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Dr. Kannan Krishnan is full Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Montreal (Canada) and Director of Inter-University Toxicology Research Center, Montreal, Canada. He is currently a member of the Human Studies Review Board of US EPA (2006-) and Workgroup of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO; Monograph 97). An expert in pharmacokinetics, computational toxicology and health risk assessment methods, Dr. Krishnan was the leader of the risk assessment methodologies theme team of the Canadian Network of Toxicology Centers (1994 – 2001), member of the US National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) Sub-committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (2001-'04), president of the Risk Assessment Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology (US; 2005-'06) and advisor for the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) of WHO (2003-'05).
A member of the editorial boards of Toxicological Sciences, International Journal of Toxicology, Journal of Applied Toxicology and Journal of Child Health, Dr. Krishnan has authored a text book and co-authored over 100 full-length publications. He was a key contributor to the US EPA document on "Approaches for the application of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) data and models in risk assessment" (Federal Register 71: 55469-55470). The PBPK models developed by his group have been used by US EPA, US National Academy of Sciences, and Health Canada to derive guideline values for air pollutants and drinking water contaminants. Listed in Canadian WHO's WHO (2006-), Dr. Krishnan is currently Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and has received the prestigious Veylian Henderson Award (2000) from the Society of Toxicology of Canada and the Best Paper Award in Toxicological Sciences (2003) from the Society of Toxicology (US).
Dr. Kannan Krishnan
University de Montreal
2375 Cote Ste. Catherine
Montreal, PQ, H3C 3J7
Canada
E-mail: kannan.krishnan@umontreal.ca | 
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