Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0161-0018
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Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
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Posted Date: 2019-06-04T04:00Z

ARTHUR G. APPEL

Affiliation: Professor of Entomology, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

Expertise: Research in areas of urban entomology, insect physiology, and development of integrated pest management (IPM) programs for household and structural pests

Education:	PhD in urban entomology and insect physiology, University of California,
               Riverside California
      MS in urban entomology and insect physiology, University of California,
               Riverside California
      BA in Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Experience Summary: Dr. Arthur Appel is a Professor of Entomology at Auburn University with 34 years of teaching and research experience in urban entomology and insect physiology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Entomological Society. He is a member of the editorial boards for the journals Physiological Entomology and Insects; and is a subject editor for the Journal of Economic Entomology. Dr. Appel has served as a department chair (2005 - 2013) and as interim Associate Dean of Research for the College of Agriculture and as Interim Dean and Director for the College and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. His research includes development of IPM programs for cockroach and millipede management as well as developing trapping and sampling protocols for indoor and outdoor cockroaches. He has published nearly 150-refereed articles on all aspects of the biology, behavior, physiology, and management of urban pests.

Panel Experience: Dr. Appel was a member of US EPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (2018) for Review of Methods for Efficacy Testing of Pesticides Used for Premise Treatments for Invertebrate Pests and Fire Ants. Dr. Appel has also served on numerous State, foundation, and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station peer review grant panels and committees.

MICHAEL JOSEPH DANIELS

Affiliation: Professor, Chair, and Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chair in the Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Expertise: Statistical Methods

Education:	ScD in Biostatistics, Harvard University, Massachusetts
               	AB in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Rhode Island

Experience Summary: Dr. Michael Daniels is currently a tenured full professor, Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chair, and chair in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida with over 20 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of expertise are the development of methods for the analysis of longitudinal data and missing data, (Bayesian) causal inference, hierarchical modelling, spatial models, and estimation of dependence. He has worked in various application areas including cancer, nutrition, health services, the environment, and infectious diseases. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a National Institutes of Health research grant entitled "Bayesian methods for missingness and causality in cancer and behavior studies" and is involved as co-investigator in numerous funded grants. He has served as co-editor of Biometrics and is currently president-elect of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society. 

Panel Experience: Dr. Daniels is currently a member of the National Academies of Science Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) (since 2015). He also served as Member of Nextran Microbiologic Safety Board for Xenotransplantation (1999 - 2001); Member of EPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (1999); Consultant for EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) on water quality (2001); Member, NIH AIDS & Clinical Epidemiology Study Section (2012 - 2016); Member, Board Advisory Group for MRC Biostatistics Unit (Cambridge, England), (2012 - 2013); Member, National Academies, Panel on 'Review of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration' (2016 - 2017); External Reviewer, Undergraduate Program in Statistics, Actuarial Science, and Mathematical Finance, University of Waterloo (2016); Site visit team, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2017); Chair of External Review Committee, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UC-Santa Cruz (2017).

MARION FIEDLER EHRICH

Affiliation: Professor of Pharmacology/Toxicology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, Virginia

Expertise: Toxicology, Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacology

Education: 	PhD in Pharmacology/Toxicology, University of Connecticut, Storrs,
            Connecticut
      MS in Pharmacology/Toxicology, University of Chicago, Illinois
      BS in Pharmacy, South Dakota State University, South Dakota

Experience Summary: Dr. Marion Ehrich is a professor at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine (VMCVM) in Blacksburg, Virginia. In addition to teaching pharmacology and toxicology to veterinary, medical and graduate students, her professional responsibilities include serving as relief pharmacist in the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital Pharmacy as well as consultant in the Veterinary Toxicology Diagnostic Laboratory. She has been teaching at VMCVM since 1980, the year in which she became a member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT). From 2010 - 2017, Dr. Ehrich taught pharmacology in the medical school.  She was elected a fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS) in 1999 and received the Society of Toxicology Merit Award in 2010. She served on the SOT Council from 1991 - 1994 and 2001 - 2005; and served as SOT Secretary from 1992 - 1994; Vice-President from 2002 - 2003; and President from 2003 - 2004. She has been active in SOT specialty sections both before election to Council and afterwards including Counselor for the Comparative & Veterinary Specialty Section and President of the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section from 2008 - 2009. She has served on multiple SOT committees including as the Coordinator for Minority Programs from 1994 - 2001 and received Special Education Awards from SOT related to her service in 1997 and 2009. She was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS) in 1999. In addition, she has received teaching awards both at the local and national level.  

