Lynn Flowers

Experience

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  Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania

  Jun 1993 - Feb 1997

  Research Associate
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  Superfund Program, USEPA Region III

  Feb 1997 - Dec 2000

  Pharmacologist
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  National Center for Environmental Assessment, NCEA

  Dec 2000 - Feb 2004

  Senior Biologist/IRIS Program
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  National Center for Environmental Assessment, USEPA

  Feb 2004 - Mar 2016

  The EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA), is part of the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The mission of the center is to provide guidance about how pollutants may impact our health and the environment. This is an important piece in the risk assessment process between the ORD bench scientist and EPA's program and regional office managers who are making regulatory, enforcement, and remedial-action decisions. As the Associate Director for Health, my particular interests include the following: overseeing the management of health assessment activities; risk assessment and research related to the health impacts of exposure to environmental chemicals; modernizing risk assessment; risk assessment related to susceptible populations; mode of action of chemical carcinogenesis; specific interest in the toxicology and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and perchlorate. Show less

  • Associate Director for Health

    Oct 2008 - Mar 2016

  • Assistant Center Director for Risk Analysis

    Apr 2008 - Oct 2008

  • Team Leader: Toxic Effects Characterization Team/IRIS Program

    Feb 2004 - Apr 2008
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  USEPA, Office of Science Policy

  Mar 2016 - now

  Associate Director for Science

  The Associate Director for Science: 1) provides expert scientific and technical leadership and direction for high priority projects, with a primary focus on toxicological or human health­ related issues and risk assessment, 2) provides oversight of scientific analyses on the science supporting agency regulatory and other actions, and 3) provides recommendations on courses of action for nat ionally and internationally significant environmental decisions that are based on risk assessment.