Asish Mohapatra Editor

Philip Wexler retired from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) after a long and eminent federal career in its Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program. While there, he participated in and led intra- and inter-agency teams in the development, enhancement, and maintenance of a broad array of toxicology databases, taking advantage of continuously evolving information technologies. He collaborated on the development of the World Library of Toxicology, the ToxLearn educational tutorial, the Toxicology History Room, and the Toxicology History Association. Mr. Wexler served as Editor-in-Chief for all five editions of Information Resources in Toxicology and served in the same role for editions 1-3 of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology, and the ongoing monographic series, History of Toxicology and Environmental Health, all Elsevier publications. A 4th edition of the Encyclopedia is being planned. In addition, he is co-editor of the book, Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective and the journal, Global Security: Health Science and Policy, both published by Taylor and Francis. He has authored numerous technical journal articles related to toxicology informatics, education, communications, and history, and chaired sessions, lectured and taught widely on these subjects throughout the globe. Mr. Wexler has been a strong advocate of toxicology public outreach and has organized events at various venues to enhance the public's understanding of the role of toxicology in society and people's lives. He is a trustee of the Toxicology Education Foundation and past chair of the Society of Toxicology's World Wide Web Advisory Team. He is a recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical Achievement, the Society of Technical Communications's Distinguished Technical Communication Award, and the Society of Toxicology's Public Communications Award. Steven G. Gilbert, PhD, DABT, Director and Founder of the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND), has a Ph.D. in toxicology and is a Diplomat of American Board of Toxicology. He is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington. Dr. Gilbert’s research has focused on neurobehavioral effects of low-level exposure to lead and mercury on the developing nervous system. His book, A Small Dose of Toxicology- The Health Effects of Common Chemicals was published in 2004 and the 2nd edition is available for free as an E-book (www.asmalldoseoftoxicology.org). The book was recently translated and published in Chinese and has been translated into Arabic, German, and Spanish. He started the wiki based web site Toxipedia (www.toxipedia.org) which includes a suite of sites that put scientific information in the context of history, society, and culture (temporily offline) ([email protected]). Asish Mohapatra has 22 years professional work experience in the multi-disciplinary areas of toxicology, health risk assessment, chemical fate, transport and transformation and climate change impacts in permafrost affected soils, computational toxicology, systems biology, biomedical informatics and data fusion tools, methodologies and framework applications in toxicology and health risk analysis. Asish has carried out numerous critical reviews of environmental health risk analysis projects, managed and led chemical toxicology reviews, exposure analysis and risk assessment guidelines and methodologies development. He has completed critical reviews of toxicological and health risk assessments of contaminated sites, indoor and outdoor air quality, soil and water quality analysis; toxicology and health risk assessment database developments; Developed and reviewed toxicological reference values and soil quality guidelines for petroleum and chlorinated hydrocarbons, metals and metalloids. Additional expertise in CBRN(Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear), energetics materials and Toxic Industrial Contaminants and consequence management; multiple data fusion models for advanced dose response assessment methodologies, assessment of complex chemical mixtures; health risks from a local and global health and security perspective Asish has expertise in emerging informatics tools in collaborative predictive toxicology and risk assessment, computational toxicology and review of web 2.0 and 3.0 tools and applications in integrating data resources in toxicology and environmental public health risk analysis projects Maintained and developed relationships with regional, federal, and international agencies including community groups to share information resources in the emerging environmental health toxicology and public health risk analysis in residential, commercial and industrial lands and interfaces settings. Asish is a co-editor in chief of Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy, an interdisciplinary and a specialized journal under Routledge, Taylor and Francis, focusing on many disciplines intersecting health, environment, security, science and policy. Dr. Sol Bobst, PhD, DABT has participated in several risk assessment reviews. He is a ten year member of the Society of Toxicology and the past president of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues specialty section. He graduated Magna Cum Laude, University Honors with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. His Doctoral degree is from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, and he holds a board certification from the American Board of Toxicology. Antoinette Hayes is a preclinical drug safety toxicologist at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. She has an expertise in discovery toxicology (small molecules, biologics, siRNA) and risk assessment/mitigation for early research targets. She's an avid science historian and has authored several book chapters on the history of toxicology and is a founding member of the Toxicology History Association. Sara T. Humes recently graduated from the University of Florida with her PhD in Public Health, One Health concentration. Her dissertation research focused on emerging contaminants and novel mechanisms of toxicity, specifically the impact of carbon nanomaterial exposure on the host immune response and the role of protein adduct formation in the development of cumulative neurotoxicity after exposure to electrophilic chemicals. She has contributed to several articles and book chapters related to the nanotoxicology work, with plans for additional publications in the next year. Sara is a student member of both the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and is a trustee for the Toxicology Education Foundation. She has also received the Outstanding Student Research Award in the University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health, the Delores A. Auzenne Dissertation Award from the Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives at the University of Florida, and the Student Travel Award from the SOT Occupational and Public Health Specialty Section. At the time of publishing, she is looking forward to beginning her career in the fields of toxicology and public health.