Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0309-0008
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
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Posted Date: 2023-09-13T04:00Z

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                                       
                              LETTER PEER REVIEW
                                       
                                      of
                                       
2023 White Paper on the Quantitative Human Health Approach to be Applied in the Risk Evaluation for Asbestos Part 2 under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
                                       
             List of Candidates (including Biographical Sketches)
                                       
                     Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0309
                                       
                                       
NOTE: This list of candidates includes all interested and available nominees under consideration after EPA's screening based on the selection criteria in the Federal Register of June 22, 2023, (88 FR 40819). From this list, EPA will make final selections of five to eight letter peer reviewers to review the "2023 White Paper on the Quantitative Human Health Approach to be Applied in the Risk Evaluation for Asbestos Part 2 under the TSCA." 

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                             Henry A. Anderson, MD

Affiliation: Adjunct professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin

Expertise: Research and programmatic expertise in public health; preventive, environmental, and occupational medicine; occupational and environmental human health and exposure epidemiology; human health risk assessment; regulatory risk assessment; agent-specific focus on Asbestos, Silica, Persistent Organic Pollutants

Education: MD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; BA, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Experience Summary: Dr. Henry Anderson, retired after 35 years, from positions as Wisconsin State Environmental and Occupational Disease Epidemiologist, and Chief Medical Officer in the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Department of Health Services. He has served two appointments as State Health Official; a position appointed by the Governor of the State of Wisconsin. His duties included oversight of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) program. He is board-certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine with a sub-specialty in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. Dr. Anderson has published over 300 articles. His primary research interests include disease and exposure surveillance systems, cancer and chronic disease epidemiology, reproductive and endocrine health hazards, drinking water contaminants, pesticides, and dietary risk assessment, including sport fish consumption advisory communication. Dr. Anderson began his specialization in studying asbestos exposure and disease in 1972. 

                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                       Robert S. Herrick, ScD, MS, CIH

Affiliation: Retired, formerly Senior Lecturer, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Expertise: Occupational and environmental exposure assessment

Education: ScD, Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; MS, Environmental Health Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
Michigan; BA, Chemistry, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio

Experience Summary: Dr. Robert Herrick is a retired faculty member from the Harvard University School of Public Health (1994 to 2018). In this position, Dr. Herrick conducted research and taught courses on exposure assessment and control of chemicals in the workplace and the general environment. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard University, he was a researcher on occupational exposures at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (1977 to 1994). His workshop activities included the planning committee for the Tenth Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health (1990 to 1993); planning committee for the International Conference on Retrospective Exposure Assessment in Occupational Epidemiology (1994); planning committee for the International Conference on Methodological Challenges to the Study of Occupational Injury  -  An International Epidemiology Workshop (1996); working group to prepare International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph on some non-heterocyclic polycyclic hydrocarbons and some related industrial exposures (2005); and Chair, organizing committee for conference: Innovations in Exposure Assessment (2009). Dr. Herrick's primary research interest was exposure assessment for epidemiologic studies.

                           Michael A. Jayjock, PhD

Affiliation: Sole Proprietor of Jayjock Associates, LLC, Langhorne, Pennsylvania 

Expertise: Human health exposure and risk assessment; exposure modeling; dose-response modeling

Education: PhD and MS, Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; BS, Secondary Education, Penn State University, State 
College, Pennsylvania

Experience Summary: Dr. Michael Jayjock is an independent consultant who retired as a Senior Research Fellow from the Rohm and Haas Company where he worked for 35 years. During his employment at Rohm and Haas, his responsibilities included the development and management of all aspects of exposure assessment and mathematical modeling projects in the service of product safety. Dr. Jayjock is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies including Health Canada, the European Commission, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He is a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and Certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygienists (ABIH) as a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH). He is active in various committees of the AIHA and in the publication of his research. His primary research interest includes exposure modeling of human exposure to chemicals. 
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                             Marty S. Kanarek, PhD

Affiliation: Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, Wisconsin

Expertise: Environmental epidemiology                                                                         

Education: PhD, Epidemiology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 
MPH, Environmental Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; BA,
Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

Experience Summary: Dr. Marty Kanarek has been a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology for 40 years. Dr. Kanarek's research focuses on environmental pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls, lead, mercury, asbestos, and several other chemicals. He has published widely on the epidemiology of asbestos and mesothelioma. He is a Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology.

