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George Alexeeff, Ph.D., Director

George AlexeeffGeorge Alexeeff, Ph.D. is the Director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in the California Environmental Protection Agency. He oversees a staff including over 80 scientists in multidisciplinary evaluations of the health impacts of pollutants and toxicants in air, water, soil and other media.  He is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at the University of California at Davis. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of California at Davis and has been certified as a Diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology, Inc. (DABT) since 1986. He has reviewed over 140 documents evaluating human epidemiological or animal toxicological evidence for OEHHA or other agencies such as U.S. EPA. Dr. Alexeeff has recently served on three National Academy of Sciences’ Committees, and is a current member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board’s Drinking Water Committee, and EPA's Science Advisory Board’s Hydraulic Fracturing Research Plan Panel.  Dr. Alexeeff’s professional activities include: past President of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Toxicology, the past President Genetic and Environmental Toxicology Association of Northern California, member of the Society of Toxicology, and charter member of the Society for Risk Analysis.

 
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