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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

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