Experts

Neal D. Barnard, M.D.

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PCRM president and founder. Nutrition researcher. Author of 14 books and many scientific articles on nutrition and health. Directs numerous innovative campaigns to promote healthy eating. Rigorous opponent of unethical research practices. Spearheaded PCRM's lawsuit against the U.S. government's unethical experiments giving healthy short children a genetically engineered growth hormone. Advocate for higher standards in human research and for alternatives to animal research.

Chad B. Sandusky, Ph.D.
Director of research and senior toxicology advisor. Promotes alternatives to the use of animals in research and coordinates the review of and preparation of comments on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s High Production Volume Challenge Program (HPV). Dr. Sandusky is currently a core expert panel member for the EPA’s Voluntary Children’s Chemical Exposure Program. He was previously employed by the EPA, where he served on the Pesticide Research Committee, worked as toxicology team leader, and served as senior author of numerous EPA documents.

Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D.

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Research scientist with background in ethology. Promotes alternatives to the use of animals in research and education. Author of The Use of Animals in Higher Education, as well as many articles on humane life science education and scientific papers on animal behavior. Formerly associate director with The Humane Society of the United States and research coordinator with Immersion Medical, a medical simulation company. His new book, Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, was released in May 2006.

Kristie Stoick, M.P.H.

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Scientific and policy adviser with background in toxicology. Promotes alternatives to the use of animals in research and assists in the review of and preparation of comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s High Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program (HPV). Also coordinates PCRM’s efforts as Secretariat of the International Council on Animal Protection in OECD Programmes (ICAPO).

John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C.

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Medical education and senior medical adviser. A board-certified cardiologist, Dr. Pippin has been on faculty at Harvard Medical School, received the Clinician-Scientist Award from the American Heart Association, and served as an invited speaker and panelist for the NIH National Human Subjects Protection Workshop. Dr. Pippin is the author of dozens of articles and abstracts that have been published in such leading medical journals as Circulation and The American Journal of Cardiology.

Megha Shah Even, M.S. 

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Toxicology and research consultant with background in developmental biology and immunology. Promotes alternatives to the use of animals in research and develops alternative methods, including the world’s first cruelty-free insulin assay. Initiated the Alternatives in Science Education campaign to promote alternatives to animal dissection to students and educators. Also works with government agencies and other institutions to reduce and eliminate animal testing for regulatory purposes.

Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H.

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Director of research policy for PCRM. Leads PCRM’s scientific and policy efforts related to the inapplicability of animal experimentation to human illness, the promotion of alternatives to animal experimentation, and the alleviation of animal suffering. Also serves as associate director for the Washington Center for Clinical Research, a subsidiary of PCRM that conducts independent clinical research focusing on the role of diet on health promotion and disease prevention and management.