Newsroom » Experts
Edo Pellizzari
919-541-6579

Edo D. Pellizzari

Emeritus Lead Fellow, Analytical and Environmental Health Sciences

Edo D. Pellizzari, PhD, expert in biochemistry, served as RTI's first Lead Fellow from 2007 to 2010. He joined RTI in 1971 as a chemist and served as vice president of Analytical and Chemical Sciences from 1983 to 2003. Dr. Pellizzari is internationally known for major contributions in the environmental health sciences, specifically in chemical and aerosol exposure analysis, and for developing and applying personal exposure methodology to more than a dozen population-based studies on toxic chemicals in the US and Canada. In 1989, Dr. Pellizzari helped charter the International Society for Exposure Analysis (ISEA) and established ISEA's Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, for which he served as editor-in-chief for 15 years. He has served on numerous committees and participated in dozens of workshops and grant review panels for major government agencies in the area of environmental health sciences. Dr. Pellizzari has also served on review panels for major research programs in analytical chemistry at national and university laboratories. He received California State University's Distinguished Alumni and ISEA's Wesolowski awards for achievements in environmental research. Dr. Pellizzari is author or co-author of 192 peer-reviewed papers, 45 book chapters, 262 abstracts for national and international conferences, and more than 100 reports.

Education

PhD, Biochemistry, Purdue University; AB, Biology, California State University.

Publications

Brain organochlorines and Lewy pathology: The Honolulu-Asia aging study — Movement Disorders
Ross, G.W., Duda, J.E., Abbott, R.D., Pellizzari, E., Petrovitch, H., Miller, D.B., et al. (Sep 2012)
ISEA2007 panel: Integration of better exposure characterizations into disaster preparedness for responders and the public — Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Rodes, C.E., Pellizzari, E.D., Dellarco, M.J., Erickson, M.D., Vallero, D.A., Reissman, D.B., et al. (Aug 2008)
The World Trade Center aftermath and its effects on health: understanding and learning through human-exposure science — Environmental Science and Technology
Lioy, P.J., Pellizzari, E., & Prezant, D. (Nov 2006)
Assessing the measurement precision of various arsenic forms and arsenic exposure in the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey (NHEXAS) — Environmental Health Perspectives
Pellizzari, E.D., & Clayton, C.A. (Feb 2006)
A correlation study of organochlorine levels in serum, breast adipose tissue, and gluteal adipose tissue among breast cancer cases in India — Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention
Rusiecki, J.A., Matthews, A., Sturgeon, S., Sinha, R., Pellizzari, E., Zheng, T.Z., et al. (Jan 2005)
View all publications by Edo D. Pellizzari

Expertise