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George
Lambert, M.D. Director, Center for
Childhood Neurotoxicology and Exposure Assessment Dr. George Lambert is the Director of the NIEHS/USEPA Center for Childhood Neurotoxicology and Exposure Assessment, which is located at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a jointly sponsored Institute of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The Center is one of twelve NIEHS/USEPA National Centers for Childhood Environmental Health and Disease Prevention. Dr. Lambert is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Division of Pediatric Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - Piscataway/New Brunswick. He holds a B.S. in zoology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1968) and an M.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (1972). Recent grants and other outside funding sources include the following: (1) a grant to study the Reproductive Outcomes of the World Trade Center Tragedy (funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences); (2) a Center grant to determine the influences of environmental exposure to neurotoxicants on children neurological health and development with special emphasis on autism and related disabilities (funded jointly by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency); (3) a grant to study the effects of Herbal Phytoestrogens on Prostate Cancer (funded by the Cancer Commission of New Jersey); (4) Effects of eating Crabs with PCBs and Dioxin on Human Health (funded by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Regulations); (5) a grant to study the role of gene polymorphisms in Birth Defects (funded jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the NJ State Birth Defects Registry); (6) a grant to determine the effects of environmental endocrine disruption on hypospadism and cryptorchidism in children (funded jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and the New Jersey Department of Health); and (7) a grant to study the Presence of Plasticizers in the human newborn (in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Dr. Lambert is currently a member of the Science Advisory Board of the USEPA, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. He has served as consultant to the WHO, FDA, Institute of Medicine, NIH and several foreign governments. He has conducted environmental studies in children and adults in Canada, First Nation Population of North America and many countries in Asia and Europe as well as several states in the US.
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