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Dr. Frank A. Sloan - (Chair)
Duke University
Frank A. Sloan, Ph.D. is the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University. He is also Director of Duke University’s Center for Health Policy, Law and Management. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke in 1993, Dr. Sloan was a Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University for nearly ten years. Dr. Sloan’s research interests are broad and include health care regulation and competition, health manpower, cost effectiveness of medical technologies, aging and long-term care, and the social and economic costs of smoking and alcohol abuse. He has published over 20 books and 300 journal articles and book chapters and has served on several national advisory councils and committees. He is currently on the editorial boards of the journals Applied Health Economics and Health Policy and Journal of American Health Policy. Dr. Sloan was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine in 1982. He has been a member of several IOM committees and served as Chair of the IOM Committee to Evaluate Cancer in Low and Middle Income Countries (December 2004 to December 2006) as well as the IOM Committee to Evaluate Vaccine Purchase and Finance in the United States (January 2002 to August 2003). Dr. Sloan received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Mr. James S. Hoyte
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
James S. Hoyte, J.D. is a lecturer on environmental science and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Assistant to the President and Associate Vice President of Harvard University. Mr. Hoyte is a specialist in environmental justice. He is currently co-Program Director of the Harvard Working Group on Environmental Justice which brings together Harvard faculty from many disciplines to examine issues of environmental justice within the United States and around the world. Mr. Hoyte served as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs from 1983 to 1988. In that role he was responsible for oversight of the planning and management of environmental and natural resource conservation policies and programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As Secretary, he was also founding chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and oversaw management of the Boston Harbor Clean-up Project. Mr. Hoyte serves on the boards of directors of several environmental organizations, including Union of Concerned Scientists, The Trust for Public Land, and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. Mr. Hoyte received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Dr. Roger E. Kasperson
Clark University
Roger E. Kasperson, Ph.D. is a research professor and distinguished scientist in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Before joining the faculty at Clark, Dr. Kasperson taught at the University of Connecticut and Michigan State University. He has published widely in the areas of risk analysis, risk communication, global environmental change, risk and ethics, and environmental policy. Dr. Kasperson was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He has been a consultant or advisor to numerous public and private agencies on energy and environmental issues, and has served on various committees of the National Research Council and the Council of the Society for Risk Analysis. From 1992 to 1996 he chaired the International Geographical Union Commission on Critical Situations/Regions in Environmental Change. He was Vice President for Academic Affairs at Clark University from 1993 to 1996, and in 1999 was elected Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, a post he held through 2004. He now serves on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee and the Committee on Strategic Advice for the Climate Change Program of the U.S. National Research Council. Dr. Kasperson has a Ph.D in Geography from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Emmett B. Keeler
RAND Graduate School
Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D., has been a Senior Mathematician at RAND since 1968. He is also a professor of mathematics at the Pardee RAND graduate school and a professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). An expert in cost-effectiveness modeling, Dr. Keeler is currently the director of a RAND project to estimate the cost-effectiveness of geriatric interventions at UCLA’s Older Americans Independence Center (Pepper Center). His publications from this project include analyses of the cost effectiveness of autologous blood transfusion, breast cancer screening and treatment, screening outreach programs, and comprehensive geriatric assessment. Dr. Keeler has served on several Institute of Medicine (IOM) committees, including the Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation (March 2004 to February 2006). He was elected a member of the IOM in 2006. Dr. Keeler received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University.
Dr. Sarah B. Kotchian
The University of New Mexico
Sarah B. Kotchian, Ph.D., Ed.M., M.P.H. is Associate Director for Planning for the Institute for Public Health at the University of New Mexico (UNM). On behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Kotchian is working to strengthen national, state, and local environmental health services and to promote environmental health leadership. Before joining the faculty at UNM, she was the director of the Albuquerque Environmental Health Department for over fourteen years. Under Dr. Kotchian’s direction, the Albuquerque Environmental Health Department administered comprehensive City and County wide programs in the areas of air quality, environmental health planning, food protection, noise control, hazardous waste, pollution prevention, groundwater quality and protection, landfill characterization and remediation, integrated vector management, vehicle emissions, epidemiology, geographic information systems, public information and animal services. She is a recognized leader, author, and speaker on the formation of local, state, and national environmental and public health policy, leadership, and practice. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the National Environmental Health Association’s Walter Mangold Award. She served on the APHA Executive Board and chaired its Subcommittee on Environment and Health. She was chair of the National Conference of Local Environmental Health Administrators. Other past activities include service on the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council; service on the Council on Education for Public Health, the national accrediting body for graduate public health education; and Chair of the APHA Section on Environment. Dr. Kotchian is also a current member of a number of state and national committees on the environment and public health. She received a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and an M.P.H. from the University of Washington.
