Dr. Robert B. Wallace - (Chair)
The University of Iowa
Robert B. Wallace, M.D. is Irene Ensminger Stecher professor of epidemiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine, and Director of the University’s Center on Aging. He has been a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine, past chair of IOM’s Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and current chair of IOM’s Board on Military and Veterans Health. He is the author or co-author of over 300 publications and 22 book chapters, and has been the editor of four books, including the current edition of Maxcy-Rosenau-Last’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Wallace’s research interests are in clinical and population epidemiology, and focus on the causes and prevention of disabling conditions of older persons. He has had substantial experience in the conduct of both observational cohort studies of older persons and clinical trials, including preventive interventions related to fracture, cancer, coronary disease and women’s health. He is the site principal investigator for the Women’s Health Initiative, a national intervention trial exploring the prevention of breast and colon cancer and coronary disease, and a Co-Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study, a national cohort study of the health and economic status of older Americans. He has been a collaborator in several international studies of the causes and prevention of chronic illness in older persons.
Dr. John C. Besley
University of South Carolina
John Besley, Ph.D. is an assistant professor with the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from Cornell University at Ithaca, NY and a Master of Arts in Public Administration (Innovation, Science and Environmental Policy) from Carleton University at Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Besley’s research explores the relationships between media use, citizen engagement and risk perceptions. He is particularly interested in how news and entertainment content - whether in newspapers, on television, or online - frame scientific risk and the impact of this framing on attitudes towards new technologies, health beliefs, and scientific authorities.
Dr. Edmund A.C. Crouch
Cambridge Environmental, Inc.
Edmund Crouch, Ph.D., is a senior scientist with Cambridge Environmental Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has published widely in the areas of risk assessment, and presentation and analysis of uncertainties. He has co-authored a major text in risk assessment, Risk/Benefit Analysis. Dr. Crouch serves as an expert advisor to various local and national agencies concerned with public health and the environment, and has served on nine National Academy of Science committees, including the Committee on the Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation in the Coeur D’Alene River Basin, and is currently serving on the Committee on Health Risks of Phthalates. Dr. Crouch holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics) (1972) and a Ph.D. in High Energy Physics (1975), both from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Dr. Francesca Dominici
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., is professor of biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. She is currently the coordinator of the Environmental Biostatistics and Epidemiology Group (formed in 2002), initiating various collaborations across several divisions in the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Dr. Dominici’s research has focused on the interface between the methodological development of hierarchical models and their applications to multi-level data. She has extensive experience on the development of statistical methods and their applications to clinical trials, toxicology, biology, and environmental epidemiology. Dr. Dominici received her Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Padua, Italy. She has served on a number of National Academies' committees including the Committee on Gulf War and Health: Review of the Medical Literature Relative to Gulf War Veterans' Health; the Committee to Assess Potential Health Effects from Exposures to PAVE PAWS Low-level Phased-array Radiofrequency Energy; and the Committee on The Utility of Proximity-Based Herbicide Exposure Assessment in Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans.
Dr. Marion F. Ehrich
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Marion Ehrich, Ph.D. is Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. She received master's and doctoral degrees, both in pharmacology and toxicology, from the University of Chicago and the University of Connecticut, respectively. She is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Dr. Ehrich has expertise in biochemical neurotoxicology. Her research includes a focus on the effects of insecticides on the nervous system. She has published extensively in her field and has served on the executive boards of several national organizations, including the Society of Toxicology and the American Board of Toxicology.
Dr. S. Katharine Hammond
University of California, Berkeley
S. Katharine Hammond, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Science in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Brandeis University, Massachusetts. Dr. Hammond’s research interests include the health effects of exposure to diesel exhaust, solvents, metal working fluids and welding fumes in the automobile industry, environmental pollutants and bioaerosols, and secondhand tobacco smoke. Dr. Hammond has served as a consultant to the Science Advisory Board of the US Environmental Protection Agency, on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committees evaluating the wartime exposures to herbicides in Vietnam and the health effects of waste incineration, and was an author of the recent US Surgeon General's report on the Health Effects of Involuntary Smoking.
Dr. David A. Kalman
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
David A. Kalman, Ph.D. is Chair and Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He is an organic chemist by training and is interested in several aspects of chemical behavior as it relates to environmental health, including integrated human exposure assessment using chemical biomarkers of exposure. Among his current research projects is an ongoing assessment of exposures, health status, and possible mechanistic or genetic susceptibility aspects of diseases associated with arsenic poisoning via drinking water. Other research included elucidating the role of personal factors in governing toxicokinetics of inhaled solvents and evaluating biomarkers of exposure to inhaled particulate matter. He has served on two National Academies committees including the Committee on National Monitoring of Human Tissues and the Committee on the Disposition of the Air Force Health Study.
Dr. Susan A. Korrick
Harvard Medical School
Susan A. Korrick, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an Instructor in Occupational Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. Her research currently focuses on the developmental and reproductive toxicities of polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorinated pesticides, and metals; chronic lead toxicities in middle-aged and elderly adults; and the relationship of bone metabolism with changes in kinetics, distribution, and toxicities of lead. Dr. Korrick received her M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from Harvard University School of Public Health. She did her Internal Medicine training at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut and her Occupational-Environmental Medicine and Epidemiology training at Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Dr. Marie C. McCormick
Harvard School of Public Health
Marie McCormick, M.D., Sc.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She received her M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School, and her Sc.D. degree from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. McCormick is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was previously a member of the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She has served as chair of several IOM committees, most recently the Immunization Safety Review Committee for which she received the David Rall Medal. Her research involves epidemiological and health services research investigations in areas related to infant mortality and outcomes of high-risk neonates. Her expertise is in pediatrics, maternal and child health policy, and program evaluation.
Dr. Patricia A. Nolan
Brown University School of Medicine
Patricia A. Nolan, M.D., M.P.H. is a public health consultant affiliated with Brown University and is based in Providence, R.I. Dr. Nolan is an adjunct clinical associate professor in the Department of Community Health at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and is co-director of the community health clerkship. Nolan also serves as the executive director of the Rhode Island Public Health Institute (RIHPI) and principal investigator for a grant project funded through the National Network of Public Health Institutes to re-invigorate RIHPI and improve its sustainability. Nolan served on the Task Force on Community Preventive Services from 2001 to 2005. She also served as the chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2004 to 2007. Dr. Nolan is the immediate past president of the Public Health Leadership Society and a member of the board of the Alliance for Healthy Homes. Dr. Nolan retired from her position as director of the Rhode Island Department of Health in 2005, after serving two five-year terms. She previously held public health leadership positions in Colorado, Arizona and Illinois since beginning her public health career in New York City in the 1970s.
Dr. Marguerite R. Seeley
Gradient Corporation
Mara Seeley, Ph.D., is a senior toxicologist with Gradient Corporation in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Seeley received her Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. She also has an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from the University of Washington. Dr. Seeley has experience in conducting human health risk assessments, and evaluating animal toxicology and human epidemiology studies. Dr. Seeley is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology.
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