1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1057

New York, NY 10029

Phone: 212-241-4804

Fax: 212-996-0407

Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., is the Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and Director of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He also holds a Professorship in Pediatrics at Mount Sinai. He directs the Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Health and the Environment. Dr. Landrigan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and previously was Editor of Environmental Research. He has chaired committees at the National Academy of Sciences on Environmental Neurotoxicology and on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children. He is Chair of the ASBESTOS Advisory Board of the State of New York. In New York City, he served on the Mayor’s Advisory Committee to Prevent Childhood Lead Paint Poisoning and on the Childhood immunization Advisory Committee on the New York City Department of Health. He is Chair of the New York State Advisory Council on Lead Poisoning Prevention. From 1995 to 1997 Dr. Landrigan served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses. In 1997 and 1998, Dr. Landrigan served as Senior Advisor on Children’s health to the Administrator of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency. He was responsible at EPA for establishing a new Office of Children’s Health Protection.