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Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 

i. Education: University of Minnesota, Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (1977) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Cory-Slechta is a Professor in the Department of Environmental 

Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine 

and Dentistry, where she also serves as co-director of the Behavioral Sciences Facility Core and 

director of the Animal Behavior Core. Dr. Cory-Slechta received her Ph.D. from the University 

of Minnesota in 1977 and worked as a junior staff fellow of the National Center for 

Toxicological Research beginning in 1979. She was appointed to the faculty of the University of 

Rochester Medical School in 1982 and was appointed Chair of the Department of Environmental 

Medicine and Director of the NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of 

Rochester in 1998. From 2000 to 2002, she was the Dean for Research and Director of the AAB 

Institute for Biomedical Sciences. Following her appointment as Dean, she concurrently served 

until 2007 as the Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at 

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and as Director of the Environmental and Occupational 

Health Sciences Institute, a joint Institute of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and 

Rutgers. Dr. Cory-Slechta’s research has focused largely on environmental neurotoxicants as 

risk factors for behavioral disorders and neurodegenerative disease. Specifically, this has 

included more than 30 years of work on the impact of lead on learning and attention and 

associated neurochemical mechanisms, and the participation in numerous national and 

international committees/review panel/workshops on lead. These research efforts have resulted 

in over 170 papers and book chapters to date. Dr. Cory-Slechta has served on and chaired 

numerous national research review and advisory panels, including committees of the National 

Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Food and Drug 

Administration, the National Center for Toxicological Research, the Environmental Protection 

Agency Science Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, 

and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. In addition, Dr. Cory-Slechta has served on the editorial boards of several journals 

including Environmental Health Perspectives, Neurotoxicology, Toxicology, Toxicological 

Sciences, Fundamental and Applied Toxicology, Neurotoxicology and Teratology, and American 

Journal of Mental Retardation. She has held the elected positions of President of the 

Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology, President of the Behavioral 

Toxicology Society, and been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. 
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Panos G. Georgopoulos, Ph.D., Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) 

i. Education: California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (1986) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Georgopoulos is Professor of Environmental and Occupational 

Medicine at Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also a member of 

the Graduate Faculties of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and 

of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, and a member of the Rutgers Environmental 

and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI). Dr. Georgopoulos received his Ph.D. in 

Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. At EOHSI, he established 

and directs the Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory (CCL), a state-of-the-art facility for 

informatics and modeling of complex environmental and biological systems. Furthermore, he codirects the Center for Exposure and Risk Modeling (CERM) at EOHSI. Dr. Georgopoulos’ 

research areas involve the development and application of mathematical and computational 

methods for diagnostic and mechanistic studies of multipathway physicochemical processes 

taking place in interacting environmental and biological systems. The aim of this research is to 

improve the understanding and quantification of human exposure and biological mechanismbased dosimetry and risk for environmental toxics; this is being accomplished through the 

ongoing development of a consistent mechanistic multiscale modular computational framework 

for source-to-dose-to-effect modeling of toxicant dynamics. Outcomes of this research include 

integrative computational models of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes at the cellular, 

tissue and whole body levels. Dr. Georgopoulos has published more than 125 peer-reviewed 

articles and chapters in scientific journals, books and proceedings, and has authored or coauthored several state and Federal government documents and numerous technical reports. He 

has served on editorial boards of scientific journals and currently serves as member of various 

national and international scientific and technical committees on environmental issues. 
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Philip E. Goodrum, Ph.D., Integral Consulting Inc.

i. Education: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Ph.D. in Environmental 

Engineering (1999) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Goodrum is a Senior Managing Scientist at Integral Consulting 

Inc. and a Senior Consultant at Cardno ENTRIX. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental 

Engineering from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 1999. Prior to 

joining Integral Consulting Inc. in 2013, Dr. Goodrum was employed at Environmental 

