The staff and consulting associates of Environmental Medicine, Inc. include:
Dr. Rudolph J. Jaeger
Dr. Jaeger is Research Professor of Environmental Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. In addition to his academic teaching and research activities, he is Principal Scientist at Environmental Medicine, Inc., a private consulting firm specializing in consumer product evaluation, environmental health risk assessment and industrial toxicology. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (qualified by examination in 1980 and re-examined in 1985, 1990 and 1994). He is an EPA Accredited Asbestos Inspector under AHERA and is a Registered Environmental Assessor in California. He is a Certified Lead Inspector/Risk Assessor in New Jersey. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Medicine and a Board Certified Forensic Examiner. Dr. Jaeger has served on the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Board of Environmental Toxicology, Toxicology Information Program Committee.
He is owner of CH Technologies (USA) Inc.,
a research organization that specializes in pharmaceutical aerosol
generation and inhalation toxicology exposure systems for animal
research. In the area of inhalation toxicology research and
development, he holds a US Patent for a Nose-Only Flow-Past Inhalation
System for laboratory research. He served as Chairman of the
Board and founding Partner of Environmental Project Control Inc.,
an environmental remediation and consulting firm in Maynard,
Massachusetts. He resigned both positions in June, 1996 and is
no longer affiliated with EPC.
Dr. Jaeger received his doctorate in 1971 in Biochemical Toxicology
from the Department of Environmental Medicine at the Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. At
NYU, he holds the rank of Research Professor on the faculty of
the Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU Medical Center and
School of Medicine. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Jaeger
served on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health
for 8 years. Currently, Professor Jaeger is Visiting Lecturer
in Industrial Toxicology and Environmental Medicine at the Harvard
University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Jaeger has given courses, formal lectures and talks to numerous agencies, public meetings and companies. These include the EPA Office of Toxic Substances, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the American Lung Association, the medical directors and employees of AT&T Bell Laboratories, the General Electric Company, the Polaroid Corporation and others. He is the recipient of the Leslie Silverman Award from the New England Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and was a Research Career Development Awardee of the NIEHS.
Dr. Jaeger's research interests relate to
plastics and their monomers, combustion products, inhalation
toxicology, pulmonary pathophysiology, liver toxicity and pathophysiology,
the effects of lead and heavy metals on the developing nervous
system and the use of computers for information retrieval and
dissemination.
Ms. Arlene Weiss, M.S. DABT
Since 1986, Arlene L. Weiss has been president and principal scientist for PharmTox, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in toxicology, epidemiology, and pharmacology. Her firm is affiliated with Environmental Medicine, Inc. She is a certified toxicologist being a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (qualified by examination in 1995). She is a Board Certified Forensic Examiner with a specialty in medical record review and analysis in toxicology and an Associated Member of the American College of Forensic Examiners. Ms. Weiss received her Masters Degree in Environmental Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from New York University in 1990. Her Master's thesis was developed and written on the toxicology and epidemiology of trichloroethylene, a degreasing agent often found in groundwater contamination sites. She has been an Invited Guest Lecturer for the Graduate Toxicology course at New York University, Washington Square, during the past 3 years.
Ms. Weiss has researched the published literature for specific compounds and toxicants. She has formulated risk assessment opinions with respect to adverse health effects and target organ toxicity for a variety of private clients. Her experience in toxicology has focused on hazard assessment, risk interpretation and safety evaluation. For specific clients, a risk assessment is performed for specific sites under specific conditions of use/exposure given specific toxicants and exposure scenarios. In association with Environmental Medicine Inc., we have performed several risk assessments under the State of California Proposition 65 with regard to consumer product labeling issues.
Ms. Weiss has extensive experience with a number of specific chemicals as well as groups of chemicals including asbestos, graphite and man-made fibers, plastics monomers (vinyls, acrylates, styrene, plasticizers, isocyanates, etc.), solvents (benzene, toluene, xylene), halogenated dioxins and dibenzofurans (resource recovery, solid waste incineration, wood preservation, and secondary smelting), polychlorinated biphenyls and polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium), and chemicals involved in dry cleaning and degreasing processes (including perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, methyl chloroform, and methylene chloride).