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ATTACHMENT A
Committee to Review Studies of Possible Toxic Effects from
Past Environmental Contamination at Fort Detrick
Members
JOHN C. BAILAR III (Chair), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
BRUCE H. ALEXANDER, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
PRABHAKAR CLEMENT, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
MARY E. DAVIS, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
JUDITH B. KLOTZ, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
LEONARD M. SIEGEL, Center for Public Environmental Oversight, Mountain View, California
VERÓNICA M. VIEIRA, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Staff
SUSAN N.J. MARTEL, Project Director
KERI SCHAFFER, Research Associate
NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor
MIRSADA KARALIC-LONCAREVIC, Manager, Technical Information Center
TAMARA DAWSON, Program Associate
Sponsor
U.S. ARMY
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Biographies of the Committee
John C. Bailar III is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is a retired commissioned
officer of the U.S. Public Health Service and worked for the National Cancer Institute for 22 years. He
has also held academic appointments at Harvard University and McGill University. Dr. Bailar’s research
interests include assessing health risks posed by chemical hazards and air pollutants and interpreting
statistical evidence in medicine with an emphasis on cancer. He has served as chair or a member of
numerous committees of the National Academies, including current service on the Committee on the
Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities. He received his MD from Yale
University and his PhD in statistics from American University. Dr. Bailar was elected to the Institute of
Medicine in 1993.
Bruce H. Alexander is a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences of the University of
Minnesota School of Public Health. His research interests are in applied occupational and environmental
epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, and global health. His current research includes respiratory health
and community exposure to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite; mortality, cancer incidence, and
respiratory health in taconite production workers; health effects of occupational exposure to
fluorochemicals; health effects of ionizing radiation in the medical field; and injuries in farm families. Dr.
Alexander was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Tetrachloroethylene. He
received his MS in environmental health from Colorado State University and his PhD in epidemiology
from the University of Washington.
Prabhakar Clement is a professor of environmental engineering and Arthur H. Feagin Chair of Civil
Engineering at Auburn University. Before joining the university, he worked as a senior research engineer
at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for 6 years and then as a senior lecturer in the Department of
Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Australia for 3 years. His research interests are
in modeling of water flow and reactive-contaminant transport in groundwater systems, bioremediation of
contaminated aquifers, numerical modeling of environmental processes, water-quality modeling, and
optimal design of treatment systems. He is a member of the Groundwater Quality Committee of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and was a member of the National Research Council
Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune. He has served as the associate editor of
various journals, including Ground Water, Vadose Zone Journal, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, and
ASCE’s Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. Dr. Clement received his master’s degree in physics from
American College, Madurai University, his MTech in environmental sciences and engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his PhD in civil engineering from Auburn University. He is
a registered professional civil engineer.
Mary E. Davis is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology of the West Virginia
University Health Sciences Center. Her research interests are in the toxicology of environmental and
occupational pollutants, including water-disinfection byproducts, halogenated solvents, and arsenic. She
is particularly interested in mechanisms of toxicity in the liver, kidneys, and vascular system. Dr. Davis
was treasurer of the Society of Toxicology and is a former president of the society’s Allegheny-Erie
Regional Chapter. She has served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board
and the editorial boards of Toxicology and Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. She was a member of
the National Research Council Committee on Assessing Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene and
the Committee on Tetrachloroethylene. She received her PhD in pharmacology from Michigan State
University.
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Judith B. Klotz is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey School of Public Health and holds the same appointment at the Drexel University School of Public
Health. Previously, she was program manager of the cancer surveillance and environmental epidemiology
programs at the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. Her research interests are in
epidemiologic studies of cancer incidence and reproductive outcomes, gene–environment interactions,
evaluation of biologic exposures to environmental contaminants, and the application of health risk
assessment and epidemiology to public policy. Dr. Klotz was a member of the National Research
Council Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water. She received her MS in genetics from the University
of Michigan and her DrPH in environmental health sciences from the Columbia University School of
Public Health.
Leonard M. Siegel is executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, a project of
the Pacific Studies Center that facilitates public participation in the oversight of military environmental
programs, federal-facility cleanup, and brownfield revitalization. He is one of the environmental
movement’s leading experts on military-facility contamination, community oversight of cleanup, and the
vapor-intrusion pathway. For his organization, he runs two Internet newsgroups: the Military
Environmental Forum and the Brownfields Internet Forum. Mr. Siegel also serves on numerous advisory
committees. He is a member of the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council’s Permeable Reactive
Barrier Work Team, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (California) External Advisory Group,
California’s Brownfields Revitalization Advisory Group, and the Moffett Field (formerly Moffett Naval
Air Station) Restoration Advisory Board. He has also served on several committees of the National
Research Council, including the current Committee on Future Options for Management in the Nation's
Subsurface Remediation Effort and Committee to Review Risk Assessment Approaches for the Medical
Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Mr. Siegel majored in
undergraduate physics at Stanford University.
Verónica M. Vieira is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston
University School of Public Health. Her research interests are in spatial analysis methods, exposure
modeling, and cancer epidemiology. She has extensive knowledge of geographic information systems,
groundwater modeling, cluster detection methods, and persistent environmental contaminants, including
tetrachloroethylene, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. She is involved
in a multiuniversity community health project, which involves historical reconstruction of PFOA
exposures of people living near a chemical plant in the mid-Ohio valley, and in the Boston University
Superfund Research Program, in which she works on applying disease mapping to various health
outcomes, including cancer, birth outcomes, and rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Vieira received her MS in
environmental engineering from Stanford University, and her DSc in environmental health from Boston
University.
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