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Dr. Christopher T. De Rosa has been the Director,
Division of Toxicology, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR) since April 1992. Prior to his selection as Division
Director, Dr. De Rosa was the Deputy Associate Administrator for
Science, also at ATSDR. Before coming to ATSDR, Dr. De Rosa worked
with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Cincinnati, Ohio,
from 1984 to 1991. While with the EPA, Dr. De Rosa served in a number
of capacities, including the Acting Director of Environmental Criteria
and Assessment Office (ECAO), Group Leader, and Acting Branch Chief
and Branch Chief of the Chemical Mixtures Assessment Branch of ECAO.
After receiving his MS in ecology and Ph.D.
in biology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1976, Dr. De
Rosa served as an Instructor and then Assistant Professor of biology
at the University of Virginia until 1980, when he joined ECAO due
to a growing interest in the applied aspects of ecologic and environmental
health research. From 1982 to 1984 he returned to teaching and research
as Assistant Professor of botany and zoology at the University of
Maine. He has been the recipient of the U.S.E.P.A Bronze Medal four
times and has served as a consultant to EPA, the State Department,
NASA, DoE and DoD, NATO, PAHO, WHO and a range of foreign governments.
He is author/co-author of over 180 peer-reviewed publications. His
current professional interests are centered on the interface of
environmental health science and science policy, with emphasis on
risk analysis as a synthetic construct for the risk assessment and
disease prevention paradigms.
Dr. De Rosa is a member of the Society for
Risk Analysis, the Ecological Society of America, the American College
of Toxicology, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
Research Society of North America. He is an elected fellow of the
Collegium Ramazzini and a credentialed member of the Senior Biomedical
Research Service (ATSDR/CDC).
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Address:
Christopher T. De Rosa, Ph.D.
ATSDR
Director, Division of Toxicology
1600 Clifton Rd., NE (F-32)
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone: (770) 488-7003
Fax: (770) 488-7015
E-mail: cyd0@cdc.gov
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