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Appendix I
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MEMBERS OF THE
COMMITTEE ON NONOCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RI SKS OF ASBES TIFORM FIBERS
LESTER BRESLOW, committee chairman, is Dean Emeritus and Professor of
Public Health, School of Public Health, University of California at Los
Angeles. His work has been devoted mainly to the epidemiology of chronic
disease. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and has served as
an adviser on health matters to the World Health Organization and to
several federal agencies.
RICHARD R. BATES is Senior Staff Scientist, Health Effects Institute,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously, he served as Associate
Commissioner for Science of the Food and Drug Administration and
Assistant to the Director for Risk Assessment at the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences. He has extensive knowledge in the
fields of risk assessment and experimental pathology and has concentrated
his research on chemical carcinogenesis and toxicology. Dr. Bates is a
member of the American Association of Pathologists, the American
Association for Cancer Research, and the Society of Toxicology.
HENRIK H. BENDIXEN is Professor of Anesthesiology and Chairman of the
Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University in New York City.
His research interests include respiratory failure and other aspects of
intensive care medicine. In addition to serving on National Research
Council committees studying shock and the toxicity of anesthetic agents,
he has been a member of various committees of the National Institutes of
Health. He is a past president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine
and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
STEPHEN L. BROWN is an independent consultant specializing in
chemical risk assessment and related problems. His contributions
include the development of techniques for estimating human exposure
to chemicals and other biologically significant agents, application of
systems analysis techniques to chemical risk assessment, and priority-
setting for both testing and regulating hazardous substances. He was
previously Director of the Center for Health and Environmental Research
at SRI Inte rna Sac iona l .
PATRICIA A. BUFFLER is Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean
for Research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at the
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School of Public Hesith in Houston. Her research interests include
occupational and environmental epidemiology, with special emphasis on
cancer, pulmonary diseases, and reproductive disorders. She is past
Chairman of the American Public Health Association Epidemiology Section
and is current ly on the Board of Directors of the American College of
Epidemiology .
ARTHUR M. LANCER is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director
of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory at the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine. His research interests have included development of analytical
techniques for microparticles, measurement and characterization of
asbestos fiber in human tissues, and determination of physicochemical
propert ies of mineral dusts that impart biological activity. In addition
to serving on many governmental advisory committees, he has acted as
consultant to the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the
World Health Organization and to the Norwegian and South African
governments on subjects related to asbestos exposure and health effects.
JEREMIAH LYNCH is the Industrial Hygiene Manager of the Exxon
Chemical Company. Mr. Lynch previously worked at the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health of the U. S. Public Health Service,
where he conducted research in asbestos measurement, exposure monitoring
strategy, and engineering control technology. He is a past Chairman of
the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and is
active in V.S. and international occupational health groups.
JAMES A. MERCHANT is Professor in the Department of Preventive
Medicine and Environmental Health and the Department of Internal Medicine
at the University of Iowa. Before assuming his present position, he was
Director of the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health
and the Division of Respiratory Disease Studies at West Virginia
University. His research interests include occupational lung diseases,
epidemiology, ant pulmonary medicine.
RICHARD R. MONSON is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the
Occupat tonal Health Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. His
research interests include mortality studies of occupational groups as
well as cancer epidemiology in general. Dr. Monson serves on the
National Research Council Committee on Amines.
BROOKE T. MOSSMAN is Assistant Professor of Pathology at the
University of Vermont College of Medicine. She conducts research on
cellular mechanisms of asbestos-induced injury and disease, with
particular interest in asbestos-associated carcinogenesis. Dr. Mossman
has served as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the
National Cancer Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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JAMES E. TROSKO is Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development and
Associate Director of the Division of Human Genetics, Genetic Toxicology,
Endocrinology, and Oncology in the College of Human Medicine, Michigan
State University. As a molecular geneticist, Dr. Trosko's research in
radiation biology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory included studier on
DNA damage, DNA repair mechanisms, and In vitro mutation studies in human
and other mamma tian cells. He also has conducted extensive research in
chemical carcinogenesis. Currently, his research activities include both
theoret ical and mechanistic studies of inn' iators and promoters of
carcinogenesis. He has served on many academic, governmental, and
Na~ciona1 Research Council committees and has participated in several
symposia concerned with the multiple disease potentials of genotoxic and
nongenotoxic agents.
JOHN VAN RYZIN is Professor in the Division of Bios~catistics and
Department of Statistics at Columbia University and Senior Mathematician
at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research interests include
quantitative methods of risk assessment and statistical methodologies for
analysis of toxicological and survival data. Dr. Van Ryzin has served an
a consultant or reviewer to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food
and Drug Administration, the Office of Technology Assessment, the
Nat tonal Toxicology Program, and the Food Safety Counc it .
TIBOR ZOLTAI has been on the faculty of the Department of Geology and
Geophysics at the University of Minnesota since 1959. His expertise lies
in the areas of applied geology, mineralogy, and crystallography. Among
his major scientific interests are the crystal chemistry, crystal
structure and physical properties of minerals, as well as the nature and
properties of asbestiform fibers.
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