Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2016-0686-0011
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Posted Date: 2017-03-21T04:00Z

Peer Review Candidate Bios for Public Comment
                      Contract EP-C-12-029, Task Order 89

 Stuart A. Batterman, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
   
i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Exposure science; risk assessment; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ph.D. in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (1986) and M.S. in Technology and Policy Program (1981).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Stuart Batterman is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Currently, he is Center Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-supported T42 Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, and he leads the Exposure Assessment Core of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)-supported P30 Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Batterman's areas of expertise include exposure science, risk assessment, and epidemiology in occupational, community, and environmental settings; and his group specializes in exposure measurements, modeling, and statistical analyses. His research focuses on improving exposure measures that can be used in risk assessments and epidemiological studies; measuring toxic compounds found as pollutants in drinking water, ambient air, and indoor air; and statistical and modeling methods that can be used to interpret and extend available measurements. His research has addressed a wide range of topics including but not limited to exposure assessment, biological monitoring, environmental statistics, uncertainty analysis, measurement techniques, and lead in drinking water, with support from government, industry, and nonprofit organizations (i.e., US National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, USEPA, the Health Effects Institute, the World Health Organization, etc.). In recent years, Dr. Batterman has served as faculty advisor for research sponsored by the University of Michigan President's Call to Action on the Flint Water Crisis; provided technical expertise to the City of Chicago in the design and analysis of the largest water sampling program for lead in the country; and been involved with several research projects that relied on blood lead measurements. He brings an understanding of lead measurements in both water and blood, and their use in exposure and risk assessment; and has prior experience with IEUBK and other related modeling and statistical methods. Dr. Batterman has served on various city, state, and federal panels; supervised or co-directed over 80 research projects and several education and training programs; and published over 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and 300 abstracts, reports, and proceedings. 
   
 Teresa S. Bowers, Ph.D., Gradient Cooperation.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Environmental lead exposure analyses; probabilistic modeling; IEUBK modeling; risk assessment

ii. Education: University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in Geochemistry (1982).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Teresa Bowers is a Risk Assessor and Inorganic Chemist at Gradient Corporation with over 30 years of experience in exposure modeling, mathematical and geochemical modeling, and the application of this information in risk-based environmental strategies and development of site-specific cleanup levels. Prior to joining Gradient, she held research and visiting faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Dr. Bowers' areas of expertise include statistical analysis, geochemical modeling, and modeling of blood lead and urine arsenic levels associated with environmental exposures. She has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals on these topics and others, and has been invited to speak on these subjects by government groups and industry. Over the course of her career she has served on numerous review panels and scientific advisory committees including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)- Superfund Basic Research Program Scientific Review Panel (1999), the USEPA Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS) Vol. 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment Guidance Review Panel (2000), the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program External Advisory Panel (2009), and the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, National Institute of Health (NIH) (2003-2007). Dr. Bowers is the author of an adult blood lead model that is currently used by USEPA and has familiarity with other blood lead models including the O'Flaherty and Leggett models. She has assessed human health risk for lead at a mining site in South America and a recreational park in Michigan, participated in a workshop for the Georgia Industry Environmental Coalition on lead exposure models, developed lead-based screening levels using Monte-Carlo analysis, and modeled impacts of proposed FDA regulations on food additives to blood lead levels among children. 

 Panos Georgopoulos, Ph.D., Rutgers University.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: PBPK modeling; exposure assessment; probabilistic exposure modeling; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (1986) and M.S. in Chemical Engineering (1982).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Georgopoulos is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at Rutgers University specializing in mathematical modeling of environmental and biological systems. He directs the Informatics and Computational Core for the NIEHS Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease within Rutgers' Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI). Dr. Georgopoulos established and directs the Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory at EOHSI, a state-of-the-art facility for informatics and modeling of complex environmental and biological systems. He also directs the Center for Exposure and Risk Modeling and is Co-Director of the Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology Center, a research consortium of Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Toxicoinformatics. Dr. Bowers previously served as Director of the Department of Energy (DOE)-funded Center of Expertise in Exposure Assessment of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation. His research interests include environmental health informatics, systems modeling, human exposure, and risk analysis. He has researched on topics including mathematical modeling of multimedia fate and transport of environmental pollutants, multi-pathway modeling of human exposure to chemicals agents, and individual and population based simulation modeling of contaminant uptake in residential and occupational settings. Dr. Georgopoulos has published more than 125 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in scientific journals, books and proceedings on these topics and others, and has authored or co-authored several state and federal government documents and technical reports. He served on the external peer review committee for USEPA's Technical Approach for Lead (2014) and currently serves as a member of various scientific and technical committees on other environmental issues, including USEPA's Chemical Safety Advisory Committee. Dr. Georgopoulos has published and presented on physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling and probabilistic multi-pathway exposure and uptake modeling of multimedia contaminants, including lead and co-occurring metals.

