In this capacity, she provided nationwide support in human health risk assessment, toxicology, exposure assessment and risk characterization to people conducting risk assessments for the Superfund program. In addition, she worked to educate the public on risk assessment methods and application to site clean up. Ms. Dollarhide was also a Chemical Manager for EPA's IRIS Pilot, conducting noncancer and cancer assessments on chemicals for the IRIS database, and she was a member of the group that was implementing improvements to EPA's IRIS process. Prior to joining U.S. EPA, Ms Dollarhide worked for several years as an environmental consultant in the areas of risk assessment, site assessment and remediation, occupational safety and health, and environmental communication. She has given many invited presentations on noncancer risk assessment and has published in the areas of occupational health and environmental communication.
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Dr. Dourson is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and served on its Board as President, Vice President and Treasurer. He has published more than 50 papers on risk assessment methods, co-authored over 100 government risk assessment documents, and made over 80 invited presentations. Dr. Dourson won 4 EPA Bronze medals during his tenure. Professional affiliations include past presidents of the Dose-Response Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis, of the Society of Toxicology's Specialty Section on Risk Assessment and of the Ohio Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis. Current affiliations include membership on the editorial board of three journals.