Name and Educational Degree: Rossman, Toby, Ph.D. Certifications Education Ph.D. Basic Medical Sciences, NYU School of Medicine 1968 Business Address: The Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine-NYU 57 Old Forge Road Tuxedo, New York 10987 USA Contact Information: Telephone: 845-731-3616 Fax: Mobile Number: Email Address: rossman@env.med.nyu.edu Web Site URL: http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/rossmt01.html Specialties Metals, arsenic, carcinogenesis, molecular and genetic toxicology, radiation Experience     Toby G. Rossman, Ph.D. holds the rank of tenured Professor of Environmental Medicine at New York University School of Medicine (NYUSOM).  Dr. Rossman did her undergraduate work (Biology major/Chemistry minor) at Washington Square College, NYU, started graduate studies in Biochemistry at Brandeis University and completed a Ph.D. degree in Basic Medical Sciences (Microbiology/Biochemistry) in 1968 from NYUSOM.  Following a postdoctoral in Pathology at NYUSOM, and a position as Associate Research Scientist at the Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine (NYUSOM), she was appointed Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine in 1974, and subsequently promoted to Associate Professor (1978) and Full Professor (1985).  Dr. Rossman has received continuous funding for her research for over 30 years, mainly from the NIH, but also from USEPA and small amounts from non-federal sources, including EPRI.  She has published about 120 articles, mostly on metal carcinogenesis and toxicology, with an emphasis on arsenic.  She was first to report on the comutagenicity of arsenic and later developed the only animal model of arsenic-induced skin cancer.  Dr. Rossman has served on the Chemical Pathology Study Section (NIH), the National Toxicology Program Study Section, the American Cancer Society Study Section (Genetics), twice on the Environmental Health Sciences Review Committee (NIEHS), on NIH Small Business Grants (Genetics) study section, and on the Metabolic Pathology Study Section (NIH).  She served on the editorial boards of Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, Mutation Research, Molecular Toxicology, and Teratogenesis, Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis, and is a reviewer for many other journals as well as Federal documents.  Dr. Rossman is an active member of the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS), Society of Toxicology (SOT), and American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and has served on many committees and as a councilor for the EMS and Metals Specialty Section of SOT.  She participated in the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC) review of the carcinogenicity of metals, Lyon, France, 1993 and again in 2004.  Dr. Rossman organized and chaired the session on mechanisms of carcinogenesis at the NIH/EPA meeting “Arsenic: Health Effects, Mechanisms of Action, and Research Issues”, Baltimore, Sept. 22-24, 1997.  She was co-organizer of the First, Second, and Third International Meetings on Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenicity.  In 2003, Dr. Rossman edited a Special Issue of Mutation Research devoted to Metals and Carcinogenesis.  She was a member of the Program committee for the 9th Symposium of Metals in Biology and Medicine, held in Lisbon in 2006, and the Scientific Advisory Board (arsenic) for the USEPA.  She is the P.I. on the NIEHS Training Grant in Environmental Toxicology at NYUSOM. << Back to Index of Consultants