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The Board of Trustees and Executive Director of the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) represent a wide spectrum of interests and professional disciplines in biomedical research, agricultural science, wildlife research and ethics. Brief biographical sketches of these individuals follow: Officers
JOANNE ZURLO, PHD, received a Ph.D. in Basic Medical Sciences from New York University in 1979, with a concentration in biochemistry and chemical carcinogenesis. She served on the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire and at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. She also served as the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing from 1993 – 2000 and was a member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Since 2000, she has been the Director of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research at the National Academies in Washington, DC, where she oversees international activities, publication of the quarterly ILAR Journal, maintenance of the ILAR web site and development of special reports. Dr. Zurlo has authored over 50 publications in scientific books and journals and is an active member of AAAS, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, American Association for Cancer Research and the Society of Toxicology (SOT). She also serves on the boards of the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare and the William and Charlotte Parks Foundation.
Ernest D. Prentice, PhD, is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy and Professor of Preventive and Societal Medicine. Dr. Prentice has served as co-chair of the UNMC Institutional Review Board (IRB) for over 23 years. In addition to his scholarly work in the fields of anatomy and medical education, Dr. Prentice is the author of numerous articles on the ethics and regulation of both human and animal research and he is a frequent speaker at meetings on various aspects of research ethics. He serves as a consultant to universities, hospitals and law firms in the private sector. Dr. Prentice is often a member of national panels and writing groups addressing various aspects of research ethics and regulatory oversight of research. He is a member of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) council and serves as Chairman of the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection (SACHRP).
RANDALL J. NELSON, PhD, is currently Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). He received a BS in Psychology from Duke University in 1975 and completed his doctoral degree in Anatomy from Vanderbilt University in 1979. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco, he was a Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, first in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, and finally in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, both at NIMH. He came to UTHSC in 1984 and since then has conducted research into the control of hand movement and taught Human Gross Anatomy. He has served as a member of several NIH study sections. Dr. Nelson has been a council member of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR). He is a member of the Committee on Animal Research of the Society for Neuroscience and an Ad hoc Consultant for the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC). He also served as a scientific delegate to an international harmonization workshop held in conjunction with the 5th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. He recently stepped down from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), of which he was been a member for twelve years and chair for three.
GREGORY R. REINHARD, DVM, MBA, DACLAM, is the Executive Director for Global Research Safety and Compliance at Merck & Co., Inc. He received a B.S. in Animal Science from Cook College of Rutgers University, a MBA in pharmaceutical/chemical studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a D.V.M. from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University. He is a diplomat of American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. At The Rockefeller University he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in laboratory animal medicine and pathology and later became Assistant Director of Laboratory Animal Research Center. Previously he served as the director of Comparative Medicine at Schering-Plough Research Institute, in Kenilworth, NJ.
Joseph T. Bielitzki, DVM, MS is the Chief Science and Technology Officer for Inventure Holdings, Inc. He serves part time in the Office of Research at t he University of Central Florida in Orlando interacting with the both the Institutional Review Board and the IACUC. Dr. Bielitzki most recently served as a the Associate Director of the NanoScience Technology Center at UCF but stepped down to accept a position in industry. Prior to his time at UCF he served as a Program Manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia and prior to that, as Chief Veterinary Officer at NASA. In addition, Joe has worked in academia, industry and private practice. Dr. Bielitzki¹s interests include developing novel research approaches to biomedical problems., the ethical care and use of animals in biomedical research, and primate medicine. He has served on numerous IACUCs during his career and speaks frequently on ethical issues and animal use. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Scientists¹ Center for Animal Welfare and the National Animal Interest Alliance. He remains active in the Association of Primate Veterinarians, the American Society of Primatologists, and AALAS.
