Dear Colleagues:

At the December 2006 SRA meeting, new officers will be installed for Dose Response Specialty Group during our normal business meeting.  Our bylaws call for vote by the membership prior to the annual meeting.   The official ballot and biosketches for the candidates are provided below.  The candidates are running unopposed, so you may vote by replying to this email and either

1)      Write in your candidate(s) and indicate your vote for the person

2)      Indicate your vote for selected candidates; or

3)     State your vote for “all the officers”

We encourage you to exercise your membership rights and responsibilities by voting.

We look forward to tallying your vote.

Sincerely,

Justin Teeguarden, Chair

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BALLOT:

Sara, Henry (FDA), Chair Elect                                  Yes____________

Linda Teuschler (EPA, NCEA), Secretary-Treasurer                Yes____________

Gary Foureman (EPA, NCEA), Trustee                              Yes____________

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Biosketches

Linda K. Teuschler

Linda has been a Mathematical Statistician with United

States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and

Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)

since November 1989.  She received a M.S. in Mathematics from the

University of Cincinnati in 1987. She is currently serving as NCEA’s

Team Leader for the Chemical Mixtures Focus of Excellence Team. Her

specific area of expertise is the development of chemical mixtures

health risk assessment methodologies, the technical transfer of these

risk assessment methods through the development of guidance documents and

publications, and the application of such methods to the risk

assessment of mixtures of drinking water disinfection by-products

(DBPs) and other contaminant mixtures.  More recently, her mixtures

research has expanded to incorporate cumulative risk assessment

issues.  She served on EPA's Risk Assessment Forum (RAF) Technical

Panel that authored and published the 2000 Supplementary Guidance for

the Health Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures.  She is a member of

the Society for Risk Analysis.

Gary Foureman

Gary received his Ph.D. in toxicology  from North Carolina State

University.  After completing a post-doctoral tenure with Donald Reed at

Oregon State University, he joined the U.S. EPA where he has been since 1989.

Gary's areas of research with the EPA have included dose-response

methodologies, concentration-duration relationships and inhalation dosimetry.

He is currently Chief of the Hazardous Pollutant Assessment Group within

EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment.  He has been a member

of the DRSG for several years.

Sara Henry

Sara’s academic training is in food chemistry and biochemistry. She holds

 a B.S. with honors from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; at both institutions

 she won national competitive scholarships. Her dissertation research was isolation

 and kinetics of several microbial and plant enzymes. Dr. Henry has spent her entire

professional career at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)

of the Food and Drug Administration where her areas of expertise include

mycotoxins, naturally occurring toxicants in foods, nutritional supplements, and

toxicology of organic contaminants, such as PCBs, dioxins, nitrosamines, and

chlorination disinfection by-products.  For the past fifteen years she has

been heavily involved in quantitative risk assessments for carcinogenic contaminants

 and is Executive Secretary of CFSAN’s Quantitiative Risk Assessment Committee.

 She has worked on risk assessments with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

 the International Life Science Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  

Dr. Henry has served as an advisor for some ten years to the World Health Organization,

the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

 Dr. Henry is a frequent speaker and writer on risk assessment to international and

national groups, both scientific and lay.  Recently, she has been a leader in the

 ongoing CFSAN risk assessment process for acrylamide and led the WHO advisory

committee (JECFA) team on acrylamide.

Justin Teeguarden, Ph.D., DABT

Biological Monitoring & Modeling

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

902 Battelle Blvd.

P.O. Box 999, MSIN P7-59

Richland, WA  99352

ph:  (509)376-4262

fax: (509)376-9449

e-mail: justin.teeguarden@...

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