Panel Experience: Dr. Ehrich has served on the United States Pharmacopeia Committee on Toxicology, and as an associate editor for the journals Neurotoxicology, International Journal of Toxicology, and Toxicology. She also served on the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel until 2008-2018. 

JEROME A. HOGSETTE

Affiliation: Lead Scientist and Research Entomologist, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida

Expertise: Research on the biology, ecology and management of nuisance flies around humans, livestock, poultry, and exotic animals.

Education: 	PhD in Veterinary Entomology, University of Florida, Florida
      MS in Poultry Science, University of Florida, Florida 
      BS in Poultry Science/Animal Science, University of Florida, Florida

Experience Summary: Dr. Jerome Hogsette is the Lead Scientist and Research Entomologist with the Mosquito and Fly Research Unit at the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology on the University of Florida campus, Gainesville, Florida. He has 39 years of experience in research, teaching, and mentoring graduate students. He has attended numerous scientific meetings, both nationally and internationally, organizing symposia and making presentations at essentially all of them. He was a subject editor at the Georgia Entomological Society, and reviews 10 to 15 manuscripts annually. He has organized meetings, such as the Livestock Insects Workers Conference, 1980 and 2000, and workshops, such as S-1060 Multistate Project Meeting, 2016, 2018, and 2020. His primary research interests are the biology, ecology, and management of nuisance flies, particularly house flies and stable flies, in any situation where they are found.  

Panel Experience: Dr. Hogsette currently serves on the Equipment Committee, the Medical Entomology Committee, and the Pesticide Committee of the Armed Forces Pest Management Board. He served on a Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel for the review of new guidelines on Efficacy Testing of Pesticides used for Premise Treatments for Invertebrate Pests and Treatments for Fire Ants, in 2018.

ERIC S.C. KWOK

Affiliation: Senior Toxicologist of the Exposure Assessment Section and the Human Exposure & Health Effect Modeling Section, California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Expertise: Data analysis of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) guideline mammalian toxicology studies and human exposure studies, pesticide exposure assessment in humans, and pesticide human health risk assessments

Education: 	PhD in Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Riverside, California
	MPhil in Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	BSc (Hons) in Zoology (major) and Botany (minor), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Experience Summary: Dr. Eric Kwok is a Senior Toxicologist of both the Exposure Assessment Section and Human Exposure & Health Effect Modeling Section at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, where he supervises a team of modelers and toxicologists to conduct pesticide exposure assessments on agricultural handlers, reentry workers, and bystanders. He has a combined eighteen years of experience in performing statistical analyses on data derived from the FIFRA guideline toxicology and exposure studies and conducting human exposure and health risk assessments of pesticides using different computational tools including stochastic human exposure assessment models and physiological based pharmacokinetic models. He has been a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology since 2006. His research focuses include applying 21st century computational techniques for characterizing pesticide exposures in humans based on human activities, product formulations, and use patterns. He has published 28 scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and authored multiple research reports on pesticide health risk assessments and mitigation measures. He also received three Superior Accomplish Awards from the California Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of his exceptional contributions and services to state government.

Panel Experience: Dr. Kwok has no previous panel experience.

LISA A. MURPHY

Affiliation: Associate Professor of Toxicology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Expertise: Development, validation, and interpretation of chemical analyses related to diagnostic veterinary toxicology with a focus on environmental health and food and water safety

Education:	VMD, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Pennsylvania
	BS in Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 

Experience Summary: Dr. Lisa Murphy is an Associate Professor of Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. After receiving her Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris (VMD) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine she practiced small animal medicine for three years (1997 - 2000). She joined the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Animal Poison Control Center in Urbana, Illinois, (2000 - 2004), and became a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology in 2003. She worked as an Area Emergency Coordinator for US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in New England from 2004 - 2005. She is a past president of the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association and the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine and currently serves as an appointed member of the Governor's Invasive Species Council of Pennsylvania and on the Board of Directors for Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc. The laboratory also provides diagnostic services and expertise to various zoos, aquariums, wildlife rehabilitation center, and other exotic and aquatic animal professionals. She is recognized for her expertise in toxicological issues of concern for animals associated with natural and man-made disasters and her current research focuses on diagnostic veterinary toxicology, including environmental health and food and water safety.

