A woman speaks to the External Advisory Committee

The ten members of the External Advisory Committee (EAC), who bring expertise and experience in a variety of fields, will be available to the ISRP faculty for advice and direction. All members of the EAC will be invited to attend an annual meeting, so that the widest number of views can be obtained. In addition, all ISRP investigators will be present and will make technical presentations of the research conducted during the past year. The EAC will prepare written feedback on the progress and direction of each project and core. The next EAC meeting will be held in June 2023.

  • Hannah Calkins, MS
    Hannah is a Data Integration Analyst III at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. She works with a team of data scientists and physicians to use real world data and clinical data analysis to solve complex problems. Previously she worked as a Senior Data Manager at Sage Bionetworks. She has done research, published, and presented on an “Analysis of U.S. Federal Funding Agency Data Sharing Policies.”

  • Vincent Cogliano, PhD

    Deputy Director for Scientific Programs at California EPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Previous to that position he was Health Risk Assessment Scientist, U.S.. EPA. He has served as the Director of the EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), which evaluates the health risks of toxic chemicals. Dr. Cogliano chaired the 2014 IARC re-evaluation of the carcinogenic potential of PCBS and PBBS.

  • Mitchell Erickson, PhD

    Mitch Erickson’s research has focused on the environmental impact of PCBs and other POPs: chemical analysis; environmental sampling; fate and transport in environmental, biological, and human matrices; data evaluation; chemical and physical impacts. He earned his PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Iowa and remains a Hawkeye!

  • Geniece Lehmann, PhD

    Geniece works as a toxicologist for U.S. EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). IRIS is a human health assessment program that evaluates quantitative and qualitative risk information on effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants. Dr. Lehmann is currently working to develop a new IRIS assessment of the non-cancer health effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). She received her Ph.D in Toxicology from the University of Rochester.

  • Pamela Lein, PhD

    Dr. Lein is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at UC-Davis. She is a neurotoxicologist and developmental neurobiologist who studies the interaction between genes and environment that can lead to a variety of complex disorders from asthma to autism and Alzheimer’s. Her research has provided evidence that PCBs modulate specific signaling pathways and processes in neurodevelopment that are altered in people with neurodevelopmental disorders.

  • Annah Murray, M.S.

    Annah is the EPA Region 7 PCB Coordinator. She manages PCB related projects and efforts under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Annah received her M.S. degree in Environmental and Urban Geosciences from the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

  • Kevin Pearson, PhD

    Kevin is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine, at the University of Kentucky. His research tries to understand the role of exercise in mitigating the health impacts of in utero PCB exposure to help us to better understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the toxicity of persistent halogenated organic pollutants. He is also Project 2 Leader of the University of Kentucky Superfund Program.

  • Diana Rohlman, PhD

    Diana is an Assistant Research Professor at Oregon State University. She studies the role of environmental health literacy in helping communities better frame and respond to environmental health hazards. Diana is the director of the Community Engagement Core at the Oregon State University Environmental Health Sciences Center. She also serves as co-lead of the Community Engagement Core at the OSU Superfund Research Program Center.

  • Susan Schantz, PhD

    Susan recently retired as Director, NIEHS Training Program in Endocrine, Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology; Director, NIEHS-USEPA Children's Environmental Health Research Center at the University of Illinois. Her research centers on understanding the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on nervous system function during development and aging, two periods when the nervous system is particularly vulnerable to toxic insult. She has done extensive work on PCBs and has led a NIEHS T32 Training Grant.

  • Robert Tukey, PhD

    Robert is a Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry at UC-San Diego. He directs the UC-San Diego Superfund Research Program. He leads Project 3 of the center which studies the molecular and microbial mechanisms leading to Triclosan induced liver fibrosis. He also received an NIH R21 to study lifelong Triclosan exposure and fatty liver disease. Robert received his PhD from the University of Iowa.

  • Thomas Young, PhD

    Thomas is a Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC-Davis. He is the Deputy Director of the UC-Davis Superfund Research Program. He is also the Leader of UC-Davis SRP Project 1 which is studying optimizing bioremediation for risk reduction using integrated bioassay, non-target analysis and genomic mining technique.