Speakers

Interest and activities: 

• Risk assessment of chemical exposures, including experimental mechanistic studies, with specific interest in pesticides and pesticide metabolites, and combined exposure to environmental and occupational chemicals; use of in silico and in vitro approaches for hazard identification and characterization; collaboration with epidemiologists to apply the epi-tox framework;

• Author of over 150 papers on toxicology and occupational toxicology, book chapters;

• Member (present and past) of many international committees for the risk assessment of exposure to chemicals, in particular pesticides, including WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Food Safety, JMPR (previous chair), EFSA PPR panel, SCOEL and several national committees on toxicology;

• Members of international committees and working groups for the improvement, harmonization and innovation of risk assessment methods, including trustee (past) of HESI;

• Referee of research projects for several governments and institutions;

• Invited speaker to several meetings related to toxicology and chemical risk assessment;

• Recipient of several research grants from National and International bodies, related to toxicology, including occupational toxicology, risk assessment and training on toxicology and risk assessment. 

Mark Cronin is Professor of Predictive Toxicology at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has over 35 years’ experience in the application of in silico approaches to predict the toxicity and fate of chemicals; in addition to development of strategies to develop alternatives to whole animal testing for toxicity. His current research includes the application of chemical grouping and read-across to assess human health and environmental endpoints, particularly the linking of Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) to category information. This research effort has resulted in four books and over 320 publications in all areas of the use of (Q)SARs, expert systems and read-across to predict toxicity. He has worked in numerous projects in this area including more than fifteen EU framework projects, as well as assisting in the uptake of in silico methods for regulatory purposes.

MSc Environmental Toxicology; Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT); Registered Member, Australasian College of Toxicology & Risk Assessment (RACTRA) 

Tarah is currently the Technical Discipline Manager in Toxicology and Risk Assessment at SLR Consulting. Tarah is a certified toxicologist with over 13 years’ experience as a toxicology and risk assessment consultant conducting screening and detailed human health and ecological risk assessments for a variety of industries and government. Included are industrial emissions, contaminated land and water, consumer goods and food. She has written and co-written numerous major reports, which have been influential in shaping Australian health risk assessment methodology and policy decisions in relation to environmental issues. She has been involved with various publications reviewing the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials, setting safety limits for active ingredients of pharmaceuticals and consumer products, complex risk assessments for occupational and public exposure to PFAS and many other chemicals. She is also a Sessional Lecturer at RMIT University in the fields of toxicology and epidemiology and the current Secretary of ACTRA.

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Therese Manning

NSW EPA 

Therese Manning has more than 30 years of experience in human health and ecological risk assessment with the NSW EPA and as a consultant. She has prepared numerous human health and ecological risk assessments, provided advice on chemicals and their effects to all levels of government as well as industry and developed numerous guidance documents. She has provided training in environmental chemistry, toxicology and risk assessment. Her experience was acknowledged by the award in 2011 of the Public Service Medal for an outstanding contribution to the field of environmental risk assessment. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment (FACTRA).

Liana Marché

Harman Legal 

Liana was admitted to practice in Western Australia in 1994 and joined Harman Legal in 2010.  Her litigation experience spans proceedings in the Magistrates Court, Court of Petty Sessions, Children’s Court, Builder’s Registration Board, Industrial Relations Tribunal, Residential Tenancies Tribunal, Commercial Tribunal, WorkCover, the Coroner’s Court, District Court and Supreme Court.  She has also appeared at hearings for Bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court and in contested children and property proceedings in both the Family Court of Western Australia and the Family Court of Australia.Her practice areas included Personal Injuries, Contract Law, Corporations Law, Wills and Probate, Property Law and Family Law.  Liana also has a BA in Industrial Relations from the University of Western Australia.

Maryam is a Health Scientist at Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA Vic - Epidemiology team) currently working on dashboard development to bring together health data and environment data as part of the tracking network project. She has a PhD in Molecular Biochemistry from University of Melbourne and her PhD research focused on the impact of environmental stressors on neuronal development. With over 10 years of health-related research and consulting, Maryam has been involved in different projects providing wide range of health science and risk assessment advice. She is an ACTRA registrant (RACTRA) and chair of education committee organising ACTRA webinar series. 

Professor Bernard Stewart (Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney) was awarded an ‘AM’ in 2018 for services to environmental carcinogenesis. His research on chemical carcinogens was initiated at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London and Fels Research Institute, Philadelphia, and continued over decades at UNSW, in relation to genotoxicity and apoptosis. In parallel, he has been engaged in evaluating carcinogenicity data nationally (NHMRC, Cancer Australia and Cancer Council Australia) and internationally through the Monograph program at International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). For IARC he has been given responsibility for three editions of the WHO World Cancer Report. Professor Stewart has published extensively regarding ‘cancer clusters’ and was called as an expert in a recent Senate enquiry regarding Victorian cancer cases presumed attributable to organochlorine pesticides. Bernard has provided expert evidence in litigation involving carcinogenicity. In 2010 he was admitted as a lawyer by the NSW Supreme Court.

Marie joined Harman Legal in February 2006, having previously worked for 2 years between 2004 to 2006 for Charles Taylor Consulting (Aust) Pty Ltd in the roles of Compliance Manager, In-house Counsel & General Manager. CTC (Aust) P/L are the appointed Managers of Capricorn Mutual Ltd, a discretionary mutual set up in 2003 to offer members of Capricorn Society an alternative to traditional insurance. Prior to that role, Marie worked as a lawyer in Perth for Blake Dawson Waldron (2000 – 2004) and Clayton Utz (1989 – 2000) in insurance litigation, general litigation, corporate and commercial advice, insolvency, administrative law and workers’ compensation. From 1979 – 1989, Marie worked for the State Government Insurance Office as a Claims Officer for industrial disease, common law and fatal accident claims.