Members - International Science Oversight Board

Project of Organic Consumers Association (OCA)

• Lynn Howard Ehrle, M.Ed, Co-founder and Chair and OCA Senior Biomedical Policy Analyst
• Ronnie Cummins, Vice Chair, OCA Founder and Executive Director
• Rose Welch, Secretary, OCA Co-founder
• Michael Gray, MD, Board Co-founder

1. Sushma Acquilla, MD; Consultant in Public Health Medicine, County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic health Authority Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
2. Susan Addiss, MPH, MurS-Founding board member and Director, Health Education, Environment & Human Health; former State of Connecticut Commissioner of Health
3. Susan Bardocz, PhD (chemistry)-former head of unit, Food/Gut/Microbial Interaction Group, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland; Consultant to GenOk, University of Tromso (Norway)
4. Rosalie Bertell, PhD (biometrician), GNSH- founder and past president, Institute of Concern For Public Health; over 30 years in radiation research; Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel); Director, International Medical Commission on Bhopal
5. Chris Busby, PhD (chemical physics)-Royal Society of Chemistry (UK); International Society for Environmental Epidemiology; Comm. Examining Radiation Risk from Internal Emitters; Scientific Secretary, European Committee on Radiation Risk
6. Liane Casten, MA-co-founder and president, Chicago Media Watch; 35-year community activist; author- Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits and Prevention (1996)
7. V. Ramana Dhara, MD, ScD-adjunct assoc. professor, occupational and environmental health, Rollins Scholl of Public Health, Emory University; International Medical Commission on Bhopal
8. Mark Diesendorf, PhD (applied mathematics)-sustainable development, Institute of Environmental Studies, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
9. David S. Egilman, MD, MPH-clinical associate professor, Department of Community Health, Brown Univ., Providence, RI; founder and chair of the board, Global Health through Education Training and Service; lead witness for the plaintiff in the Vioxx case (Texas)
10. Katsumi Furitsu, MD, PhD (radiation biology and medical genetics); Founding member-Chernobyl Relief Group of Kansai-Japan;Contact person-DU Campaign Afgainst Radiation Exposure (CARE);Board and science team member-International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW)
11. Joseph Gold, MD- Director, Syracuse Cancer Research Institute; developed hydrazine sulfate, 1st specific anti-cachexia for cancer
12. Michael R. Gray, MD, MPH, CIME-hospital based rural medical practice; former chief of staff, Benson Hospital, Arizona; testified in toxicology and occupational exposure cases; former member Arizona Medical Directions Commission
13. C. William Kauffman, PhD-professor of aerospace engineering, University of Michigan; research in academic ethics
14. Joel Lexchin, MD-associate professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University; Emergency Dept., University Health Network; associate professor, Dept. Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto; founding member, Medical Reform Group (ONT)
15. William S. Maxfield, MD, FACMN-chief of nuclear medicine, Manatee Diagnostic Center, Bradenton, Florida; co-founder, American Board of Hyperbaric Medicine
16. Craig Minowa, OCA Senior Environmental Policy Analyst
17. Herbert Nehrlich, Dr Sc, PhD- Australian expert on psychiatric drug health effects; Cultural Attache for Public Health, Hutt River Province
18. Rudi Nussbaum, PhD-professor emeritus, physical and environmental sciences, Portland State University (Oregon); extensive published research on the health effects of low-dose radiation and thyroid disease
19. VT Padmanabhan, MPH-research on the genetic effects of low-dose radiation and toxic chemicals; consultant at Sambhavna Clinic for Bhopal survivors
20. Arpad Pusztai, PhD, FRSE-over 300 scientific papers and nine books; consultant on genetically modified (GM) food safety at the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology, University of Tromso
21. Marvin Resnikoff, PhD-senior associate, Radioactive Waste Management Associates (New York City); international consultant and expert witness for plaintiffs on radiation exposures; presented testimony at congressional hearings; an activist career spanning 40 years
22. Arthur Schafer, PhD- Director, Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba; Canadian Commonwealth Scholar and Honorary Woodrow Wilson Scholar; published widely in the fields of biomedical and environmental ethics
23. Gordon Schiff, MD-Director, Clinical Quality Research and Improvement, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital (Illinois) and associate professor of medicine, Rush Medical College; Editorial Board of Medical Care and the Journal of Public Health Policy; founding member and past president, Physicians for a National Health Program
24. Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, PhD-professor of experimental physics, University of Bremen (ret); founding member, Society of Radiological Protection in Germany; extensive research on radiation dosimetry and health physics
25. Albrecht Schott, PhD-Director, World Depleted Uranium Centre; Director, Alliance Against Mobbing, Sexual Harassment and Discrimination; testimony on depleted uranium contamination
26. Janette Sherman, MD-adjunct professor, Environmental Research Center, Western Michigan University; toxicologist; author-Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer; member of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.
27. Ernest J. Sternglass, PhD-emeritus professor of radiological physics, University of Pittsburgh; Fellow-American Physical Society; one of the first to link prenatal radiation to cancer (Cancer: relation of prenatal radiation to development of the disease. Science 1963;140:1102-1104)
28. Alexey V. Yablokov, Dr Biol, ScD-founder and president, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy (1993); deputy chair, Council on Ecological Problems and Emergency, Russian Academy of Science; chair, Program on Nuclear and Radiation Safety, International Social Ecological Union and Center for Russian Environmental Policy
29. Paul Connett, PhD-prof. emeritus, chemistry, St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY); executive director, Fluoride Action Network; has spearheaded the debate on fluoridation of drinking water over the past ten years; testimony on waste management problems before investigative bodies worldwide.
30. Joe Cummins, PhD-emeritus prof. of genetics, University of Western Ontario; an early critic of genetic engineering; regular contributor to the Institute of Science in Society's website and its quarterly magazine, Science in Society; since 1968 has been involved in environmental issues including mercury, asbestos, PCB and pesticide pollution.
31. Elena B. Burlakova, Dr Sc-deputy director, Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics; Chair, Council on Radiobiology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Radiobiology & Ecology; Head of the Scientific Council on Radiobiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; recipient, Biosphere and Man medal (2004) in commemoration of the outstanding scientist N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky.
32. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD-internal medicine and nephrology; University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; private practice and independent researcher (1979-2000); Weston A. Price 2003 Integrity In Science Award; member- free panel of the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association; spokesman for the International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics; author of The The Cholesterol Myths; main research on association between hydrocarbon exposure and glomerulonephritis.
33. Alla A. Yaroshinskaya, PhD-reporter and author of Chernobyl: The Forbidden Truth; member of the USRR Parliament(1989-1991); advisor to Presidents yeltsin and Gorbachov; member-Helsinki Committee on Human Rights and National Committee of UNESCO; former president, Ecological Center.
34. Rose Goncharova, PhD, Dr Sc-biol; Head, Genetic Safety Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus; Member-European Society for Environmental Mutagens, European Society for Radiation Biology, and Russian Mutagen Soc.