The GEMS Board of Directors has 13 members, including a president, president-elect, secretary, treasurer, and 9 councilors. The Board meets monthly to plan and prepare for the two annual GEMS meetings.
PRESIDENT
Arun Pandiri, BVSC&AH, Ph.D., is the leader of the Molecular Pathology Group, Cellular and Molecular Pathology Branch, National Toxicology Program. He earned his Veterinary degree from ANGR Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India; M.S. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Ph.D. from Michigan State University and the USDA ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, East Lansing; and Pathology residency training at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and the American Board of Toxicology. Dr. Pandiri received the first Distinguished Early Career Award from the Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) in 2014. His areas of interest include chemical-induced carcinogenesis and the toxicologic pathology of digestive and respiratory systems. The current focus of Dr. Pandiri’s group is on identifying mutation signatures in tumors induced by genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens from the NTP rodent cancer bioassays. Dr. Pandiri has presented at various workshops organized by the EPA, FDA and at the local universities NCSU and UNC. In addition, he has also organized several scientific sessions and continuing education programs at the annual meetings of the STP and the American College of Toxicology. He considers it an honor to serve and contribute to the growth of GEMS especially in the areas of continuing education and career development.
PRESIDENT-ELECT George Woodall, Ph.D., is a Toxicologist at the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) of the US EPA where he works under the Health and Environmental Risk Assessment (HERA) Program performing chemical risk assessments and improving risk assessment methods. He provides technical support to the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards which includes cancer and non-cancer assessments of risk from exposure to hazardous air pollutants. He has also been very active in developing visualizations for comparisons of health effect reference values used in risk assessments (reference value arrays), and other graphical methods to compare and analyze the key studies used to derive reference values (exposure-response arrays). A few key highlights from his career include: Coordinator and Moderator for the January 2014 State-of-the-Science Workshop on Chemically-Induced Mouse Lung Tumors: Applications to Human Health Assessments; Chair of the OECD expert panel developing the OECD Guidance Document 153 (Derivation of an Acute Reference Concentration); Member of the Editorial Board for Toxicological Sciences, and President (2018-2019) of the Risk Assessment Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology (SOT). |
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TREASURER
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2020-2022 COUNCILORS
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GEMS is incorporated as a non-profit scientific organization in the state of North Carolina and with the federal government.