1976 John W. Dolan (Ph.D., Ag Chem Program with Dr. Seiber) is President and General Manager of his laboratory at LC Resources, Inc., in McMinnville, Oregon. They are a contract research lab primarily supporting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries by providing HPLC method development, validation, and analysis. In addition, they write and sell DryLab software for HPLC and GC method development and teach HPLC training courses worldwide. john.dolan@lcresources.com
1978 Brian C. Lee, Ph.D., D.A.B.T. (B.S., Env. Tox.) has finished estimating ADIs for some common non-DEHP phthalate esters and schematized the lead (PBS) hazard assessment process for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. After 10 years of Federal Government service with the CPC, he has transcontinentally relocated to Hewlett Packard in Corvallis, Oregon. He says that "the town is noticeably similar to Davis on a smaller scale and coincidentally is the same place I lived before moving away to D.C. Launching from my experience with consumer products and interest in new technology, especially PCs, I will have a toxicological role in assuring the safety of various printer-related products, primarily inks. I will be pleased to be working with another UCD Env. Tox. graduate, Kathy Hazer (Ph.D., 1981, Pharm Tox), who is at HP's San Diego Plant. Wish me luck on the relocation, and a big hello to my UCD EnvTox friends!" bclee@peak.org
1980 Paul D. Moss (B.S., Env. Tox.) received his Master's in Public Health (in Environmental and Industrial Health) from the University of Michigan in 1982, and has been Board Certified in Industrial Hygiene (CIH) in both the United States and Canada (Registered Occupational Hygienist-ROH). He met his wife, Pat Hartman, in the Michigan Graduate Program, and they have been married since 1985. They have two sons, Noah (11 years old) and Joshua (9 years old) who are both sports nuts, and play traveling baseball and basketball. Paul coaches both baseball and basketball in his spare time, and enjoys golf as well. He currently manages environmental, health and safety affairs for Dade Behring, Inc., in Deerfield, Illinois. Dade is a spinoff of Baxter Healthcare, and is a high-tech manufacturer of clinical laboratory analyzers. For example, it is their instruments that analyze blood, etc., in hospital labs. Paul's wife works for Baxter Healthcare, and she manages environmental, health and safety for their global operations in the Far East. Paul writes: "We spend a lot of time juggling kids, work, and travel, but somehow have managed to survive! Hello to all my fellow alumni and former professors. Special thanks again to Dr. Bob Krieger for guiding me into this profession, and Dr. Byard and Dr. Crosby for continually challenging me! It has paid off. My thanks." mosspd@aol.com
1981 Gerry Vetter (B.S., Env. Tox.) moved to New Orleans, Louisiana right after graduation. Gerry writes: "I moved here to chase the love of my life and married her soon after. We now have an antebellum home, two kids, four cats and one dog. The dog thinks the cats are her puppies. New Orleans is a great place to live if you love architecture, food, and independence from cars. My wife, Stephanie Bruno, heads an organization which revitalizes historic building and neighborhoods. In these neighborhoods you can find any number of delicious restaurants which is one reason we eat out three and four times per week. My kids, Bruno - 9 and Jules - 4, enjoy sushi, southwestern, French, Creole, and nouvelle cuisine, all within walking distance. For the last eight years I have worked as an environmental scientist for a large (400 employees) but local consulting firm. We primarily service industry in the area--and there is lots of it. Most of my work lately has been as project manager for a number of large air permitting projects--one involving over 200 sites. However, with the advent of the risk-based approach to site clean-ups, I am directly using my toxicological training to a greater extent than ever before. Several clients have asked me to participate in the development of intranets to enhance their environmental management programs. This is exciting work, as it lets me explore ways to capture information in a permanent and searchable framework--reducing both the costs of compliance and a facility's impact on the environment. My company, Waldemar S. Nelson and Company, Inc., is also involved in the development and marketing of new technology. I hope to write to you soon about some of the incredible projects we are launching." gerry.vetter@wsnelson.com
1982 Marc Freiberg (B.S., Env. Tox.) received his Master's in 1984 in Ag. and Env. Chemistry in Dr. Crosby's lab. He now works at UC Berkeley as the Manager of Health and Safety at EH&S. His wife and he live in Albany. freiberg@uclink4.berkeley.edu
1983 John P. Knezovich (Ph.D., Ecology/Pharm/Tox) was appointed in May of 1998 as the Director of the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The CAMS accelerator permits extremely sensitive (e.g., one C-14 ion in a quadrillion carbon atoms) and precise measurements of relatively long-lived isotopes. Such sensitivity permits environmental and biomedical tracer experiments to be conducted with virtually no radioactive tag. His principle research areas within CAMS are in geochemistry, oceanography, and toxicology. knezovich1@llnl.gov
