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Rogene F. Henderson, Chair
Senior Biochemist and Toxicologist
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

Ramón Alvarez
Senior Scientist
Environmental Defense Fund

Tina Bahadori
Managing Director for the Long-Range Research Initiative
American Chemistry Council

John Balbus
Senior Research Scientist
Global Health Department
George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health Services

Michael J. Bradley
Managing Director
M.J. Bradley & Associates, LLC

Dallas Burtraw
Senior Fellow
Resources for the Future

James S. Bus
Director of External Technology
The Dow Chemical Company

Jonathan Z. Cannon
Blaine T. Phillips Distringuished Professor of Environmental Law,
Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program
University of Virginia School of Law

Gail Charnley
Principal
HealthRisk Strategies

Ruth DeFries
Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Columbia University

Richard A. Denison
Senior Scientist
Environmental Defense Fund

H. Christopher Frey
Professor of Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
North Carolina State University

J. Paul Gilman
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Covanta Energy Corporation

Richard M. Gold
Partner
Holland & Knight, LLP

Lynn R. Goldman
Pediatrician, Epidemiologist, and Professor
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Judith Ann Graham
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (retired)

Howard Hu
NSF International Chair
Professor of Environmental Health,
Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
University of Michigan Schools of Public Health and Medicine

Roger E. Kasperson
Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist
Clark University

Terry L. Medley
Global Director
Corporate Regulatory Affairs
E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.

Danny D. Reible
Chair in Environmental Health Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Texas

Joseph V. Rodricks
Founding Principal
ENVIRON International Corporation

Robert F. Sawyer
Professor Emeritus
University of California

Kimberly M. Thompson
Associate Professor
Harvard School of Public Health and
Children's Hospital Boston

Mark. J. Utell
Professor and Associate Chair
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester;
Director
Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care
Division of Occupational Environmental Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center









