Jo Anne Shatkin, Ph.D.
Principal
Jo Anne Shatkin, Ph.D., is a Principal of The Cadmus Group, Inc., an international firm that provides environmental, water and energy consulting services to government and private clients. She is a recognized expert in environmental aspects of nanotechnology, human health risk assessment and technical communications, and manages Cadmus' human health risk assessment and nanotechnology practice. She is presently leading Cadmus' efforts to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Planning for Nanotechnology Research.
Dr. Shatkin has 18 years of experience in research and application of quantitative human health risk assessment managing over 60 environmental risk assessments under a variety of US federal, state, and voluntary programs. She has led and conducted numerous risk assessments on solid waste, brownfields, petroleum and coal tar contaminated sites, evaluated risks associated with contaminant mixtures, bioavailability of soil contaminants, and derived health based standards for reuse of contaminated sites.
She develops screening level (semi-qualitative) risk assessment protocols and risk based prioritization approaches, multimedia and cumulative risk assessments of novel emerging contaminants and mixtures, and models for characterizing and reducing uncertainty in exposure assessment. Her areas of expertise include environmental chemistry, assessing chemical bioavailability, and providing technical support for advisory and stakeholder outreach and communication.
She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy in 1994 and her MA in Risk Management and Technology Assessment, both from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts and possesses a Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic University in Biology and Biotechnology. She is a research fellow of the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University.
Dr Shatkin has been an active member of the Society for Risk Analysis since 1989, and recently founded the Emerging Nanoscale Materials Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis. She is former Chapter & Section Committee Chair for the Society for Risk Analysis; past president of the New England SRA chapter; past Board Member and President of the Regional Environmental Council, member of the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority Expert Risk Panel, and committee member of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Science Advisory Panel for Solid Waste.