 Philip Goodrum, Ph.D., DABT, Integral Consulting, Inc.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Environmental lead exposure analyses; probabilistic modeling; IEUBK modeling; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (1999) and M.S. in Water Resources Engineering (1995).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Philip Goodrum is a senior managing scientist at Integral Consulting, Inc. with more than 25 years of experience in quantitative risk assessment and environmental modeling. He specializes in applications to human health and ecological risk assessment, sediment remediation, groundwater compliance monitoring, and natural resource damage assessment. Dr. Goodrum is a recognized national leader in statistical sampling methods, probabilistic risk assessment, and lead exposure modeling. He has developed strategies to characterize and manage risks associated with environmental contaminants, and represented clients in negotiations with state and federal regulators, trustees, and stakeholder groups on issues related to data interpretation, statistical analysis, modeling, and risk characterization. He has assisted USEPA, state agencies, and other clients in the interpretation of results of statistical analysis applied to empirical data and environmental model simulations. For example, he co-authored USEPA's 2001 Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS), which provides guidance on the application of probabilistic risk assessment in human health and ecological risk assessment and served as independent reviewer of a probabilistic risk assessment conducted by USEPA Region 1. While working at Scientific and Regulatory Consultants (SRC), he was responsible for writing technical support documents for USEPA on the use of the IEUBK model and managing USEPA's "hotline" for users of the software. He also developed the Integrated Stochastic Exposure model, a software tool that applies Monte Carlo analysis to explore variability and uncertainty in estimates of blood lead concentrations in children. Dr. Goodrum has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and served on several advisory committees related to lead and health, including the USEPA Science Advisory Board for Lead (2010-present), USEPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Lead Review Panel (2006-2007), and USEPA National Center for Exposure Assessment Peer Review Panel for All Ages Risk Model for Lead (2000). 

 Bruce Lanphear, M.D., M.P.H., Simon Fraser University and British Columbia Children's Hospital.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Children's environmental exposures; children's blood lead levels; NHANES data; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: University of Missouri at Kansas City, M.D. (1986) and Tulane University, M.P.H. (1988) 

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Bruce Lanphear is a Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Clinician Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, British Columbia Children's Hospital. He previously worked as a Professor at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Rochester. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 100 studies examining the relationship of toxic chemicals with intellectual delay, psychopathology, brain function, asthma, and other health endpoints in children and young adults. These studies, which include both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, have tested the linkage of exposures to lead, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), tobacco and bisphenol A with IQ deficits, executive functions, and Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. He has also conducted seven community-based, randomized, controlled trials to test the efficacy of reducing environmental hazards on dust lead levels on children's blood lead concentrations, injuries, asthma symptoms, and behavioral problems. Dr. Lanphear also has extensive experience quantifying the contribution of lead contaminated house dust, soil, and water with children's lead intake. He is the senior principal investigator for an NIH-funded, 400-person birth cohort study to examine the effects of developmental exposures to a wide array of chemicals (e.g., lead, pesticides, mercury, alcohol, polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs], and environmental tobacco smoke) and neurobehavioral functioning in children. Dr. Lanphear is the also co-principal investigator for an 800-person study of 3-year old children in Canada to examine the impact of prenatal exposures to environmental toxicants on the development of learning and behavioral problems. He is actively involved in numerous professional societies and organizations; has served as Editor or an Editorial Board Member for several peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives from 2012 to present); and participated in governmental advisory/review panels (e.g., reviewer for Health Canada's Toxicological Review and Recommended Toxicological Reference Values for Environmental Lead Exposure in Canada [2008-2009], Scientific Advisor for Canada Health Study funded by Health Canada [2009-2013], member for USEPA Science Advisory Board for Evaluating Dust Lead Standards [2010-2012], member for Panel on Health Effects of Low-level Lead  -  National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, [2011-2012]).