Rogene F. Henderson, Chair is an emeritus senior biochemist and toxicologist in the Experimental Toxicology Program of the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. She is also a clinical professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Her major research interests are in the use of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid analyses to detect and characterize biomarkers of developing lung disease, the toxicokinetics of inhaled vapors and gases, and the use of biological markers of exposure and of effects to link environmental exposure to disease. She has served on a number of scientific advisory boards, including those of DOE, EPA, NIEHS, WHO, and the U.S. Army. She was recently chair of EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr. Henderson is a National Associate of the National Academies, and is a former member of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. She has served on 28 National Research Council committees, chairing eight of them. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas.
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Ramón Alvarez is a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Alvarez addresses air quality in Texas cities, with an emphasis on reducing emissions from electric power plants and diesel vehicles. He has worked with industries on the U.S.-Mexico border to find cost-effective methods of reducing waste and pollution. Dr. Alvarez serves on the Science Advisory Committee of the Texas Environmental Research Consortium. He received his B.S. degree from Duke University, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Tina Bahadori is the Managing Director for the Long-Range Research Initiative (LRI) program at the American Chemistry Council (ACC). She is responsible for the direction of the LRI, which sponsors an independent research program that advances the science of risk assessment for the health and ecological effects of chemicals to support decision-making by government, industry, and the public. Dr. Bahadori is the President of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES), where she also held previous elected office. She has served as a member of several committees of the National Academies; peer reviewer for the US EPA STAR grants; the Advisory Panel for the Aerosol Research Inhalation Epidemiology Study (ARIES); and the internal steering committee and one of the Principal Investigators for the St. Louis-Midwest PM Supersite. Prior to joining the American Chemistry Council, she was the Manager, Air Quality Health Integrated Programs, at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). At Arthur D. Little, Inc., where she was a consultant in the Environmental Risk Management Unit, she assisted clients with technical and management problems related to environment, health, and safety matters. Dr. Bahadori holds a doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Harvard School of Public Health. From MIT, she holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and Technology and Policy, as well as Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Humanities.
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John M. Balbus is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Global Health Department at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. From 2002 until 2009 he was the Chief Health Scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, working on a range of issues including air quality, chemicals policy, nanotechnology, and climate change. A physician with board certification in internal medicine and occupational and environmental medicine, Dr. Balbus works at the interface of public health science and environmental policy. Dr. Balbus serves on EPA's Science Advisory Board and the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine. He also served for six years on EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, chairing task groups on climate change and national ambient air quality standards. Prior to joining the Environmental Defense Fund, Dr. Balbus was the founding acting chairman of the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, where he also founded the Center for Risk Science and Public Health and co-founded the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment. Dr. Balbus received his B.A. from Harvard University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University.
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Michael J. Bradley is Managing Director of M.J. Bradley & Associates, LLC, which provides private industry, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies with advice on air quality policy. Prior to founding MJB&A, Mr. Bradley was executive director of Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) for 12 years. As executive director, he played a lead role in the Ozone Transport Commission's development of the NOx budget program. Mr. Bradley also helped to shape the nonattainment, motor vehicle, and acid rain provisions in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. In 1997, he founded the Clean Energy Group, which consists of electric generating companies working with policy makers and other stakeholders to promote effective environmental policy options in the areas of air quality and climate change. He was a member of the EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. Mr. Bradley earned his M.S. degree in Environmental Management from the University of Washington.
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Dallas Burtraw is a senior fellow in the Quality of the Environment Division at Resources for the Future. His research interests include restructuring the electric utility market, the social costs of environmental pollution, and benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of environmental regulation. Dr. Burtraw has investigated the effects on electric utilities of the emission-permit trading program legislated under the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. He has also evaluated the benefits of sulfur dioxide emission reductions as related to Title IV. Dr. Burtraw served on the National Research Council Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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James S. Bus is Director of External Technology at the Dow Chemical Company. His research interests include the mechanism of superoxide radical-mediated paraquat toxicity; the relationship between benzene metabolism and toxicity; metabolic pathways as defense mechanisms to toxicant exposure; and mode of action considerations in the use of transgenic animals for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity evaluations. He is a past president of the Society of Toxicology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. Dr. Bus currently serves on the National Research Council standing Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants. He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from Michigan State University in 1975.
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Jonathan Z. Cannon is the Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Virginia School of Law. He served on President-Elect Obama's EPA Transition Team. Before joining the faculty of UVA, Cannon held positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as General Counsel, Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resources Management, and Chief Financial Officer. Cannon's areas of scholarly interest include the design and implementation of environmental programs, the Supreme Court's environmental jurisprudence, and protection of watersheds and landscapes. He holds a B.A. from Williams College and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Gail Charnley is principal of HealthRisk Strategies, a consulting practice in Washington, DC. Her interests are toxicology, environmental health risk assessment, and risk-management science and policy. She previously served as executive director of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, mandated by Congress to evaluate the role that risk assessment and risk management play in federal regulatory programs. Before her appointment to the commission, she served as a senior program officer with the National Research Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. She is a past president of the Society for Risk Analysis and served as the chair of several U.S. Army Science Advisory Board committees that evaluated health risk assessment practices. Dr. Charnley served on the NRC Committee on Improving Practices for Regulating and Managing Low-Activity Radioactive Waste and the Committee on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents. She received her PhD in toxicology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ruth Defries is Denning Professor of Sustainable Development in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University in New York. Her research examines human transformation of the landscape and its consequences for climate, biogeochemical cycling, biodiversity, and other ecosystem services. She is interested in observing land cover and land use change at regional and global scales with remotely sensed data and exploring the implications for ecological services such as climate regulation, the carbon cycle, and biodiversity. She is a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. Dr. DeFries currently serves on the NRC Geographical Sciences Committee and the Committee on Climate Data Records from Operational Satellites: Development of a NOAA Satellite Data Utilization Plan.
