Author Biography: Kavlock |
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Bob Kavlock received his PhD in Biology from the University of Miami in 1977 and has been with the US Environmental Protection Agency since that time. Since 2005, he has been the director of the newly formed National Center for Computational Toxicology within EPAs Office of Research and Development (ORD). Prior to that he spent 15 years as the Director of Reproductive Toxicology Division in NHEERL/ORD and he has held a variety of responsibilities for EPAs research programs on reproductive toxicology and endocrine disruption. Dr. Kavlock's research interests are oriented toward the development of improved hazard and risk assessment approaches, particularly for non cancer effects. He has published more than 160 scientific papers, 16 book chapters, and edited three books. On the national level, he was a member of the Endocrine Disruptor Working Group of the Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources with the OSTP. On the international level, he has co-organized EDC workshops with the European Union and the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, was a co-editor of the Global Assessment of the State-of-the-Science of Endocrine Disruptors (WHO, 2001), and a chapter coordinator for IPCS Environmental Health Criteria Document on "Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals" (IPCS, 2006). He is active in the Society of Toxicology, where he is a past president of the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section and the North Carolina Regional Chapter and he was President of the Teratology Society (2000-2001). He was a member of the ALTX4 Study Section of NIH (1997-2001), holds adjunct appointments at Duke University and North Carolina State University, and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Toxicological Sciences, and Birth Defects Part B: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity.
Robert J. Kavlock, PhD
National Center for Computational Toxicology
Office of Research and Development
US EPA
B205-01
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
E-mail: kavlock.robert@epa.gov
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