Dr. Kimberly Zaccaria, a Supervisory Toxicologist at SRC, Inc., has expertise in the area of toxicological risk assessment and systematic review. Her primary roles include development of government-sponsored toxicological risk assessment projects as principal author of ATSDR toxicological profiles and traditional and read-across Provisional Toxicity Value documents. She has particular interest in bringing in new approaches and technologies into the risk assessment process and is currently the Deputy Director of Technical Innovation for the ATSDR contract held by SRC, Inc.. During development of these documents, Dr. Zaccaria also trains, supervises, and performs quality control review of work completed by an interdisciplinary team of toxicologists, chemists, and information scientists. She has also written or contributed to HPV Hazard Characterization Documents, ATSDR interaction profiles, Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) health hazard assessments, and consumer summary reports for the NLM’s Hazardous Substance Database. In addition to risk assessment activities, Dr. Zaccaria has contributed to the development and implementation of systematic review protocols, literature inventory databases, and mixture assessment guidance.
Dr. Zaccaria earned her graduate degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University with a thesis entitled “Investigating autistic-like features of animal models: GAP-43 and beyond”. After earning her graduate degree, Dr. Zaccaria completed an SRC-sponsored post-doctoral research project entitled “Using immunotoxicity information to improve cancer risk assessment for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) mixtures”.