The Presidential/Congressional Commission on
Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn, Chairman,
is Professor of Environmental Health and of Medicine and Dean of
the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the
University of Washington, Seattle. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Omenn
was a Deputy Science and Technology Adviser in the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy and then an Associate
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The author of
380 research papers and scientific reviews, as well as
author/editor of 14 books, Dr. Omenn received his A.B. from
Princeton University, his M.D. from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in
genetics from the University of Washington.
Alan C.
Kessler, Vice-Chairman, is a partner in the Philadelphia
office of the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll Professional
Corporation. Mr. Kessler has extensive experience in the defense
and litigation of major class action toxic tort suits in federal
and state courts, as well as experience in the successful defense
and prosecution of major federal antitrust and securities class
action suits. He has been elected three times as a Township
Commissioner for the Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania (population 58,000). Mr. Kessler received his B.A.
from the University of Delaware and his law degree from the
University of Maryland.
Norman
T. Anderson is Director of Research for the American
Lung Association of Maine. He was a regional air toxicologist for
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Boston; a regulatory
toxicologist for the Maine Bureau of Health, and an environmental
health scientist for the Maine Department of Environmental
Protection. Mr. Anderson received his B.A. from Brown University
and his Masters of Science in Public Health from the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Dr.
Peter Y. Chiu is Senior Physician and Service Committee
Chair for The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Milpitas, CA,
and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Stanford University
Medical School. Dr. Chiu has been a Fellow of the American
Academy of Family Physicians since 1989, and also has been a
registered civil engineer in California since 1972. He also
served on the California Regional Water Quality Control Board
from 1979 to 1984. Dr. Chiu received his B.S. in Civil
Engineering, his Masters of Public Health degree, and his Doctor
of Public Health degree from the University of California,
Berkeley; and his M.D. degree from Stanford University.
Dr. John
Doull is a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and
Therapeutics at the University of Kansas Medical Center. A former
president of the American Board of Toxicology and the Society of
Toxicology, Dr. Doull served on the boards of the American
Academy of Clinical Toxicology and The Toxicology Forum. He is
the recipient of many professional honors, including one named
for him, the John Doull Award presented by the Mid-America
Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. Dr. Doull received his B.S.
in Chemistry from Montana State College, and his Ph.D. in
Pharmacology and M.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.
Dr.
Bernard Goldstein is Director of the Environmental and
Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a joint program of the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University, and Chairman of
the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine at the
medical school. From 1983 to 1985 he was Assistant Administrator
for Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. Dr. Goldstein received his B.S. degree from the
University of Wisconsin and his M.D. from New York University
School of Medicine.
Dr.
Joshua Lederberg, a Noble Prize winning research
geneticist, is President Emeritus of The Rockefeller University
and remains a professor and Sackler Foundation Scholar there. He
received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine for studies on the
exchange of genetic material in bacteria and the U.S. National
Medal of Science in 1989. He has been a member of the National
Academy of Sciences since 1957 and is a charter member of its
Institute of Medicine. He served as Chairman of the
President’s Cancer Panel from 1979 to 1981. Dr. Lederberg
received his B.A. from Columbia College, was a medical student at
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and
obtained his Ph.D. from Yale.
Dr.
Sheila M. McGuire is president of the Iowa Health
Research Institute and an expert in the epidemiology of oral
diseases, geriatrics research, and fluoride research. She is a
former Assistant Professor in the Harvard Medical School’s
Department of Dental Care Administration and adjunct faculty
member at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. Dr.
McGuire received her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the
University of Iowa; her Master’s in Epidemiology from the
Harvard School of Public Health; and her Doctorate of Medical
Sciences in Epidemiology from Harvard.
Dr.
David Rall is the former Director of the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and is one of
the world’s leading authorities on toxicology and
environmental health. He was the founding Director of the
National Toxicology Program, the largest toxicity testing program
in the world, and has authored and co-authored approximately 170
papers relating to comparative pharmacology, cancer chemotherapy,
pesticide toxicology, drug research and regulation, among other
topics. Dr. Rall received his B.S. degree from North Central
College and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacology, as well
as his M.D. degree, from Northwestern University.
Dr.
Virginia V. Weldon is Senior Vice President, Public
Policy, for Monsanto Company. Prior to joining Monsanto, Dr.
Weldon was a professor of pediatrics, deputy chancellor for
medical affairs, and vice president of the Medical Center at
Washington University School of Medicine and Medical Center. She
is a member of the President’s Committee of Advisors on
Science and Technology, and a distinguished service member of the
Association of American Medical Colleges, whose assembly she
chaired in 1985-86. Dr. Weldon received her A.B. degree from
Smith College and her M.D. degree from the State University of
New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Gail
Charnley, Executive Director, is an expert in
environmental toxicology and risk assessment. Prior to becoming
the Commission’s executive director, she was acting director
of the Toxicology and Risk Assessment Program at the National
Academy of Sciences. She has chaired several U.S. Army Science
Board committees and is currently serving as a councilor of the
Society for Risk Analysis. Dr. Charnley received her A.B. in
Biochemistry from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in Toxicology
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Staff
Sharon Newsome, Associate Director
Joanna Foellmer, Program Specialist and
Designated Federal Official
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Delaney, U.S. EPA, unless otherwise credited.