Biographic Sketches of Committee Members - Agriculture Forestry and Fishing Research at NIOSH - page 282

Health National Occupation Research Agenda mining, fishing, and forestry peer-
review panel and has participated in numerous International Fishing Industry
Safety and Health conferences. He has also served in various American Society
of Safety Engineer (ASSE) chapters and is a past president of the Puget Sound
Chapter. With nearly 8 years of experience with commercial fishing companies,
he was recently appointed to the U.S. Coast Guard's Commercial Fishing Industry
Vessel Safety Advisory Committee and has been nominated for a position on the
Maritime Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. He began his
career in safety as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician while
in high school. Mr. Davis is a Certified Safety Professional and received his BS in
occupational safety and health from North Carolina A&T State University.
James A. Dosman is the director of the Institute of Agricultural Rural and Envi-
ronmental Health at the University of Saskatchewan, the only institution in Canada
that provides research, education, and health promotion to agricultural and rural
populations. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Sas-
katchewan. His expertise includes respiratory diseases, occupational diseases, and
agricultural medicine. Dr. Dosman has chaired or co-chaired five international
symposia on health issues related to agriculture and rural populations. He is a
founding chair of the Canadian Coalition for Agriculture Safety and Rural Health
(1992), founding co-chair of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society (2002),
a past member of the Governing Council of the Medical Research Council of
Canada (1995-2000), and a past president of the Canadian Thoracic Society. He
helped to establish such initiatives as the first annual Agriculture Health and Safety
Conference, the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program, the Canadian
Agriculture Safety Program, and the Agricultural Health and Safety Network, which
provides educational services, respiratory health and hearing screening programs,
courses in emergency preparedness, and other educational opportunities to the
rural population. He is a current grantee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Re-
search in fields related to occupational and environmental exposures and a member
of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. He is an associate member of the
Western College of Veterinary Medicine and of the Department of Community
Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Dosman received
his MD, MA, and BA from the University of Saskatchewan.
William A. Groves is an associate professor of industrial health and safety and
chair of the graduate program in industrial health and safety in the Department of
Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering of Pennsylvania State University. He
is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and a Certified Safety Professional. His research
interests are in the development of sensors and instrumentation for measurement