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Richard A. Denison is a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Denison has 25 years of experience in the environmental arena, specializing in chemicals policy, hazard, exposure, risk assessment and management for industrial chemicals, and responsible development of nanotechnology. Previously, Dr. Denison was an analyst and assistant project director in the Oceans and Environment Program, Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress. He recently served on the Science Advisory Panel for California's Green Chemistry Initiative. Until recently, he was a member of the National Pollution Prevention and Toxics Advisory Committee (NPPTAC), which advises EPA's toxics office. Dr. Denison received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.
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H. Christopher Frey is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. His research interests are measurement and modeling of real-world fuel use and emissions of onroad and nonroad vehicles; modeling and evaluation of advanced energy conversion (e.g., combustion, gasification) and environmental control systems; development and application of methods for quantification of variability, uncertainty, and sensitivity analysis in systems models; and exposure and risk analysis. He teaches courses in air pollution control, air quality, and environmental exposure and risk assessment. He has been the PI or Co-PI for over 45 research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Energy, NC Department of Transportation, and others. He currently serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), an EPA Science Advisory Board panel on expert elicitation, a National Research Council committee on review of the toxicological assessment of tetrachloroethylene, and a NARSTO assessment of multipollutant air quality management. Recent projects include development of a guidebook for USDOT regarding best practices for reducing greenhouse gases for freight transportation; measurement and modeling of in-use vehicle activity, fuel use, and emissions; and quantification of inter-individual variability in human exposure to fine particulate matter using a stochastic simulation model. He is a Fellow and Past President of the Society for Risk Analysis and a Fellow of the Air & Waste Management Association. Dr. Frey has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and from Carnegie Mellon University he has a Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Engineering and Public Policy.
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J. Paul Gilman is Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Covanta Energy Corporation. Previously he was Director of the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has also worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Assistant Administrator; at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where he had oversight responsibilities for the Department of Energy (DOE) and all other science agencies; and at DOE, where he advised the Secretary of Energy on scientific and technical matters. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Gilman was the executive director of the Life Sciences and Agriculture divisions of the National Research Council (NRC). He has also served as a member of the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Gilman earned his Ph.D. degrees in ecology and evolutionary biology from The Johns Hopkins University.
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Richard M. Gold is a Partner practicing in the area of environmental law at Holland & Knight LLP. His emphasis is on strategy development, lobbying, legislative and regulatory counseling, and creative solutions to corporate, non-profit, and governmental issues at the federal level. He is the leader of Holland & Knight LLP's Public Policy & Regulation Practice Group. Mr. Gold joined Holland & Knight in 1994 after eight years of government service, including stints with Senator Lloyd Bentsen and EPA Administrator Carol Browner. On the appropriations front, Mr. Gold leads the firm's Federal Appropriations Team. On the administrative front, Mr. Gold has worked with Fortune 500 companies and trade associations, small businesses and local governments on regulatory matters before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States Department of the Interior, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the White House. Mr. Gold received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and his J.D. from George Washington University Law School.
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Lynn R. Goldman is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where her areas of focus are children's environmental health, public health practice and preparedness, and environmental health policy. Dr. Goldman previously served as the assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS). During her tenure at EPA, Dr. Goldman was responsible for the nation's pesticide, toxic substances, and pollution prevention laws. Prior to joining EPA, Dr. Goldman served in several positions at the California Department of Health Services, including head of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control. She has served on numerous boards and expert committees, including the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee. She has also served as a member of numerous National Research Council (NRC) committees. Dr. Goldman was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). She currently is vice chair of the IOM Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, chair of the IOM Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events, and a member of the NRC Standing Committee on Risk Analysis Issues and Reviews. Dr. Goldman received her MD from the University of California, San Francisco and MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
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Judith Ann Graham is an independent consultant on issues related to health risks of environmental chemicals. She recently retired as the Managing Director of the American Chemistry Council's Long-Range Research Initiative, which sponsors research to advance the science of health risk assessment of chemicals to support decision-making by government, industry, and the public. Prior to this, she retired from EPA's Office of Research and Development after 32 years of service; her last position was Associate Director for Health of the National Exposure Research Laboratory. Her research interests include inhalation toxicology, exposure analysis, and health risks of air pollutants. Dr. Graham is a Fellow and past president of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. She has served on several previous NRC study committees; been elected to offices of several scientific societies; and has won several career achievement awards. She has a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from Duke University.
