USTUR Scientific Advisory Committee

TOOHEY, Richard E., PhD  

Scientific Member
(Health Physics)

10/1/2011 - 9/30/2014

Dick Toohey received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cincinnati in 1973.  He spent the first part of his career at Argonne National Laboratory in both research and operational health physics.  He is retired from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, where he served as director of the Radiation Internal Dose Information Center, as Sr. Health Physicist for the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site, Director of Dose Reconstruction Programs, and Associate Director of the Independent Environmental Assessment and Verification Program. He is currently a senior health physics consultant with M. H. Chew & Associates of Livermore, CA. He is certified in comprehensive practice by the American Board of Health Physics, was the 2008-09 President of the Health Physics Society, is a member and director of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Treasurer of the International Radiation Protection Association, and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries. His specialties are internal radiation dosimetry, dose reconstruction, and radiological emergency response. Dick has 125 publications in the open literature, and is a retired Lt. Col., US Army Reserve.

BISTLINE, Robert W., PhD

Scientific Member
(Occupational Health)

3/14/2007 - 9/30/2013

Robert W. Bistline received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Radiation Biology in 1973, his M.S. in Radiological Sciences from the University of Washington in 1970, Graduate studies in Radiation Biophysics and Atomic Physics at the University of Kansas, and his B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences from Westmar College in 1959. He taught and coached in high schools in Kansas and taught and served as Admissions Director at Westmar College prior to entering the fields of research and Health Physics at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant in 1966. Dr. Bistline did research and development of lung counting of transuranics elements, conducted radiation worker cytogenetic studies, conducted radiation health effects studies and epidemiologic studies of radiation workers, served as one of 3 prosectors assisting in approximately 120 autopsies of workers for the U.S. Transuranium Registry, established a former worker recall call medical surveillance program that is now used by the Department of Energy, and was one of the pioneers in the DOE Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program. He has more than 50 scientific publications and has given several hundred presentations. Dr. Bistline was appointed to an Excepted Service position by the Secretary of Energy in 1994 and joined the staff of the Rocky Flats Field Office of the Department of Energy in 1995 where he served until retirement in 2005 as a Program Manager of the Internal Dosimetry Program, Occupational Medicine Program, Radiation Protection Program, and the Beryllium Worker Protection Program at Rocky Flats. He supported the DOE Headquarters on numerous technical committees, workshops, and the development of program guidance. Dr. Bistline has served on the Department of Energy Central Beryllium Institutional Review Board since its beginning. Upon retirement he has been consulting for the National Institute of Health, the Department of Energy, and as a technical advisor for the President's Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health that provides oversite of the NIOSH OCAS dose reconstruction project for the government's Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. He has received numerous awards that include the Department of Energy's Pride Award.

GIBB, Herman J., PhD

Scientific Member
(Epidemiology)

3/1/2007 - 9/30/2013

Herman J. Gibb received his Ph.D from The Johns Hopkins University in Epidemiology in 1989, his M.P.H from the University of Pittsburgh in Environmental Health in 1974, and he B.S. from Pennsylvania State Universty in Chemistry and Biology in 1970. Dr. Gibb is a Senior Epidemiologist with Sciences International, Inc. Since joining Sciences in January 2004, Dr. Gibb has conducted an assessment of the health effects of metals on Marinduque Island in the Philippines, provided key expert testimony on his epidemiologic study of chromate production workers at OSHA hearings in February 2005, and provided expert assistance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the creation of a Framework for the Health Assessment of Metals. Prior to joining Sciences, Dr. Gibb served as the Senior Science Advisor at the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Gibb has over 25 years of experience in health and environmental sciences and also held positions as the Associate Director for Health and Assistant Center Director at the National Center for Environmental Assessment. As the Associate Director for Health, Dr. Gibb was responsible for EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), an on-line system of EPA’s risk assessments. Dr. Gibb was the Project Officer for EPA’s cooperative agreements with the World Health Organization. He was the lead author for the Office of Research and Development’s multiyear research plan for mercury. Dr. Gibb is a recognized international expert on the health effects of metals and in particular arsenic, chromium, nickel, and copper. Dr. Gibb was the recipient of the EPA’s Scientific and Technological Achievement Award for his study of lung cancer mortality and clinical irritation among chromate production workers. He was also the recipient of the EPA’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service for his work on the drinking water standard for arsenic.

