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Ronald D. Hood, Ph.D.     
     
Expert Toxicology Consultant / Toxicologist
 
  • Developmental Toxicology (Teratology)
  • Reproductive Toxicology
  • Regulatory Toxicology and Research Management
  • Environmental Toxicology
Areas of Toxicology Expertise:
 
  • Developmental Toxicology
  • Teratology (Birth Defects Causation -- Laboratory Animal, Nonhuman Primate, and Human)
  • Reproductive Toxicology, Endocrinology and Endocrine Disruptors
  • Preclinical Study Protocol Design and Study Placement, Monitoring, and Evaluation
  • Data Interpretation
  • GLP and Regulatory Agency Requirements and Regulatory Strategy
  • Literature Search and Literature Review
  • Position Paper Preparation, Publication Manuscript Preparation, and Manuscript Editing
  • SOP Development
  • Staff Training in Developmental Toxicology and Reproductive Toxicology Techniques
  • Contract Research Organization (CRO) Selection, Study Placement, and Study Monitoring
  • Computerized Nonclinical ("Preclinical") Study Data Collection and Compilation
  • Laboratory Animal Facility (Vivarium) Design
  • Epidemiology, especially Birth Defects Epidemiology
  • Risk Assessment
  • Environmental Toxicology, especially Toxicology, Metabolism, and Environmental Fate of Arsenic (As) Compounds
  • Expert Witness
  • Litigation Support
Description:
  Principal, R. D. Hood & Associates, Toxicology Consultants; Consultant since 1980 to Industry, Government, and Law Firms; Special Consultant, Environmental Health Committee, US EPA Science Advisory Board (10 yrs); Professor Emeritus and Former Interim Department Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama; Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health; Expert Witness-Birth Defects Causation; thirty-five years Toxicology Research and Teaching; courses taught include Developmental Toxicology, Reproductive Toxicology, Teratology, Human Embryology, Principles of Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology, and Endocrinology; Advisory Panels; Editorial Boards, many Publications in Toxicology; Editor/Author, (1) Developmental Toxicology: Risk Assessment and the Future, (2) Handbook of Developmental Toxicology, and (3) Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, a Practical Approach

 

Contact information
 

Ronald D. Hood, Ph.D.
Ronald D. Hood & Associates
Toxicology Consultants
Box 870344
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0344
 

Phone: (205) 348-1817

Fax: (205) 348-1786

Email: rhood (at) bsc.as.ua.edu

Website: http://www.toxicologyexpertise.com/
Homepage: http://rtctox.com/hood.htm

 
Forensic Expert Witness:
  Willing to serve as Expert Witness Yes
  Experience as Expert Witness Yes
Previously retained by:
  List available upon request
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms used:

                                Cro

Contract Research Organization
Glp Good Laboratory Practice
Sop Standard Operating Procedure