PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

Practicing and consulting Toxicologist. Areas of expertise include drug abuse in the workplace, interpretation of clinical and forensic toxicology test results, litigation support and expert testimony in civil and criminal cases.

LICENSES, CERTIFICATION:

Clinical Toxicologist Scientist, State of California, Department of Health Services, License No. MTF35

Breath Alcohol Technician (BAT)

Graduate of The Robert F. Borkenstein Course on Alcohol and Highway Safety: Testing, Research and Litigation (2004)

EDUCATION:

1965	B.S. Pharmacy, University of Mississippi
1968	M.S. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Mississippi
1973	Ph.D. Clinical and Forensic Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

1992-June 2004	President and CEO, Forensic Toxicology Associates, a subsidiary of Pacific Toxicology Laboratories, Los Angeles, CA. Responsible for overall direction of a forensic toxicology laboratory specializing in forensic alcohol testing in urine and blood, drugs of abuse testing in urine and blood, and identification of unknown substances.
1990-June 2004	President and CEO, Pacific Toxicology Laboratories, Los Angeles, CA. Responsible for overall direction of laboratory providing SAMHSA (NIDA) drug testing, therapeutic drug monitoring, and biological monitoring.
1988-1990	General Manager, SmithKline Clinical Laboratory, Dallas, TX. Responsible for overall direction of full service clinical laboratory with extensive SAMHSA (NIDA) drugs of abuse testing.
1983-1988	Director, Business Development, Western Region, SmithKline Clinical Laboratories, Van Nuys, CA. Responsible for acquisitions, joint ventures, and affiliation relationships.
1981-1983	Director of Marketing, BioScience Laboratories, Van Nuys, CA. Coordinated the R & D, production, and marketing of toxicology assays.
1979-1981	General Manager, BioScience Laboratories, Houston, TX. Directed full service toxicology laboratory servicing the state of Texas.
1975-1979	Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX. Taught toxicology courses in the Medical School, Graduate School, School of Public Health, and Medical Technology School.
1973-1975	Research Scientist, BioScience Laboratories, Van Nuys, CA. Developed new toxicology tests, method modification, and assay trouble-shooting.
1970-1973	Graduate Student, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA. Research focused on pharmacological management of acute amphetamine poisoning.
1968-1970	Captain, U.S. Army, William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, TX. Directed clinical/forensic toxicology laboratory for area hospital. Extensive marijuana and heroin analysis and Court Martial testimony.

MEMBERSHIPS:

Fellow, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Toxicology Section

Founding member, California Association of Toxicologists

Member, Society of Forensic Toxicologists