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Bruce Fowler has a B.S. degree in Fisheries (Marine Biology) from the University of Washington in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1972. He was a staff scientist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1972 until 1987 when he became Director of the University of Maryland System -wide Program in Toxicology and Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. From 2002 to 2003, he served as a Senior Research Advisor to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry (ATSDR) in the Division of Toxicology and from 2003 to 2011, he was the Associate Director for Science in the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine at ATSDR as a Title 42 Distinguished Consultant. He was a Senior Fellow/Expert Consultant at ICF International from 2011-2014 and is currently a private consultant and Adjunct Professor, Emory School of Public Health and Presidents Professor of Biomedical Science and the University of Alaska- Fairbanks.  Dr. Fowler, who is an internationally recognized expert on the toxicology of metals has served on a number of State, National and International Committees in his areas of expertise.  These include the Maryland Governor’s Council on Toxic Substances (Chair), National Academy of  Sciences / National Research Council Committees on Toxicology, Toxicology Information Committee,  Committee on Women in Science and Engineering,  Measuring Lead in Critical Populations (Chair),  Biological Markers of Urinary Toxicology,  Committee on the Evaluation of  Augmenting Potable Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water, and the  Subcommittee on Arsenic in Drinking Water of the Committee on Toxicology.  He has also served as a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research Against Cancer (IARC) for a number of issues.  Dr. Fowler has been honored as a Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (1990), a Fulbright Scholar and Swedish Medical Research Council Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1994 -1995) and elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (2000). His more recent awards include CDC/ATSDR, NCEH/ATSDR Honor Award for Excellence in Leadership Award 2010, the 2014 U.S. Pharmacopea Award for an Innovative Response to Public Health Challenges (Group Award) and the 2014 Cornerstone Montgomery Volunteer of the Year Award.  He is a Rotary International Paul Harris Multiple Fellow and currently Director of the International Service Lane for the Rotary Club of North Bethesda (RCNB) and RCNB President Elect for 2016-2017.  He  has served as Chairman of the Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals under the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), as a consultant to the USEPA Science Advisory Board and a member of the Fulbright Scholarship review committee for Scandinavia (1999-, Chair, 2000-2001). Dr. Fowler was elected to the Council of the Society of Toxicology (2005-2007) and the Board of Directors of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (2006-2009). More recently, he was elected to the Council of the Society for Risk Analysis (2014). He is the Federal Legislative and National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE)- PAC Chair for the Rockville Maryland Chapter of NARFE.  Dr. Fowler is the author of over 260 research papers and book chapters dealing with molecular mechanisms of metal toxicity and molecular biomarkers for early detection of metal-induced cell injury.  He has been the editor or co-editor of 7 books or monographs on metal toxicology and mechanisms of chemical – induced cell injury.  The latest of these is “Computational Toxicology: Applications to Risk Assessment” published in 2013.  He serves on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals in toxicology and is currently an Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives.