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Curriculum Vitae -- Alan M. Goldberg, Ph.D.

PERSONAL DATA:

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe St., W7032
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410-614-4990
Fax: 410-614-2871
E-mail: agoldbe1@jhu.edu
Website: http://caat.jhsph.edu, http://altweb.jhsph.edu

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS:

• Founding Director (Emeritus) and Chairman of the Board, The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
• Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
• Principal, Global Food Ethics

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Dr Goldberg's interests are in humane science, the use of animals and the 3Rs (refinement, reduction and replacement) of animals in biomedical sciences, toxicology, and risk assesment. Research activities include the incorporation of in vitro and refinement alternatives in risk assesment and regulatory toxicology. Additionally, policy issues associated with animal use are intergral to these activities. For full details visit Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.

For education in humane science, see Enhancing Humane Science course available on the CAAT website.

Dr. Goldberg is a professor of Toxicology. He is the Founding Director and currently Chairman of The Board of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. Dr Goldberg's interest in Ethical/Fair Food came in 2007 he was appointed to the Pew Commission on the Impact of Industrial Farm Animal Production.

The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing is focused on working with industry and government to incorporate the latest technologies and the most humane science in product safety decision-making. The Center supports the development of new in vitro methods and refinement alternatives that contribute to basic research, product development, and regulatory decisions. It also provides education to scientists on how one practices the most humane science, aka – the 3Rs of alternatives – refinement, replacement, reduction.

Dr. Goldberg actively serves on the International Animal Welfare Advisory Board of Shell, consults with CeeTox (an in vitro toxicology CRO) and Epithelix. In the non-profit area, he is a trustee of the Humane Society University, a member of the Advisory Board of Faculty for the Department of Institutional Review Ethics and Administration in Nicholas Cardinal Cheong Graduate School for Life, The Catholic University of Korea, (South Korea), a member of the Alexandra Foundation (Monaco), a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Scientific Communication (ISC); and is on the Toxicology Panel of EFSA (European Food Safety Authority in Parma, Italy).

Starting in 2007, Dr. Goldberg served as a Pew Commissioner on the study of the Impact of Industrial (US) Farm Animal Production, on issues of public health, environment, animal welfare and social justice. While on the commission, Dr. Goldberg studied with the Talmudic Scholar Rabbi Avram Reisner to learn the Jewish laws dealing with food animal production. At the request of the Committee on Jewish Law of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Dr. Goldberg shared his understandings of farm animal welfare. Dr. Goldberg also chairs the management board of Orange House Partnership, a Belgium NGO dedicated to provide training on food safety to the developing world.

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THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL TESTING

Vision/Mission Statement

Vision

To be a leading force in the development and use of reduction, refinement, and replacement alternatives in research, testing, and education to protect and enhance the health of the public.

Mission

• Promote and support research in the development of in vitro and other alternative techniques.
• Serve as a forum to foster discussion among diverse groups leading to creative approaches to facilitate acceptance and implementation of alternatives.
• Provide reliable information on the science, philosophy, and public policy of alternatives to academia, government, industry, and the general public.
• Educate and train in the application of alternatives.

The Center is dedicated to outstanding science with a passion for animal welfare.

CURRENT PROJECTS OF CAAT

• Grants Program
  • In Vitro Sciences
  • Refinement
  • Animal Welfare
• TestSmart--Developmental Neurotoxicology

THE GLOBAL FOOD ETHICS PROJECT

With the world's population likely to exceed 9.5 billion by 2050, our global community faces an enormous challenge—how to ensure everyone will have enough of the right foods to secure a desirable level of health. Ensuring that every individual has affordable access to sufficient and nutritious food is a profoundly important and consensual moral imperative. However, there are deep, entrenched, disagreements about what values, besides human health, should be taken into account, and what systems and strategies for the production, distribution, and consumption of food are ethically acceptable.

One obstacle to securing affordable access to nutritious food is the absence of a minimum set of common ethical standards that accommodates and responds to the major constituencies and stakeholders engaged in producing, distributing and consuming food. As a necessary first step toward constructing a critical consensus document, we propose to build a shared conceptual framework that identifies the distinctively moral disagreements that are impediments to feeding the world's population. This conceptual framework is intended to serve as the foundation on which a common set of ethical standards can be constructed.  

For more information on the Global Food Ethics Project, see the project's webpage.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Society Membership:

• The Academy of Toxicological Sciences*
• In Vitro Toxicology Society*
• American Association for the Advancement of Science*
• American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Biology (FASEB)*
• American Society of Neurochemistry
• Society for Neurosciences
• American Epilepsy Society
• International Society of Neurochemistry
• Society of Toxicology*
• International Study Group on Memory Disorders (ISG)
• International Union of Pharmacology - Section on Toxicology
• American College of Toxicology*
• Society of Cosmetic Chemists
• Association of University Technology Managers
• American College of Toxicology
• Tissue Culture Association, Inc.
• Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA)

* Active

Special Society Functions:

• Chairman of numerous scientific sessions and symposia at national and international meetings
• Society for Neurosciences, Baltimore Chapter President, July 1971 through January 1973
• Mid-Atlantic Acetylcholine Discussion Group - Co-organizer
• Originator of 1st World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences - 1993
• Developer of work shops, CE courses, symposia for SOT, toxicology forum, and numerous other groups

Committee Experience:

University/School:

Community:

National and International Committees:

Consultantships:

Advisory Boards (Private Sector):

Testimony:

• Have testified before (Federal) House and Senate committees as well as the Maryland legislature, and The House of Lords, UK.

