David B. Peden, MD
Dr. Peden joined the faculty of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. He is an Associate
Director of the Center for Environmental Medicine & Lung Biology, directs
the Pediatric Asthma and Allergy Program and is Medical Director of the
Pediatric Specialty Clinics of the North Carolina Children's Hospital.
Dr. Peden obtained his MD degree from West Virginia University in 1984,
where he also served as a Resident in Pediatrics (1984-1987). He
obtained his allergy and immunology training at the NIH (1987-1992) and
is certified in Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology and Diagnostic Laboratory
Immunology. His research focuses on the effects of environmental
irritants (endotoxin and ozone) in asthma and allergic rhinitis. He has
39 published original manuscripts and 14 book chapters or review articles.
His primary research funding is from the US Environmental Protection Agency
and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Peden is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, chairs the Air Pollution and
Workshops committees of the AAAAI, and serves on the Program and Grants
Review committees and as an abstract reviewer.
Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH
Howard Frumkin is Professor and Chair
of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins
School of Public Health of Emory University in Atlanta. He is an
internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist.
He founded the Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic
at The Emory Clinic and directed it from 1991 to 2000. He founded
Emory’s Occupational Medicine Residency training program and directed it
from 1991 to 1997.
Before coming to Emory in 1990,
Dr. Frumkin was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Board of Directors
of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), where he formerly co-chaired
the Environment Committee, past President of the Association of Occupational
and Environmental Clinics (AOEC), former chair of the Science Board of
the American Public Health Association (APHA), and Vice President of the
Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (SOEH). From 1994
to 1996 he served as one of five U.S. members of the Committee to Reduce
Lead Exposure in the Americas, a joint effort of the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academy of Sciences and Mexico’s National Institute of
Public Health. He now serves as a member of the Institute of Medicine
Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine.
From 1992 to 1994 he served as a member of Georgia’s Hazardous Waste Management
Authority. He now serves on the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s
Pesticide Advisory Committee, and on two Georgia Regional Transportation
Authority committees: the Community/Environmental Policy Advisory Council
(which he co-chairs), and the Air Pollution, Health, Safety and Well-Being
Citizen’s Academy workgroup. He chairs the Health/Technical Committee
of Georgia’s Clean Air Campaign, which manages public communication and
social marketing regarding motor vehicle use and air pollution in the state.
From 1991 until it ceased publication, Dr. Frumkin wrote a regular column
on job safety and health for Journal of Labor, the newspaper of the Georgia
AFL-CIO. Currently he serves on the Special Populations team for
the NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda planning process.
He has served as a consultant to several corporations, including Hewlett-Packard,
Southwire, Georgia Power, and Polaroid, and to several unions, including
the Chemical Workers Association and the Utility Workers Union. His
research interests include air pollution, lead and mercury toxicity, occupational
asthma, climate change, public health aspects of urban sprawl, health benefits
of contact with nature, occupational injuries, and environmental and occupational
health policy, especially regarding minority workers and communities, and
those in developing nations.
He received his A.B. from Brown
University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H.
and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Occupational
Medicine training at Harvard. Dr. Frumkin is Board-certified in
both Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of
the American College of Physicians and the American College of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine.
J. Routt Reigart, MD
General Pediatrics Director
Department of Pediatrics, MUSC
Dr. Reigart has conducted university
affiliated clinical trials since 1971 and is Professor of Pediatrics at
MUSC. His special research interests include children's environmental health
issues, general pediatrics, and toxicology. He has been prominent
in lead poisoning prevention and education activities since 1972 and in
state-wide screening initiatives since 1975. He served as the CDC
Chair for the Childhood Lead Poisoning Advisory Committee, and as the USEPA
Chair for the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee. He
is a member of the EPA/USDA/Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee and
the FIFRA Science Advisory Panel. Dr. Reigart is also a member of
the SC Sustainable Universities Initiative Steering Committee, and with
his colleague Jimmy Roberts, author of the EPA Pesticide Poisoning manual
distributed at conference registration.
