2008 International Achievement Award

2009 International Achievement Award

The Society annually presents an award to an outstanding individual in recognition of their contributions and achievements in the resolution of public environmental concerns. There are no specific criteria, no age limitations, however, international scientific developments in toxicology are of special interest.

ISRTP President Jay Ansell presents the 2009 International Achievement Award to

Michael Dourson, Ph.D., DABT, ATS

President
Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)

December 10, 2009

Dr. Dourson is the President of Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the best use of toxicity data in risk assessment. Before founding TERA in 1995, Dr. Dourson held leadership roles in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as chair of US EPA's Reference Dose (RfD) Work Group, charter member of the US EPA's Risk Assessment Forum and chief of the group that helped create the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).

Dr. Dourson received his Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Cincinnati. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences.

Dr. Dourson has served on or chaired numerous expert panels, including peer review panels for US EPA IRIS assessments, US EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum, TERA’s International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) independent peer reviews and consultations, FDA’s Science Board Subcommittee on Toxicology, the NSF International’s Health Advisory Board, and SOT’s harmonization of cancer and non-cancer risk assessment. He served as Secretary for the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and has held leadership roles in specialty sections of SRA and SOT. He is currently on the editorial board of three journals. Dr. Dourson has published more than 100 papers on risk assessment methods, has co-authored over 100 government risk assessment documents, and has made over 100 invited presentations.

Ph.D., Toxicology, University of Cincinnati (1980)

Certified, American Board of Toxicology (1985, 1990, 1995, 2000)

PAST INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS

(2008) Mildred S. Christian, Ph.D., Fellow, ATS
(2007) Bernard A. Schwetz, D.V.M., Ph.D.
(2006) Elizabeth I. Anderson, Ph.D.
(2005) Jerome H. Heckman, Esq.
(2004) Lester M. Crawford, M.D.
(2003) Curtis D. Klaassen, Ph.D.
(2002) Donald Hughes, Ph.D.
(2001) Joseph F. Borzelleca, Ph.D
(1999) Dr. Alan Rulis, Director, Office of Premarket Approval (OPA)
(1998) Dr. Roger O. McClellan, President, CIIT, Research Triangle Park, NC
(1997) Dr. Ian C. Munro, Principal, FRCPath
(1996) Dr. John Higginson, Retired Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University
(1995) Robert C. Barnard, Esq., Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
(1994) Dr. Philip Abelson, Science Magazine, Washington, DC
(1993) Dr. C. Jelleff Carr, Managing Editor of RTP, Columbia, MD
(1991) Dr. John P. Frawley, Health & Environment International, Ltd., Wilmington, DE
(1990) Dr. John Doull, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
(1989) Dr. Frederick Coulston, Coulston Foundation, Alamogordo, NM
(1988) Dr. Robert A. Neal, Retiring President of CIIT, Research Triangle Park, NC
(1987) Dr. Gaston A. Vettorazzi, Geneva, Switzerland and Dr. Frank C. Lu, Miami, FL, WHO

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