The eleven 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 Fall 2024.
- Hannah Calkins, MS
Hannah is a Data Integration Analyst 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 support pediatric cancer research and to solve complex problems related to data sharing, data modeling, and precision medicine. Previously she worked as a Senior Data Manager at Sage Bionetworks. Hannah collaborates with other researchers to build and adopt new approaches to data interoperability as a member of the NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) Workgroup, the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) Data Harmonization Workgroup, and the CCDI Pediatric Disease Ontology Task Force. She has done research, published, and presented on numerous topics related to data sharing and reuse including Bioinformatics Data Modeling, Research Data Harmonization, and Federal Funder Data Sharing Policies. 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 is a senior toxicologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she applies more than 15 years of experience evaluating the human health risks of environmental contaminants. Her work spans the assessment of chemical hazards, development of exposure and dose–response analyses, and advancement of scientific methods to inform environmental health decisions. Dr. Lehmann is recognized for her extensive knowledge of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other persistent pollutants, and her research has contributed to national and international efforts to protect vulnerable populations, including children. She earned her Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Rochester.
Dr. Lein is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at UC-Davis. She is a neurotoxicologist and developmental neurobiologist who studies how environmental stressors influence individual risk for 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 neurodevelopmental disorders.
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 and PFAS exposure, helping us better understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the toxicity of organic pollutants. He is also the Deputy Director and Project 2 Leader of the University of Kentucky Superfund Program, and the Career Development Leader for the University of Kentucky NIEHS-funded P30 Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences.
Diana is an Associate Professor (Sr. Research) at Oregon State University. She studies how people understand environmental influences on health as a way of 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.