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Name and Educational Degree:
Hood, Ronald, Ph.D.
Certifications
Fellow, ATS
Education

B.S., Texas Tech, 1963

M.S., Texas Tech, 1965 

Ph.D., Purdue University, 1969

Business Address:
Ronald D. Hood & Associates
Box 870344
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0344
USA
Contact Information:
Telephone: 205-348-1817
Mobile Number:
Email Address: rhood@as.ua.edu
Web Site URL: http://www.ToxicologyConsultants.com
Specialties
A consulting group with expertise in:    
Developmental & reproductive toxicology; Teratology (birth defects causation--lab animal, nonhuman primate, and human); 
Study report review & data interpretation; 
Contract research organization (CRO) selection;
Study placement and monitoring; 
Nonclinical protocol design & review; 
Literature review and manuscript, expert report, and position paper preparation/critique & editing; 
Epidemiology (especially birth defects epidemiology); 
Drug interactions; 
Endocrinology, & endocrine disruptors;
Risk assessment; 
Environmental toxicology (especially toxicology, metabolism, & environmental fate of arsenic compounds); 
Litigation support/expert witness 
Experience
Principal, Ronald D. Hood & Associates, Toxicology Consultants; Consultant since 1980 to industry, government, and law firms; Special Consultant, Environmental Health Committee, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board (10 yrs); Professor Emeritus and former Interim Department Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama; Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health; Birth Defects Causation Expert Witness; thirty-six years Toxicology Research & Teaching; courses taught included Developmental Toxicology, Reproductive Physiology, Teratology, Human Embryology, Principles of Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology, and Endocrinology; advisory panels; editorial boards; many publications; Book Editor/Author: (1) Cacodylic Acid:  Agricultural Uses, Biologic Effects, and Environmental Fate, (2) Developmental Toxicology--Risk Assessment & the Future, (3) Handbook of  Developmental Toxicology, and (4) Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, a Practical Approach

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