                        Dennis J. Paustenbach, PhD, DABT
                                       
Affiliation: President and Chief Scientist, Paustenbach and Associates, Jackson, Wyoming

Expertise: Environmental and occupational toxicology; industrial hygiene; exposure science; risk assessment; chemical engineering

Education: PhD, Environmental Toxicology, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana;
Post-Doctoral Research (in absentia), Pharmacokinetics, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; MS, Counseling Psychology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana; MS, Industrial Hygiene (minor: toxicology); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; BSChE, Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
       
Experience Summary: Dr. Paustenbach worked for almost ten years as an engineer, industrial hygienist, toxicologist, and risk assessor in the private sector (pharmaceutical and chemical companies).  He then entered the field of consulting in about 1988 when he became President of ChemRisk; a firm that he founded. This became one of the largest risk assessment and applied toxicology consulting firms for approximately 20 years. This group undertook over 1,000 different projects involving chemicals or radionuclides in soil, food, sediment, consumer products, the workplace, groundwater, ambient air, and other media. He has served on many different science advisory boards over the past 35 years. Dr. Paustenbach, has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, has authored 50 book chapters, and has published three editions of his textbook on risk assessment.

 

                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                   David C. Roskelley, MSPH, CIH, CSP, FAIHA

Affiliation: President of R&R Environmental, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah; Adjunct Faculty at the University of Utah, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH)

Expertise: Industrial hygiene; occupational safety; asbestos 
 
Education: MSPH, Public Health, University of Utah, RMCOEH; 
BS (with emphasis in communications and premedical), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Experience Summary: Mr. David Roskelley has a master's degree in Public Health with an emphasis in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Utah/Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH) and currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member (1997 to present, 26 years). Mr. Roskelley' s master's research was titled "The Historic Aspects of Asbestos Sampling," which compared the physical and chemical analysis method (P&CAM) 239 and current National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 7400 methods of asbestos sample analysis.  He has owned a comprehensive asbestos consulting firm for the past 26 years and has worked in the field for over 35 years. Mr. Roskelley is a Board Certified Safety Professional (CSP) as well as a Board Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH). He served as Chair of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) (2013 to 2018) and has previously served on the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Board as a Director (2009 to 2012). Mr. Roskelley is founding partner of R&R Environmental, Inc. a comprehensive safety, health, and environmental consulting firm based in Sandy, Utah (1997 to Current). Most recently, Mr. Roskelley was recognized for extraordinary contributions to the industrial hygiene profession and awarded the distinguished title of "Fellow" by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (2019). He co-authored Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, 7th edition, The Evolution of Occupational and Industrial Hygiene as a Profession, chapter 2 (ISBN: 978-1-935082-15-6), 2019.

                           Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD
                                       
Affiliation: Director, Institute for Translational Epidemiology at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Associate Director, Population Science, Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;  Program Co-Director, Cancer Prevention & Control, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Expertise: Cancer epidemiology; environmental carcinogens; cancer and nutrition, and genetic susceptibility to cancer; genetic susceptibility to environmental exposure; cancer survivorship; health disparity; access to care in minorities; and chronic diseases prevention

Education: MD, University of Milan, School of Medicine, Milan, Italy; MS, Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York; MS, Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, New York; PhD in Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York

Experience Summary: Dr. Emanuela Taioli is the Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has conducted extensive research on cancer occurrence in the World Trade Center cohort. As Associate Director of Population Science, Dr. Taioli oversees the epidemiological, behavioral and health service research activities of the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. Dr. Taioli also co-leads the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. Among her most important contributions are those to the field of cancer prevention, including the study of cancer risk factors in healthy populations, cancer predisposing factors, hormone metabolism and genetic susceptibility to environmental exposure. She is a well-recognized expert in cancer survivorship and the effect of lifestyles changes on the risk for cancer recurrence and the development of secondary cancers. She has worked extensively on health disparities, access to care and chronic disease prevention in minority populations. She is a Scientific Board Member of the Mesothelioma Foundation, and has been a Member, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Mesothelioma Task Force.

                             Haining Yang, MD, PhD

Affiliation: Professor (Researcher), University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

Expertise: Mesothelioma; Carcinogenesis of asbestos and other carcinogenic mineral fibers

Education: MD, Shandong Medical University, Jinan, China; PhD, Shandong University, China

Experience Summary: Dr. Haining Yang, is a Tenured Professor at the University of Hawai'i Cancer Center. Dr. Yang's research work focuses on the pathogenesis of mesothelioma, a malignancy often related to exposure to asbestos or other carcinogenic mineral fibers. She has been studying mesothelioma, in particular how asbestos and other carcinogenic fibers cause malignant mesothelioma since 2003. Her research goal is to find novel strategies for mesothelioma early detection, prevention, and therapy. During her years of study, Dr. Yang has discovered some key mechanisms of asbestos-induced carcinogenesis. Dr. Yang's research is funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Department of Defense. The results of her work have been published in high-ranked journals, including Nature, Nature Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Reviews Cancer, Cancer Discovery, Cancer Research, Journal of Thoracic Oncology etc. Dr. Yang was awarded European Union Marie Curie Scholarship from the European Commission Marie Curie Actions Program in 2005, and she was one of the recipients of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Innovative Landon Award for International Collaboration in Cancer Research in 2008, she received the iMig (International Mesothelioma Interest Group) Research award in 2018.