Author Biography: Schechtmann |
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Dr. Leonard Schechtman is President of Innovative Toxicology Consulting, LLC, where he serves as principal consultant in the area of research, development, translation, validation, regulatory acceptance and implementation of alternative toxicological test methods. He serves in a liaison capacity between test method developers, stakeholders and government agencies and interfaces with Federal regulatory agency personnel regarding issues involving alternative test methods, their evaluation, regulatory applicability, acceptance and implementation. He also serves on national and international science advisory committees and boards in the alternative test methods and validation arena and is a member of validation management teams established by such international organizations as ECVAM and JaCVAM.
Prior to establishing his independent consulting firm, Dr. Schechtman was Deputy Director for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Washington Operations, where he directed its scientific, administrative, intra-agency, inter-agency and international liaison activities. He also served as Chairperson of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) and was the FDA Principal Representative and Agency Spokesperson to the ICCVAM. He was also the FDA/NCTR Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dr. Schechtman served as Executive Secretariat of the Scientific Advisory Board of the NCTR and as Executive Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Special Studies Relating to the Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Phenoxy Herbicides and Contaminants (Ranch Hand [Agent Orange] Advisory Committee, RHAC). He also served on the scientific advisory boards and committees of external national and international organizations responsible for the development and validation of new, improved, or surrogate alternative testing methods that have potential regulatory utility. He has been a member of the Scientific Program Planning Committees for the 4th, 5th and 6th World Congresses on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences and has served as a member of the Organizing Committee for the 6th World Congress held in Japan in 2007. In addition, throughout his professional career, Dr. Schechtman has had the honor of serving as co-organizer, co-chair, rapporteur, and invited speaker at numerous other national and international scientific conferences, symposia, workshops, panels, and continuing education courses.
Over his 22+ year career at the FDA, Dr. Schechtman, in addition to his position as Deputy Director of FDA/NCTR, was also previously Associate Deputy Director for the Washington Office of FDA/NCTR, Senior Science Advisor in the Office of Testing and Research (OTR) at the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), and Senior Regulatory Review Scientist in toxicology with sub-specialty in genetic toxicology in the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). He served for approximately 8 years as Rapporteur for Genotoxicity to the International Congress on Harmonization (ICH) of Technical Requirements for the Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use, a cooperative effort of the regulatory bodies and pharmaceutical industry in the United States, the European Union, and Japan.
Prior to joining FDA in 1985, Dr. Schechtman worked in the private sector as a member of the senior scientific staff of Microbiological Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, where he was Director of its Genetic Toxicology Testing Program and Director of Genetic Toxicology Research and Development.
Dr. Schechtman received his B.S. degree in Biology from Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, his M.S. degree in Cell Biology from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in Radiological Sciences and Pathobiology.
Leonard M. Schechtman, Ph.D.
President, Innovative Toxicology Consulting, LLC
9735 Via Verga St.
Lake Worth, FL 33467-6162
E-mail: lschechtman@comcast.net
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