Leadership

Jim has over 30 years’ experience as an active member of the environmental health and safety profession, including more than 17 years with EH&E as a key member of their leadership team. Jim’s work concentrates on reconstructing complex or novel exposure events, extracting meaningful data from those reconstructions, then helping his clients make informed decisions based on that data. He utilizes and teaches Bayesian Decision Analysis and Censored Data Analysis, and is frequently called upon to perform publication review and testing of occupational exposure models.

The author of numerous professional articles in the areas of industrial hygiene, safety, risk assessment, semiconductor industry health and safety, and management of environmental health and safety programs, Jim currently holds an appointment as Visiting Scientist in Occupational Hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health in the department of “Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk” and as a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Brandeis University. He previously served as Director of Environmental Health and Safety for Harvard University, a Compliance Officer for OSHA, and Plant/Division/Corporate EH&S Directors for a Fortune 44 and a Fortune 200 manufacturing companies. He has served on two National Academy of Science Committees as an environmental health and safety expert.

EDUCATION

Ph.D.      Public Health, University of Massachusetts
M.A.T.    Chemistry, University of Massachusetts
B.S.         Public Health, University of Massachusetts

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

American Board of Industrial Hygiene, Certified in Comprehensive Practice
Board of Certified Safety Professionals, Certified in Comprehensive Practice

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Industrial Hygiene Association
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
Academy of Industrial Hygiene
American Chemical Society
American Public Health Association
American Society of Safety Engineers
International Dose Response Society

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Awarded the “Academic Faculty Teaching Award for 2014” by the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program at the Harvard School of Public Health
Current Scientific Reviewer for:
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Member, Board of Directors, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, 2012-2014
Member, Board of Directors, Journal of Environmental and Occupational Hygiene, 2014-2015
AIHA Committee on Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee, Chairman, 2014-2015; Member, 2006-present