Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

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Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Study Design, Data Evaluation, and Report Review

ID: 722674 Alabama, USA

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Expert (prefers “Expert”) has acquired knowledge and expertise on birth defects in three ways: 1) teaching university courses on human embryology and on causes and manifestations of birth defects; 2) conducting lab animal research; and 3) extensive technical consulting and expert witness experience. He is a recognized expert in developmental toxicology, with many publications, including several authored or edited books, and participation in expert panels for both government and industry. Expert has had an extensive consulting practice in developmental and reproductive toxicology, designing and reviewing study protocols, reviewing data, critiquing study reports, and preparing publication manuscripts for pharmaceutical and chemical companies and regulatory agencies. For example, he recently assisted a pharmaceutical company in evaluating rat and rabbit developmental and reproductive toxicity data on a candidate drug, and he obtained the additional expertise of an expert on primate teratology to aid in evaluating primate study conduct and data. Expert evaluated the existing information on chemicals that could potentially leach from a medical device and prepared an analysis of the potential for the device to cause reproductive or developmental toxicity. His report was crucial for obtaining FDA approval for the device. Expert also authored a manuscript for a chemical company from their existing data, shepherded it through journal publication, and assisted in designing further studies on the chemicals involved. He has also served as an expert witness in a number of cases related to birth defects and miscarriage, including serving as a defense expert in several Bendectin cases. Expert has provided expertise on such things as the state of vulnerability of specific human embryonic structures during the time of exposure to actual or alleged teratogens. However, the main area in which he can provide useful testimony is the use of animal studies to support or refute allegations of birth defect causation.

Expert taught a university course on human embryology for over twenty years. In addition to his understanding of human developmental anatomy, he can supplement his knowledge with an extensive personal library of embryology texts. Thus he can provide answers to questions regarding the process and timing of the development of specific structures and organs.

Expert has assisted pharmaceutical and medical device companies in designing and implementing nonclinical developmental and reproductive toxicity studies and by evaluating the results from such studies. He has also aided such companies by critiquing and editing study reports produced by their in house staff or by CROs. It has been Expert’s observation that such study reports are often flawed because of lack of specific experience and expertise on the part of the report authors or perhaps by their working under severe time constraints. For example, they may not only misinterpret data but they may also inappropriately use “boiler plate” text that does not apply to the study at hand. Expert has also helped to design “nontraditional” studies for the purpose of answering specific questions that may shed light on mechanisms of toxicity and whether such mechanisms may or may not act in humans. His extensive collection of reprints from the developmental and reproductive literature has also proven valuable in answering obscure questions that may support regulatory submissions. Further, Expert has an extensive network of colleagues with a wide range of experience and expertise on whom he can call for additional consultation if needed.

Expert has taught university courses on toxicology, environmental toxicology, and developmental toxicology. He is a recognized expert in developmental toxicology, with many publications, including several authored or edited books, and participation in expert panels for both government and industry. Expert has had an extensive consulting practice in developmental and reproductive toxicology, designing and reviewing study protocols, reviewing data, critiquing study reports, and preparing publication manuscripts for pharmaceutical and chemical companies and regulatory agencies. For example, he recently assisted a pharmaceutical company in evaluating rat and rabbit developmental and reproductive toxicity data on a candidate drug, and he obtained the additional expertise of an expert on primate teratology to aid in evaluating primate study conduct and data. Expert also evaluated the existing information on chemicals that could potentially leach from a medical device and prepared an analysis of the potential for the device to cause reproductive or developmental toxicity. His report was crucial for obtaining FDA approval for the device. In addition, Expert authored a manuscript for a chemical company from their existing data, shepherded it through journal publication, and assisted in designing further studies on the chemicals involved. Expert’s broad background, including expertise in environmental toxicology and in agriculture, resulted in his being chosen by the Veterans Administration to prepare a monograph on “Agent Blue” (cacodylic acid), a Vietnam era herbicide. And although he has a broad and varied background in toxicology, with an emphasis on developmental and reproductive toxicology and the toxicology of arsenic, Expert can call on an extensive group of colleagues throughout the U.S. to provide additional expertise. These colleagues cover virtually all areas and aspects of toxicology, as well as epidemiology and the pharmacology and toxicity of pharmaceutical drugs and drugs of abuse. Expert has also served as an expert witness in a number of cases related to exposure to environmental and workplace toxicants and involving allegations of a variety of toxic effects, although the majority of his litigation-related work has involved cases dealing with birth defects, miscarriage, or arsenic exposure. Further, Expert has lectured on developmental and reproductive toxicology to personnel of the U.S. FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and organizes training courses for Canadian Government regulatory personnel (Health Canada).

