Publications

• ABC News Interview: How air purifiers and cleaners may help keep you safer indoors from COVID-19 with ABC News Medical Correspondent, Dr. Eden David
• ABC Good Morning Ameri...
• Virus Countermeasures ...
• In-Flight v Stockbridge - Facility Pandemic Resilience and Rent Abatement
• Eric Keeling, et.al. v Rohm & Hass Co Deposition

Chemical and Biological Exposure Risk Assessment

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Award winning, industrial hygiene and safety expert with over 25 years of broad international experience practicing, teaching and authoring to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control and prevent workplace health and safety hazards in high hazard industries. As an expert witness for both plaintiff and defense (50/50) I have provided consultation for both airborne and dermal exposure cases for chemical and biological agents. I have evaluated and modeled exposures, reconstructed exposure events, quantified dose following standardized practices for exposure assessment, and applied best practice statistical methods and science in forming my opinions. Throughout the pandemic, I reviewed and prioritized over 100 air disinfection devices for the nation's largest facilities maintenance organization, and as a result I have extensive expertise in pandemic response management including chemical and non-chemical disinfectant exposure evaluation and controls and best practice indoor air quality strategies. I currently serve as the Chair of the University of Michigan Graduate School of Public Health COHSE External Advisory Board and the Vice-President of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Board of Directors. I facilitated the foundation and currently Chair the AIHA Indoor Air Quality Task Force that collaborates with ASHRAE staff and members to advance best practices. I am domestically and internationally recognized for leadership service to the IH profession as an Executive Officer, Chair and/or Director for the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, the Occupational Hygiene Training Association and the Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Boards of Directors and a number of AIHA and ASHRAE Committees. In addition to my service to my profession, I practice industrial hygiene program management as an experienced, independent consultant, an industrial hygiene expert witness, and sought-after international, AIHA-Distinguished expert lecturer. Some of my areas of extensive technical expertise include the following: • Chemical airborne and dermal exposure assessment and modeling • Biohazard assessment & pandemic non-chemical control programs • Biohazard air disinfection technologies evaluation and testing • Heat Stress program development and implementation • Pharmaceutical potent compound exposure assessment • Pharmaceutical containment and USP 800 conformance • Hearing conservation program development and controls • Explosive (UXO) hazardous waste operations program development • Respiratory protection and fit testing programs • All levels of OSHA occupational hygiene and safety training I spend a great deal of time describing, in understandable lay terms, chemical, biological and physical hazard exposures, OSHA and health guideline information, and health impacts at a wide variety of public speaking opportunities and expert testimony. I am a great storyteller and good at using analogies to create clarity with complex information. I interviewed on ABC Good Morning America program and ABC News regarding the Covid Pandemic and indoor air quality solutions. I provided White House briefing regarding appropriate responses to the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. I have authored multiple articles for peer-reviewed publications and lectured extensively at ASHRAE, AIHA, Pharmaceutical, Product Safety, and ACGIH conferences regarding industrial hygiene program management, pharmaceutical containment, indoor air quality and facility pandemic occupancy and strategies.