Air Pollution & Chronic Disease Epidemiology Expert Consultant Resume

• Epidemiology
• Environmental
• Public Health
• Research

This expert received a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health.

This expert received an M.P.H. in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.

This expert received a B.A. in Biology from Grinnell College.

Air Pollution & Chronic Disease Epidemiology Expert Consultant Resume

This associate is an expert in environmental epidemiology, environmental hazard risk assessment, strategic risk communication, and risk assessment for environmental health standards with related expertise in water quality and health.

Additional areas of specialty include epidemiology studies of drinking water organic contaminants and cancer, colon cancer risks and drinking water chlorination, asbestos in drinking water and cancer incidence, and chemoprevention. Further specializations include levels of affluence, toxic waste and cancer mortality in residential areas, epidemiological studies on ingested mineral fibres, and gastric and other cancers. Additional areas of study include epidemiologic study of drinking water chlorination, drinking water treatment and risk of cancer death, and assessment of carcinogens in drinking water.

This consultant offers specific expertise relative to risk, susceptibility and the epidemiology of proliferative neoplastic disease. Further expertise includes formaldehyde concentrations in mobile homes, exposure to nitrogen dioxide, osteosarcoma, seasonality and environmental factors. This consultant’s expertise includes childhood lead poisoning, endometrial cancer incidence in relation to electric blanket use, and occupational cardiovascular risks.

This consultant has conducted numerous studies in areas including sport fish consumption, body burden levels of dioxin, furans and pcbs among frequent consumers of great lakes sport fish, and fish consumption and reproductive outcomes. Related studies include fish consumption patterns and blood mercury levels.

This associate is highly experienced in areas including health and productivity benefits of improved indoor air quality, health impacts of indoor air pollution, indoor air quality, and weatherization for energy conservation. Further topics of expertise include residential indoor air quality, structural leakage, and occupant activities.

University Service

• Director, Center for Human Systems, Institute for Environmental Studies
• Chair, Undergraduate Certificate Degree Program Committee, Institute for Environmental Studies
• Chair, Nominating Committee, Institute for Environmental Studies
• Chair, Risk Interest Group
• Co-Chair, Interagency Risk Steering Committee
• Curriculum Committee Member, Institute for Environmental Studies
• Curriculum Committee Member, Water Resources Management Graduate Program
• Land Resources Graduate Programs Executive Committee
• Academic Planning Council Member, Institute for Environmental Studies
• Institute for Environmental Studies Instructional Computer Committee Member
• Budget Committee Member, Institute for Environmental Studies
• Merit Review Committee Member, Department of Preventive Medicine
• Faculty Senator for the Department of Preventive Medicine
• Associate Member, Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center
• Trainer, Center for Environmental Toxicology
• Member Graduate Faculty, Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
• Pre-Med and General Advisor, Faculty Advisory Service, College of Letters and Science
• Institute for Environmental Studies, Minority-Disadvantaged Opportunity Committee
• University Council on Pre-College Programs
• Affiliate Member, Community Nutrition and Nutrition Policy Emphasis Group of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences
• Medical School Research Committee
• American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Review Committee
• Biological Sciences Divisional Curriculum Planning Committee
• Chair, Equity and Diversity Committee, IES
• Admissions Committee Member, Land Resources Graduate Program
• Admissions Committee Member, Population Heath Sciences Graduate Program
• Chair, MPH Curriculum Committee, School of Medicine and Public Health
• Medical School Promotions Committee

Reviewer

• The American Journal of Epidemiology
• The Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Environmental Health Perspectives
• International Journal of Epidemiology
• The Environmental Professional
• Cancer Causes and Control
• Ground Water
• Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Consultant

• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
• Sea Grant College Programs
• U.S. National Center for Health Statistics
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
• U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment
• U.S. Veterans Administration
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S.P.H.S.
• Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Task Force on Hazardous Emissions Member
• Media Resource Service, Scientists' Institute for Public Information,
• British Columbia Health Care Research Foundation
• March of Dimes
• Universities Council on Water Resources, Inc.
• International Joint Commission
• Life Systems, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio
• Eastern Research Group, Inc.
• Wisconsin Radiation Protection Council
• Wisconsin Air Pollution Control Council Member
• RMT, Inc.
• Consultants in Toxicology, Inc.
• E.A.G.L.E. Project (Effects on Aboriginals from the Great Lakes Environment)
• Dorgan Associates, Inc.
• EPRI HVAC & R Center, College of Engineering, UW-Madison
• Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR )
• Wisconsin Peer Review Organization (WIPRO)
• WE - Energy
• Quarles and Brady, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Friebert, Finnerty, and St. John, S.C. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan, L.L.P., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Consultant in Epidemiology for Syracuse Research Corporation on asbestos standard for USEPA

• National and International Panels

• U.S.E.P.A. Peer Review Workshop on PCBs: Cancer Dose-Response Assessment and Application to Environmental Mixtures
• U.S.E.P.A. Workshop on Comparing Risks from Disinfectant By-Products and Microbes in Drinking Water. Invited expert panel member
• Peer Reviewer, World Health Organizations International Programme on Chemical Safety and Health Criteria for Disinfectant By-Products
• Peer Reviewer, EPA , Cumulative Environmental Risk for Children
• Peer Reviewer, EPA, Drinking Water program
• NIH Grant Review Study Section Member
• Peer Reviewer, EPA proposed Beach Study
• NHLBI, Special Emphasis Panel member, Training Grants in Cardiopulmonary Diseases
• NHLBI Special Emphasis Panel Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
• Peer Reviewer, EPA Office of Research and Development

Testimony on the Possible Health Effects on a Proposed Power Plant
Benzene and Leukemia
Fire Epidemiology and Toxicology