Expert has authored or co-authored numerous research articles dealing with the toxicology of arsenic compounds. He has published more research related to the developmental toxicity of inorganic and organic arsenicals than any other individual. Expert has also published articles on the biotransformation and toxicokinetics of arsenic and has served as an expert witness in arsenic-related litigation. In addition, his broad background, including expertise in environmental toxicology and in agriculture, resulted in his being chosen by the Veterans Administration to prepare a monograph on “Agent Blue” (cacodylic acid), a Vietnam-era arsenical herbicide. That monograph covered everything known about cacodylic acid, from its chemical structure and properties to its environmental fate, as well as all aspects of its toxicity to a variety of species and its pharmacology. Copies of the monograph can be viewed at all Veterans Administration facilities and they can be obtained from Expert.

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Expert has served as a consultant to industrial clients, trade associations, Federal and State regulatory agencies, and law firms since 1978. He has served as a grant or document reviewer for the American Chemistry Council, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, ICCVAM, and the National Research Council. Expert also conducts training courses in developmental and reproductive toxicology for regulatory personnel of the government of Canada. Expert was contacted by a company that was attempting to obtain FDA approval for marketing a biomedical device. The company had been working with other consultants, but the FDA had concerns about the potential of the device to cause developmental or reproductive toxicity. The company was in a particularly problematic situation, because there was no appropriate animal model by which the device could be tested for these endpoints. Expert was able to present a well researched argument maintaining that because of considerations such as the nature of the materials that were in question, the minimal potential exposures to leached chemicals, and the timing of possible exposures, the likelihood of the toxicities of concern was negligible. This lead the FDA to conclude that approval for marketing of the device was warranted.

At the request of attorneys for the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Expert provided an extensive review of the literature on the potential of exposure to certain chemicals to cause a specific type of birth defect. He was also asked to assess all identifiable alternative sources of causation for the defect in question. Although the agency’s attorneys had initially retained him for litigation support only, they were sufficiently impressed by the expertise and thoroughness evident in the literature review and by an in-person interview that they decided to name Expert as a testifying expert in the case.He served as a “special consultant,” providing needed expertise in developmental, reproductive, and environmental toxicology to the Environmental Health Committee of the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board for a period of ten years. Expert prepared a monograph for the U.S. Veterans Administration on an arsenical herbicide, “Agent Blue,” used in the Vietnam War. The agency contacted Expert because of his expertise on the toxicology of arsenicals, as well as his diverse background in fields such as environmental toxicology and agriculture. The completed monograph, which details what was known at the time regarding chemical properties, analytical methods, production and use, environmental sources and fate, pharmacology, animal and human toxicology, human exposure, and research needs related to cacodylic acid (dimethylarsinic acid), was published by the Veterans Administration.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1969 Degree: Ph.D. Subject: Physiology of Reproduction Institution: Purdue University
Year: 1965 Degree: M.S. Subject: Animal Breeding Institution: Texas Tech University
Year: 1963 Degree: B.S. Subject: Animal Science Institution: Texas Tech University

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1980 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Principal Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert is principal of this toxicology consulting business.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1968 to 2000 Employer: The University of Alabama Title: Professor of Biological Sciences Department: Biological Sciences
Responsibilities:
He was involved in research, teaching, and service. He is now Professor Emeritus.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1996 to 1997 Employer: The University of Alabama Title: Interim Department Chair Department: Department of Biological Sciences
Responsibilities:
Expert was responsible for the management of the Department of Biological Sciences.

