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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 136-140

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From page 136...
... He has served on several Institute of Medicine and National Research Council studies, including the Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds and the Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Healthy Outcomes. He served as vice chair of the Committee on the Possible Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Biologic Systems.
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From page 137...
... Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D., is a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. His research interests include occupational and ambient exposure assessment, Bayesian methods in retrospective exposure assessment, exposure modeling, mathematical methods for analyzing occupational measurements, occupational hygiene decision making, and inhalation dosimetry for mixed exposures.
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From page 138...
... He has worked with NARA's collections of twentieth-century military personnel and medical records for nearly 30 years and has wide knowledge of alternate record sources available for use in reconstructing military service and medical data. In July 2004 he was appointed chief of the Archival Operations and ­Facility Planning Branch of the Center's newly established Archival Programs Division.
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From page 139...
... Thomas F Webster, D.Sc., is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and deputy director and a principal investigator of the Boston University Superfund Basic Research Program.
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... Dr. Woskie serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and on the advisory panel for the Agricultural Health Study, which is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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