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The following results of the officer elections for the Risk Science & Law Specialty Group were announced in the first quarter of 2000: 

Chair:  Wendy Wagner, e-mail wagner9@attglobal.net , a professor with Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and a former executive committee member of the Risk Science & Law Specialty Group.  Special interests: Using the courts to improve the accountability of policy decisions contained in government agency risk assessments.

Membership Vice-Chair:  John Applegate, e-mail jsapple@indiana.edu , a professor with the Indiana University School of Law and a former executive committee member of the the Risk Science & Law Specialty Group.  Special interests: Legislative proposals to reformulate regulatory risk assessments; public participation in risk-based regulation.

Internet Vice-Chair:  Robin D. Smith, e-mail rsmith@pimed.com, senior vice-president, Post-Graduate Institute for Medicine in Englewood, Colorado.  Special interests:  Global computer applications of knowledge bases for health care and the environment; use of the Internet in environmental health and safety policy development.

International Vice-Chair:  Michael Rogers of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.  Special interests: Risk management and technological uncertainty; sustainable natural resource management; clean technologies; and biotechnology.

Secretary-treasurer:  Ginny Sublet, e-mail sublet@ix.netcom.com, an environmental toxicology consultant and principal of Sublet & Associates in Orlando, Florida, and a former executive committee member of the Risk Science & Law Specialty Group.  Special interests: Communicating scientific information to judges and juries and risk management programs to the public.

Executive committee members:

Russellyn Carruth, e-mail carruth@eohsi.rutgers.edu,  of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute.  Special interests: research projects on law-and-science issues; application of epidemiological data to causation and risk issues in toxic injury litigation.

James Hammitt, e-mail jkh@hsph.harvard.edu, of the Harvard University School of Public Health's Center for Risk Analysis.  Special interests: development and application of quantitative methods to health and environmental policy.

Wayne Roth-Nelson, e-mail Rothnelson@cs.com, an environmental health risk scientist and principal of Roth-Nelson Risk Science in Lafayette, Colorado, and the founder and original chair of the Risk Science & Law Specialty Group.  Special interests: Science in support of toxic risk regulation and litigation; improved use of quantitative risk analysis in toxic injury lawsuits.

Vern R. Walker, e-mail lawvrw@mail1.hofstra.edu, of the Hofstra University School of Law.  Special interests: uses of risk assessment in toxic tort litigation, disease or injury causation in specific individuals, and risk assessment in international trade disputes.

Jonathan Wiener, e-mail wiener@law.duke.edu, of Duke University Law School/Nicholas School of the Environment.  Special interests: Cost-benefit and risk-versus-risk analysis applied to regulatory standards, particularly for air pollution control.

Last modified September 28, 2000