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Work: Employed Biostatistician and Spatial (GIS) Statistician/Medical Geographer.GIS grants/awards/successes: Use of West Nile Ecology GIS/RS to successfully identify positive testing disease niduses (2002-3) using topographic and phytogeographic features and local host-vector ecology findings; Oregon State Toxic Release Site (Superfund and non-superfund site) monitoring procedures for >4500 sites (66k chemical reports), with focus on chemical profiling sites in relation to SIC history; use of GIS tool to research Oregon State cancer cases in relationship to release sites, exposure profiles and potential carcinogenicity; developed simple method to produce hexagonal grids useful in spatial analysis; use of chemical-based predictive modeling techniques for cancer.25+ year chem lab/fieldwork experience in natural products; as university adjunct and researcher performed research, teaching, and consultation in phytochemistry and chemotaxonomy, evolution and ecology of plant chemicals, ethnobotany, history of plant use in medicine, analysis of drug products and OTC nutriceuticals product manufacture, advertising, use and side effects. Specialized in alkaloids (esp. BIQs), seed oil evolution and pharmacologic effects on human metabolism and health, and the toxicity of herbal medicines and their adulterants.Projects managed: sesquiterpene lactones responsible for local dermatitis and type IV allergenic response cases common to local forest industry workers, the evolution of BIQs and other chemotherapeutic agents found in locally-produced herbal products, development of natural non-toxic colorants applicable to cosmetic and OTC industry, study of leafwax chemistry in drought and fire-tolerant arceuthobium species (mistletoe), detection of counterfeit, adulterated and substituted ingredients in OTC nutriceutical/herbal medicine products, glycyrrhiza-induced sodium-potassium imbalances in local patients suffering from mineralocorticoid-like imbalances, analysis of contaminated tryptophan-batches related to local cases, toxicologist for IBISmedical IBIS datebase development, specialized in toxicity of herbal medicines.
Biographical: EDUCATIONBS Biology SUNY Stony BrookBS Earth/Space Sciences SUNY Stony BrookMS Geography (Medical/Environmental) Portland State UniversityMPH (Environmental Health, Health Education/health Promotion) Portland State UniversityMedical Schooling (1980s): 3 years MD (of course, accredited), 1.5 year TCM (accredited), 1 yr ND (accredited), 1 year CAM (incl. homeopathy and hydrotherapy, not accred.), 1.25 yr MH (not accred.)EMPLOYMENT(Current) Manager, Biostatistics, Postgraduate Institute for Medicine. 2007 - .Data Analyst/Compliance Specialist. Medicaid/Medicare Preventive Care Programs Analyst. Denver Health Managed Care Program, Denver Health. 2004-7.Field Specialist and Analyst. West Nile Surveillance Program, New York. 2000-2002 (grants), 2002-2004 (CDC-funding obtained from state awarded grant, ArcView/Idrisi/NLCD/AVHRR disease ecology project).Researcher/Instructor, Organic Chemistry/Plant Chemistry. Chemistry Department, Portland State University. 1988 -2002. (PC/TLC/MS)AWARDS/HONORS: Successful use of GIS in identifying first positive testing west nile sites (2000-2005 field and GIS work, 2006 ESRI GIS/Health Communications award); New York West Nile Fever Ecology (GIS, 2000-3 field work, 2004); Applications of GIS in the analysis of Superfund Sites (2001, 2002); Oregon Ethnobotany/Natural Products History OAS programs and presentations (1991-1997); part of team awarded contract for designing artwork , layout and historical material used to develop Tuality LightRail stop (The Local History of Northwest Natural Products Uses in Medicine) (1992-3); Feb 20 ,1986--initiation of Northwest Yew Tree research project, resulted in the popularization and development of local Yew Tree baccatin (taxol) industry.AUTHORSHIP: 1) Plantae: the evolution of chemicals and natural products in plants (Course text: 1989, 2000, 2003, 2008/9 editions). A review of the Plant evolutionary tree in relation to chemical synthesis and natural products evolution; a study of changes in metabolic pathways brought about through evolution and environmental-ecologic change. 2) Plantae (folios depicting algal and plant evolution in relation to standard taxonomy, chemical pathways development, and natural and human ecologic conditions.
