RTI International - News Release - 4.27.2004
Edo Pellizzari Named RTI Senior Fellow
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Research Triangle Park, NC -- Edo Pellizzari, director of the Proteomics Research Center (PRC) at RTI, has been appointed to the RTI Fellow Program as a Senior Fellow. He is the tenth scientist at RTI to be appointed to the Fellow Program.
Dr. Pellizzari has 33 years of scientific leadership and accomplishment at RTI. He joined RTI in 1971 as one of two analytical chemists. He became a research director and then a research vice president in analytical and chemical sciences in 1977 and 1983, respectively, before becoming director of the newly formed PRC in October 2003.
From 1981 through 1998, Dr. Pellizzari led 13 population-based exposure studies, including the complex, cross-disciplinary National Human Exposure and Assessment Survey (NHEXAS), which measured the total chemical exposure of persons living in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In addition, Dr. Pellizzari developed methods for analyzing drugs and measuring toxic chemicals in a wide variety of biological and environmental media.
Dr. Pellizzari has published 206 papers and book chapters with 132 different investigators from 27 institutions representing 18 disciplines. Eight of these publications have been cited more than 100 times each. He has also presented more than 260 papers at national and international conferences and meetings and has served as chairperson of more than two dozen technical sessions at conferences and on numerous review panels and committees for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.
Furthermore, Dr. Pellizzari has served on the EPA Science Advisory Board for more than 10 years, as well as on three National Academy of Sciences committees. In addition, in 1989, Dr. Pellizzari helped charter the International Society for Exposure Analysis (ISEA) and established ISEA's Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, for which he has served as editor in chief since its inception.
Dr. Pellizzari holds a doctorate in analytical biochemistry from Purdue University and a bachelor's degree in biology from California State University at Chico. As a graduate student, he spent six months as a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay. After earning his doctorate, he spent two years as a U.S. Public Health Service postdoctoral fellow at the Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences in the Houston Medical Center.
Among his distinguished awards are the 2000 Wesolowski Award, which is the highest award given by ISEA, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Natural Sciences at California State University at Chico.
RTI Fellow Program
The RTI Fellow Program was established in August 2001 to provide professional opportunities for exceptionally talented staff committed to science, technology, research, and policy analysis in support of RTI's mission to improve the human condition. The program has three levels: Fellow, Senior Fellow, and Distinguished Fellow.
Previous Distinguished Fellow appointees are Paul Biemer of Statistical, Survey, and Computing Sciences; F. Ivy Carroll of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry; and Kathleen Lohr of Health, Social, and Economics Research (HSER). Senior Fellow appointees include Derrick Brinkerhoff of International Development, Jerry Cromwell of HSER, David Ensor of Aerosol Technology, F. Reed Johnson of RTI Health Solutions, Joshua Wiener of HSER, and Blake Wilson of Auditory Prosthesis Research.