Who We Are - Network for Risk Assessment & Management

SECRETARIAT

c/o Dr. John Shorteed
Institute for Risk Research
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Tel : (519) 888-4567, ext. 35527
Fax : (519) 725-4834
Email: shortree@uwaterloo.ca

NODES

Western Node

Middle Node

Director: Dr. George Dixon
Department of Biology
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Tel.: (519) 888-4567, ext. 32531
Fax: (519) 746-0614
Email: dgdixon@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.biology.uwaterloo.ca/people/gdixon

Eastern Node

TBA

Ottawa Node

Director: Dr. Dan Krewski
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment Inst. of Population Health
University of Ottawa
451 Smyth Road
Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5
Tel: (613) 562-5800, ext. 8261
Fax: (613) 562-5465
Email: dkrewski@uottawa.ca
Webpage: lrsp.carleton.ca:16080/directors/krewski

Risk Communication Node

Director: Dr. William Leiss
NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Tel: (403) 220-8579
Fax: (403) 282-0095
Email: wleiss@uottawa.ca
Webpage: www.leiss.ca

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NERAM MEMBERS

 

NERAM Members are researchers primarily (but not necessarily) from the university sector.

 

Pierre Ayotte

Social & Preventive Medicine/CNTC

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 666-7000, ext. 245

Email: pierre.ayotte@inspq.qc.ca

Janice Bailey

Animal Science

Centre of Research in Biology of Reproduction (CRBR)

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 656-2131, ext. 3354

Email: janice.bailey@crbr.ulaval.ca
Webpage:www.crbr.ulaval.ca/chercheurs-reg-crbr.htm
Expertise: reproduction, sperm, andrology

 

David Barton

Biology

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 32559

Email: drbarton@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.biology.uwaterloo.ca/people/barton/index.html

Steven M. Becker

School of Public Health

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tel: (205) 934-6089
Email: smbecker@uab.edu
Webpage: www.soph.uab.edu/default.aspx

Leah Bendell-Young

Biological Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Tel: (604) 291-5621

Email: bendell@sfu.ca
Webpage: www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/bendell

Expertise: ecotoxicology, aquatic & terrestrial ecosystems

 

Niels Bols

Biology

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 33993

Email: ncbols.sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.science.uwaterloo.ca/departments/biology/people/bols/index.html

Kevin P. Brand
Institute of Population Health
University of Ottawa
Tel: (613) 562-5257
Email: kbrand@uottawa.ca
Webpage: www.research.uottawa.ca/researcher_kbrand.html
Expertise: human health risk assessment, regulatory toxicology, uncertainty analysis, burden of disease assessment, and risk management

Michael Brauer
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
University of British Columbia
Tel: (604) 822-9585
Email: brauer@interchange.ubc.ca
Webpage: www.bridge.ubc.ca/directory/faculty
Expertise: environmental and occupational exposure assessment, air pollution health effects, air quality, transportation and air quality, vegetation fires and air quality, indoor air pollution, development of sampling and analysis for air pollutants

Gaetan Carrier

Médecine du travail et d'hygiène du milieu

University of Montreal

Tel: (514) 343-6111, ext. 3108

Email: carriega@ere.umontreal.ca
Webpage:www.medsp.umontreal.ca/gris/personnel
Expertise: Modélisation et prédiction du sort de certains toxiques chez l'être humain: BPC, polychloro-dibenzo-p-dioxines, polychlorodibenzo-furannes, plomb, mercure, HA

Jan Ciborowski

Biological Sciences

University of Windsor

Tel: (519) 253-4232, ext. 2725

Email: cibor@uwindsor.ca
Webpage: cronus.uwindsor.ca/units/biosci/BiologyFaculty.nsf
Expertise: aquaticecology, ecotoxicology, experimental design

 

Donald Cole

Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto and Institute for Work and Health
Email: donald.cole@utoronto.ca and dcole@iwh.on.ca
Webpage: http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/faculty
Expertise: Global occupational/environmental health, particularly urban agriculture & human health and pesticides & human health, workplace interventions for musculoskeletal health, evaluation of environmental health interventions