Work: Employed Biostatistician and Spatial (GIS) Statistician/Medical Geographer.GIS grants/awards/successes: Use of West Nile Ecology GIS/RS to successfully identify positive testing disease niduses (2002-3) using topographic and phytogeographic features and local host-vector ecology findings; Oregon State Toxic Release Site (Superfund and non-superfund site) monitoring procedures for >4500 sites (66k chemical reports), with focus on chemical profiling sites in relation to SIC history; use of GIS tool to research Oregon State cancer cases in relationship to release sites, exposure profiles and potential carcinogenicity; developed simple method to produce hexagonal grids useful in spatial analysis; use of chemical-based predictive modeling techniques for cancer.25+ year chem lab/fieldwork experience in natural products; as university adjunct and researcher performed research, teaching, and consultation in phytochemistry and chemotaxonomy, evolution and ecology of plant chemicals, ethnobotany, history of plant use in medicine, analysis of drug products and OTC nutriceuticals product manufacture, advertising, use and side effects. Specialized in alkaloids (esp. BIQs), seed oil evolution and pharmacologic effects on human metabolism and health, and the toxicity of herbal medicines and their adulterants.Projects managed: sesquiterpene lactones responsible for local dermatitis and type IV allergenic response cases common to local forest industry workers, the evolution of BIQs and other chemotherapeutic agents found in locally-produced herbal products, development of natural non-toxic colorants applicable to cosmetic and OTC industry, study of leafwax chemistry in drought and fire-tolerant arceuthobium species (mistletoe), detection of counterfeit, adulterated and substituted ingredients in OTC nutriceutical/herbal medicine products, glycyrrhiza-induced sodium-potassium imbalances in local patients suffering from mineralocorticoid-like imbalances, analysis of contaminated tryptophan-batches related to local cases, toxicologist for IBISmedical IBIS datebase development, specialized in toxicity of herbal medicines.
Biographical: EDUCATIONBS Biology SUNY Stony BrookBS Earth/Space Sciences SUNY Stony BrookMS Geography (Medical/Environmental) Portland State UniversityMPH (Environmental Health, Health Education/health Promotion) Portland State UniversityMedical Schooling (1980s): 3 years MD (of course, accredited), 1.5 year TCM (accredited), 1 yr ND (accredited), 1 year CAM (incl. homeopathy and hydrotherapy, not accred.), 1.25 yr MH (not accred.)EMPLOYMENT(Current) Manager, Biostatistics, Postgraduate Institute for Medicine. 2007 - .Data Analyst/Compliance Specialist. Medicaid/Medicare Preventive Care Programs Analyst. Denver Health Managed Care Program, Denver Health. 2004-7.Field Specialist and Analyst. West Nile Surveillance Program, New York. 2000-2002 (grants), 2002-2004 (CDC-funding obtained from state awarded grant, ArcView/Idrisi/NLCD/AVHRR disease ecology project).Researcher/Instructor, Organic Chemistry/Plant Chemistry. Chemistry Department, Portland State University. 1988 -2002. (PC/TLC/MS)AWARDS/HONORS: Successful use of GIS in identifying first positive testing west nile sites (2000-2005 field and GIS work, 2006 ESRI GIS/Health Communications award); New York West Nile Fever Ecology (GIS, 2000-3 field work, 2004); Applications of GIS in the analysis of Superfund Sites (2001, 2002); Oregon Ethnobotany/Natural Products History OAS programs and presentations (1991-1997); part of team awarded contract for designing artwork , layout and historical material used to develop Tuality LightRail stop (The Local History of Northwest Natural Products Uses in Medicine) (1992-3); Feb 20 ,1986--initiation of Northwest Yew Tree research project, resulted in the popularization and development of local Yew Tree baccatin (taxol) industry.AUTHORSHIP: 1) Plantae: the evolution of chemicals and natural products in plants (Course text: 1989, 2000, 2003, 2008/9 editions). A review of the Plant evolutionary tree in relation to chemical synthesis and natural products evolution; a study of changes in metabolic pathways brought about through evolution and environmental-ecologic change. 2) Plantae (folios depicting algal and plant evolution in relation to standard taxonomy, chemical pathways development, and natural and human ecologic conditions.
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Dear Brian,This might be way out on a tangent to your interests or expertise, but any thoughts on how to discourage venomous snake attacks on workers in oil plam plantations? In the absence of vaccines against snake venom, could workers spray themselves with snake-oxyticin (to make the snakes more cuddly) or something that repells snakes?Rats love oil palms, and snakes love rats, and oil-palm workers live in real fear of snakes.P.