Team Members

Our inter- and multi-disciplinary team consists of experienced professionals in the areas of risk assessment and risk management. These include chemical, civil, mechanical, and environmental engineers, toxicologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, soil scientists and microbiologists, industrial hygienists, physicians board-certified in occupational medicine and neuropsychiatry, attorneys, and business managers. Our professionals have extensive experience in industry, government (EIPA, ATSDR, OSHA, NIOSH, DOT, and FDA), and academia.

We are familiar with all the legal and technical requirements of designing and operating industrial processes, as well as running municipal systems and designing environmentally sound management plans. We have participated in and continue to contribute to goverment-sponsored panels on new possibilities for risk and waste reduction in manufacturing. Thus, our team is on the frontier of technological advances in the areas of risk and pollution reduction. Our professionals are also involved in community efforts to reduce risks from chemicals through participation in the Community Right-to-Know.

Principals and Staff of GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc.

President

Dr. Vlasta Molak, CEO, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc. Principal investigator with extensive experience in working with IDLHs, Toxicological profiles, International Chemical Safety Cards, EAGLES, ERMLs. RQs and working with U.S.EPA, FDA, DOE and US Congress.

Vice President

Dr. Vsevolod Shakin, Research and Development, systems analysis, environmental science, medicine

Vice President

Dr. Vadim Strijov, Information Systems, mathematics, physics, system analysis

Legal Council

Dr. Howard Latin, senior attorney, labor and environmental laws

Senior Review Scientist

Dr. Eward Calbrese, toxicology risk analysis, extrapolations
Dr. Paul Slovic, senior advisor in risk analysis policy and psychology
Dr. Stan Kaplan, creative system analysts, senior consultant
Dr. Paul Deisler, senior consultant
Dr. Jeffrey Driver, senior consultant
Dr. Herman Gibb, senior Epidemiology consultant
Dr. Gary . Whitmore, senior toxicologist
Dr. Bert Hakkinen, senior toxicologist

Junior Scientist

Susan Ellis, B.Sc., biology
Ina Boxer, B.Sc.

Library Research

Karen McConnell, senior editor and library researcher
Brea Manzini, library research and administrative assistant
Susan Taylor, library and administrative assistant