Ray Copes
Health Care & Epidemiology/Environmental Health
University of British Columbia/BC Centre for Disease Control
Tel: (604) 660-1409
Email: ray.copes@bccdc.ca
Expertise: Risk assessment, management and communication, impacts on human health of environmental pollutants

William Cullen

Chemistry

University of British Columbia

Tel: (604) 822-4435

Email: wrc@chem.ubc.ca

Webpage: www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/cullen
Expertise: biogeochemistry; metal biotransformation, environment, bioremediation, PAH and PCB metabolism, analysis, and degradation

Éric Dewailly

Institut national de santé publique

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 650-5115, 5250

Email: eric.dewailly@inspq.qc.ca
Webpage: www.chuq.qc.ca/oms/en/direct/dewailly.htm
Expertise: impact of oceans on human health: contamination of marine food chain and exposure of fishing communities to heavy metals and organochlorines; the effect of these contaminants on the reproductive, immune, and neurological systems; nutrition and fish in the diet; microbiological contamination; marine toxins

 

D. George Dixon

Biology

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 32531

Email: dgdixon@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.biology.uwaterloo.ca/people/gdixon
Expertise: effects of toxic chemicals, including metals and oilsands process water, on aquatic organisms, principally fish; biotic modifying factors of toxicity; development of methods for environmental effects monitoring. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling of contaminant levels in fish

 

 

Leonard Eckel

School of Accountancy

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 36523

Email: leckel@uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: accounting.uwaterloo.ca/alumni/fellowships/LeonardEckel.htm
Expertise: discounted liabilities, including environmental obligations

 

John Eyles

McMaster Institute of Environment and Health

McMaster University

Tel: (905) 525-9140, ext. 23152

Email: eyles@mcmail.mcmaster.ca
Webpage: www.science.mcmaster.ca/geo/faculty/eyles_j

Expertise: evidence-based decision-making, environment-health connections

 

Chris Furgal
Indigenous Studies Department
Trent University
Tel: (705) 748-1101 ext 7953
Email: chrisfurgal@trentu.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/academic/ers/faculty_staff.shtml
Expertise: environmental health risk assessment, management and communication with specific expertise in Aboriginal and Arctic populations; recent research include contaminants, food security and climate change and the health of Aboriginal communities

Vince Gagner

Environment, Health & Safety

Sunoco Inc. Sarnia Refinery
Tel: (519) 3873-3606
Email: VGagner@Suncor.com

Expertise: environmental and occupational health issues relating to risk to human health

William (Bill) Goodman
Faculty of School of Business and Information Technology

University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Tel: (905) 721-3111 ext 2639

Email: bill.goodman@uoit.ca
Webpage: www.businessandit.uoit.ca
Expertise: statistical consulting and risk analysis, severity distributions, decision theory and logic modeling

 

Bruce Greenberg

Biology

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 33209

Email: greenber@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.biology.uwaterloo.ca/people/greenberg/index.html

Expertise: photochemistry and photobiology of xenobiotic contamination and ultraviolet radiation

 

Judith Guernsey
Community Health and Epidemiology
Dalhousie University
Tel: (902) 494-1767
Email: j.r.guernsey@dal.ca
Webpage: che.medicine.dal.ca/FullTimeFacultyJudy.htm or www.theruralcentre.com/judy_guernsey.htm
Expertise: spatial analysis and exposure assessment strategies in occupational and environmental health; population health dimensions and research strategies to support health of rural and remote populations; agricultural health and safety international policy; global ecosystem health

 

John F. Hicks

Engineering and Applied Science

Continuing Education Division

Ryerson University

Tel: (416) 979-5000, ext. 6672

Email: jhicks@acs.ryerson.ca

Expertise: air dispersion, exposure assessment

 