Government Experience

Years Agency Role Description
Years: 1999 to Present Agency: U.S. EPA, Office of Pesticide Programs FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Role: Review board member Description: Expert served on the Food Quality Protection Act Science Review Board (FQPA/SRB); he advises the Agency on implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act.
Years: 1983 to 1993 Agency: Environmental Health Committee, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Role: Special Consultant Description: He participated in all of the activities of the Environmental Health Committee. The Committee's primary role was to provide advice to ensure the scientific quality of review documents and activities of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Years: 1983 to 1983 Agency: U.S. Veterans Administration, Office of Medicine and Surgery, Agent Orange Special Projects Office Role: Consultant in Environmental Medicine Description: His task was to write a scientific monograph on "Agent Blue" (cacodylic acid), a Vietnam-era herbicide. The monograph was published in 1985 by the U.S. Government Printing Office.

International Experience

Years Country / Region Summary
Years: 1990 to 1990 Country / Region: Philippines Summary: He presented a talk on behalf of a consulting client at a conference in Manila.
Years: 1992 to 1992 Country / Region: Zurich, Switzerland Summary: He presented an invited lecture at the Pharmacology Institute of the University of Zurich.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Expert is a member of the Society of Toxicology and the Teratology Society.
Professional Appointments
He was the Editor of the Newsletter of the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology. He is a past Member of the Editorial Boards of Fundamental and Applied Toxicology, Toxicological Sciences, and InScight, and an assistant editor of a special issue of Chemico-Biological Interactions. He was also a member of the U.S. EPA’s Food Quality Protection Act Science Review Board (FQPA/SRB).
Awards / Recognition
Expert has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences.
Publications and Patents Summary
Expert has authored or edited over 100 publications in print or in press (research articles, reviews, books, and book chapters), in addition to numerous presentation abstracts and unpublished reports.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert has been retained as an expert in a considerable number of cases, has given a few depositions, and testified at one trial. Most of these cases were toxic torts involving causation of birth defects and/or miscarriage, while one was a patent dispute between two pharmaceutical companies, where interpretation of the animal data was critical.
Training / Seminars
Expert has organized and lectured in a continuing education course entitled "Fundamentals of developmental and reproductive toxicology" presented to the Health Canada branch of the Canadian Government. His contract to present additional sessions of this course will remain in force until March 15, 2020. Expert has also been invited to present a two-hour lecture to the U.S. FDA in March, 2008, and has been selected to present a talk at one or more workshops being organized by the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute. He presented “Aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicity study design and interpretation that have been overlooked or misinterpreted” in Washington, DC, at the 2004 Annual Briefing on Current Thinking, Problems, and Solutions in Reproductive, Developmental and Endocrine Toxicity Studies, organized by Henry Stewart Conference Studies. He was also Co-Chair of a continuing education course entitled “Developmental toxicity studies: Design, interpretation and risk assessment,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology, New Orleans, LA, in 2005. Expert has been an invited participant in numerous workshops and expert review panels on developmental toxicity and risk assessment.
Vendor Selection
Expert is familiar with Contract Research Organizations that provide services in toxicology, especially nonclinical studies. He can also assist in locating specialized consultants in all areas of toxicology.
Other Relevant Experience
At The University of Alabama, Expert taught courses on teratology, developmental toxicology, both general and environmental toxicology, developmental biology, human embryology, reproductive physiology, endocrinology, and general physiology. He also conducted laboratory research in the field of developmental toxicology and teratology throughout his career and continues to do so. And as an experienced scientific writer and book editor, he can provide literature reviews, prepare manuscripts for publication, and edit manuscripts and study reports.

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