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Membership

HSE Committee Chairman – Mr. John W. Hilbert, III

Regional Members
Europe: Katarina Kumerschek, Treibacher
Africa: Susan Visser, Xstrata
North America: David White, Metallurg Vanadium

Scientific Review Board

Dr. John H. Duffus, BSc, PhD, DSc, CSci, CChem, FRSC, CBiol, MSB
Dr. Duffus has for 20 years been the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Toxicology, founded originally to assess the carcinogenicity of industrial chemicals but now providing general consultancy on the toxicology of chemicals, with particular reference to inorganic chemicals. He has authored or part authored 200 publications including the books, “Fundamental Toxicology”, now in its second edition, and most recently (2009) “Concepts in Toxicology”. He has served on U.K. government and E.U. committees as an expert in toxicology. He has also been a consultant to the European Commission, UNEP, and WHO and has contributed to UNESCO activities. He has extensive editorial and reviewing experience. This has led to a significant role in compilation of glossaries of terms used in toxicology for IUPAC. In IUPAC, he is currently Chair of the Subcommittee on Toxicology and Risk Assessment in Division VII, Chemistry and Human Health.

Dr. Judy Hauswirth
Judith Hauswirth has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 1969 and a B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 1965. She also received a NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pharmacology at Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut and a National Cancer Institute Career Development Award and research grant. She is currently working for her own consulting firm, where she provides expert consultation to private clients on toxicology issues related to toxicity testing, risk assessment, and hazard evaluation. She also provides regulatory advice, serves as an expert in data compensation cases, evaluates laboratory toxicology reports, and assists in designing atypical toxicology studies and monitors toxicology studies of all types. She as served as an expert on GRAS self-affirmation panels for food additive and animal food additives and has made presentation to the EPA Human Science Review Board and the Scientific Advisory Panel. She has over 38 years of experience in toxicology, biochemistry, and drug metabolism including basic research and regulatory toxicology. At Jellinek, Schwartz and Connolly, a consulting firm, she became the Vice President of Toxicology and Chemistry. Prior to her consulting career, she was a branch chief at the Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Pesticide Program, Health Effects Division and acted as Director of the Division of Drugs and Environmental Toxicology at the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine and as Section Leader in the Bureau of Foods. She has done basic research on the role of nutrition in the metabolism of carcinogens and the metabolism of hydrazine compounds. She has published in journals such as Cancer Research, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Environmental Mutagens.

Dr. Len Levy, OBE, BSc, MSc, PhD, FFOM, FBTS
Dr. Levy is currently Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health within the Institute of Environment and Health at the University of Cranfield, UK. Previously (up till October 2005) he was Head of Toxicology and Risk Assessment at the UK Medical Research Council’s - Institute for Environment and Health based at the University of Leicester. Len is an internationally well-known occupational and environmental toxicologist and risk assessor holds a doctorate in experimental pathology from the Institute of Cancer Research, London and has held academic positions at the University of Aston, where he developed courses in occupational toxicology and established an Industrial Toxicology Unit.

He is currently an independent member on the UK’s Health and Safety Commission’s Working Group on the Assessment of Toxic Chemicals (WATCH) and the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS), and the UK nominee and vice-chair on the EU Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL), DG EMP, and is also a member of the Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) and Chair of two of its sub-committees (Medical and Scientific Panel and Hormones Subgroup). He has conducted occupational and environmental risk assessments on many different types of substance, ranging from pesticides to metals and solvents, including recently focusing on the susceptibility of young children for lead, and has led teams producing a large number of Criteria Documents used for the setting of Occupational Exposure Limits, both in the UK and the EU. Len has published more than 250 papers on occupational carcinogenesis, occupational and environmental toxicology, risk assessment and risk management and the regulatory aspects of both environmental and occupational air standards. In 2000, he was awarded an OBE for Services to Health and Safety. Amongst current activities, chairs the UK influential Interdepartmental Group on Health Risks from Chemicals (IGHRC) on behalf of the UK Government.

Dr. Judith A. MacGregor, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.
Dr. MacGregor was a Toxicology Fellow at the University of Rochester (1968 to 1970) and received a Ph.D. in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (1972). For 20 years she was at Chevron Corporation, where she served as Manager of Toxicology and then Group Manager of Environmental of Chevron Research and Technology Company and Vice President of the Chevron Environmental Health Center. She has 38 years of experience in industrial toxicology both in the USA and internationally. Special areas of expertise include product safety testing, pesticide and petroleum toxicology, industrial toxicology, regulatory toxicology, risk assessment, occupational and environmental health.

Dr. MacGregor is a trustee and past President of the Toxicology Education Foundation. She has served as a Director and officer of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX), President of the American Board of Toxicology, Treasurer and councilor of the Society of Toxicology, councilor of the SOT Regulatory and Safety Assessment Specialty Section, on the editorial board of Human and Environmental Risk Assessment, and a member of advisory boards for several organizations and governmental agencies.

Dr. Douglas McGregor, BSc., PhD., CBiol., FSB, FRCPath
Dr. McGregor is currently working as a private consultant in toxicology with continued involvement in hazard and risk evaluation for non-commercial, national and international organizations. After graduating from King’s College in London with a BSc (Honours) in Zoology and then receiving a PhD in Zoology from King’s College as well, Dr. McGregor held a variety of positions from Scientific Officer at the Department of Nutrition, and Research Fellow for Nuffield Unit for Laboratory Animal Pathology at Royal School of Veterinary Medicine in Scotland, to Head of Department: Mutagenesis, Teratogenesis, Carcinogenesis at Inveresk Research International. More recently Dr. McGregor was working at IARC in their Division of Scientific Activities, Carcinogen Identification and Evaluation Unit. In addition to Dr. McGregor’s employment, he has also kept active in professional organizations to include European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals, Panel Member; and he has also held various elected positions for the European Food Standards Authority. In additional to this he has over 85 publications, 24 book chapters, and 7 web publications.