Resources Management (ERM), ARCADIS-US, Inc., and SRC, Inc. where he conducted and 

reviewed numerous quantitative risk assessments. Dr. Goodrum has 23 years of experience in 

quantitative risk assessment and environmental modeling, specializing in applications to human 

health and ecological risk assessment, sediment remediation, groundwater compliance 

monitoring, and natural resource damage assessment. He is a recognized national expert in 

probabilistic modeling, quantitative uncertainty analysis, lead (Pb) risk assessment, and 

statistical methods. Dr. Goodrum served for approximately 10 years as a consultant for EPA’s 

Technical Review Workgroup for Lead, managed EPA’s “Lead Hotline,” which assisted the 

public with applications of both the IEUBK model and the interim Adult Lead models, coauthored numerous platform presentations, technical white papers and guidance documents, and 

actively participated in the research and development of EPA’s All Ages Model for Lead. Dr. 

Goodrum served on EPA’s Science Advisory Board for lead and on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) - Lead Review Panel. He is a member of the Interstate 

Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) workgroup on Incremental Sampling Methodology 

and the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 
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Dale Hattis, Ph.D., George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University

i. Education: Stanford University, Ph.D. in Genetics (1974) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Hattis is a Research Professor with the Center for Technology 

Environment and Development (CENTED) of the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark 

University. He received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University in 1974 and an 

undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. For 

the past thirty years he has been engaged in the development and application of methodology to 

assess the health, ecological and economic impacts of regulatory actions, including those related 

to the occupational exposure to lead. His work has focused on the development of methodology 

to incorporate interindividual variability data and quantitative mechanistic information into risk 

assessments for both cancer and non-cancer endpoints. Specific studies have included 

quantitative risk assessments, assessment of reproductive effects, neurological effects, and 

chronic lung function impairment, four pharmacokinetic-based risk assessments for carcinogens, 

an analysis of uncertainties in physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling and an 

analysis of differences among species in processes related to carcinogenesis. Recent research has 

also explored age-related differences in sensitivity to carcinogenesis and other effects. Major 

current research projects include PBPK modeling and mechanism-based dose response modeling 

of carcinogenic effects. Dr. Hattis has published more than 200 articles and chapters in scientific 

journals, books and proceedings. He is a member of the Environmental Health Committee of the 

EPA Science Advisory Board, and for several years he has served as a member of the Food 

Quality Protection Act Science Review Board. He has also served as a member of the National 

Research Council Committee on Estimating the Health-Risk-Reduction Benefits of Proposed Air 

Pollution Regulations. Dr. Hattis has been a councilor and is a Fellow of the Society for Risk 

Analysis, and serves on the editorial board of its journal, Risk Analysis. 
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Andrew Hunt, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington 

i. Education: University of Liverpool, England, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science (1988) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Hunt is on the faculty of the Department of Earth And 

Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas at Arlington where he teaches courses in 

Human Health Risk Assessment/Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Global Environment and Human 

Health, and Toxicology. He previously was on the faculty of the Pathology Department of the 

State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, NY. (14 years) and held a 

position in environmental consulting for four years. For the past 25 years, Dr. Hunt’s research 

has addressed health and environmental hazards in urban and indoor environments. He has 

conducted a number of studies concerned with characterizing and apportioning the sources of 

lead in indoor dust, and with mapping the distribution of lead in dust across urban environments 

(funded by the U.K. Department of the Environment, EPA, HUD, and NSF). His work has also 

repeatedly focused on lead contamination of urban soil. Dr. Hunt has also published in the areas 

of lung disease associated with inhaled particles, and pediatric asthma in relation to 

environmental exposures. Dr. Hunt has served on various committees and panels, including the 

Executive Board of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health and EPA’s Science 

Advisory Board peer review of lead dust technical analyses. He has published more than 50 peerreviewed articles and chapters in scientific journals, books and proceedings. In addition, Dr. 

