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Calvin Willhite Receives 2021 SOT Arnold J. Lehman Award

By Brian Cummings posted 01-07-2021 15:58

  

Calvin C. Willhite, PhD, has received the 2021 SOT Arnold J. Lehman Award for his exemplary service in advancing the scientific basis of human health risk assessment at the local, national, and international levels.

Dr. Willhite received his PhD in pharmacology from Dartmouth Medical School in 1980 and completed a postdoctoral inhalation toxicology fellowship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He then worked as a research pharmacologist for the US Department of Agriculture, later taking a position with the State of California, where he was responsible for human health risk assessments to support promulgation of California’s drinking water Maximum Contaminant Levels. Dr. Willhite is now a senior affiliate scientist with Risk Sciences International and the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, a position he has held since 2012.

Calvin C. Willhite, PhD

Dr. Willhite has extensive experience in toxicity evaluation, hazard identification, and exposure assessment. He is an expert in quantitative human health risk assessment of pesticides, solvents, metals, and other materials and mixtures of chemicals in the workplace and at hazardous waste sites. His application of advanced approaches to fully evaluate toxicity and potential risk at environmentally relevant exposures has been instrumental in fostering open, honest communication with workers, consumers, and affected communities. Dr. Willhite has produced accurate and scientifically justified toxicity and health risk evaluations, which are critical to establishing and maintaining trust and credibility among the regulated community and other stakeholders.

Dr. Willhite is a leader in human health risk assessment, with more than 100 publications in basic and applied toxicology and human health risk assessment. Dr. Willhite has published primarily about developmental toxicology and quantitative structure-activity relationships. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Toxicology & Applied Pharmacology, Toxicology, and the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, and he was Editor of the New York Academy of Sciences’s Maternal Nutrition and Pregnancy Outcome and Guest Editor for the journal Toxicology (Bisphenol Exposure, Hazard and Regulation). On the regulatory level, Dr. Willhite testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce on the Safety of Phthalates and Bisphenol A, and he has been a member of the National Academy’s Committee on Toxicology; the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Advisory Committee; the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods; the NTP Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction’s Chemical Expert and Level of Concern Panels; the National Research Council’s Submarine Air Quality and Acute Exposure Guideline Levels Subcommittees; the NSF Health Advisory Board; the Johns Hopkins Data and Safety Committee/Nepal National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Kathmandu; the ACGIH Committee on Threshold Limit Values; the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s Cancer Chemoprevention Panel; the Cal/Occupational Safety and Health Administration Lead in Construction Permissible Exposure Limit Committee; and the Science Advisory Committee for the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act.

Dr. Willhite joined SOT as a Full member in 1983, and he then received the SOT Frank R. Blood Award in recognition of the most scientifically outstanding publication (Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 84(1): 206–207) in an official SOT publication during the preceding 12-month period; those data contributed to understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for retinoid-induced human congenital malformations. His biography appears in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

The Society is pleased to award the Arnold J. Lehman Award to Dr. Willhite for his outstanding contributions to evidence-based toxicology to improve public health.


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