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North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Provide students in the CVM professional curriculum classroom and hands-on instruction for managing honey bees and the veterinarian's role in the treatment of disease and pests.

Conduct public health/toxicological risk assessments for contaminated/hazardous waste sites across North Carolina. Evaluates chemical exposures from hazardous waste sites, determines public health risks and develops recommendations that reduce or eliminate people's exposure to these chemicals. Evaluates all available relevant environmental exposure data, health effects data (toxicological, epidemiological, medical, and health outcome data), and community health concerns representing potential and known human healthexposure pathways at specific project sites.

Maintain colonies of healthy bees for pollination and production of honey. Ensure sufficient food reserves. Make decisions on yard locations and orientation, treatment, splits, honey harvesting and all other beekeeping decisions. Ensure breeding yards are kept clean and at optimal level of production. Diagnose and maintain control over diseases and pests. Identify and determine treatment protocols to address all hive health concerns and in compliance with state and federal laws/regulations related to the bee industry.

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• Lead product steward for over 30 current and innovative next generation products in the Heat Not Burn (HNB) tobacco product platform. Lead product steward for over 25 innovative next-generation electronic cigarettes products. Lead product steward for the evaluation of botanical and other pharmacologically active materials under development for future products around the globe.• Led the team charged with driving alignment of product stewardship practices across a global organization. Collaborated with a large group of scientists and stakeholders, driving execution across multiple product categories to align efficient testing evaluations, standard operating procedures and product approval criteria for all product platforms for the global business.• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in support of in vivo toxicology and Stewardship components of 20+ FDA product submission packages (i.e., SE Provisionals, SE Regular, PMTA, etc.) and provided expert in vivo toxicology support for most products and platforms. Represented the company to the FDA during inspections pertaining to in vivo toxicology studies.• Innovation champion in the Reynolds Innovation Academy (RIA). Instructor and mentor in multiple year-long courses that taught innovation techniques, idea generation, problem solving and decision analysis techniques to junior scientists within the organization. Mentored and advised 250+ course participants on how to develop an innovative idea and turn it into marketable product. Assisted in the preparation of patent applications for over 20 innovations as a direct product of the course.• Global lead study monitor and technical lead for all in vivo toxicology study outsourcing for the testing of new or existing products. Routinely managed 3 to 5 studies and $8-10 million per year in outsourced studies and managed multiple teams across the globe to achieve scientific and business objectives of studies.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Classroom instructor of veterinary toxicology in the CVM professional curriculum.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

• Directly managed the day-to-day operation of a 35-person in vivo toxicology unit. Provided scientific leadership and management oversight of the department’s toxicology activities and resources, growing the toxicology business 20% annually in line with the unit’s goals and objectives and achieving department financial goals. Proactive problem solver for all toxicology operations issues related to projects conducted on behalf of government and commercial clients. Reported directly to the Health Sciences unit Vice President.• Established new practices and drove the execution of technical proposal production, modernizing the preparation of proposals to government and commercial clients for the toxicology unit. Streamlined the proposal training and preparation process which improved the win-rate for new business.• Ensured all toxicology studies were performed to the appropriate standards of US/international regulations, GLP, safety and animal welfare while also meting client expectations. • Served as an expert risk assessment inhalation toxicologist for the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Division of Air Quality Scientific Advisory Board.• Supervised management of the Animal Research Facility (ARF) and its staff of 10 scientific and animal care staff. Executed processes and reorganized staffing practices that minimized operation costs and maximized utilization of the facility.• Supervised a 16-person technical staff labor pool that provided technical labor for all toxicology studies performed in the unit. Implemented a cross-training program that maximized staff utilization and cost control. • Managed a $200K center variable expense budget for equipment, supplies, training, and marketing and $7-8 M annually in government and commercial client sponsored studies.• Project Director for the mammalian toxicology component of the multimillion-dollar EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).