Panel Experience: Dr. Murphy served as a Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Science Review Board member of the US EPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel that met to review the Scientific Conclusions Supporting EPA's FIFRA Section 6(b) Notice of Intent to Cancel Twenty Homeowner Rodenticide Bait Products (2011).

WESTE OSBRINK

Affiliation: Research Entomologist, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insect Research Lab, Kerrville, Texas

Expertise: Urban medical veterinary entomology

Education: 	PhD in Urban Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California
		MS in Biology, California State College, Los Angeles, California
      BS in Biology, California State College, Los Angeles, California

Experience Summary: Dr. Weste Osbrink has 34 years of research experience, including ten years in industry. He was the first to document the effectiveness of insect growth regulators (juvenoids) for flea control, which rapidly became the international state-of-the-art approach. His research has been cited in seven patents; two flea trap patents, three insecticidal composition patents including a juvenoid IGR patent and two Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) patents and a bioassay system for arthropods patent. His fumigation research led to labeling and re-registration of sulfuryl fluoride (Vikane) for termite control, which has a global impact because methyl bromide is being phased out. He is a pioneer in research of global warming and its impact on food production with 51 referred publications and 56 presentations. His invitations to consult, participate as an adjunct faculty member, and a graduate committee member reflect his entomological status. Dr. Osbrink's recognition is reflected in invitations to present at multiple venues including: international symposia, US Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, various universities, several to pest control organizations, and chemical industries. He has 438 publications including: 334 termite research journals and 79 flea research journals.

Panel Experience: Dr. Osbrink was invited as a member of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Science Advisory Panel in 2012.

MICHAEL K. RUST

Affiliation: Distinguished Professor of Entomology and the Graduate Division, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California

Expertise: Research on the biological and behavioral factors that influence the control of urban insects such as ants, cockroaches, fleas, termites, and yellowjackets with an emphasis on the least toxic insecticides

Education: 	PhD in Entomology, University of Kansas, Kansas
      MA in Entomology, University of Kansas, Kansas
      BA in Biology, Hiram College, Ohio

Experience Summary: Dr. Michael Rust is a retired Distinguished Professor of Entomology and the Graduate Division with a special research appointment. He is a University of California, Presidential Scholar in Entomology, Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (2001) and a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002). Dr. Rust served as the Head of the Division of Economic Entomology from 1983 - 1990. He has served as the Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Department of Entomology from 1990 - 1997. He was the Director for the Center for Exotic Pest Research and Associate Director, University of California Integrated Pest Management Program from 2000 - 2005. He has served as the Household and Structural Pests subject area expert for the Journal of Economic Entomology and the Journal of Medical Entomology. His research interests focus on the use of insecticides in urban integrated pest management programs.

Panel Experience: Dr. Rust served on the University of California Mosquito Program review panel from 1983 - 1999. He served on a US Department of Agriculture panel to review cockroach research proposals for three years.

JEFFREY G. SCOTT

Affiliation: Professor of Pesticide Toxicology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Expertise: Insecticide Toxicology, Evolution and Population Genetics of Insecticide Resistance, Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) of Insects, Insect Molecular Biology

Education: 	PhD in Entomology University of California, Riverside, California
      MS in Entomology, Michigan State University, Michigan
      BS in Biochemistry, Michigan State University, Michigan

Experience Summary: Dr. Jeffrey Scott is a Professor of Entomology at Cornell University, New York. He is a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and was President of the Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology Section of Entomological Society of America in 2011. He has >35 years of teaching and research on pesticides. Primary areas of research have included insecticide mechanisms of action, metabolism, RNAi for pest control, and the evolution, mechanisms and genetics of insecticide resistance.

Panel Experience: Dr. Scott has experience on the following federal panels: US Department of Agriculture Competitive Grants Review Panel (1992, 1995, 2005, 2006 Panel Manager, and 2016); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1994 - 1996, 1998 - 2001); Military Infectious Diseases Research Program (2015 - 2019); Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Gates Foundation Grand Challenges 2003, Grand Challenges in Global Health VCTR 2011 (Panel Manager and Reviewer)); and the Environmental Protection Agency Science To Achieve Results (STAR) program (2002). He has also provided several grant reviews for foundations and international grant programs.

