Medical Toxicology & Forensic Medicine
Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Lic: M.D. (CA); Certified, Occupational Medicine Board

Special interests and experience:

Extensive experience in establishing or refuting causation based on evaluation of discovery information and application of generally accepted medical, toxicological, and scientific principles.

Assessment of health effects alleged to result from exposure to toxic chemicals such as hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, pesticides (organophosphates, organochlorines, methyl bromide and other fumigants), chemicals causally associated with "toxic encephalopathy". Reactive Airways Dysfunction ((RADS) and Irritant Induced Asthma (Irritant Induced Asthma).

Previous positions:

• Medical Professor, Occupational Medicine, UC Berkeley
• Senior Scientist, Stanford Research Institute
• Chief, Occupational & Environmental Health, California Department of Health

Professional Associations

• Fellow, American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
• Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Medicine
• Fellow, American College of Epidemiology

Past/present consultant to:

• U.S. Department of Justice
• World Health Organization (Geneva, India)
• U.S. FDA (Japan)
• National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Subcommittee on Hydrogen Sulfide
• Film Australia. Documentary. Toxicology Consultant, 2006

Expert medical-legal consulting, 25 years; 30-35 court appearances; 50 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals.

Author of chapter "Forensic Toxicology" Chapter 1401, Matthew Bender, Lawyer's Guide to Medical Proof, 1999.