Stephen Hill
Environmental and Resource Studies
Trent University
Tel: (705) 748-1011 ext 7368
Email: stephenhill@trentu.ca
Webpage: people.trentu.ca/stephenhill
Expertise: climate change policy and management; energy science, technology & policy; environmental risk management and policy; application of environmental management tools such as impact assessment, environmental accounting, life-cycle assessment, economic instruments, environmental indicators, and environmental auditing; relationship between science and environmental policy

 

Steve E. Hrudey

Environmental Health Sciences

University of Alberta
Tel: (780) 492-6807
Email: steve.hrudey@ualberta.ca
Webpage: www.publichealth.ualberta.ca/steve_hrudey.cfm

Expertise: drinking water safety, environmental contaminant exposure assessment, approaches for health risk assessment, risk management and risk communication

Cindy Jardine
Rural Economy
University of Alberta
Tel.: (780) 492-2626
Email: cindy.jardine@ualberta.ca
Webpage: www.re.ualberta.ca/People/Index
Expertise: environmental health risk communication, risk perception and risk assessment

Susan Kennedy
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
University of British Columbia
Tel: (604) 822-9577
Email: kennedy@interchange.ubc.ca
Webpage: www.bridge.ubc.ca/directory/faculty
Expertise: natural history of occupational asthma and work-related COPD; impact of workplace and environmental exposures on the lungs; gender determinants of chronic obstructive lung disease; knowledge transfer / risk communication in occupational health

Warren B. Kindzierski

Environmental Engineering

University of Alberta

Tel: (403) 492-0247

Email: warren.kindzierski@ualberta.ca
Webpage: www.enveng.ualberta.ca/people/kindzierski.html
Expertise: human exposure assessment; health impact and risk assessment; assessment of indoor air quality; comparative risk assessment for environmental and health riskdecision-making

Caroline King
Project Officer
United Nations University
International Network on Water, Environment and Health
Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext 27754
Email: cking@inweh.unu.edu
Website: www.inweh.unu.edu/inweh
Expertise: water, environment and health, organic pollutants, dryland management

Jim Kramer

Environmental Geochemistry Group

School of Geography and Geology

McMaster University

Tel: (905) 525-9140, ext. 28612

Email: kramer@mcmaster.ca

Expertise: geochemistry and toxicity of metals; risk/sensitivity analysis

 

Dan Krewski
Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa
Tel: 613) 562-5800, ext. 8261
Email: dkrewski@uottawa.ca
Webpage: lrsp.carleton.ca:16080/directors/krewski

Expertise: risk assessment and risk management; biostatistics; epidemiology

 

Jean-Paul Laforest

Animal Science

Centre of Research in Biology of Reprodcution (CRBR)

Université Laval
Tel: (418) 656-2131 ext. 3496

Email: Jean-Paul.Laforest@fsaa.ulaval.ca
Webpage: www.vrr.ulaval.ca/bd
Expertise: food and nutrition; phytotechny; public health; food, science and technology

 

Pierre Lajoie

Medecine social et preventive

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 656-2131, ext. 5139

Email: pierre.lajoie@inspq.qc.ca
Webpage: www.crchul.ulaval.ca/fr/www.crchul
Expertise: environmental epidemiology; preventative medicine; respiratory ailments, asthma; indoor/outdoor air pollution

 

Chris Le

Public Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Tel: (403) 492-6416

Email: xcle@ualberta.ca
Webpage: www.ualberta.ca/~xcle/home.html

Expertise: analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, biomarkers

 

William Leiss
NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair
University of Calgary
Tel: (403) 220-8579
Email: wleiss@uottawa.ca
Webpage: www.leiss.ca
Expertise: risk communication, risk management re: pesticides, environmental controversies

 

Patrick Levallois

Social & Preventive Medicine/RCCH

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 650-5115 ext. 5216

Email: patrick.levallois@msp.ulaval.ca
Webpage: www.vrr.ulaval.ca/bd/chercheur/fiche/203646.html

Expertise: epidemiology, water quality, electromagnetic fields

 

