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Title: Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyls
Subject of planned Report: The ATSDR toxicological profile succinctly characterizes the toxicologic and adverse health effects for the substance being described.
Purpose of Planned Report: The purpose of the toxicological profile is to provide a source of toxicological and epidemiological data. Data on hazardous substances mostly found at hazardous waste sites support public health assessment efforts.
Type of Dissemination: HISA
Timing of Review (including deferrals): November 2014 and August 2017
Type of Review (panel, individual or alternative procedure): Individual
Opportunities for the Public Comment (how and when): A draft was made available for public comment in 2015. A draft of the revised profile was made available for public comment in 2018.
Peer Reviewers Provided with Public Comments before the Review: No
Number of Reviewers: 5
Primary Disciplines or Expertise: toxicology, environmental health, chemistry
Reviewers Selected by (agency or designated outside organization): CDC/ATSDR
Public Nominations Requested for Reviewers: No
Reviewers
Academic and Professional Credentials
MD
MS
Current Position Title
Professor, Director of Academic Programs in Occupational Medicine
Organizational Affiliation(s)
Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Areas of Expertise, Discipline, Relevant Experiences
- Occupational and environmental skin diseases
- Ultraviolet radiation effects on skin and eyes
- Toxicity of polyaromatic hydrocarbons
- PCBs
- Organometals
- Monomers used in plastics and resins, and other subjects
- He is a recipient of the Kehoe Award of Merit from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Academic and Professional Credentials
Current Position Title
Organizational Affiliation(s)
Department of Environmental Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Areas of Expertise, Discipline, Relevant Experiences
The relationships between brain neurotransmitter systems and children’s neurodevelopment, and how such relationships are altered by exposures to environmental toxicants, including the role played by environmental neurotoxicant exposures in developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Academic and Professional Credentials
Current Position Title
Professor Emeritus
Organizational Affiliation(s)
College of Pharmacy
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Areas of Expertise, Discipline, Relevant Experiences
Pharmacokinetics, particularly the construction and validation of mathematical models that describe or explain the kinetics of complex biological systems.
Interspecies scaling of pharmacokinetic model parameter values and xenobiotic metabolism.
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Academic and Professional Credentials
Current Position Title
Associate Professor
Organizational Affiliation(s)
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Brody School of Medicine
East Carolina University
Areas of Expertise, Discipline, Relevant Experiences
- Environmental and neural science
- Environmental toxicology
- Immunotoxicology
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Academic and Professional Credentials
Current Position Title
Professor of Epidemiology
Organizational Affiliation(s)
Brown University School of Public Health, with a joint appointment in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI
Areas of Expertise, Discipline, Relevant Experiences
Areas of Expertise:
- Editor for the American Journal of Environmental hazards in the workplace and community
- Reproductive health outcomes
- Environmental influences on cancer
Dr. Savitz has done extensive work on health effects of nonionizing radiation, pesticides, drinking water treatment by-products, and perfluorinated compounds. He has:
- Directed 30 doctoral dissertations and 15 master’s theses
- Authored nearly 350 papers in professional journals
- Editor author of three books
- Editor at the American Journal of Epidemiology and as a member of the Epidemiology and Disease Control-1 study section of the National Institutes of Health
- Current editor at Epidemiology
- Previous president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research
- Previous President of the North American Regional Councilor for the International Epidemiological Association
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. From 2013-2017
- Vice President for Research at Brown University
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