Guest guest Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 As taken from the Occ-Med-Listserv: J. Portier, Ph.D., Selected as Director, NCEH/ATSDR " He has contributed to the development of cancer risk assessment guidelines for national and international agencies, and has either directed or contributed significantly to numerous risk assessments, most notably those for dioxins, aflatoxins and electromagnetic fields. " Dr. Frieden, CDC Director and ATSDR Administrator, announced today that J. Portier, Ph.D., has been selected as the Director, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), effective August 1, 2010. ‪Dr. Portier joins CDC from his previous position as Senior Advisor to the Director and Principal Investigator for Environmental Systems Biology at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). During Dr. Portier’s extensive career at NIEHS, he also served as Associate Director of the NIEHS, Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program, and Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program. ‪Dr. Portier is an internationally recognized expert in the design, analysis, and interpretation of environmental health data with a focus on carcinogenicity. His research efforts and interests include such diverse topics as cancer biology, risk assessment, bioinformatics, immunology, climate change, development, genetically modified foods, and genomics. He has contributed to the development of cancer risk assessment guidelines for national and international agencies, and has either directed or contributed significantly to numerous risk assessments, most notably those for dioxins, aflatoxins and electromagnetic fields. He led the U.S. evaluation by national and international scientists of electromagnetic fields, the first comprehensive review in this field. Dr. Portier directed efforts of the U.S. government to develop a collaborative research agenda with Vietnam on the health effects of Agent Orange in that country. He has just directed a multi-agency review for the entire U.S. Government of research needs for the health effects of climate change. He has also served as an advisor to the Finnish Academy of Sciences on the Centers of Excellence Research Program, as a member of numerous WHO/IARC scientific committees, and as a reviewer for grants for the United States, the European Union, and many other sponsoring organizations.‪ " Dr. Portier received his B.Sc. degree (1977) in mathematics (summa cum laude) and his M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in biostatistics. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, 30 book chapters, and 40 technical reports. In the last 5 years, he has given more than 70 invited lectures, many of them at international meetings. ‪He has received numerous awards including the prestigious Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and the Outstanding Practitioner of the Year Award from the International Society for Risk Analysis. He is a Fellow of the International Statistics Institute, the World Innovation Foundation, and the American Statistical Association. ‪Dr. Portier will draw on his internationally recognized scientific leadership to continue to advance and transform NCEH/ATSDR into the national and international leading source for environmental public health information and science. -And- _http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2010/04/rtp-researchers-help-track-diseases -linked-to-climate-change/_ (http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2010/04/rtp-researchers-help-track-diseases-lin\ ked-to-climate-change/) Duke University researchers suspect climate change is a reason why a deadly new version of a tropical fungus is spreading in the temperate climate of the Pacific Northwest.....The second Duke paper followed on the heels of a _report on human health and climate change_ (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/docs/climatereport2010.pdf) that was authored by a group of researchers from several federal agencies. Lead author of the report was J. Portier, the head of the environmental systems biology group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park. Sharon Noonan Kramer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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