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APPENDIX B 45 APPENDIX B Committee and Staff Biographies COMMITTEE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF WARTIME EXPOSURE TO HERBICIDES IN VIETNAM David G.Hoel, PhD (Chair), is Distinguished University Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Hoel received his AB in mathematics and statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 journal articles and coeditor of several books and journals. Dr. Hoel serves on a variety of national advisory committees and panels, including National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (IOM) committees and the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board. He is a member of IOM, a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Before joining the faculty at the Medical University, Dr. Hoel was director of the division of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences with responsibility for the institute's program in biostatistics, epidemiology, and biochemical and toxicologic risk assessment. Loren D.Koller, DVM, PhD, served in academe for nearly 30 years, the last 16 as professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine of Oregon State University, Corvallis. For 10 of those years, he served as dean of the college. He operates a business in environmental health and toxicology. Dr. Koller pioneered the discipline now known as immunotoxicology with a research focus also in toxicology, pathology, carcinogenesis, and risk assessment. He served for 6 years as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Toxicology. He also served as a member of the Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (third biennial update). S.Katharine Hammond, PhD, CIH, is professor of environmental health sciences in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hammond is a certified industrial hygienist, and her research is focused on exposure characterization. She previously served on the Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides. Dana Loomis, PhD, is professor of epidemiology and environmental sciences in the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work centers on environmental and occupational epidemiology, and he has published extensively on the characterization of exposure to and risk posed by nonionizing radiation and other physical and chemical agents. David J.Tollerud, MD, MPH, is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of