Benoit Levesque

Medical Advisor in Environmental Health

Centre de santé publique de Québec (CSPQ)

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 666-7000

Email: Benoit.Levesque@inspq.qc.ca
Webpage: www.vrr.ulaval.ca/bd/chercheur/fiche/125893.html

Expertise: indoor air quality, radon, environmental microbiology

Jason Levy
Associate Professor, Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
Faculty Associate, National Homeland Security Project
L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Virginia Commonwealth University
Tel: (804) 828-8040
Email: jklevy@vcu.edu
Website: http://www.vcu.edu/homeland/disaster
Expertise: Emergency management, environmental planning, hazard mitigation  

Brian McCarry

Chemistry

McMaster University

Tel: (905) 525-9140, ext. 24504

Email: mccarry@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
Webpage: www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/mccarry
Expertise: environmental toxicology, polymer membranes, radionuclides in nuclear medicine

 

R. Stephen McColl

Health Studies

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 32720

Email: mccoll@healthy.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/hsg/research/McColl.html
Expertise: health effects of air pollution, health effects of water pollution, environmental health risk assessment, cancer prevention, health risk appraisal, risk communication

 

Tim McDaniels

School of Planning

University of British Columbia

Tel: (604) 822-9288

Email: timmcd@unixg.ubc.ca
Webpage:www.bridge.ubc.ca/directory/faculty

Expertise: decision analysis, valuation, judgment

 

 

Mashesh Pandey

Civil Engineering

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 35858

Email: mdpandey@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/mdpandey
Expertise: socio-economic indicators

 

Aine Plant

Biological Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Tel: (604) 291-4461

Email: aplant@sfu.ca
Webpage: www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/plant

Expertise: root specific gene expression, modulation by ABA, osmotica

 

Doug Powell

Food Science

University of Guelph

Tel: (519) 824-4120

Email: dpowell@uoguelph.ca or dpowell@ksu.edu
Webpage: www.plant.uoguelph.ca/faculty/dpowell
Expertise: food safety

 

Jorge Prieto Salazar
Geophysical Institute
Javeriana University
Tel: 57 1 320 8320, ext. 4731
Email: j.prieto@javeriana.edu.co
Webpage: fing.javeriana.edu.co/geofisico/PRIETO.htm
Expertise: natural risks assessment, quantitative risk models for complex systems, loss estimation methodologies, insurance products, geotechnical and earthquake engineering risk

Ronald Pushchak

School of Environmental Health

Ryerson University

Tel: (416) 979-5000, ext. 7049

Email: pushchak@ryerson.ca
Webpage:www.ryerson.ca/surp/content/faculty_administration/biographies/faculty/pushchak

Expertise: facility siting, environmental assessment and risk

 

Kenneth J. Reimer

Environmental Sciences Group

Royal Military College of Canada

Tel: (613) 541-6000, ext. 6161

Email: reimer-k@rmc.ca
Website: www.rmc.ca/academic/gradrech/esg/index_e.html

 

Erin Rogozinski

Student

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4545 ext. 84545

Email: earogozi@fes.uwaterloo.ca

 

Marc Saner

Ethics & Policy Issues Centre

Carleton University

Tel: (613) 520-3942

Email: saner@magma.ca

Webpage: www.carleton.ca/cove/cv/Saner
Expertise: values, ethics, and policy

 

Rajesh Seth
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Windsor
Tel: (519) 253-3000 ext. 2553
Email: rseth@uwindsor.ca
Expertise: wastewater treatment, multimedia mass balance modelling, contaminant fate and transport, metal and organic pollutants, environment and health

Judy Sheeshka

Family Relations & Applied Nutrition

University of Guelph

Tel: (519) 824-4120, ext. 4479

Email: jsheeshk@uoguelph.ca
Webpage: www.family.uoguelph.ca/page

Expertise: psycho-social determinants of eating behaviours; communications related to food safety; consumer perceptions of new food technologies such as genetically-modified crops and food, and nutraceuticals and functional foods

 

