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Personal Biography of Dr. Kannan Krishnan
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Dr. Kannan Krishnan received his Ph.D. in Public Health from Université de Montréal, Canada and postdoctoral training from the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He is currently Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health and Director of the Human Toxicology research group (TOXHUM) at Université de Montréal. He has been the leader of the risk assessment methodologies theme team of the Canadian Network of Toxicology Centers (1994 - 2001), and Vice President of the Biological Modeling Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology (2001-02). A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Sub-committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (2001-2004), Dr. Krishnan is currently the president of the Risk Assessment Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology and a temporary advisor for the World Health Organization. His expertise is in the areas of general toxicology, pharmacokinetics, physiologically-based modeling, chemical mixturesand health risk assessment methods. He has been a peer reviewer of several risk assessments, mixture risk assessment supplemental guidance and efforts on interactions for U.S. EPA. He has also been involved as a reviewer of toxicological profiles of chemicals and interaction profiles for chemical mixtures produced by ATSDR. An author of a text book on environmental pollution, Dr. Krishnan has authored or co-authored over 100 full-length publications in the areas of human health risk assessment, pharmacokinetics and its determinants in humans, chemical interactions in rodents and humans as well as computational toxicology. He has served on the editorial boards of Toxicological Sciences, International Journal of Toxicology, Journal of Applied Toxicology and Journal of Child Health. In the year 2000, he received the Veylian Henderson Award from the Society of Toxicology of Canada for significant contributions to the field of toxicology in Canada and was co-recipient of the Best paperaward(2003) from the Board of Publications of the Society of Toxicology.
Dr. Krishnan's current research projects are funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Past funding sources include Quebec Health Research Council, Canadian Network of Toxicology Centers, Health Canada and Ethylbenzene Panel of American Chemistry Council.