Hunt has served on the editorial boards of several journals including Air & Water Borne 

Diseases and Journal of Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 
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Naila Khalil, M.B.B.S., MPH., Ph.D., Center for Global Health Boonshoft School of Medicine, 

Wright State University 

i. Education: University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. in Environmental Epidemiology (2007); 

Quaid-e-Azam University, MPH in Public Health (2000); University of the Punjab, M.B.B.S. in 

Medicine and Surgery (equivalent to MD) (1986) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Khalil is an Assistant Professor in Community Health at Wright 

State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Center for Global Health. She received her 

Ph.D. in Environmental Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. She is a 

physician and also holds an MPH from Pakistan. In Pakistan, Dr. Khalil was the national 

program manager for the National Institute of Environmental Health, a collaborative effort with 

World Health Organization. Before joining the Center for Global Health as Assistant Professor, 

Dr. Khalil was a post-doctoral researcher at the Lifespan Health Research Center at Wright State 

University Boonshoft School of Medicine where her research focused on cardiovascular disease 

epidemiology. Dr. Khalil’s doctoral dissertation focused on multiple health outcomes associated 

with environmental lead exposures in older people. She is currently working on a project 

involving the association of blood lead concentration with falls and bone density in older men. 

Dr. Khalil has a number of peer-reviewed publications on lead exposure including the 

association of blood lead levels with bone fractures and mortality in older women and the 

association of occupational cumulative lead and neurocognitive function. Dr. Khalil is on the 

editorial board and serves as a reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Family Medicine & 

Community Health and Environmental Health Perspectives. She is a member of the American 

Society of Bone and Mineral Research. 
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Andy Menke, MPH, Ph.D., Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. 

i. Education: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ph.D. in 

Epidemiology (2010); Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, MPH, 

(2005) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Menke is a Senior Research Analyst at Social & Scientific 

Systems, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, 

Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2010 and his MPH from Tulane University, School of 

Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 2005. Prior to his position at Social & Scientific 

Systems, Inc., Dr. Menke was a research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology and Welch 

Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg 

School of Public Health. Dr. Menke’s research experience includes the conduct and analysis of 

epidemiologic studies, focusing on the epidemiology of diabetes, sex steroid hormones, iron 

metabolism, and environmental exposure to heavy metals. Specific studies on lead and 

associated blood lead levels in U.S. adults and cardiovascular mortality, stroke, and end-stage 

renal disease. Dr. Menke has published more than 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and has 

made presentations at more than 15 scientific meetings. He serves as a reviewer for journals such 

as American Journal of Kidney Diseases; American Journal of Preventive Medicine; Annals of 

Epidemiology; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; Environmental Research; and 

Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Menke is a member of the American Heart 

Association, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the American Diabetes Association. 
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Howard W. Mielke, Ph.D., Tulane University School of Medicine

i. Education: University of Michigan, Ph.D. in Geography (1972) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Mielke is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the 

Tulane University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University 

of Michigan in 1972 and his undergraduate degree in biology, chemistry and geography from 

Macalester College in 1963. Prior to his current appointment at Tulane University, Dr. Mielke 

held a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Bioenvironmental 

Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities. Dr. Mielke began his urban geochemistry research 

in 1971 and his research has focused on accumulated environmental sources of lead and its 

association with childhood lead poisoning in inner city environments. He has published 

numerous articles on the topic of exterior metal accumulation in many cities including New 

Orleans where he conducted a multi-media study of metals in urban and rural areas. This study 

was followed by a pilot project whereby clean soils were brought in to reduce the potential for 

childhood exposure to lead and other toxins that had accumulated in the soil. Dr. Mielke also 

studied multiple metal contamination from house paints as a result of power sanding and paint 

scraping that changed the regulations for house painting in New Orleans. His research has 

influenced policy for the removal of lead from gasoline, and supported revised lead laws in New 

Orleans, Michigan, Canada, Mexico, Peru, the European Union, and Norway. Dr. Mielke has 

published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in scientific journals, books and 

proceedings and has served on editorial boards of scientific journals. He served on EPA’s 

Science Advisory Board to conduct a consultation and peer review of EPA’s draft lead dust 

technical analyses. Dr. Mielke is a full member of the Society of Toxicology and a member of 

the board of the Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 
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Paul Mushak, Ph.D., PB Associates 

i. Education: University of Florida, Ph.D. in Organometal and Biological Chemistry (1970) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Mushak is a Senior Partner at PB Associates where he is a 

