About Patricia MA, MEd, Science Outreach & Education Coordinator, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) Center, Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. Ms. Nance joined TERA in February 2002 and is currently the Science Outreach & Initiatives Leader. Ms. Nance leads a broad range of TERA’s corporate communications activities, supports new initiatives, develops news and highlights milestones. She drives communication initiatives for TERA’s community activities (website, science meetings, community service activities, science education initiatives etc.). Ms. Nance also works on projects involving risk assessment and human health sciences, including writing oral and inhalation toxicological reviews, acute and chronic health assessments, and summaries, leading and participating in teams for scientific reviews and report preparation, and developing work plans and budgets. She has 17 years experience in environmental science, risk assessment, project management, writing, and instructional design; as well as in developing, maintaining and support of a variety of databases. Ms. Nance manages two standing offer contracts with Health Canada. The contracts cover services that include peer reviews and consultations, oral and inhalation toxicological assessments, risk assessment regulatory guidance development, toxicology support and training. She has managed over 70 letter reviews for Health Canada that involved the review of oral and inhalation toxicology for non-cancer and cancer assessments. She also currently manages education and training projects at TERA, including a week long intensive course in dose-response risk assessment. Ms. Nance has been involved in reviews and analysis of acute and chronic toxicity studies, including animal, mechanistic, epidemiological, and developmental studies. She has participated in the development of databases used for compiling an array of toxicological data. Ms. Nance has gathered, validated, and screened human health data under contracts with U.S. EPA, Health Canada, Department of Defense, and private companies. She contributes to a variety of projects at TERA. She has been the meeting coordinator for numerous meetings at TERA. Some of her functions included developing meeting webpages, meeting packet information, and handling logistics. Ms. Nance managed 7 non-lethal projects that developed Human Effectiveness and Risk Characterizations (HERCs) reports on numerous non-lethal weapons. She has also prepared detailed meeting notes for many scientific and technical meetings, including peer reviews. Ms. Nance writes toxicological summaries for incorporation into material safety data sheets (MSDSs). Before joining TERA, Ms. Nance worked as the Project Manager/Technical Information Specialist for International Consultants, Inc. and IntelliTech Systems, Inc. Ms. Nance reviewed and edited provisional human health toxicity papers, prepared literature searches for human health toxicity information, obtained supporting material for use in developing surrogate chemicals by quantitative structural analysis relationship (QSAR) analysis, and maintaining a variety of databases for tracking information requests, chemical information, superfund site activity, and QSAR surrogate predictions. She is currently a member of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), the Alliance for Chemical Safety (ACS), and the Ohio Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis (OSRA). She is curhas active roles in SRA, serving as a member Conferences & Workshops Committee, a co-Chair for the Workshops at the Annual Meeting (WAM) Subcommittee, a member of the Communications Committee, and the Organizing Committee for the SRA’s World Congress.

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