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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
© 2009 ISRTP

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