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Appendix A: Biographical Information on the Committee to Review the OMB Risk Assessment Bulletin
Pages 113-120

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From page 113...
... In addition, he has been active in several National Research Council committees examining issues in risk assessment and is a past president of the Society for Risk Analysis. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Society for Risk Analysis, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From page 114...
... , issuing sport-fish advisories, training health personnel on pesticide-poisoning recognition, reviewing hazardous-waste site risk assessments, and conducting multimedia risk assessments. Previously, he was chief of the Air Toxicology and Epidemiology Section of OEHHA from October 1990 through February 1998.
From page 115...
... Dr. Fischhoff has served on numerous Institute of Medicine and National Research Council committees.
From page 116...
... Dr. Gerba has written more than 400 articles and several textbooks in environmental microbiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment.
From page 117...
... More recently, he has focused on ethical issues concerning the development of new technologies. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 published papers and conference proceedings related to nuclear-reactor safety, risk assessment, risk management, public health, environmental risk assessment, ethics, and multistakeholder decision-making.
From page 118...
... Michael Newman is professor of marine science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary. His research interests include ecotoxicology, general and applied aquatic ecology, contaminant effects on populations, bioaccumulation, factors modifying inorganic-contaminant toxicity, fate of inorganic contaminants in aquatic systems, quantitative methods for ecologic risk assessment, toxicity models, and water quality.
From page 119...
... Dr. Poole has been a member of a number of National Research Council and Institute of Medicine committees.
From page 120...
... He has served on numerous National Research Council and Institute of Medicine committees. He earned his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Maryland and did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley.


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