KEITH R. SHOCKLEY

Affiliation: Staff Scientist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Expertise: Statistical support and advice for the analysis of toxicology studies conducted in the National Toxicology Program	

Education:	PhD in Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, North
	Carolina
      MS in Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, North
	Carolina
       BS in Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, New Mexico

Experience Summary: Dr. Keith Shockley is a staff scientist in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and serves as the Principal Statistician for the National Toxicology Program. He has over 10 years of experience conducting multidisciplinary research to identify potentially harmful environmental effects in rodents and other model systems (2008 - 2019). Before arriving at NIEHS, Dr. Shockley was a postdoctoral associate at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he applied and extended statistical approaches to analyze high dimensional data sets generated from animal model systems (2004 - 2008). He was an invited panelist for the NIEHS workshop "Advancing Research on Mixtures: New Perspectives and Approaches for Predicting Adverse Human Health Effects" (2011). He is currently an Editorial Board Member of the journal Toxicologic Pathology (2018 - 2019). His research includes the development of methods to make activity calls, rank compounds, and estimate potency in quantitative high throughput screening data.

Panel Experience: Dr. Shockley has served on internal peer review panels within the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, including the Technical Review Committee for Statistical Contracts (2010, 2016) and the Technical Evaluation Panel for Bioinformatics Support in DIR and DNTP (2016). He has also served on the Technical Qualifications Board at the Environmental Protection Agency (2016).

DANIEL E. SNYDER

Affiliation: Daniel E. Snyder DVM, Ph.D. Consulting LLC. Owner and Managing Principal, Indianapolis, Indiana

Expertise: Experienced R&D Scientist with a history of working in the regulated animal health pharmaceutical industry. Skilled in R&D, conduct of pivotal parasiticide efficacy and clinical field studies, Good Clinical Practice (GCP)/Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) expertise, all with a focus in veterinary parasitology

Education:	DVM, University of Illinois, Illinois
		PhD in Veterinary Medicine Science, University of Illinois, Illinois
      MS in Biology, Western Illinois University, Illinois
		BS in Biology, Western Illinois University, Illinois
      BS in Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Illinois 

Experience Summary: Dr. Daniel Snyder has held several different positions of increasing responsibility in pharmaceutical and parasiticide research and development with Pfizer Animal Health and Elanco Animal Health, with the last 25 years being with Elanco before retiring in 2017 and establishing a private consulting business. At Elanco, he held positions as a lead scientist in discovery research, clinical development of food animal parasiticides, and lastly companion animal product development conducting pivotal clinical (laboratory and field studies) parasiticide effectiveness and field safety studies for submission to global regulatory agencies during his tenure to date. Recent examples include the approval of several successful parasiticides (Comfortis, Trifexis, Credelio, Cheristen) approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency and other global regulatory agencies for use in dogs and/or cats to control endo- and ectoparasites. Expertise in the practical application of scientific principles and having extensive knowledge of VICH and global regulatory and parasiticide guidelines for the development of parasiticides is part of his core expertise.  Additionally, he is triple board certified, is licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the states of Illinois and Indiana, holds several issued patents, and has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He was co-author of "World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (W.A.A.V.P.) second edition: guidelines for evaluating the efficacy of parasiticides for the treatment, prevention and control of flea and tick infestations on dogs and cats" (2013) and peer reviewer of multiple entomology and parasitology journal articles.

Panel Experience: Dr. Synder has served as Editorial Board Member, Veterinary Parasitology (1994 - 2016). 

LARISA K. VREDEVOE

Affiliation: Professor, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

Expertise: Medical entomology, parasitology, tick biology, tick-host interactions, tick-borne disease agents

Education: 	PhD in Entomology, University of California, Davis, California
		BS in Entomology, University of California, Davis, California

Experience Summary: Dr. Larisa Vredevoe is a professor of medical entomology with expertise in public health microbiology and parasitology. She has taught courses in microbiology, parasitology and entomology for 20 years and serves as curator of the Biological Sciences Entomology collection at Cal Poly State University. Her primary research interests include the biology of tick-host interactions and their impacts on host health and life history, the ecology and dynamics of pathogen transmission by ticks at the wildlife-human interface, and host consequences of parasitism by endoparasites (hemoparasites and helminths). She is also engaged in science education, serving on the science advisory committee at an elementary school. She has developed and implemented numerous school science lab projects in microbiology and entomology, spanning investigations of antibiotic production by soil bacteria to sampling of monarchs for protozoan parasites. Previously, she served as an American Society for Microbiology/National Center for Infectious Diseases Fellow (1998 - 1999) to conduct research in tick-borne infectious disease and public health microbiology at the Centers for Disease Control, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Panel Experience: Dr. Vredevoe has no previous panel experience.