Dr. Dorothy E. Patton
Environmental Protection Agency [Retired]
Dorothy E. Patton, J.D., Ph.D. has over 24 years experience with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (1976-2000). She began her EPA career working as an attorney in EPA’s Office of General Council on air, pesticide, and toxic substance issues. She later moved on to positions as Director of the Office of Science Policy, Executive Director of the EPA Science Policy Council, and Executive Director of the EPA Risk Assessment Forum. In these roles she was responsible for developing and implementing risk assessment policies and practices, environmental research planning and prioritization, and long-range strategic planning. After retiring from EPA in 2000, Dr. Patton taught courses in risk assessment at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute and worked as a consultant with the Risk Sciences Institute within the International Life Sciences Institute. Dr. Patton has been a member of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology since 2002. She has also been a member of several NRC committees, including Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants, Metrics for Global Change Research, EPA Assessment Factors for Data Quality, and Review of NASA's Earth Science Applications Program Strategic Plan. She is currently a member of the NRC Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the United States EPA. Dr. Patton received a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Chicago and, after teaching college for several years, a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law.
Mr. Robert Perciasepe
The National Audubon Society
Robert Perciasepe, M.S., is the Chief Operating Officer of The National Audubon Society. In this role he works to promote initiatives that protect birds and wildlife and their habitats, and oversees all of Audubon’s operations. Prior to his work at Audubon, Mr. Perciasepe was confirmed twice by the U.S. Senate to serve in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, first as the Assistant Administrator for Water in 1993 and then as the Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation in 1998. He also served as Maryland's Secretary of the Environment, directing the state's environmental protection programs from 1990 to 1993. Previously, he was Baltimore's Assistant Director of Planning, where he oversaw environmental and infrastructure planning for the city. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Perciasepe was a member of the National Research Council’s Water Science Technology Board. He has also served on the Board of the Chesapeake Bay Trust and was the First Chairman of the Northeast Ozone Transport Commission. Mr. Perciasepe has an M.S. in planning from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University.
Dr. Joseph V. Rodricks
ENVIRON
Dr Joseph V. Rodricks is a Principal of ENVIRON International, a technical consulting firm, and a Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. ENVIRON was founded in 1982 by Dr. Rodricks and four associates, and now has more than 900 employees in 13 countries. Dr. Rodricks came to consulting after a 15-year career as a scientist at the US Food and Drug Administration. He entered the Agency’s Bureau of Science after receiving degrees in chemistry (MIT) and biochemistry (University of Maryland). He spent 7 years as a laboratory scientist investigating the chemistry, metabolism and toxicology of aflatoxins and other natural toxins; during this same period he undertook a year of post-doctoral work at Berkeley, where he pursued studies of paralytic shellfish poison. The remainder of his FDA career was devoted to the development and application of quantitative risk assessment methods, and his professional life has continued to center on these subjects. He was the FDA’s Deputy Associate Commissioner for Health Affairs from 1977 until he resigned in 1980. During these last four years at the agency he was heavily involved in the formation of the National Toxicology Program, and in a host of other interagency efforts, including the development of the first federal guidelines for the conduct of risk assessment. He has provided consulting services for manufacturers, government agencies and the World Health Organization. His experience extends from pharmaceuticals, medical devices and foods, to occupational chemicals and environmental contaminants. He currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and has served on 24 Committees of the NRC and the IOM, including the Committee that produced the seminal work Risk Assessment in the Federal Government (1983). Dr. Rodricks has received distinguished service awards from the Society for Risk Analysis and from the Food and Drug Law Institute. In 2003 he was awarded a lifetime appointment as a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. His best-selling book, Calculated Risks, published by Cambridge University Press and recently released in a fully revised second edition, was given an award from the American Medical Writer’s Association.
Dr. Susan L. Santos
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Susan L. Santos, Ph.D., M.S. is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, and holds a concurrent appointment to the V.A. War Related Illness and Injury Study Center in East Orange NJ where she serves as the risk communication specialist dealing with deployment related health risks. . Dr. Santos is also the founder and principal of FOCUS GROUP, a consultancy specializing in risk communication, community relations, and health and environmental management. She combines her research and hands-on experience to aid federal, state and local government agencies, and private sector clients with the design, implementation, and evaluation of health, safety and environmental risk communication and community involvement programs. Prior to forming FOCUS GROUP, Dr. Santos served as Director of Corporate Risk Assessment Services for ABB Environmental, Inc. She also worked for 8 years for EPA Region 1 in the areas of hazardous waste management and served as the agency lead for risk assessments. Dr. Santos is currently involved in an effort to implement public health risk and crisis communication training and planning assistance at state and federal agencies on responding to public health emergencies, including bioterrorism, and pandemic flu. She is also involved in several research projects exploring how to communicate the results of health studies to community members, including to low literate audiences, and methods for evaluating stakeholder involvement programs. She is a member of the Society for Risk Analysis and the Society for Public Health Education, and has served on previous NAS Committees.. Dr. Santos has a Ph.D. in Law, Policy and Society from Northeastern University and an M.S. in civil engineering and public health from Tufts University.