HAYES, William, MS
Chair

Scientific Member
(Radiochemistry)

10/24/2006 - 9/30/2015

Mr. Hayes received his B.A. degree in chemistry from David Lipscomb College in 1975 and completed graduate studies at Texas A&M University in organic chemistry in 1977. For the next 15 years, he served as a research scientist at the DOE Fernald Site. At Fernald, he was responsible for the internal and external dosimetry programs; bioassay and environmental radiochemistry procedure development; and contract oversight for outside laboratory services. Following his work at Fernald, he established and managed radiochemistry laboratories at DataChem Laboratories in Salt Lake City, Utah, O’Brien & Gere Laboratories in Syracuse, New York, and GEL Laboratories in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Hayes currently manages in the Dosimetry & Radiological Measurements Group at the DOE Pantex Site for BWXT. His group is responsible for site bioassay analyses and internal and external dosimetry measurements.Mr. Hayes has presented over 10 papers dealing with environmental radiochemistry and external dosimetry topics. He was awarded the George Westinghouse Award when at Fernald for implementing significant improvements in their laboratory contracting and auditing processes. He was also awarded the Founder’s Award from his peers for contributions to the Conference on Bioassay, Analytical, and Environmental Radiochemistry, now referred to as the Radiobioassay & Radiochemistry Measurements Conference.

MCCLELLAN, Roger O., DVM  

Scientific Member
(Toxicology)

10/1/2010 - 9/30/2013

Roger O. McClellan is currently an advisor to public and private organizations on inhalation toxicology and human health risk analysis issues.  He received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree with Highest Honors from Washington State University (1960).  He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, American Association for Advancement of Science, Society for Risk Analysis and American Association for Aerosol Research.

               He is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of inhalation toxicology, aerosol science and human health risk analysis.  He is also well known for the leadership he provided to the Lovelace Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute (1966-1988) in Albuquerque, NM and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (1988-1999) in Research Triangle Park, NC.  Both organizations are internationally recognized for their research on the mechanisms of action of pollutants and assessing human health risks.  He has authored over 300 scientific papers and reports and edited 10 books.  He frequently speaks on risk assessment and air pollution issues in the United States and abroad.  He is a Past President of the Society of Toxicology and the American Association for Aerosol Research.  He serves in an editorial role for a number of journals, including continuing service as Editor of Critical Reviews in Toxicology.  He serves or has served on the Adjunct Faculty of 8 universities.

               McClellan has served in an advisory role to numerous public and private organizations including service on senior advisory committees for 8 federal agencies and on many committees of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council.  He is past Chairman of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and served on Panels that have reviewed the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for all of the Criteria Pollutants.

               McClellan's contributions have been recognized by receipt of a number of honors.  He was elected in 1990 to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  He received the Society of Toxicology Merit Award and Founders Award and the New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award.  In 2005, The Ohio State University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Science degree for his contributions to the science under-girding improved air quality.  In 2008, Washington State University presented him the Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest recognition the University can bestow on an alumnus.  He is a strong advocate of risk-based decision-making integrating information from epidemiological studies, clinical investigation, laboratory animal bioassays and mechanistic studies using molecules, cells, tissues and intact mammals.

MEIER, Kathryn E., PhD  
Department of Nutrition & Exercise Physiology, College of Pharmacy
Washington State University

Ethics Representative
&
Academic Community Member
(Pharmacology)

3/1/2005 - 9/30/2013

Kathryn Elaine Meier received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. Currently, she is a professor for the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy at Washington State University where she is a member of the Center for Reproductive Biology and the Cancer Prevention and Research Center as well. Kathryn presently serves on two editorial boards; American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology) and Molecular Pharmacology, and serves on two National Committees; Executive Committee, ASPET Division of Molecular Summer Research, and Conference Committee, FASEB (APS representative). Dr. Meier provides manuscript reviews for approximately 20 different scientific journals, has served on seventeen different review boards, and has authored more than 100 manuscripts and abstracts. She has received many distinguished awards and honors during her career including the MUSC Teaching Excellence Award, Educator-Mentor category in 2001.