Heavy Metal Poisoning, Expert Witnesses in Georgia

This medical toxicologist is a fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology and an adjunct associate professor of Toxicology at a respected Florida college of public health. In addition to an MD obtained in Mexico, he earned his doctorate in Toxicology from the University of Minnesota, with a Master's degree in Public Health from the University of Texas at Houston. He was a Poison Specialist Certified with the American Association of Poison Control Centers for more than twenty years and is an active member of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and the Society of Toxicology. He has over a quarter century of experience performing medical toxicological assessments on individuals and communities exposed to toxic substances such as pesticides, heavy metals, industrial and environmental chemicals substances both at the community level as well as occupationally.

This highly qualified expert has over 10 years of experience as a forensic toxicologist. She earned her BS in chemistry at the University of Georgia before completing her PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Arizona. She then completed an MS in forensic toxicology at the University of Florida. She is board certified and a fellow in forensic toxicology by the American Board of Forensic Toxicology, a certified toxicological chemist by the National Registry of Certified Chemists, and a licensed clinical laboratory director in the state of Florida. She is very active in her field as a member of several professional societies including the Society of Forensic Toxicologist, the American Academy of Forensic Science, and the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. In addition, this expert has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Formerly, this expert was a toxicologist level II and III for the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Department. She is not the director of the toxicology laboratory at a medical examiner's office in Florida.

This expert is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and occupational medicine, with over 40 years of experience in simultaneous clinical and academic roles. He has held numerous prestigious positions including a professorship at the University of Cincinnati. He also formerly served as head of clinical studies at Cincinnati and the Coordinator of Research at the University of South Florida. He has been the director of several programs over his long career, and he is currently the director of a breath laboratory at a major university health center, and an attending physician at a major area hospital.

This expert in toxicology had a 22-year career in regulatory positions at the Food and Drug Administration. The expert joined the FDA in 1977 and served as the Special Assistant to the Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and as the Director of Division of Toxicological Research. Following retirement from Federal service, he was also the State Toxicologist, Chemical Terrorism Laboratory Director, and State Counterterrorism Coordinator working within the Alabama Department of Public Health. He has a B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University, an M.S. in Physiology from West Virginia University, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from West Virginia University. The expert also later earned an M.S. in Applied Human Behavior from Johns Hopkins University, where he completed a Fellowship in Organizational Development and Community Systems. He is a Member of the American College of Toxicology, the National Environmental Health Association, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The expert left his FDA position at the end of 1999 and his Alabama Department of Health role in early 2010.