Dr. Stephen H. Schneider
Stanford University
Stephen H. Schneider, Ph.D., M.S. the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, has been a professor of Biological Sciences and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil Engineering at Stanford University since September, 1992. He is a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. In 1975, he founded the interdisciplinary journal, Climatic Change and continues to serve as its Editor. Dr. Schneider was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He has served on numerous National Research Council committees, including the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Decision-Making Under Uncertainty. He has been a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1997, and was a Lead Author in Working Group I from 1994-1996. He was also a lead author of the IPCC guidance paper on uncertainties. He was a member of the California Climate Change Advisory Committee to advise the Governor and state agencies on climate change policy. Dr. Schneider received both the National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation and the Edward T. Law Roe Award of the Society of Conservation Biology in 2003. Dr. Schneider's current global change research interests include: climatic change; climatic modeling; global warming; ecological and economic implications of climatic change; integrated assessment of global change policy; uncertainties; dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, and abrupt climate change. Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. in 1971 in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University.
Dr. Stephanie Tai
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephanie Tai, J.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where she teaches courses in administrative law, environmental law, property, environmental justice, risk regulation, and comparative Asian environmental law. Prior to joining the faculty at University of Wisconsin, she taught at Georgetown Law Center. She also has worked as the editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a publication by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. She also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she briefed and argued cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act. Dr. Tai’s research interests include the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. She has written on the consideration of scientific studies and environmental justice concerns by administrative agencies, and is currently studying the role of scientific dialogues before the judicial system. Dr. Tai received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her Ph.D. from Tufts University.
Mr. Michael R. Taylor
The George Washington University
Michael R. Taylor, J.D. is a research professor of Health Policy at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health and Health Services and an expert in food and drug law and policy. Prior to joining the faculty at GWU in 2007, Mr. Taylor was a professor in the School of Medicine and a Senior Research Scholar in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. From 2000 to 2005, he was a Senior Fellow and division director at Resources for the Future, a non-profit think tank in Washington. Mr. Taylor’s public sector experience includes working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a staff attorney from 1976 to 1981, and as Deputy Commissioner for Policy from 1991 to 1994. He was Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Taylor is currently Chair of the Steering Committee of the Food Safety Research Consortium, which brings together researchers from diverse institutions and disciplines to reduce foodborne illness by improving priority setting and risk management in the U.S. food safety system. He is also a senior fellow at the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa and conducts research on policies that affect agricultural development and poverty reduction in Africa. Mr. Taylor served as Co-Chair of the National Academies’ Science, Technology, and Law Program Subcommittee on Use of Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Test Subjects in 2004. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Dr. Detlof von Winterfeldt
University of Southern California
Detlof von Winterfeldt, Ph.D. is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California (USC). He holds a joint appointment as professor of Public Policy and Management at USC’s School of Policy, Planning. He is also Director of the Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at USC. He has taught courses in statistics, decision analysis, behavioral decision research, risk analysis, and risk management. His research interests are in the foundation and practice of decision analysis as applied to risk, environment and homeland security problems. He is co-author of the book, “Decision Analysis and Behavioral Research,” co-editor of the book “Advances in Decision Analysis” and author of many articles and reports. As a consultant he has applied decision and risk analysis to many management problems in government and private industry. Dr. von Winterfeldt was a member of several National Academies’ committees, including recent appointments to the Committee on the Transportation of Radioactive Waste and to the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. He is a fellow of the Society of Risk Analysis and of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). In 2000 he received the Ramsey Medal for distinguished contributions in decision analysis from the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Robert B. Wallace
The University of Iowa
Robert Wallace, M.D., M.Sc. is the Irene Ensminger Stecher professor of epidemiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine. He was formerly Head of the department of preventive medicine at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and Director of the University of Iowa Cancer Center. Dr. Wallace’s research interests include cancer epidemiology and prevention; the causes and prevention of chronic, disabling diseases among older persons; women’s health issues; and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. He is a Principal Investigator of several research projects on the health of older persons. He received his M.D. from the Northwestern University School of Medicine. He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2001 and is currently Chair of IOM’s Board on Military and Veterans Health.
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