Toxicologist and Human Health Risk Assessment Specialist, principally working in the area of 

environmental lead and other metals, metalloids, and organometals. He received his Ph.D. in 

Organometal and Biological Chemistry from the University of Florida in 1970. Dr. Mushak also 

had extensive training and research experience in metal and analytical toxicology in the 

Department of Pathology, University of Florida School of Medicine. His post-doctoral training 

was at the Yale University Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in the area of 

biochemical toxicology and enzymology of certain toxic and essential metals. Prior to his 

partnership at PB Associates, Dr. Mushak was a visiting professor at the Albert Einstein College 

of Medicine and a faculty member from 1971 to 1993 at the University of North Carolina - 

Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Pathology Department. Dr. Mushak has more than 45 years of 

education, training, and experience in the areas of exposures and their determinants, analytical 

pediatric toxicology, toxicokinetics, modeling and health risk assessments. He was the author of 

the book, Lead and Public Health: Science, Risk and Regulation (2011), 180 research articles, 

conference abstracts, and book chapters, and has served on approximately50 expert advisory 

national and international committees including EPA’s Science Advisory Board Panel for the All 

Ages Lead Model and EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) – Lead 

Review Panel. Dr. Mushak has co-authored more than two dozen risk assessment documents for 

various Federal and international agencies on lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, etc. He has 

testified before Congressional committees on two occasions about childhood lead poisoning. Dr. 

Mushak has been qualified as an expert on lead and other metals risk assessment before six 

Federal and six state courts. He is a member of the Society of Occupational and Environmental 

Health, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the Society of Toxicology, among others. 
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Rosalind A. Schoof, Ph.D., DABT, ENVIRON Corporation 

i. Education: University of Cincinnati, Ph.D. in Toxicology (1982) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Schoof is a Principal at ENVIRON where she is a board 

certified toxicologist (Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT)). Prior to 

joining ENVIRON in 2010, she was a Principal and Senior Toxicologist at Integral Consulting, 

Inc., Gradient Corporation, and Exponent. Dr. Schoof received her Ph.D. in Toxicology from the 

University of Cincinnati in 1982 and has more than 25 years’ experience assessing human health 

effects and exposures from metals and other chemical substances for a variety of projects, such 

as contaminated site remediation; commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential exposure 

assessments; product uses; and dietary exposures. Her projects have included numerous health 

risk assessments conducted under various U.S. and international regulatory settings, as well as 

regulatory, research and litigation projects. Dr. Schoof has directed evaluations of chemical 

toxicity, derivation of risk-based exposure levels, health risk assessments for cancer and 

noncancer end points and multimedia exposure assessments. Dr. Schoof is an internationally 

recognized expert on evaluation of arsenic and other metals (including lead) in the environment, 

as well as in the human diet, and on the bioavailability of metals from soil. Her experience with 

lead has included numerous exposure studies and risk assessments for mine and smelter sites; 

risk assessments for manufacturing, landfill, and waste combustion sites; regulatory and research 

projects for/cited by Health Canada, EPA, State of Montana; and litigation projects (e.g., former 

shooting range; mining and smelting site). Dr. Schoof has published more than 40 peer-reviewed 

articles and chapters in scientific journals, books and proceedings. She has served on numerous 

peer review panels for U.S. agencies (e.g., EPA, ATSDR) and Canadian ministries, and on 

several National Research Council committees. She has also served as a member of the British 

Columbia Contaminated Sites Science Advisory Board, the Expert Advisory Panel for the 

Canadian Metals in the Human Environment-Research Network, and the Washington Model 

Toxics Control Act Science Panel. Dr. Schoof was certified as a DABT starting in 1986 and is a 

Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Science. She is a member of the Society of Toxicology, 

Society for Risk Analysis and the International Society for Exposure Science. 
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Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., M.D., Harvard School of Public Health 

i. Education: Brandeis University, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (1980); University of Basel, 

Switzerland, M.D. (2010) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Schwartz is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the 

Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. He 

received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Brandeis University in 1980 and his M.D. from 

the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2010. His research interests are in epidemiology and the 

health consequences of exposure to pollutants, focusing on the health effects of lead and air 

pollutants. Prior to his academic appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. 