 France Lemieux, M.C.E., Materials and Treatment Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Health Canada, Government of Canada.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Environmental lead exposure analyses; probabilistic modeling; NHANES blood lead data

ii. Education: Norwich University, M.S. in Civil Engineering (2008).

iii. Professional Experience: France Lemieux is currently the Head of the Materials and Treatment Section in the Water and Air Quality Bureau at Health Canada, where she has worked since 1988. In this position, she manages a multi-disciplinary team of evaluators, technicians, and engineers in order to assess the safety of contaminants found in drinking water, recommend analytical and treatment methods, and develop Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality. Her areas of expertise include environmental (e.g., water, paint, dust) lead exposure analyses used for probabilistic modeling, lead exposure and sampling methodology, health effects of lead, and blood lead intervention levels. Her responsibilities as a member of the Health Canada Lead Working Group included developing the Blood Lead Guidance, State of the Science Report on Lead, and Risk Management Strategy on Lead; reviewing internal and contracted assessments and reports on lead; and providing recommendations on lead control strategies. These efforts involved assessing the NHANES database on blood lead and the Canadian equivalent of that survey (Canada Health Measures Survey), and analyzing environmental lead exposures in various media. Ms. Lemieux also served as Co-Investigator in the "Study On the Impact of Residential Sources of Lead on the Blood Lead Levels of Young Children" which was published in a report to Health Canada (2011) and in peer-reviewed journals. She has provided advice related to lead in drinking water to, and collaborated with, colleagues at the USEPA, World Health Organization and in the U.K. She regularly peer reviews manuscripts dealing with lead in drinking water and corrosion for different journals and has participated on expert panels and advisory committees providing expertise on lead related issues and corrosion control (e.g., Ontario Drinking Water Advisory Council Expert panel on approaches to reduce levels of lead in drinking water [2016]). Through her work experience, research, and collaborations, France has gained a well-rounded, in-depth understanding of lead and its impacts on health, assessing exposures that can affect blood lead levels, lead in drinking water, and probabilistic modeling.
   
 Ian von Lindern, Ph.D., TerraGraphics International Foundation.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Exposure assessments; probabilistic modeling; IEUBK modeling; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: Yale University, Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering (1980) and M.S. in Biometeorology and Atmospheric Studies (1973).

iii. Professional Experience: From 1984 through his retirement in 2014, Dr. Ian von Lindern served as Chief Executive Officer and Principal Scientist of TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering Inc., whose principal clients were state, federal, and local governments. He currently serves as co-founder and Executive Director of TerraGraphics International Foundation (TIFO), a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization that provides humanitarian assistance to communities, governments and NGOs concerning health and environmental response to toxic chemical and hazardous waste exposures. This work has included educational and advisory roles in lead poisoning health response activities in many different countries, including characterization and remediation of environmental lead exposures in contaminated communities suffering from childhood lead poisoning in northern Nigeria. Dr. von Lindern brings over 40 years of national and international engineering and scientific expertise experience, including a variety of environmental assessments; studies in air, water, and soil pollution; toxic and hazardous materials investigations; human health risk assessments; and application of statistical analysis techniques to multidisciplinary environmental problems. Over the course of his career, he has worked on projects regulated under federal, state, local, and foreign authorities; provided litigation support and expert witness testimony in administrative and court proceedings; served on several U.S. government advisory panels and published in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to lead health risk assessment. For example, as lead risk assessor in projects involving the Bunker Hill /Coeur d'Alene Basin Superfund Site, he acquired extensive experience applying exposure and biokinetic lead modeling to assess human health risk, including site-specific quantitative analysis of the relationship between observed blood lead levels and environmental variables. He has participated in several EPA review panels specifically focused on the IEUBK model and has used the model in professional applications for 30 years. Dr. von Lindern served as an EPA Science Advisory Board member for the Review Subcommittee for Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project (1993), Subcommittee Assessing the Consistency of Lead Health Regulations in EPA Programs (1992), Review Subcommittee Assessing the Use of the Biokinetic Model for Lead Absorption in Children at RCRA/CERCLA Sites (1988), the Ad Hoc All-Ages Lead Model Review, and the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee reviews of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Lead Panel (1975-77, 1982-86, and 2006-2008).