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Howard Hu is the NSF International Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Dr. Hu trained in internal medicine, occupational/environmental medicine, and epidemiology and spent 18 years on the faculty of Harvard, where he was Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, directed and co-directed several research centers, and directed the Harvard Occupational/Environmental Medicine Residency. He continues to direct a multi-institutional research team that studies the interactions between pollutant exposures and genetics towards the causation of chronic diseases in adults and impaired development in children with investigations in the U.S., Mexico, and India. Dr. Hu has published over 200 papers in the scientific literature and serves as Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He remains active clinically and sees patients at the University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Hu served on three fact-finding missions and on the Board of Directors for Physicians for Human Rights and in 1992-1995 was the Chair of the Research Commission for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW; Nobel Peace Prize, 1985). Amongst the awards Dr. Hu has received are the 1999 Progress and Achievement Award from NIEHS, a 2000 Senior Faculty Fulbright Award (for a sabbatical in India), the 2006 Harriett Hardy Award from the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the 2009 Linus Pauling Award for Lifetime Achievements from the American College of the Advancement of Medicine. Dr. Hu holds an MPH in Occupational Health and an ScD in Epidemiology from Harvard University, and an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Roger E. Kasperson is Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist at Clark University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. Before coming to Clark he taught at the University of Connecticut and Michigan State University. His research has focused on social issues in risk analysis and management, global environmental change, public participation, and democratic processes. He has written widely on issues connected with risk analysis, risk communication, global environmental change, risk and ethics, and environmental policy. Dr. Kasperson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2003. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, has been honored by the Association of American Geographers for his hazards research, and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award of the International Society of Risk Analysis in 2006. He has been a consultant or advisor to numerous public and private agencies on energy and environmental issues and served on various committees of the National Research Council and the Council of the Society for Risk Analysis. From 1992 to 1996 he chaired the International Geographical Union Commission on Critical Situations/Regions in Environmental Change. Dr. Kasperson was Vice President for Academic Affairs at Clark University from 1993 to 1996, and in 1999 was elected Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, a post he held through 2004. He is co-chair of the scientific advisory committee of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, and is on the Executive Steering Committee of the START Programme of the IGBH.
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Terry L. Medley is Global Director, Corporate Regulatory Affairs, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. Prior to joining DuPont, he served as the Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and acting administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture. He directed development of the U.S. Government's first biosafety regulations for testing, importation, and interstate movement of transgenic plants and microorganisms. His fields of interest include biotechnology, nanotechnology, and environmental regulatory matters. He has served on numerous international steering committees, advisory committees and expert working groups, reviewing the biosafety of biotechnology products, environmental risk assessments, and the environmental, health and safety aspects of intentionally engineered nanoscale materials. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has published numerous papers. He has also served two terms as a member of the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College and received a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Virginia.
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Danny D. Reible is Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering and Coordinator of Environmental and Water Resources in the Department of Civil Architecture & Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas. Previously, he was professor of chemical engineering and director of the EPA Hazardous Substance Research Center at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on transport phenomena and its applications to environmental assessment and remediation, especially as related to contaminated sediments and dredged materials. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a board certified environmental engineer. He served on the National Research Council Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities, the Committee on Remediation of PCB-Contaminated Sediments, the Committee to Review the OMB Risk Assessment Bulletin and the Committee on Dredging at Superfund Megasites. Dr. Reible received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
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Joseph V. Rodricks is a Founding Principal of the ENVIRON environmental consulting firm in 1982. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Maryland and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Rodricks' fields of interest include toxicology, risk analysis, and their uses in regulation and in the evaluation of toxic tort and product liability cases. Since 1980, he has consulted for hundreds of manufacturers, government agencies, and the World Health Organization, and he has served on fifteen boards and committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has more than 200 publications on toxicology and risk analysis, and has lectured nationally and internationally on these topics. Dr. Rodricks was formerly Deputy Associate Commissioner, Health Affairs, U.S. Food & Drug Administration (1965-1980), and is a Visiting Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He has been certified as a Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology, since 1982. Dr. Rodricks' experience includes chemical products and contaminants in foods, food ingredients, air, water, hazardous wastes, the workplace, consumer products, and medical devices and pharmaceutical products.
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Robert F. Sawyer is the Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught and conducted research in engine combustion, pollutant formation and control, toxic waste incineration, and alternative fuels. Dr. Sawyer has served on numerous National Research Council committees including the Committee for the Evaluation of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, the Committee to Review EPA's Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE) Model, and the Committee on Adiabatic Diesel Technology. He served as chair of the California Air Resources Board, 2006-2007. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace Sciences at Princeton University.
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Kimberly M. Thompson is an associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at the Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital Boston. She earned a B.S. and a M.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1989, respectively, and a Sc.D. in environmental health from Harvard School of Public Health in 1995. Her research interests focus on developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, in addition to the public policy implications associated with including uncertainty and variability in risk characterization. Dr. Thompson is President of the Society for Risk Analysis. She was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2003-2005 and has been the recipient of several honors, including recognition in 2003 by the Society of Toxicology for an outstanding published paper demonstrating an application of risk assessment with fellow colleagues and the 2004 Society for Risk Analysis Chauncey Starr Award.
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Mark J. Utell is Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Director of the Occupational/Environmental Medicine Division, and former Director of the Pulmonary/Critical Care Division at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His research interests have centered on the effects of environmental toxicants on the human respiratory tract. Dr. Utell has published extensively on the health effects of inhaled gases, particles and fibers in the workplace, indoor and outdoor environments. He was an associate editor of Environmental Research. Dr. Utell currently serves on the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures and has previously served on the NRC Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter and the Committee to Review the Health Consequences of Service during the Persian Gulf War. He received his M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1972.
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