Editorial Activities:

Editorial Board:

• Applied In Vitro Toxicology
• In Vitro Toxicology
• Journal ATLA (through 2014)
• Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health
• Neurobehavioral Toxicology and Teratology (through 1989)
• Toxicology In Vitro (through 1991)
• Sustainability: The Journal of Record

Scientific Reviewer:

• Biochemical Pharmacy
• Developmental Biology
• Life Sciences
• Neurochemistry, Journal of Neuropharmacology
• Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior
• Psychopharmacology
• Science
• Toxicology
• Journal of Neurosciences
• International Journal of Toxicology - Section Editor
• Journal of The American Medical Association
• Journal of Epidemiology

AWARDS & HONORS:

• Member of the ALEXANDRA Project, Monaco, 2010
• Lifetime Dedication Award:  Patron of the 3Rs – 7th World Congress, August 2009
• Non Hopkins Thesis Committees (1st- initiated 2006)
• The State of Maryland Governor’s Citation, 2006
• Doerenkamp-Zbinden Award, 2001
• Society of Toxicology Enhancement of Animal Welfare Award, 2000
• Ambassador of Toxicology Award, Mid-Atlantic Society of Toxicology, 1998
• Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, Long Island University, 1995
• Excerpta Medica Lecturer, Medical Libraries Association - 1992
• Distinguished Alumni Award - Long Island University - 1992
• Who's Who Environmental Registry - First Listed 1992
• Chevron Lectureship Award, University of California at Davis - 1991
• 1^st Russell & Burch Award, Humane Society of the United States - 1991
• Who's Who in Society, First Listed - 1988
• Who's Who in America, First Listed - 1986
• Indiana Neurological Society Award, 1967
• Rho Chi Society
• Sigma Xi
• Listed in American Men and Women in Science
• Who's Who in the East
• Who's Who in the South
• Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology
• Who's Who in World Jewry
• Delta Omega
• International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement
• Dictionary of International Biography
• Men of Achievement
• International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
• Non Hopkins Thesis Committees (1st- initiated 2006)
• Bart De Wever - University of Maastricht — The Netherlands
• Margot Meijer — Utrecht University — The Netherlands
• S. Bakand — University of New South Wales - Australia

TEACHING:

2004 - Developed online course: "Enhancing Humane Science/Improving Animal Research." Available inside and outside Johns Hopkins.

Outside Teaching:

Participates/participated in continuing education in the areas of:

• Neurotoxicity
• Acetylcholine Metabolism
• Environmental Toxicology
• In Vitro Toxicology
• Guest Lecturer, University of Maryland, Department of Pharmacology
• Medical School Course 1979-1981

Former Students/Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Dr. Renee Gardner (current)
• Dr. Atreyi Mukherji (current)
• Dr. Kim Drnec
• Dr. Rebecca Freeman
• Dr. Stuart Ibsen
• Dr. Diego Bubola
• Dr. Evelyn Schreuder
• Dr. Mariken Zbinden
• Dr. Aileen Kaita-Ritchie
• Dr. Robert Krell
• Dr. Ellen Silbergeld
• Dr. Phyllis Mullinex
• Dr. Paul Carroll
• Dr. Thomas Tomosky
• Dr. Ng-Long Chong
• Dr. Yossi Kimhi
• Dr. George Bierkamper
• Dr. Christopher Molineaux
• Dr. William Millington
• Dr. Sheryl Sato
• Dr. Barbara Bass
• Dr. Elias Aizenman-Stern
• Dr. William Wonderlin
• Dr. Michael Soskopf

RESEARCH GRANT PARTICIPATION:

Have been funded by the NIH with ROI's and/or Program Projects as well as other NIH grants. Current funding includes grants/contracts from the private sector. During the last 15 years, more than 70 companies have funded our work.

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

Other Scientific Related Events:

• Participated in a documentary film on lead poisoning for the British Broadcasting Company
• U.S. House of Representatives - Committee on Science and Technology Testimony, 1986
• Maryland House of Representatives - House Judiciary Committee Testimony, 1987
• Developed (with Bert van Zupthen) concept for World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use In The Life Sciences, 1^st Congress held in 1993, 2^nd in 1996.

University Related Activities - Professional Practice:

• Development of Laboratories and Administration Unit of (Applied Research Center) the Cooperative Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
• Development of Scientific Protocol and Project Director of Environmental and Epidemiological Studies on Individuals Exposed to Kepone - Human Health Effect Evaluation, 1979-80
• Development of Scientific Protocol of Health Hazard Evaluation of Individuals Living Near a Hazardous Waste (Chemical) Landfill - Memphis, Tennesee, 1980-81
• Principles of Toxicology. A three-day intensive course on basic principles of toxicology. This course is repeated yearly, Developed 1981, (Also known as "Toxicology Update") - Course Director, 1981-1985
• Toxicology Consultant - Center on Occupational and Environmental Health - The Johns Hopkins University
• Development of yearly symposium for The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
• Development of Symposia for the Johns Hopkins Associates in Environmental Health
• Development of Newsletters for the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing and The Johns Hopkins Health Associates
• Administrative Director - National Basketball Players Association Program on AIDS Education, Counseling and Testing
• Talk with the Maryland Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee - "Issues in Transferring Technology" - February 19, 1992

Alan M. Goldberg's Publications

Alan M. Goldberg's Presentations