ARMSTRONG, Vic, Ph.D.
Dr. Armstrong is an Associated Consultant at Risk Sciences International and the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, specializing in environmental health risk assessments, and holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Dr. Armstrong has worked as a consultant on environmental health related projects including coordinating preparation of reports for the Walkerton Inquiry, the International Copper Association, and the European Aluminium Association.
BYER, Philip, S.B., S.M., Ph.D.
Dr. Philip Byer is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Centre for Environment at the University of Toronto. He joined the University of Toronto in 1975 after completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Byer is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. His teaching, research and professional work are in the areas of environmental planning, project evaluation, environmental impact and risk assessment, and municipal waste management.
In the past 10 years, Dr. Byer has focused his research on improving the consideration of climate change in infrastructure planning. In 2004, he completed a project for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency on methods for addressing climate change uncertainties in project assessments. A paper he co-authored with Julian Yeomans summarizing much of that work won the award for Best Paper published in 2007 in the journal Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. He recently completed a second project for CEAA on decision-making under uncertainties for adapting to climate change in project planning.
DEWANJI, Anup, Ph.D.
Anup Dewanji, a Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, serves as an Associate Scientist of RSI. Anup has previous experience of working in the area of risk assessment while carrying out his post-doctoral research in Health Canada in the eighties and during subsequent visits. He also has experience in the area of cancer risk assessment while working in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA, first as a staff scientist and then as visiting scientists. Anup has earned reputation through his contributions by means of more than 50 scientific papers in the area of Biostatistics in general. Anup is a member of the International Biometric Society.
FARRELL, Patrick, Ph.D
Patrick Farrell is currently Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University. He recently completed a three-year term as Director of the School at the end of June 2010, and is scheduled to begin a second term at the beginning of July 2011. Professor Farrell received his PhD from McGill University in 1992, and prior to joining Carleton in 2000, held faculty positions at the University of Waterloo and Acadia University. His research interests include discrete data analysis, sampling, and the application of statistical methodology, in particular to the health sciences. He has been a member of the Executive and the Board of Directors of the Statistical Society of Canada (2003-05), and also served the Society in the roles of President of the Survey Methods Section (2000-01) and Treasurer (2003-05). In 2004, he was granted a P.Stat. from the Statistical Society of Canada. Professor Farrell served as the Director of the Statistical Consulting Centre at Acadia University from 1996 to 2000, and is currently active in statistical consulting. Since 2007, he has been a member of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, and to date has collaborated on projects in the areas of pharmacovigilance and the environmental burden of disease.
GOMES, James, BSc, MSc, Ph.D.
Dr. James Gomes is an associate professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. He teaches both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research in environmental health. He is affiliated with the Institute of Population Health, Institute of Environment, Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics and supervises graduate students in the Population Health Program, Epidemiology Program, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Certificate Program in Population Health Risk Assessment. He currently holds the McLaughlin Chair in Environmental Health Risk Assessment and is on the expert panel for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. He is a scientist with membership of a number of international professional organizations and is the Director of the Endotox Lab, University of Ottawa.
KACEW, Sam, Ph.D., ATS
Sam Kacew is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Ottawa and Associate Director of Toxicology of the Institute for Population Health at the University of Ottawa. He is a visiting professor at a number of universities including: University of Guildford in Surrey England; University of New Mexico; Institute of Toxicology at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan; Joszef Fodor National Center of Public Health in Budapest, Hungary: Department of Occupational Health, Shanghai Medical University in Shanghai, China; Zhehjiang University in Hangzhou, China, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China and Division of Toxicology at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Suwon City, Korea.
Dr. Kacew is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, Current Issue; Editor- in- Chief, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health , Part B, Critical Reviews; North American Editor, Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry; Associate Editor of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology; Associate Editor, of The Scientific World Journal (TSW Toxicology);Editor, Encyclopedia of Environmental Health; Editor, Lu’s Basic Toxicology 4th Edition; Editor, Lu’s Basic Toxicology, 5th Edition; Guest Editor of special issue of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology entitled “Toxicological Reviews in Fetal Childhood Development.” Member of the Board of Trustees of Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA).
He has received the Achievement Award of the Society of Toxicology of Canada in 1983, the Achievement Award of the Society of Toxicology in 1986, the ICI (Zeneca) Traveling Lectureship Award in 1991, the US-China Foundation Award in 1995, the Colgate-Palmolive Visiting Professorship Award in 1997, and the Public Communications Award of the Society of Toxicology in 2002. He is the author of over 150 papers, reviews and book chapters with emphasis in general toxicology including renal, hepatic and pulmonary toxicology.
LEISS, William, O.C., Ph.D., FRSC
William Leiss is a Fellow and Past-President (1999-2001) of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer in the Order of Canada. From 1999 to 2005 he held the NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair in Risk Communication and Public Policy in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. From 1994 to 1999 he held the Eco-Research Chair in Environmental Policy at Queen's University. Dr. Leiss has worked extensively in a consulting capacity with industry and with Canadian federal and provincial government departments in the areas of risk communication, risk management, public consultation, and multi-stakeholder consensus-building processes. He has been an advisor on issues dealing with pesticides, toxic chemicals, tobacco, prescription drugs, electric & magnetic fields, genetic engineering, and many others. Dr. Leiss earned a PhD from the University of California at San Diego.
MOMOLI, Franco, Ph.D.
Dr. Momoli has a masters from the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, where he conducted behavioral and neuroscience research on animal models of Alzheimer’s disease. Shifting to the field of occupational and environmental cancer, he earned a doctorate from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, where his work focused on applying methods for large-scale screening analyses to a study of occupational exposures and lung cancer. During his post-doctoral fellowship at the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Momoli worked on studies of lung cancer risk in relation to exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and risk of intracranial tumors in relation to the use of mobile phones. His research interests include statistical methods concerning confounder selection and applications that “smuggle” simplified Bayesian methods into epidemiology. He joined the OHRI Methods Centre and the CHEO-RI Clinical Research Unit as a consulting epidemiologist in 2009.
RAMSAY, Tim, MSc, Ph.D.
Dr. Ramsay is currently a Scientist of Clinical Epidemiology at the Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI). He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Ramsay's background is in mathematics (MSc in commutative algebra from Queen's University) and statistics. When he received his doctorate in statistics from Queen's University in 2000, he was awarded the Statistical Society of Canada's Pierre Robillard award for the best statistics dissertation of the year. In 2004 he was awarded the NSERC/SSHRC/McLaughlin Chair in Quantitative Risk assessment.
WALLER, James S., B.A.Sc., M.S., Ph.D.
James is a research meteorologist, and an educator, with experience in meteorological forensic analysis, and climate codes and standards. After completion of his bachelor's degree, he was an instructor and department head for the Information Technology programs at George Brown College in Toronto. He supervised over 25 instructional and support staff, and was nominated for the college award for leadership excellence. He also conducted practitioner needs assessments for curriculum and course development. After returning to graduate school at Florida State University, he was an instructor and acting weather station manager while completing his graduate degrees in Meteorology. He began work at Environment Canada upon completion of his Ph.D.
His research experience includes computational fluid dynamics, extreme event climatology, summer severe weather including tornadoes, tropical and extratropical cyclones, contaminant transport, and the socio-economic hazards posed by these phenomena. Recent research projects at Environment Canada include a definition of 'tornado-prone' areas for the National Building Code of Canada, a wind impacts database for Ontario, climate dynamics of snow, and a review of snow density assumptions of the National Building Code of Canada. Field experience includes deployment of a marine observation station in the Gulf of Mexico. James carries a record of distinction as an instructor of meteorology, and is also a member of the American Meteorological Society.