 Anne Loccisano, Ph.D., Exponent.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: PBPK modeling; IEUBK modeling for lead; risk assessment

ii. Education: Duquesne University, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (2007)

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Loccisano is a board-certified toxicologist at Exponent specializing in the development and application of computational modeling techniques, such as pharmacokinetic models, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models, and probabilistic human health risk assessments. She has applied these types of models to various environmental toxicants (including pesticides, metals, and perfluoroinated surfactants) and consumer products to predict human exposures and the resulting risks. Her areas of expertise include human health risk assessment, toxicokinetics, product stewardship, and computational chemistry. Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Loccisano was a Senior Scientist and Toxicologist with Reynolds American, Inc., where she performed exposure assessments, as well as deterministic and probabilistic risk assessments of consumer products in support of regulatory submissions. She contributed to the development of reference risk values and cancer slope factors for various constituents found in consumer products in order to support risk assessments for regulatory compliance. During her postdoctoral work at the USEPA/National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)/Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), Dr. Loccisano developed and applied PBPK models to various chemicals of agency concern. She also contributed to several chemical assessments through evaluation of dose-response, mode-of-action, and toxicokinetic data. During her postdoctoral work at the Hamner Institutes, Dr. Loccisano developed and applied PBPK models for perfluorinated surfactants (PFOA and PFOS) for several species and life stages for use in human health risk assessment. Dr. Loccisano has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, participated as an expert reviewer, presented at national and international meetings, and is an active member of several professional societies. She has experience using the O'Flaherty PBPK model for lead and the IUEBK model, and brings an understanding of pharmacokinetics of lead during various life stages.

 Allan H. Marcus, Ph.D., Consulting Statistician

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Children's exposure to lead; IEUBK modeling; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Statistics (1965)

iii. Professional Experience: From 1993 through his retirement in 2014, Dr. Allan Marcus served as a Statistician at USEPA, where he worked on regulatory risk assessment for toxic chemicals. He currently works as an independent consulting statistician and brings experience in statistical analyses and compartmental models of lead biokinetics in children, adults, and laboratory animals. The first half of his career was as a Professor of Statistics at Case, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, and Washington State University. In the 1970s, he developed a long-term interest in the environmental health sciences, at first as a science advisor to citizens' groups, and then as an expert witness in environmental litigation after having established expertise through his publications in scientific journals. Even while employed in the academic world, his interests included activities in the public sector (e.g. Executive Secretary of the Maryland Power Plant Siting Advisory Committee). Dr. Marcus entered the private sector in 1987, managing a small office for a contract research organization, the Battelle Memorial Institute. While at Battelle, he and his USEPA associates began developing the IEUBK mathematical model to estimate blood lead levels in children, completing the work and evaluating the model after he joined USEPA as a staff scientist. He has since applied the IEUBK model to numerous site-specific health risk assessments for children aged 6 months - 7 years, primarily from exposure to lead in air, soil, dust, and paint, but also including drinking water. Dr. Marcus has experience in environmental pathway models for multi-media exposures (including time series analyses for effects of remediation or intervention) and statistical modeling of lead concentrations in drinking water. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, statistical reports on levels of lead and copper contamination in household drinking water supplies, and biokinetic models of human lead uptake. For his work in these areas and others, Dr. Marcus has received numerous USEPA awards, including several Scientific and Technical Achievement awards.

 Marc A. Nascarella, Ph.D., Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: quantitative exposure assessment; IEUBK modeling; modeling exposure pathways 

ii. Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ph.D. in Public Health Toxicology/Epidemiology (2008) and M.S. in Environmental Health/Public Health Toxicology (2002).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Marc Nascarella is Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health where he directs a team of human health scientists that are responsible for quantitative assessments of exposures to contaminants in environmental media (e.g., air, water, soil, food), biomonitoring specimens (e.g., blood, urine) and consumer products. He also serves as Principal Investigator for the Biomonitoring Massachusetts Study, a statewide surveillance effort focused on identifying individuals with elevated concentrations of metals (e.g., lead, mercury, manganese, cadmium) in blood and urine, and as the Massachusetts's Department of Public Health designee on technical matters related to the regulation of drinking water quality. His work in the areas of regulatory toxicology and dose-response modeling has been presented at scientific meetings and published in government reports, peer-reviewed journals, and books. For example, he recently presented PBPK modeling results of pediatric lead poisoning that was performed as part of a clinical collaboration to evaluate a case of severe lead poisoning at the 2016 North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology (NAACT) Annual Meeting. He has extensive experience as a collaborative member on a number of biomonitoring and risk assessment committees, including the CDC/American Public Health Laboratory Association National Biomonitoring Network Steering Committee, and has been invited by CDC to speak at national meetings on toxicology and biomonitoring. Dr. Nascarella's work on quantitative probabilistic modeling and dose-response assessment has been recognized by national and international professional organizations, including the International Dose-Response Society, Society of Toxicology's Risk Assessment Specialty Section, and Society for Risk Analysis' Dose-Response Specialty Group.