Schwartz was a Senior Scientist at EPA until 1994. Dr. Schwartz has studied the cardiovascular 

effects of lead exposure in adults, neurological/cognitive effects in children, auditory effects in 

children, and effects of lead on children’s growth. He has also done work on sources of lead 

exposure, including establishing gasoline lead as the major source of lead exposure in the U.S. 

Dr. Schwartz has studied both acute and chronic effects of air pollution exposure and recently 

established that the exposure to fine combustion particles in air at concentrations well below 

current standards are associated with a range of adverse health effects, leading to a tightening of 

the U.S. air quality standards. He is also experienced in the modeling of continuous covariates in 

epidemiologic studies, both for better covariate control and to more accurately assess the 

relationship between exposure and response. Dr. Schwartz has published more than 600 peerreviewed articles and chapters in scientific journals, books and proceedings. In addition, Dr. 

Schwartz has served on the editorial boards of several journals including the International 

Journal of Biometeorology and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care 

Medicine. He has served on EPA’s Science Advisory Board Ad Hoc All Ages Lead Committee, 

EPA’s Lead Clean Air Science Advisory Committee, and the National Academy of Sciences’ 

Committee on Assessing Lead Exposure in Critical Populations. 
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Anne Steenhout, Ph.D., Université Libre de Bruxelles 

i. Education: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ph.D. in Sciences (1986/87) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Steenhout is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental 

Management and Physical Planning (IGEAT) and Director of the Research Unit "Group for 

Ecotoxicological Evaluation on Pollutants, Safety and Impacts on Humans" (GEEPSIH) at the 

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium. She received her Ph.D. in Sciences 

from ULB in 1986/87 and her research focuses on the assessment of chemical risks and 

vulnerable groups for both inorganic and organic contaminants. Dr. Steenhout’s experience 

includes environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment, toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics, 

and variability and uncertainty analysis for lead and other contaminants. In addition, she has 

experience on the accumulation of lead in hard tissues (bone, teeth) in children and adults, and 

developed a lead biokinetic model (all-age) and exposure model (all sources). The models 

evaluated a variety of sources including lead paints and comparisons with IUBK performances. 

Dr. Steenhout also contributed to EPA’s Working Group on Lead Models. She has also served 

on the European Union Scientific Committee for Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER). Dr. 

Steenhout has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, 150 grant 

reports, and 120 presentations. 
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Kenneth M. Unice, MS, Cardno ChemRisk 

i. Education: University of Arizona, MS. in Environmental Engineering (1998) 

ii. Professional Experience: Mr. Unice is a Science Advisor at Cardno ChemRisk, He received 

his MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1998 and has 15 years 

of quantitative human health risk, exposure assessment, and database experience. Prior to joining 

Cardno ChemRisk in 2005, Mr. Unice was employed at AMEC as an Environmental Engineer 

and Health Scientist. Mr. Unice’s expertise is in the areas of environmental modeling, biokinetic 

modeling, indoor air modeling, occupational exposure assessment, human health risk assessment, 

environmental fate and transport analysis, computer programming and database design. He has 

been involved in a number of projects involving exposure and risk/dose-response assessments for 

metals including an analysis of exposures to lead-based paint, refinement of a biokinetic model 

for cobalt which was based on a framework originally developed for the International 

Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) age specific biokinetic model for lead, and an 

assessment of the adverse health effects associated with cobalt exposure. Mr. Unice has coauthored more than 35 journal articles on the topics of biokinetic modeling, biomonitoring, 

environmental fate and transport models, metals exposure, pathogen risk assessment, and 

exposure reconstruction. Mr. Unice has served as an external peer reviewer for EPA and as a 

peer reviewer on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. He is a 

member of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) and the Society for Risk 

