Health Research Committee, Health Effects Institute; and service on National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committees on Toxicology (Past Chairman), Risk Assessment for Hazardous Air Pollutants, Health Risks of Exposure to Radon, Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter, as well as the Committee on Environmental Justice of the Institute of Medicine. He recently served on Advisory committees to the CDC Center for Environmental Health and DOE's Biological and Environmental Research Program and as Chair of the Board of Trustees, Toxicology Excellence in Risk Assessment. Dr. McClellan received the Society of Toxicology 2005 Merit Award for a distinguished career in toxicology.
Glenn JohnsonDr. Glenn Johnson received his M.S. from the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Both research programs focused on the application of multivariate techniques to geological and environmental chemical data. He spent seven years between degrees, as an environmental consultant with Roux Associates, Inc. and McLaren/Hart Environmental Engineering Corp., where his work focused on investigation of contaminated sites, environmental forensics and associated litigation support. Since 1995, Dr. Johnson has been a Research Assistant Professor at the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, where he continues research in environmental chemometrics, and teaches in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is President of GeoChem Metrix, an environmental forensics/chemometrics consulting firm in Sandy, Utah.
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Sam KacewSam Kacew, Ph.D, ATS, is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Ottawa and Scientist of the Institute of Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Guildford in Surrey England; Colgate-Palmolive, University of New Mexico; Institute of Toxicology at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan; Joszef Fodor National Center of Public Health in Budapest, Hungary: Department of Occupational Health, Shanghai Medical University in Shanghai, China; Zhehjiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Division of Toxicology at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Suwon City, Korea.
Currently, Dr. Kacew is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, Current Issues, the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B Critical Reviews and the Associate Editor of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. He was a member of the Committee on Toxicology of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), served as a Chairman on the NAS Subcommittee on Iodotrifluoromethane and was a member on the NAS Subcommittees including Flame Retardants and Jet Propulsion Fuel-8. Dr. Kacew was also a member of the Advisory Expert Committee of the Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres, the Panel on the Beryllium Lymphocyte Proliferation Screening Test, served as an Expert Panel member for the Breast Milk Monitoring for Environmental Chemicals and was a Core Panel Member of the Voluntary Childrens Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) part of a USEPA initiative. In addition to this work, Dr. Kacew has edited several texts on pediatric toxicology and serves on several editorial boards . He has been a peer reviewer for the EPA on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables (HEAST), chemical-specific issue papers for the Superfund Technical Support Center (STSC), and served on National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant study sections. He received the Achievement Award of the Society of Toxicology of Canada in 1983, the Achievement Award of the Society of Toxicology in 1986, the ICI (Zeneca) Traveling Lectureship Award in 1991, the US-China Foundation Award in 1995, the Colgate-Palmolive Visiting Professorship Award in 1997, and the Public Communications Award of the Society of Toxicology in 2002. Dr. Kacew has authored of over 100 papers, reviews and book chapters with emphasis in general toxicology including renal, hepatic and pulmonary toxicology.
Glenn JohnsonDr. Glenn Johnson received his M.S. from the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Both research programs focused on the application of multivariate techniques to geological and environmental chemical data. He spent seven years between degrees, as an environmental consultant with Roux Associates, Inc. and McLaren/Hart Environmental Engineering Corp., where his work focused on investigation of contaminated sites, environmental forensics and associated litigation support. Since 1995, Dr. Johnson has been a Research Assistant Professor at the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, where he continues research in environmental chemometrics, and teaches in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is President of GeoChem Metrix, an environmental forensics/chemometrics consulting firm in Sandy, Utah.
A. Wallace Hayes A. Wallace Hayes, PhD, DABT, FATS, FIBiol, FACFE, ERT, is a toxicologist with over 30 years of experience. He has written over 200 peer reviewed publications and is the editor of the textbook, Principles and Methods of Toxicology, the international journal of Human and Experimental Toxicology and a co-editor of the Target Organ Toxicity Series. Dr. Hayes also is the editor of Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology. Before joining Harvard School of Public Health as a visiting scientist, Dr. Hayes was Vice-President of Corporate Product Integrity at the Gillette Company, where he had management responsibility for the safety evaluation of a variety of consumer products, plant safety, environmental stewardship, and quality control. Dr. Hayes is an adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Hayes holds degrees from Auburn University (PhD and M.S.) and Emory University (A.B.).
Dr. Hayes was an NSF predoctoral fellow at Auburn University, a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and a NATO Senior Scientist at the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge, England. Dr. Hayes currently lectures at the Harvard School of Public Health and at Virginia Polytechnic and State University and in the Risk Assessment Summer School of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX). Dr. Hayes has served the International Union of Toxicology as the editor of the Proceedings of ICT III (Developments in the Science and Practice of Toxicology) and as the editor of the Proceedings of the 5th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries (Toxicology in the New Century Opportunity and Challenge). He has served as a delegate to IUTOX and on several IUTOX commissions. Dr. Hayes currently is the Secretary-General of IUTOX. Dr. Hayes has served on committees and expert panels for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institutions of Health, and the Department of Defense. Dr. Hayes is a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology, The Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the American Board of Forensic Medicine and the American Board of Forensic Examiners. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the Institute of Biology (UK) and the American College of Forensic Examiners. Dr. Hayes is a registered toxicologist in the European Union (ERT) and a certified nutrition specialist.
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