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Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the US EPA and
the Committee to Review EPA's Title 42 Hiring Authority for Highly Qualified
Scientists and Engineers. He was also chair of the Committee on Human Bio-
monitoring for Environmental Toxicants and the Committee on Toxicants and
Pathogens in Biosolids Applied to Land. In 2003, he was designated a lifetime
national associate of the National Academies. Dr. Burke received his PhD in
epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Frank W. Davis
is director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis and a professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and
Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches
ecology and conservation planning. His current research focuses on the land-
scape ecology of California rangelands, ecologic implications of modern climate
change, and conservation planning for renewable-energy development. Dr.
Davis is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
a fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, a Google Science Communi-
cation Fellow, and a trustee of the Nature Conservancy of California. He has
served on several National Research Council committees and is currently a
member of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. Dr. Davis
earned a PhD in geography and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins
University.
David L. Eaton
is a professor of environmental and occupational health sci-
ences and interim vice provost for research at the University of Washington
(UW). He also serves as the director of the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health at UW. He
has held several other UW positions, including director of the toxicology pro-
gram and associate chairman in the Department of Environmental Health and
associate dean for research in the School of Public Health. Dr. Eaton maintains
an active research and teaching program that is focused on the molecular basis
of environmental causes of cancer and how human genetic differences in bio-
transformation enzymes may increase or decrease individual susceptibility to
chemicals found in the environment. He has published over 150 scientific arti-
cles and book chapters in toxicology and risk assessment. Nationally, he has
served on the board of directors and as treasurer of the American Board of Toxi-
cology, as secretary and later as president of the Society of Toxicology, as a
member of the board of directors and as vice-president of the Toxicology Educa-
tion Foundation, and as a member of the board of trustees of the Academy of
Toxicological Sciences. Dr. Eaton is a member of the Institute of Medicine and
has served on several National Academies committees, most recently as a mem-
ber of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Breast Cancer and the Environ-
ment: The Scientific Evidence, Research Methodology, and Future Directions.
He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Dr. Eaton earned a PhD
in pharmacology from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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