John Shortreed

Institute for Risk Research

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 35527

Email: shortree@uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/our_people
Expertise: risk management and risk assessment of hazardous industries, dangerous goods transport risks

 

Marc-André Sirard

Animal Science

Centre of Research in Biology of Reproduction (CRBR)

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 656-3486
Email: Marc-Andre.Sirard@vrr.ulavel.ca
Webpage: www.vrr.ulaval.ca/bd/chercheur/fiche/16444.html
Expertise: reproduction, fertility, animal model

 

Audrey Smargiassi
Montreal Department of Public Health
CINBIOSE (Centre for studies in Health and Environment)
Tel: (514) 528-2400 ext. 3226
Email: asmargia@santepub-mtl.qc.ca
Webpage: www.santepop.qc.ca/formation/formation_old/Mentors/Smargiassi_Audrey
Expertise: indoor, outdoor and personal exposure assessment, biological monitoring of exposure and effects in populations exposed to toxic chemicals, risk assessment

Ralph Smith

Biology

University of Waterloo

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext. 32468

Email: rsmith@biology.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: www.biology.uwaterloo.ca/people/smith

Expertise: freshwater ecology, with emphasis on primary producers and their interactions with natural and anthropogenic environmental factors; role of metals, organics, and ultraviolet radiation in aquatic systems; application of plankton studies to problems of environmental assessment; ecology of the Laurentian Great Lakes

 

Robert Sullivan

Animal Science

Centre of Research in Biology of Reproduction (CRBR)

Université Laval

Tel: (418) 656-4141, ext. 6104

Email: robert.sullivan@crchol.ulaval.ca
Webpage: www.vrr.ulaval.ca/bd/chercheur/fiche/358895

Expertise: reproduction, fertility, reproductive tract

 

Lee Chong Theng
Environmental Sciences
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Tel: (603) 89486101
Email: lctheng@tm.net.my

Ross Upshur

Family & Community Medicine

Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

Tel: (416) 480--6199, ext. 1691

Email: rupshur@idirect.com
Webpage: www.sunnybrook.ca/research/scientists/StoZ/upshur

Expertise: environmental health and human ecology; environmental epidemiology

 

Glen Van Der Kraak

Zoology

University of Guelph

Tel: (519) 824-4120, ext. 53424

Email: gvanderk@uoguelph.ca
Webpage: www.uoguelph.ca/ib/faculty/faculty_vanderkraak

Expertise: reproductive physiology, endocrine disruptors

 

 

Jean-Phillippe Weber

Quebec Toxicology Centre

Tel: (418) 650-5115 x4026

Email: jpweber@inspq.qc.ca
Webpage: www.chuq.qc.ca/oms/en/direct/weber
Expertise: human toxicology - quality assurance and toxicological analyses; health and environment

 

Tony Williams

Biological Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Tel: (604) 291-4982

Email: tdwillia@sfu.ca
Webpage: www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/williams

Expertise: avian ecophysiologist

 

Joseph Zayed

Environnement et Prévention

Médicine du travail et d'hygiène du milieu

Université de Montréal

Tel: (514) 343-5912

Email: joseph.zayed@umontreal.ca
Webpage: www.medsp.umontreal.ca/gris/personnel2
Expertise: evaluation of exposure to environmental contaminants and estimate of risk on public health; evaluation of certain potential indicators of the environmental contamination and the exposure to metals

Become a Member or Partner

Individual membership is free to University researchers.

Benefits of Partnership:

NERAM provides value-added services in the following areas:

• improved networking between science disciplines, stakeholders and policy makers
• resources for best practice in environmental risk assessment and management
• multi- stakeholder, peer reviewed publications
• access to current initiatives in environmental risk management

Examples include:

• Coordination of expert panels on air quality science and policy issues
• NERAM Primer On Environmental Risk Management
• NERAM report on Current Directions in Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
• Options Paper for Environment Canada on Managing Climate Change Risk

To join the Network, please click here or email irr-neram@uwaterloo.ca