Dr. Walter
J. Rogan
Dr. Rogan is a clinical investigator
with the Epidemiology Branch of the Environmental Diseases & Medicine
Program, Division of Intramural Research, at the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, based in Raleigh.
He received a BA in Biology from LaSalle
College, Philadelphia; an MD from the University of California, San Francisco;
and his MPH in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
After an internship at San Francisco General Hospital, he came to NIEHS
as a Staff Associate in 1976. He was Medical Officer in the Epidemiology
Branch until 1986, Chief of Epidemiology until 1991, Associate Director
of the Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment through 1993, Acting Clinical
Director in the Division of Intramural Research until 1997, and has now
returned to the Epidemiology Branch as a clinical investigator. He is Board
Certified in General Preventive Medicine and licensed in North Carolina.
He studies environmental chemicals and
the growth and development of children, and will share with us the results
of some of his research.
Janette D.
Sherman, MD
Dr. Sherman has practiced internal
medicine and toxicology since 1970. After she received her B.S. in both biology
and chemistry form Western Michigan University she worked in radiation
and biological research at the University of California/Atomic Energy Commission
facility and in physiology research at Michigan State University.
Subsequently, she received her medical degree from Wayne State University
in Detroit, Michigan. She completed four years of post graduate training
and has practiced internal medicine and toxicology since 1970. She
has served as a visiting scholar or lecturer at various universities in
the US and Canada. Currently, she is an adjunct professor in
the Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University, where she researches
the causes of illnesses in workers.
Dr. Sherman received
the Distinguished Alumna Award from Western Michigan University in 1989.
Dr. Sherman served on the U.S.
EPA advisory board for the Toxic Substances Control Act, has been an
advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer, and to the
US EPA on pesticides. She has been an advisor for health advocacy
groups concerning breast cancer, birth defects, pesticides and toxic
waste sites.
Dr. Sherman has written two
books—Life’s
Delicate Balance – Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer, and Chemical
Exposure and Disease. She is also the author of over 70 articles
concerning adverse effects from exposure to toxic agents, including chlordane,
Dursban, lindane, DDT, PCBs, PBBs, dioxins, tamoxifen, DES, radiation and
others. Her primary interest is the prevention of illness and of
harm through education of the public and the patient.
Harris Pastides, Ph.D.
Education
1971-75, BS, State University
of New York at Albany, Biology & Chemistry Summer
1972, American Institute for Foreign
Study Certificate in Economics
1975-77, MPH, Yale University School
of Medicine, Public Health 1977, MPhil, Yale University Graduate School,
Epidemiology
1980, PhD, Yale University Graduate
School, Epidemiology
Appointments
98 - Present, Dean, School
of Public Health; University of South Carolina
98 - Present, Professor of Epidemiology,
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health;
University of South Carolina
1993 - 98, Professor of Epidemiology
and Chairman, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
1986 - 92, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
(with tenure), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, School of Public
Health and Health Sciences
1980 - 86, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, School of Public Health and Health
Sciences
Other Appointments
1998 - Present, Board of Directors,
Association of Schools of Public Health
1994 - Present, Temporary Consultant,
World Health Organization Programme in Environmental Health
1990 - 1998, Director/Co-Director,
Occupational Epidemiology Unit, School of Public Health and Health Sciences;
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1987 - 88, Senior Fulbright Research
Scholar and Visiting Professor, University of Athens Medical School (Greece)
1985 - 90, Associate Director, Northeast
Regional Environmental Public Health Center, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst
1984 -1996, Faculty Member, New England
Epidemiology Institute
1979 - 80, Research Assistant and Teaching
Assistant in Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Yale University
Committees at the University of South
Carolina
Chair, Council of Academic
Deans
Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Assistantships
Committee on Information Technology
Task Force on Tobacco Research
Other Professional Activities
1999, Member, Subcommittee on Higher
Level Nutrients, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC
1998, Faculty, Short Course in Occupational
Epidemiology, Harvard Institute for International Development, Bratislava,
Slovakia
1998, External Examiner, Oswaldo Cruz
Foundation; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997, Panelist, Scientific Symposium
on the Epidemiology of Immunotoxicity, Netherlands National Institute of
Public Health and the Environment
1997, Expert Panel on Particulate Air
Pollution, Environ Corporation
1996-97, Member, Steering Committee,
National Partnering in Maritime Medicine, U.S. Coast Guard Occupational
Health and Safety Program
1996-97, Panelist, National Research
Council Fellowship Programs
1996-97, External Reviewer, ASPH/Centers
for Disease Control Internship Program
1996, Expert Presenter, American Council
of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Sub-committee on Dust and Inorganics
1996, Workshop Leader, WHO Course on
Environmental Epidemiology, Santiago, Chile
Thomas G. Basler,
Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of
Library Sciences and Informatics, MUSC
Dr. Basler is Chairman of the Department
of Library Science and Informatics at MUSC, where he has also been Director
of Libraries and Learning Resource Centers since April of 1991. Prior
to joining the MUSC faculty, he was director of Libraries and professor
at the Medical College of Georgia for 19 years. Before he had the
good sense to move south, Dr. Basler held various posts in New York, including
service as librarian and Department Chairman at the American Museum of
Natural History.
