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Dr. Angie Perez is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), the Principal Toxicologist, and Senior Technical Fellow of Industrial Hygiene for J.S. Held, LLC. She has more than 20 years of experience in human health risk assessment, toxicology, exposure and risk assessment, sampling and analysis, and risk communication.
Dr. Perez's focal research and specialization areas include quantitative exposure reconstruction of occupational and environmental toxicants, human health risk assessments of toxicants, systematic toxicology and epidemiology literature reviews, and evaluation of general causation relationships between chemical exposure and disease. Her other areas of expertise include evaluating potential health effects of occupational and community exposures to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), metals, and sulfur compounds related to odors and industrial releases.
Prior to joining J.S. Held, Dr. Perez served as a reviewer for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Values (PPRTVs) assessments and has participated as an invited speaker for the USEPA Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team (START) program and for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on the topic of air monitoring during chemical spills. She has also prepared meta-data and summary documents for Health Canada to determine daily chemical intake (inhalation, dermal, oral).
She is a member of the American Conference of Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®), the Society of Toxicology (SOT), the European Royal Society of Biology, and the Toxicology working group of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), where she taught professional development courses.
Dr. Perez regularly contributes to the scientific, peer-reviewed literature with more than 50 published articles and abstracts on topics related to toxicology and industrial hygiene. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Toxicology from Oregon State University and postdoctoral research in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
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