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Austin, TX ToxStrategies Principal Health Scientist, Dr, Laurie Haws was invited to speak at the Air Quality 2010 conference, hosted by the University of Texas School of Law, on November 19, 2010. Dr. Haws delivered her presentation titled “Biomonitoring – A Tool for Assessing Community Exposures to Air Toxics”, to an audience that included attorneys, state and federal government representatives, and other environmental professionals. The full-day program was designed to help attorneys understand and work read more…

San Antonio, Texas Drs. Laurie Haws and Daniele Staskal to Chair the 30th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (Dioxin 2010) to be held in San Antonio TX in September of 2010.

San Antonio, TX Three years of preparation and hard work came to a rewarding end this September, with the successful completion of Dioxin 2010. Conference chairs, Drs Laurie Haws and Daniele Staskal-Wikoff, are proud to have organized and hosted the 30th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants – Dioxin 2010, which drew over 800 participants from 41 countries. One highlight of the robust scientific program at the conference was the grand finale on Friday, read more…

St. Helena Island, South Carolina Michael Carakostas, DVM, PhD, DACVP has joined ToxStrategies, Inc as a Senior Consultant. Dr right here. Carakostas will be based near Beaufort, SC and will lead our Food and Supplement Safety Practice. He is a board certified veterinary clinical pathologist with 25 years of industry experience at several Fortune Global 500 corporations. Dr. Carakostas has extensive experience in food ingredient safety assessment, functional ingredient development, GRAS evaluations, food regulatory affairs read more…

Orange County, California Deborah Proctor has joined ToxStrategies, Inc as a Principal Health Scientist. Deborah is based in our Orange County, California office and will be overseeing west coast operations for ToxStrategies. She has over 20 years of experience in the environmental health risk assessment field, specializing in human health risk assessment, applied toxicology, mode of action evaluations for chemical carcinogens, environmental chemistry, exposure reconstruction, and quantitative dose-response analysis. Deborah is a nationally recognized expert read more…

Houston, Texas Dr. Chad Thompson has joined ToxStrategies as a Senior Health Scientist and is based in Houston, Texas. He holds a doctorate degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Thompson’s comes to ToxStrategies from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he was involved with IRIS chemical risk assessments, the development of databases for physiological parameters suitable for application in physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling, as well as read more…

Corpus Christi, Texas ToxStrategies scientists, Dr. Laurie Haws and Andrew Tachovsky, addressed concerns about air quality in the community of Corpus Christi, Texas. Their analyses included a comprehensive assessment of extensive air monitoring data collected in the community, as well as a critical review of the USA Today study (“The Smokestack Effect”) concerning air quality around schools across the nation. As part of this research, ToxStrategies also conducted a detailed review of the USEPA model read more…

Birmingham, England Three ToxStrategies, Inc. scientists travelled to Birmingham, England in late August to attend the 28th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Compounds (Dioxin 2008). Here, Dr. Daniele Staskal is shown discussing her poster presentation with Dr. Cynthia de Wit (Stockholm University); Dr. Staskal presented a preliminary evaluation of human health risk associated with exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the U.S. This study was included in the session on “BFRs – Exposure read more…