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Dr. Thorne
is Professor of Toxicology and Director of the University of Iowa,
Environmental Health Science Research Center (EHSRC). He holds a primary
appointment in the College of Public Health and a secondary appointment
in the College of Engineering. Dr. Thorne is a native of Wisconsin and
received his education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in chemical
engineering (BS), biomedical engineering (MS), and environmental toxicology
(PhD). He was a post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor in immunotoxicology
at the University of Pittsburgh prior to joining the U.I. faculty in
1988. Dr. Thorne served as Deputy Director of the EHSRC from 1993-2000
prior to assuming the directorship in 2001. He has also served as Director
of the Environmental Health Training Program since its inception in
1998. Dr. Thorne serves on an array of national and international editorial
boards, review groups and advisory boards including the U.S. Safety
and Occupational Health Study Section, the Scientific Advisory Board
of the Canadian Inter-Provincial Air Pollution and Health Study, and
the Advisory Council for the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Dr. Thorne heads an active research group with 16 current projects investigating
in-barn and off-site exposures associated with various types of CAFOs,
studies of environmental triggers of asthma affecting rural children,
inhalation toxicology studies of agricultural and industrial bioaerosols,
mechanisms of organic dust-induced lung inflammation, and development
of methods for exposure assessment. These projects and his earlier studies
have resulted in over 200 published manuscripts, book chapters and scientific
abstracts. He teaches in the classroom and workshop settings on environmental
health, environmental toxicology and occupational hygiene. Although
a city kid, he spent summers working on farms in Wisconsin and Texas.
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