David Scott Wilde (B.S., Env. Tox.) became a Certified Industrial Hygienist in 1989 and currently works as an Industrial Hygiene and Safety Manager for Roche Bioscience in Palo Alto, CA. He and his wife, Anne Marie, have two children, Rachel and Randy, and live in San Jose. dave.wilde@roche.com
1985 Carl Fritzsche (B.S., Env. Tox.) has been working for Chevron since graduation. Carl started his career at the Chevron Environmental Health Center in the San Francisco Bay Area and has since held positions with health, environment and safety responsibilities for Chevron Chemical Company, Chevron Shipping Company and the Chevron Corporation. He has served as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and in several east coast states where he was the area manager marketing environmentally safer alternatives to de-icers used on our nation's highways and airport runways. Carl participated in a National Geographic expedition of Lake Baikal in Siberia which examined the contribution of industrial effluent to the eutrophication of this, the world's oldest, deepest lake. The expedition was lead by UCD's Dr. Charles Goldman and was jointly funded by UCD and Chevron. Carl is currently working as an Emergency Response Specialist in Chevron's headquarters in San Francisco. He is an underwater marine ecology hobbyist and scuba diving enthusiast. He is the president of the Chevron Scuba Divers organization and a member of the Northern California Rainbow Divers. (See the photo taken this year during one of the Chevron Scuba Divers' trips to Point Lobos Marine Preserve near Carmel, CA. Carl is in the front row, 6th from the right, in the blue drysuit.) cfri@chevron.com
1987 Anne Juurma (B.S., Env. Tox.) graduated from medical school in 1997 and is currently doing a residency in Internal Medicine at Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, OR. Some of her toxicology training comes in handy in the Intensive Care Unit when they admit patients who have overdosed. juurmaa@ohsu.edu
1988 Dan Efseaff (B.S., Env. Tox.) graduated from CSU Chico with an M.S. (with distinction) in biology back in December 1997. His coursework and thesis focused on watershed ecology and ecological restoration. Currently, he develops the content and scripts for educational programs in biology and environmental science, but is also a part-time faculty member at Butte College in the Biology Department. He also conducts research through a contract with the CSU Chico Foundation on riparian restoration projects in the Sacramento Valley. efseaffd@ecst.csuchico.edu
1991 Richard Currie (B.S., Env. Tox.) is working as an environmental research scientist and providing desktop support at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. He is responsible for exposure assessments/pesticide applicator worker health. richardc@cdpr.ca.gov
Joel Gever (B.S., Env. Tox., M.S. Ag. & Env. Chem., 1993) started a Ph.D. program this September in Neuroscience at University College of London in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology. He is simultaneously employed by Roche Bioscience in Palo Alto. joelgever@hotmail.com
1992 Kevin J. Lane (B.S., Env. Tox.) received a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA and completed a Clinical Residency at the VA Medical Center in Palo Alto. He has published his oncology research from the VA in Palo Alto and Stanford University, and received 116K+ drug industry research grants. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Pharmacy and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. He is also currently on staff at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco. Kevin says that "My education from UC Davis has been the best investment I have ever made!" lane.kevin_j@sanfrancisco.va.gov
1993 Matt Fisher (B.S., Env. Tox.) is presently working as a Senior Analyst (i.e., computer programmer) for the Art Institute of Chicago. According to Matt, "The road from Davis to the Art Institute has not been a straight one, obviously. However, I'm convinced that the recommendations I brought with me from Davis opened the door for me to change careers from environmental consulting to computer consulting at the ripe old age of 28. I'm 32 now and am pleased to announce that I have just gotten engaged to Melissa Fink (Loyola University of Chicago, class of 1993). The wedding is scheduled for June 1999." mfishe@artic.edu
Susan Melton-Piper (B.S., Env. Tox.) is beginning a new career in teaching at the high school level this fall at Sequoia High School in Redwood City. She will be teaching chemistry, honors chemistry and advanced integrated science. Her license plate reads: "ETOXMOM." smp@netdex.com
1994 Kathleen Comyns (B.S., Env. Tox.) will be attending UCLA starting this fall in a Masters of Public Health Program in Epidemiology. kathleen_comyns@cygn.com
1996 LyThi Nguyen (B.S., Env. Tox.) recently graduated from UCD and is currently working at Genentech, Inc. ly@gene.com
1997 Debra L. Browning (B.S., Env. Tox.) graduated in June of 1997 and is now starting her second year of graduate school in the Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry Program at UC Davis. She works for Dr. Carl Winter, a UC Davis Food Extension Toxicology (and ETOX Alumnus), and she writes that the ETOX undergraduate program "did a lot to prepare me for graduate school, which I am really enjoying." dlbrowning@ucdavis.edu
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