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Suggested Citation:"STAFF." Institute of Medicine. 2003. Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10819.
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Suggested Citation:"STAFF." Institute of Medicine. 2003. Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10819.
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Suggested Citation:"STAFF." Institute of Medicine. 2003. Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10819.
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APPENDIX B 46 Louisville, Kentucky. He has extensive clinical training, with specialty-board certifications in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical-care medicine, and occupational medicine. Dr. Tollerud has research expertise in environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and immunology and consulting experience in occupational and environmental respiratory disease, medical surveillance, and workplace-injury prevention programs. He has served on a number of other Institute of Medicine committees since 1992. He served in leadership roles on committees responsible for the original (1994) and updated (1996 and 1998) Agent Orange reports. Thomas Smith, PhD, is professor of industrial hygiene in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of the school's industrial-hygiene program. Dr. Smith's primary research interest is in the characterization of environmental exposures for studies of health effects. He has developed a toxicokinetic modeling approach for integrating the health effects of toxic substances into epidemiologic studies. Lauren Zeise, PhD, is chief of the Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Section in the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of the California Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Zeise is a toxicologist who has published extensively in exposure assessment and cancer risk assessment. STAFF Rose Marie Martinez, ScD, is director of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Before joining IOM, she was a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where she conducted research on the impact of health-system change on the public-health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health-care workforce. Dr. Martinez is a former assistant director for health financing and policy in the US General Accounting Office, where she directed evaluations and policy analysis in national and public-health issues. Dr. Martinez received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Kathleen Stratton, PhD, was acting director of the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) from 1997 to 1999. She received a BA in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the neuropharmacology of phencyclidine compounds at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and in the neurophysiology of second-messenger systems at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, she joined the staff of IOM in 1990. Dr. Stratton has worked on projects in environmental risk assessment, neurotoxicology, the organization of research and services in the Public Health Service, vaccine safety, fetal alcohol syndrome, and vaccine development. She has had primary responsibility for the reports Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines: Evidence Bearing on Causality; DPT Vaccine and Chronic Nervous System Dysfunction; Fetal

APPENDIX B 47 Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment; and Vaccines for the 21st Century: An Analytic Tool for Prioritization. David A.Butler, PhD, is senior program officer in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He received a BS and an MS in engineering from the University of Rochester and a PhD in public-policy analysis from Carnegie-Mellon University. Before joining IOM, Dr. Butler served as an analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and was a research associate in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has directed several National Academies studies on environmental-health and risk-assessment topics, including studies that resulted in the reports Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998; Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000; Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures; and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef: Review of a Risk Assessment. He is directing a study on damp indoor spaces and health—a review of the literature regarding the health consequences of mold and related microbial exposures. Jennifer A.Cohen is a research associate in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She received her undergraduate degree in art history from the University of Maryland. She has also been involved with the IOM committees that produced Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures; Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef: Review of a Risk Assessment; Organ Procurement and Transplantation; Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes; Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000; Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans; and Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002. Anna B.Staton, MPA, was a research assistant in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention through October 2002. Ms. Staton joined IOM in December 1999 and worked with the committees that produced No Time to Lose: Getting More from HIV Prevention; Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000; and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef: Review of a Risk Assessment. Before joining IOM, she worked at the Baltimore Women's Health Study. Ms. Staton graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a BA in visual arts (major) and women's studies (minor). She earned her MPA in nonprofit management at the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management. Elizabeth J.Albrigo is a project assistant in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is involved with the IOM Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health. She also helped to facilitate the production of the reports Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002; Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans; and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef: Review of a Risk Assessment.

APPENDIX B 48 Joe A.Esparza is a project assistant in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He attended Columbia University, where he studied biochemistry. Before joining IOM, he worked with the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) of the National Research Council. While with BANR, he was involved with the committees that produced Frontiers in Agricultural Research: Food, Health, Environment, and Communities; Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs; and Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of US Agriculture. At IOM, he assisted on the report Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002. James A.Bowers through July 2000 was a project assistant and, later, research assistant in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He received his undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Binghamton University. He has also been involved with the IOM committees that produced Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam; Adequacy of the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program: Nerve Agents; Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures; and Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes.

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