Analysis (SRA). 
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Ian H. von Lindern, Ph.D., PE, TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc. 

i. Education: Yale University, Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering (1980) 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. von Lindern has been Chief Executive Officer and Principal 

Scientist of TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering since co-founding the firm in 1984. He 

received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Yale University in 1980 and 

has nearly 40 years of national and international environmental engineering/science experience 

that includes a variety of environmental assessments; studies in air, water, and soil pollution; 

toxic and hazardous materials investigations; remedial and cleanup plans; human health risk 

assessments; and application of statistical analysis techniques to multi-disciplinary 

environmental problems. He has directed over 40 major health/environmental investigations 

involving primary and secondary lead smelters and battery processors, landfills, and uranium 

mill tailings at several major mining/smelting sites in the U.S., as well as internationally. Dr. von 

Lindern has worked for the State of Idaho on various projects involving the Bunker Hill/Coeur 

d’Alene Basin Hill Superfund Site for more than 35 years as the head Risk Assessor and Project 

Manager. In that capacity he had extensive experience in applying exposure and biokinetic lead 

modeling in assessing human health risk, developing cleanup criteria and remedial design. 

TerraGraphics conducted site-specific quantitative analysis of the relationship between observed 

blood lead levels and environmental variables, and one of the most extensive evaluations of lead 

paint as an additional source of exposure at a CERCLA site. Blood lead data relative to yard and 

house dust lead levels were analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of the yard remediation 

program. Dr. von Lindern has a number of peer-reviewed publications on the reduction of 

childhood blood lead levels and remedial activities at this site. Dr. von Lindern has served as an 

EPA Science Advisory Board Member on five occasions: (1) Review Subcommittee for Urban 

Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project, 1993; (2) Subcommittee Assessing the Consistency 

of Lead Health Regulations in U.S. EPA Programs, 1992; (3) Review Subcommittee Assessing 

the Use of the Biokinetic Model for Lead Absorption in Children at RCRA/CERCLA Sites, 

1988; (4) the Ad Hoc All-Ages Lead Model (AALM) Review; and (5) National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard for lead Panel (2006-2008). He also served on the EPA Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) Subcommittee on Exposure Assessment Methodology, 1988, 

and was a member of the EPA Criteria Assessment Committee for Lead in the Ambient Air from 

1975-1986 and 2006-2008. 
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Kathleen L. Vork, MPH, Ph.D., California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of 

Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) 

i. Education: University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences 

(2003); University of Minnesota, MPH in Occupational and Environmental Health 

ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Vork is a Staff Toxicologist for the Office of Environmental 

Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) at the California Environmental Protection Agency. She 

received her Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California at 

Berkeley in 2003 and her MPH degree in Occupational and Environmental Health from the 

University of Minnesota, School of Public Health in 1988. Prior to her position at OEHHA, Dr. 

Vork worked for the California Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. Dr. Vork has 

extensive experience and expertise relating to exposure pathways and the pharmacokinetics of 

lead in worker and general adult populations. Dr. Vork has implemented various statistical and 

mathematical modeling methods to estimate, adjust and check the accuracy and consistency of 

predictions from models combining exposure pathways with physiologically-based 

pharmacokinetic (PBPK) and biokinetic models. She is the primary author of the report entitled 

“Estimating Workplace Air and Worker Blood Lead Concentration using an Updated 

Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Model” (2013). She has conducted work 

involving the derivation of human lactation transfer coefficients for various chemicals including 

lead for the “Risk Assessment Guidelines Technical Support Documents for Exposure 

Assessment and Stochastic Analysis” (2012) and contributed work published in “The Derivation 

of Non-cancer Reference Exposure Levels” (2007) for the California Air Toxics Hot Spots 

program. Dr. Vork has worked collaboratively with multiple agencies and the public. She has 

served on California’s Advisory Committee for Training Regulations for Lead Paint Abatement, 

the California Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, and was Chair of the Alameda County Lead 

Poisoning Prevention Program Course Planning Committee. Dr. Vork is currently a member of 

the Genetic and Environmental Toxicology Association of Northern California.