Keynote Speakers
Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D., CIH, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Dr. Ramachandran is a Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. His research interests include occupational and ambient exposure assessment, nanoparticle exposure and risk assessment, Bayesian methods in retrospective exposure assessment, exposure modeling, mathematical methods for analyzing occupational measurements, and inhalation dosimetry for mixed exposures. Dr. Ramachandran has written extensively on occupational exposure assessment, including a textbook on occupational exposure assessment. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his M.S. degree in environmental engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences and engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Andrew Maynard serves as the Science Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. He is internationally recognized as a research leader and lecturer in the fields of aerosol characterization and the implications of nanotechnology to occupational health. He trained as a physicist at Birmingham University in the UK, and after completing a Ph.D. in ultrafine aerosol analysis at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (UK) joined the Aerosols research group of the UK Health and Safety Executive. In 2000 he moved to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the USA, where he focused on addressing nanoparticle exposure in the workplace.
Dr. Maynard’s expertise covers many facets of aerosols and health implications, from occupational aerosol sampler design to state of the art nanoparticle analysis, as reflected in over 35 peer-reviewed publications and numerous invited presentations. He has represented NIOSH on the Nanomaterial Science, Engineering and Technology subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSET), and co-chaired the Nanotechnology Health and Environment Implications (NEHI) working group of NSET. In addition, Dr Maynard chairs the International Standards Organization Working Group on size selective sampling in the workplace. Dr. Maynard holds an Associate Professorship at the University of Cincinnati, and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Mark D. Hoover, PhD, CHP, CIH, Senior Scientist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Dr. Mark D. Hoover is a senior scientist in the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center and the Division of Respiratory Disease Studies at the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, in Morgantown, West Virginia. NIOSH is the leading federal agency conducting research and providing guidance on the occupational safety and health implications and applications of nanotechnology. Mark has a BS degree in mathematics and English from Carnegie Mellon University and MS and PhD degrees in engineering from the University of New Mexico. He is also board certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics and in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene. Mark has developed improved approaches, techniques, and instrumentation for aerosol characterization, generation, and control; served as chairman or a contributor to the development of many national and international standards; and is author or co-author of more than 140 open literature publications. Special emphasis areas for his work in nanotechnology include exposure assessment for nanoparticles in the workplace, development of a prototype Nanoparticle Information Library, and opportunities for applying performance-based occupational exposure limit or control banding approaches for nanotechnology. Detailed information about the NIOSH nanotechnology health and safety research program is available at www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/.