He holds degrees from the University
of Miami, Florida State University, and the University of Santa Barbara.
He has served on numerous advisory
councils, including those for DISCUS - The Virtual Library, South
Carolina StateLibrary, Health Summit III, Quality Criteria for Health
Information on the Internet, National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)
Special Emphasis Panel on Nursing Education, National Library of Medicine
(NIH) Biomedical Library Review Committee, National Library of Medicine
(NIH) Special Review Committee on Informatics and many others.
He is the author of two books
and many journal articles, and has lectured widely.
Michael G. Schmidt,
Ph.D.
Michael G. Schmidt, Ph.D., joined
the Medical University of South Carolina in April of 1989 after an NCI
post-doctoral training fellowship at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook.
He presently is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology with research
interests in bacterial protein export, molecular pathogenesis and environmental
microbiology. To this end there are three active areas of research
in his laboratory. The first focuses on the mechanisms of protein
localization in prokaryotes, specifically in the Gram negative bacterium
Escherichia coli and more recently the Gram positive pathogens, Listeria
monocytogenes and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The second research
thrust centers around the development of a biotreatment system to degrade
airborne organic wastes, particularly volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
present in high volume and dilute vapor organic waste streams employing
microorganisms. This project is a collaborative effort with Dr. Charles
H. Gooding, Professor and Chairman of Chemical Engineering at Clemson University
and Envirogen Incorporated of New Jersey. The goal of the interdisciplinary
team is to develop an economically competitive solution for the remediation
of high volume, dilute vapor waste streams containing volatile organic
compounds. Numerous ground water sites within the United States are
contaminated with such materials and it is hoped that the outcome of this
project will deliver and turnkey solution for the cleanup of contaminated
ground waters as well as vapor streams. The third area developed
as an out growth of the development of the bioreactor with the realization
that an active biofilm was paramount to the efficiency and economic viability
of the reactor design. Consequently, his laboratory is now developing
an expertise in the molecular characterization of complex biofilms, principally,
those associated with the integrated membrane bioreactor and those associated
with other mixed microbial communities.
Dr. Schmidt is also the principal
investigator of the Sustainable Universities Initiative for the Medical
University of South Carolina. He along with Dr. Bruce Coull of the University of
South Carolina and Dr. Alan Elzerman of Clemson University direct this
inter-institutional program project. The goal of this project is
to educate students for a complex future and to provide models for sustainable
design and operations within each institution. Those who speak of
sustainable development generally cite the definition developed by the
Brundtland Commission in 1987: "development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs." Environmental protection, economic stability
and social equity--often called "the three E's"--are inextricably linked
and provide the basis for sustainable development. The project hopes
to create an environment in which the stakeholder communities (faculty,
staff, students and operations) of the Universities will understand the
interactions among the three E's in order to thrive in the complex world
in which we live. The 1994 National Science and Technology Council
report "Education for Sustainability" notes that "systems approaches are
essential if we are to attain sustainable development . . . Thinking that
synthesizes and evaluates linkages among disciplines is needed if we are
to understand the global implications of environmental and economic decisions." The
Sustainable Universities Initiative is funded by a private foundation and with
their help they hope to make integrated, systems thinking automatic for faculty
and students, producing a more knowledgeable citizenry, capable of making informed
choices and solving problems creatively.
