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Consultants and Advisors
CEHRC has an illustrious pool of consultants and advisors assisting us in the development of hazard assessment tools, training, and in project evaluation.
Technical Advisors and Consultants
Gary Bennett, Ph.D., Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Expertise in Integrated Pest Management.
Deanna Branscome, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Expertise in urban entomology. Research and study of urban pests with an emphasis on the least toxic methods of control.
Terry Brennan, President, Camroden Associates, Westmoreland, NY. Expertise in carbon monoxide, IPM, ventilation, unplanned airflows, moisture dynamics, mold ecology, energy performance, particle dynamics, indoor air quality, and residential environmental assessments. Past work includes engaging community groups in environmental assessment, building-related research, solving problems in buildings. Consultant to National Academy of Sciences Committee on Dampness in Buildings and Health.
Jill Breysse, CIH, National Center for Healthy Housing. Formerly industrial hygiene consultant and health/safety officer for a national environmental consulting firm.
Patrick Breysse, Director of the Industrial Hygiene Program and Associate Director of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Research topics have included asbestos, synthetic vitreous fibers, carpets, and other residential indoor air pollution sources.
Robert Corrigan, Ph.D., President, RMC Pest Management Consulting, Richmond, IN. Expertise in rodent control and urban and industrial entomology.
Dorr Dearborn, Ph.D., M.D. Professor of Pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital – Case Western Reserve University. Expertise includes Stachybotrys, mold and moisture.
Connie Etheridge, National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, MD. Expertise in methodology of lead dust sampling.
Mark Farfel, Faculty, Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and Department Director, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD. Expert in the study of lead hazards.
Walter G. Farr, J.D., National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, MD. Expert in housing policy and housing rehab operations.
Stephen C. Frantz, Ph.D., M.S., Director of the Vector Biology and Comprehensive Management Program, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY; and Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Toxicology, School of Public Health, University at Albany – SUNY. Work includes research and advisory services in disease vector and pest species in the built environment and ecologically literate comprehensive management policies and procedures.
Stuart Greenberg, M.S., Environmental Health Watch, Cleveland. Experience in developing and directing projects on the assessment and control of housing-related health hazards for children living in substandard housing.
Robert G. Hamilton, Ph.D., D.ABMLI, Professor of Medicine and Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine. Expertise in assessing allergic disease by laboratory based methods, asthma trigger sampling protocols based on indoor allergen quantification and community sampling for environmental hazards.
Pat Hynes, Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health. Director of Urban Environmental Health Initiative, which does community-based research on assessment and interventions in housing; current Healthy Homes grantee.
John Q. Knight, MPA, Safer Pest Control Project, Chicago, IL. Safer Pest Control Project is an organization that advocates, educates, and provides technical assistance on alternatives to pesticide use in pest control. Interim PI on four-year, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant, “Asthma and Lead Prevention in Chicago Public Housing.” Expertise in low-income and public housing, IPM.
Marc L. Lame, Ph.D., School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Expertise includes pesticide reduction in pest management. Dr. Lame currently teaches courses in Environmental Management and Insects and the Environment, and serves as an advisor to local, state, and federal agencies regarding the implementation of pollution prevention programs.
Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Expertise includes epidemiology of lead exposure; children’s environmental health; asthma; environmental and residential hazards; soil abatement; lead in dust. Dr. Lanphear has conducted numerous studies on childhood lead exposure through different media leading to the establishment and furthering of federal standards to protect children’s environmental health.
Jack Leonard, Ph.D., CHMM, President, Environmental Management Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. Expertise in hazardous materials management, ranging from asbestos and lead abatement to wastewater treatment and chemical emergency response.
Dennis Livingston, Community Resources, Baltimore MD. Carpenter, author and illustrator of instructional materials, trainer in lead hazard assessment and control, works to develop economically sustainable programs to address urban environmental problems.
Joe Lstiburek, Ph.D., PE, Building Science Corp. Dr. Lstiburek is a principal of the Building Sciences Corp., and the principal investigator for the Building Science Consortium, one of the members of the U.S. Department of Energy Build America Program. He is a forensic engineer who investigates building failures and is internationally recognized as an authority on moisture problems and indoor air quality.
Pat McLaine, RN, MPH, Director of Program Management, National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, MD. Formerly director of the Maryland Lead Poisoning Prevention program. Expertise includes field data collection for lead (dust, soil, visual assessment, housing treatments, questionnaire) and quality control; program management and evaluation; case management.
Thomas Neltner, JD, CHMM, President, Improving Kids Environment, Indianapolis, IN. Accredited lead training provider; adjunct professor in hazardous substance control and environmental management; advocate.
Clyde Ogg, M.S., Water Center/Environmental Programs, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Mr. Ogg is a Pesticide Education Specialist at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and has conducted research on the biology, behavior and control of cockroaches. He was also a supervisor at a pest control firm in Denver, CO.
Joseph Ponessa, Ph.D., Specialist in Housing and Energy, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, New Brunswick, NJ. Expertise includes indoor environment and health, radon, asthma triggers, lead poisoning prevention, solutions to mold and moisture, and indoor air quality. Member of the Healthy Indoor Air for America’s Homes team, National Institute of Building Sciences, Advisory Group for the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH); assists the Healthy Homes initiative at the University of Wisconsin.
John Roberts, PE, Engineers Plus, Inc., Sammamish, WA. Expert in dust and mold, especially in carpet media; developed high-volume surface sampler for toxics in household dust.
Megan Sandel, MD, Boston Medical Center. Pediatrician, author of “There’s No Place Like Home.” Expertise in evaluating dust, molds, and allergens in housing and appropriate remediation; current HUD Healthy Homes grantee working with Boston Public Health Commission.
John Spengler, Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA. Recognized expert in indoor air quality issues, environmental assessment of mold, dust, and allergens; current HUD Healthy Homes grantee working with the Boston Housing Authority.
Ellen Tohn, President ERT Associates, Wayland, MA. Expert in environmental and health policy issues; recognized expert in lead hazard evaluation and control strategies; experience working with advocacy and community groups using scientific and technical work on lead, dust, mold and allergens.
Fred Whitford, Ph.D., Coordinator of Purdue University Pesticide Programs, Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, West Lafayette, IN. Dr. Whitford has expertise in pesticides and is the author of more than 150 research, extension and regulatory publications.
Jonathan Wilson, MPP, Assistant Director, Research and Evaluation, National Center for Healthy Housing. Formerly director of the Co-Op Housing for Worcester Common Ground. Expertise in lead and lead sampling protocols and techniques.
Evaluator
The leadership of the CEHRC Evaluation is facilitated by Patricia Kelly at the Kellidge Group, Inc.
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