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Trustees JEFFREY R. ALBERTS, PhD TOM DARBY, is Vice President and General Manager for Lab Products, Inc. He has been involved in the laboratory animal field since1965 and has worked at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as a research technician from 1965 until 1972, the Medical University of South Carolina as a facility manager from 1972 until 1980 and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas as the Assistant to the Director of the Animal Resources Center from 1980 until 1989. Tom is a past president of the American
Association for Laboratory Animal Science and has received several national awards
including; the Garvey, Technician of the Year, and Technician Scholarship Awards from
AALAS, the Purina Technician of the Year Award, and the Helen Jordan Award from the Texas
Branch of AALAS. He has been very active in AALAS, is a founding member of the Laboratory Animal Management Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the incurably ill for Animal Research (iiFAR). Tom’s major interests have been in developing and promoting educational programs on the care and use of laboratory animals for animal care and research personnel and the public. A. Wallace Hayes, PhD, DABT, FATS, FIBiol, FACFE, ERT, Hayes is a toxicologist with over 30 years of experience. He has written over 200 peer reviewed publications and is the editor of the textbook, Principles and Methods of Toxicology, the international journal of Human and Experimental Toxicology and a co-editor of the Target Organ Toxicity Series. Dr. Hayes also is the editor of Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology. Before joining Harvard School of Public Health as a visiting scientist, Dr. Hayes was Vice-President of Corporate Product Integrity at the Gillette Company, where he had management responsibility for the safety evaluation of a variety of consumer products, plant safety, environmental stewardship, and quality control. Dr. Hayes is an adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Hayes holds degrees from Auburn University (PhD and M.S.) and Emory University (A.B.). Dr. Hayes was an NSF predoctoral fellow at Auburn University, a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and a NATO Senior Scientist at the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge, England. Dr. Hayes currently lectures at the Harvard School of Public Health and at Virginia Polytechnic and State University and in the Risk Assessment Summer School of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX). Dr. Hayes has served the International Union of Toxicology as the editor of the Proceedings of ICT III (Developments in the Science and Practice of Toxicology) and as the editor of the Proceedings of the 5th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries (Toxicology in the New Century—Opportunity and Challenge). He has served as a delegate to IUTOX and on several IUTOX commissions. Dr. Hayes currently is the Secretary-General of IUTOX and a member of the council of the American College of Toxicology. Dr. Hayes has served on committees and expert panels for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institutions of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense. Dr. Hayes is a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology, The Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the American Board of Forensic Medicine and the American Board of Forensic Examiners. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the Institute of Biology (UK) and the American College of Forensic Examiners. Dr. Hayes is a registered toxicologist in the European Union (ERT) and a certified nutrition specialist. Joan C. Hendricks, VMD, PhD, isThe Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine. Joan Hendricks became the twelfth dean of the School on January 1, 2006, succeeding Alan M. Kelly. She is the third female dean of a veterinary school in the United States. Dean Hendricks has served on the faculty of the School for more than 20 years. In 2001 she become the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at the School when she was named the Henry and Corinne R. Bower Professor of Small Animal Medicine. In addition to serving as Chief of critical care in the Department of Clinical Studies at Philadelphia, Dean Hendricks is founding director of the Veterinary Clinical Investigation Center and holds a secondary appointment as professor in the Department of Medicine at Penn’s School of Medicine. she also has served in a leadership position in the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association. In the area of critical care, Dean Hendricks has played a key role in enhancing teaching and patient care. With colleagues at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, she was instrumental in establishing a Center for Critical Care at the Hospital, which brought the Emergency Service, Intensive Care Unit and the Anesthesia Service together into a single section. Dean Hendricks has significantly advanced the stature and importance of the School’s clinical investigation capabilities by successfully recruiting highly regarded tenure-track faculty in the Department of Clinical Studies, and by establishing an innovative partnership with Pfizer Animal Health to support clinical trials. Dean Hendricks work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Journal of Applied Physiology, and she is frequently invited to lecture at major conferences around the world. During her recent sabbatical year, she investigated how molecular biology could be applied to neuroscience, specifically to the field of sleep and sleep disorders, in which she is a recognized expert. Dean Hendricks has studied bulldogs extensively and recently published pioneering studies on the molecular biology of sleep in fruit flies in the high-impact journals Nature Neuroscience and Neuron. In 1979 and 1980, Joan earned her V.M.D. and Ph.D. from the School. She also carried out her residency and postdoctoral fellowship at Penn. She has a B.S. in biology and psychology from Yale University.
MARGARET S. LANDI, VMD, MS, Diplomate ACLAM
DORCAS P. O'ROURKE, DVM, MS, DACLAM: earned a BS in zoology, an MS in neuroanatomy, and a DVM from Louisiana State University. Upon completion of her residency in laboratory animal medicine, Dorcas remained at LSU for four years as a faculty member. Dorcas then relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, where she became Director of the animal facilities at the College of Veterinary Medicine. In 1998, she was promoted to Director of the Office of Laboratory Animal Care and Attending Veterinarian. As Attending Veterinarian, Dorcas was responsible for all teaching and research animals used by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s AAALAC-accredited program, including the Main Campus, the Agriculture Campus, and both local and remote Agricultural Experiment Stations throughout Tennessee. In 2006, Dorcas joined the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University as Department Chair of Comparative Medicine. She also serves as Attending Veterinarian for East Carolina University’s AAALAC accredited animal care and use program. Dorcas is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, a member of the AAALAC, International Council on Accreditation, and a member of the SCAW Board of Trustees. She has authored numerous publications and presented seminars for AALAS, AAALAC, ACLAM, and SCAW.