Fort Liberty, Nc, Us

• MOS: 64A.• Additional Skill Identifiers: 9L (Toxicologist), 9P (Pharmacologist).• Reserve TPU assignment to the 489th Civil Affairs Battalion, Ft. Knox, Kentucky, attached to Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), USACAPOC, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.• Veterinary Services Officer for HHC, USACAPOC TPU and USACAPOC Command group. • Served as a principal advisor to the USACAPOC for preventive medicine operations at the Troop Program Unit (TPU) and major subordinate command (MSC) level.• Assisted civil affairs personnel in planning and conducting public health and preventive medicine operations world-wide. • Charged with the conduct and direct preventive veterinary medicine services to control animal and food-borne disease of public health interest. Advisor to the Command Surgeon on all matters relating to human and food animal toxicology and pharmacology. • Developed and maintained a comprehensive database of Medical Corp officer military and civilian medical qualifications, providing field sanitation training to subordinate Special Operations and Civil Affairs units within the United States. • Led teams of medical officers, non-commissioned officers (NCOs) and enlisted personnel that reviewed medical preparedness within the Civil Affairs Command Inspection Program (CIP). Provided recommendations to superior officers for improving medical readiness within the command for current and future troop deployments. • Led the establishment of an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) for the Special Operations Command training at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

• Conducted basic research on a Department of Defense contract describing the production and biochemical effects of prostaglandins, leukotrienes, cytokines, and other mediators of inflammation in the novel ex vivo Isolated Perfused Porcine Skin Flap (IPPSF) model using GC, HPLC, RIA, ELISA and other assay methods when topically dosed with chemical warfare agents and other known cutaneous irritants.• Published original research results in peer-reviewed journals.• Project coordinator for the transfer of IPPSF technology to other toxicology laboratories in the United States.• Conducted research on the flux of sulfur mustard through the skin and determination of the rate of metabolite formation and its impact on skin toxicity.• Instructor in the pharmacology and toxicology courses for 75 veterinary students/year in the veterinary professional curriculum.• Coordinator for the Eastern Regional Access Center for FARAD (Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank). Interpreted published pharmacokinetic literature and advised veterinarians and food producers as to safe withdrawal times for pharmaceuticals and agrichemicals when published regulatory guidelines were not available. This work helped in reducing exposure risk of unwanted and potentially harmful chemical residues to the general public.• Published several pharmacology textbook chapters and peer reviewed journal publications.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

• Performed basic respiratory tract research in laboratory animal models.• Studied the nasal and lung absorption/desorption phenomenon of toxic compounds in the Beagle dog and Rhesus monkey models.• Study director for basic research focused on investigating the retention patterns of insoluble particles and clearance mechanisms present in the conducting airways of the Beagle dog.• Worked with a team of engineers and aerosol scientists to develop a microspray delivery device for delivery of insoluble radiolabeled particles to specific conducting airways of dogs and provided a better understanding of how particles are cleared from human airways.• Presented research at major scientific meetings and published results in peer-reviewed journals.• Practiced clinical veterinary care for the 2000+ Beagle and primate colonies. Conducted all aspects of health maintenance, internal medicine and surgery for dogs and other laboratory animals exposed to radioisotopes via inhalation, oral, or intravenous administration.

College Station, Tx, Us

Co-investigator in the study of the transmission, pathology and control of Cache Valley virus in the native ovine population of West Texas. Research responsibilities included performing necropsy and histopathology of infected and sentinels animals, serologic testing for virus antibody in sentinel animals, and sampling and identification of the regional mosquito population for virus isolation and culture.

College Station, Tx, Us

Performed antibody titer testing of sera for Brucella, Leptospira, and Vibrio in domestic animals. Assisted in necropsy, selection of appropriate bacterial and viral serologic tests for individual cases, and preparation of submitted samples for tissue culture and electron microscopic (EM) examination.

Doctor Of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Science, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, General

Postdoctoral Training Program, Inhalation Toxicology - Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (Lrri)

Animal Sciences

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