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Dr. Julian Preston named Associate Director of Health for the National Health & Environmental Effects Laboratory
Dr. Julian Preston has been named to the permanent position of Associate Director of Health (ADH) in the National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory (NHEERL). Dr. Preston previously served as Acting Director. He will be responsible for overseeing approximately three hundred staff conducting toxicological, clinical and epidemiological research on the health effects of environmental chemical exposures that humans face in daily life.
Dr. Preston joined EPA in 1999 as the Director of the Environmental Carcinogenesis Division. Prior to working at the EPA, Dr. Preston served as the Senior Science Advisor at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Research Triangle Park. He worked in Human Genetics at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he also served as Associate Director for the Oak Ridge – University of Tennessee Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Preston is a nationally/internationally recognized expert in the area of radiation and chemical tumor and heritable risks. In particular, he has been a leader in the understanding of how mechanistic data can be incorporated into risk assessments. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and chapters and has co-authored several reports for the National Council on Radiation Protection and the ICRP.
Dr. Preston serves on a number of important committees, such as Chair of Committee 1 (Basic Biology and Epidemiology) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection; member of the Main Commission of ICRP; member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation; the International Life Sciences Institute's Global Threshold Project and Health and Environmental Sciences Institute's DNA Adducts and Risk Assessment Project. He also holds Adjunct Professorships at Duke University and North Carolina State University.