John L. VandeBerg, PhD, FAHA, DACLAM Hon, is Chief Sciientific Officer of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research and Director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center. He also is a Professor of Cellular and Structural Biology and of Pathology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Australia where he received a B.Sc.Hons. degree from La Trobe University in Melbourne, and a Ph.D. degree from Macquarie University in Sydney. Dr. VandeBerg’s research interests are focused on genetic phenomena that affect physiological characteristics of humans and other mammals, especially characteristics that predispose to specific diseases. He is currently conducting research on genetic and dietary factors that determine characteristics of lipoproteins in relation to cardiovascular disease (baboons, laboratory opossums, and humans), and the genetic basis of susceptibility to Chagas’ disease in baboons and humans infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. He also is testing in primate models a new drug to treat chronic Chagas disease, and a new DNA vaccine for tuberculosis. Among Dr. VandeBerg’s many professional service activities, he has served as a member of the Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences; and as Chair of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary appointments as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Associate of the National Academies, and Honorary Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
John G. Vandenbergh, PhD, received a B.A. from Montclair State Teachers College in 1958, a MS degree in biology from Ohio University, and a PHD in zoology from Penn State University in 1962. He served as a research scientist with the NIH studying a population of rhesus monkeys in Puerto Rico and then as a research scientist with the NC Department of Mental Health at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, NC. In 1977 he moved to NC State University as head of the Department of Zoology. After 12 years in administration and research he became a professor of zoology and expanded a teaching and research program in behavioral endocrinology and reproduction. Dr. Vandenbergh has edited 2 books, published over 100 chapters and reviewed papers, and given many invited scientific presentations. He and his colleagues have identified pheromonal effects that regulate the onset of puberty in mice and, in recent years, expanded his research focus to the effects of endocrine disruptors on development and later reproductive performance in rodents. In 2002 he received the Holladay Medal, the highest award presented to faculty by NC State University. He is currently an emeritus professor of zoology. Among his professional activities, Dr. Vandenbergh chaired the IACUC committee at NC State University for 6 years. At the state level, he is a founding board member and former chair of the NC Association for Biomedical Research. Nationally, he is a fellow and former president of the Animal Behavior Society and a member of several professional societies. He served on the ILAR Council for 6 years and on its committee to write the Guide for the Care and Use of Animals (both1986 and 1996). He served on several other committees at the National Academies of Science including the Committee on Animal Biotechnology: Science Based Concerns, which he chaired. He was named a National Associate of the National Academies of Science in 2003. Most recently he served on the ILAR committee evaluating the National Need and Priorities for Veterinarians in Biomedical Research. He has served on several scientific review committees at the NSF, EPA and the NIH and is a present or past member of several scientific societies and editorial boards.
Ex officio has been Executive Director of the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) since March 1989. Ms. Krulisch joined SCAW in 1984, serving initially as a Program Coordinator and then Assistant to the Executive Director. She edited Implementation Strategies for Research Animal Well being: Institutional Compliance with Regulations (SCAW, 1992) and coedited six other books: The Care and Use of Amphibians, Reptiles and Fish in Research (SCAW, 1992), The Well being of Agricultural Animals in Biomedical and Agricultural Research (SCAW, 1991), Canine Research Environment (SCAW, 1990) and Well being of Nonhuman Primates in Research (SCAW, 1990), The Human/Research Animal Relationship (1996), and Performance Standards and Animal Welfare: Definition, Application and Assessment, Part I. She also was Managing Editor of Science and Animals: Addressing Contemporary Issues (SCAW, 1989). Ms. Krulisch earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and completed sixty hours of graduate work at the University of Rhode Island and the University of Maryland. She served as the nonaffiliated member of the University of Maryland, College Park, Animal Care and Use Committee, and presently serves as the nonaffiliated member on an Animal Care Committee at the National Institute of Mental Health. She serves on the Board of AAALAC International, is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS), American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), and the Laboratory Animal Management Association (LAMA). Ms. Krulisch is a member of the Golden Retriever Rescue, Education and Training Association and works to find appropriate homes for unwanted Goldens.
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