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Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 141-146

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... Dr. Ferson's research focuses on developing reliable mathematical and statistical tools for ecologic and human health risk assessments and on methods for uncertainty analysis when empirical information is sparse.
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... He has served on several international panels, most recently participating in the Expert Consultations as part of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization (FAD/WHO) activities on microbial risk assessment.
From page 143...
... Her primary expertise is in regulatory strategy and risk assessment, including cumulative and aggregate exposureassessment modeling. She has extensive experience in intake-assessment modeling, including overall oversight of software development for risk assessment including CALENDEX (Calendar Based Exposure Assessment)
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... LIASON FROM THE BOARD ON HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION HUGH TILSON, MD, DrPH, is clinical professor of epidemiology and health policy and senior adviser to the dean of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. He is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health, and he is a board-certified specialist in preventive medicine.
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... Butler served as an analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and was Research Associate in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has directed several National Academies' studies on environmental health and risk assessment topics, including those that resulted in the reports Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000, and Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures.
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... She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is currently involved with the IOM Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health and Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam.


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