Dr. Schmidt along with Drs. Curtis
Wise and Tom Basler of the Medical University of South Carolina has also
developed through funding from the Department of Energy two interactive
CD-ROM titles, EnviroQuest and Roc CD, that are targeted to interest middle
school students in careers in science and mathematics. Both titles have been placed
in every middle school within South Carolina. The Pueblo County School
System has adopted the first title, EnviroQuest for their Middle School
Science and Math Curriculum. The two CD-ROM titles are currently
under consideration for adoption at a number of school districts throughout
the United States.
Dr. Schmidt is also a member
of the Communications Committee for the American Society for Microbiology. He
has led numerous, national workshops on the use of computers for instruction
in medicine and microbiology and infectious diseases.
Zoe James
Clemson Extension Service
Ms. James has a BS in Home Economics
Education from SC State University and a Masters of Agricultural Education
from Clemson University. She has spent 27 years with the Clemson
Extension Service, the last 5 specializing in the Housing area. Ms.
James has worked in the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Extension office
for nearly 5 years. Her many responsibilities include managing the
Tools for Schools program for the office.
Andy Rowland
III, CET, REPA
T.A. (Andy) ROWLAND III, CET, REPA Mr.
Rowland holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Clemson
University, is a Certified Engineering Technologist (CET #000602), is a
Registered Environmental Property Assessor (REPA #5687), and is a Licensed
Environmental Consultant (S.C. DHEC 22012). With over fifteen years
of engineering and environmental consulting experience, Mr. Rowland has
a great deal of expertise in the areas of Remediation, Asbestos Management,
Lead-Based Paint Management, Hazardous Waste Management, Environmental
Site Assessment, Industrial Hygiene, and Project Design. He has been involved
in classroom instruction since 1994 and has lectured for such institutions
as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, and the
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Mr. Rowland is currently a
member of the faculty of MUSC and the Director of the Program in Environmental
Health Sciences where he works in the classroom as well as with industry
in solving environmental challenges. His strongest asset exists in his
ability to combine theory with applied knowledge in the development of
real solutions.
Douglas
E. Bryant
Commissioner, SC Department of
Health and Environmental Control
There is probably not a person in
this room who doesn’t know Doug Bryant, either personally, or from newspaper
accounts. Doug has been the Commissioner of the SC Department of
Health and Environmental Control since July of 1993. Prior to that,
he was an assistant to the Commissioner and Legislative Liaison.
His experience with the legislature may have been good preparation for
the rigors of the commissioner’s post. Doug joined DHEC I 1986 as
the Director of the Office of Primary Care, where he coordinated services
between DHEC and 14 federally funded primary care centers.
Doug served in a variety of
health related positions prior to joining DHEC. He received a masters degree in
public health and a bachelors degree in health education from the University
of South Carolina. He and his wife Bonnie live in Lexington and have
4 children.
Dr. Sabra Slaughter
Chief of Staff at MUSC
Prior to assuming his current role,
Dr. Slaughter served as the Executive Director of the SC Area Health Education
Consortium (AHEC). He came to MUSC as the project director for the
ASSIST program, a faculty development effort launched by the Charleston
Higher Education Consortium. In 1988, he was appointed director of the
Office of Minority Programs for SC AHEC, recruiting minority students into
the health professions. He also served as director of the MUSC Office of
Minority Affairs from 1992-93. He served in the position of associate Executive
director of SC AHEC in 1994 until his appointment to executive director
in 1997.
Dr. Slaughter has degrees in psychology
from the University of Michigan, and is a native of Beech Island. |
