Occupational and Environmental Medicine Expert Witnesses in Louisiana

This highly-qualified workplace safety and accident investigation expert has over 30 years of experience in her field as a certified health safety official and certified OSHA approved trainer. She earned her AAS in occupational safety and health from Texas State Technical College and a BS in occupational safety and health from Southwest University. Formerly, she has held positions as vice president of safety and industrial hygiene training for the American Institute of Hazardous Materials Management, the manager of safety, environmental, and industrial hygiene for Fairchild Aircraft Company, a division safety manager for Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., and the United States director of health, safety, and environment for Exel, Inc. She currently is an independent private injury and accident reconstruction consultant in Texas.

This expert has experience with toxic environmental contamination, industrial chemical exposures and occupational health. this expert is a physician (The Ohio State University), board certified in Occupational Medicine (American Board of Preventive Medicine), who holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Toxicology (University of Cincinnati, Kettering Laboratory). He has served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati and the New York University Medical Center and joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Public Health in 1992 in its Environmental Sciences Discipline and Occupational and Environmental Health and Aerospace Medicine Module. He is Associate Professor of Occupational Health, directs the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program and is a member of the research team for an education and research center. He is a graduate of the Health Educators Fellowship and serves as a member of the Center for Interprofessional Collaboration, Steering Committee. He maintains a clinical practice of occupational medicine and medical toxicology and is a frequent consultant to governments, corporations and the legal community on matters related to industrial chemical exposure, toxicology and environmental justice. His research interests include: environmental and occupational chemical exposures, inhalation injuries, the relationship between metal exposures and cancer, and professional training and learning. As a teacher, he specializes in reducing complex subjects to familiar and recognizable concepts that are accessible to a broadly diverse audience.

This highly qualified expert has over 45 years of experience in the industrial hygiene and occupational health field. He earned his BS in chemistry and biology from the University of Alabama followed by an MS in environmental health engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He is a certified safety professional and certified industrial hygienist, as well as a licensed professional engineer. He is active in his field as a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. He has also published and lectured extensively in the environmental health and safety space, and he is an editor for the Applied Industrial Hygiene Journal. He has formerly served as an environmental engineer at the Naval Ordinance Environmental Health Center, as a safety and health compliance officer at OSHA, as the industrial hygiene director at the Naval Nuclear Shipyard and Naval Regional Medical Center, as an OSHA documentation manager for the TVA, and as a corporate director for Alcon Laboratories Pharmaceutical. He is currently a principal at an environmental and occupational health consultancy, as well as the director of the North Texas section of a national industrial hygiene association.