 Michéle Prévost, Ph.D., Polytechnique Montreal.
   
i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Environmental lead exposure analyses; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: Polytechnique Montreal, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (1991) and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering (1984).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Prévost has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of water treatment and distribution. Since 1992, she serves as Industrial Chair on Drinking Water of the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) at the Department of Civil Engineering of Polytechnique Montreal. Dr. Prévost has completed applied research and development on source protection, water and various aspect of distribution systems (lead control, bio-stability, pathogen regrowth, integrity & intrusion, data mining, hydraulic and quality modeling). Recently, she as directed the multi-university utility partnership initiative to reduce lead at the tap through a suite of laboratory, field, and epidemiological studies in Canada. She has directed studies and graduate students in studies on: field monitoring sampling comparing various investigative and compliance protocols, exposure assessment, epidemiological studies using blood lead measurements, application of IEUBK, and particulate lead occurrence and bioavailability. Dr. Prévost is active on numerous technical advisory committees to utilities and international organizations and is a reviewer for several international journals. She was a member of the technical advisory committee to the Walkerton Commission and presided the Quebec RESEAU Advisory Committee on Drinking Water Regulations for 12 years. She currently serves as a member of the Pew Charitable Trusts advisory committee for development of a report evaluating the health and equity impacts of policies to prevent and respond to childhood lead exposure. Dr. Prévost has authored over 155 peer-reviewed articles and participated in over 350 regional, national, and international conferences, many as a guest speaker. 

 P. Barry Ryan, Ph.D., Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health.

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: Exposure science; environmental lead exposure analyses; SHEDS multimedia modeling; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: Wesleyan University, Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry (1979) and University of Chicago, M.S. in Physical Chemistry (1975).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. P. Barry Ryan is Professor of Exposure Science and Environmental Chemistry in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry. He has been active in the exposure assessment field for more than 30 years, publishing over 125 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and presenting to the scientific community on more than 200 occasions. His has conducted numerous cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of community-based exposures, for multiple pollutants and in multiple media, and associated human health effects. Dr. Ryan is currently Dual Principal Investigator for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)/USEPA co-funded Children's Environmental Health Centers' Center for Children's Health, the Environment, the Microbiome and Metabolomics (C-CHEM2). His team is researching the influence of environmental exposures on the microbiome and neurodevelopment of infants and children. Dr. Ryan is also an active participant in the NIH-funded Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) program, and the NIH/Gates Foundation International Household Air Pollutant Intervention (HAPIN) Trial. In addition, he was previously Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on three separate Formative Research projects associated with the National Children's Study. He was also Principal Investigator on a USEPA-funded longitudinal study of exposures to pollutants known as the National Human Exposure Assessment (NHEXAS) - Maryland study, and a USEPA-funded study to evaluate lifetime bone-lead burden among adolescents in two different cities. Dr. Ryan was member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for USEPA's Office of Research and Development and a member of the USEPA Science Advisory Board Sub-Committee on Exposure and Human Health. He also completed a four-year term on the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children's Study undertaken by the National Institutes of Health. Over the course of his career, he has served on numerous other advisory panels for the USEPA, most recently on the external evaluation committee reviewing the USEPA Guidelines for Human Exposure. 

 Kathleen L. Vork, Ph.D., California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).

i. Relevant Expertise Areas: PBPK modeling; probabilistic modeling; modeling exposure pathways

ii. Education: University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences (2003) and University of Minnesota, M.P.H. in Occupational and Environmental Health (1988).

iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Kathleen Vork is a Staff Toxicologist for the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) at the California Environmental Protection Agency. 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 workers and the general population. 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, professional groups, and the public. For example, she has served on California's Advisory Committee for Training Regulations for Lead Paint Abatement for the California Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, the Lead Training Course Planning Committee for the Alameda County Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and as a member of the Board of the Genetic and Environmental Toxicology Association of Northern California. Recently, she served on the Peer Review Panel for USEPA's Approach for Estimating Exposures and Incremental Health Effects from Lead due to Renovation, Repair, and Painting Activities in Public and Commercial Buildings (2014-2015), and as a reviewer for preliminary modeling work conducted by the U.S. USEPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) (2016).