Membership

2011 Awardee

The Herbert E. Stokinger Award is given each year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the broad field of industrial and environmental toxicology. This year's Stokinger Award recipient is Len Levy OBE, PhD, FFOM, FBTS.

Dr. Levy is currently an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health in the Institute of Environment and Health at the University of Cranfield, United Kingdom. Prior to this position, he was Head of Toxicology and Risk Assessment at the UK Medical Research Council's Institute for Environment and Health at the University of Leicester.

An internationally-known occupational and environmental toxicologist and risk assessor, Dr. Levy holds a doctorate in experimental pathology from the Institute of Cancer Research in London. He has held academic positions at the University of Aston, where he developed courses in occupational toxicology and established an Industrial Toxicology Unit to research mechanisms and causes of occupational cancer and give advice to industry, trade unions and government departments. He has also held academic positions at the University of Birmingham's Institute of Occupational Health, where he was a Reader in Occupational Health and continued his research in the causes and mechanisms of occupational cancer. In addition, he developed a Master's course in Occupational Health.

Dr. Levy has published more than 250 papers on occupational carcinogenesis, occupational and environmental toxicology, risk assessment and risk management and the regulatory aspects of both environmental and occupational air standards. In 2000, he was awarded an OBE for Services to Health and Safety. He currently serves as Chair of the influential UK Interdepartmental Group on Health Risks from Chemicals (IGHRC) on behalf of the UK Government.

Dr. Levy is an independent member on the UK's Health and Safety Commission's Working Group on the Assessment of Toxic Chemicals (WATCH) and the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS), as well as the UK nominee and Vice-Chair of the EU Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL), DG EMP. He is a member of the Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) and Chair of two of its sub-committees (Medical and Scientific Panel and Hormones Subgroup). Dr. Levy has been an invited Working Group member to 12 IARC Monograph meetings (WHO, Lyon) on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans and has recently chaired two of these meetings. He has conducted occupational and environmental risk assessments on many different types of substances, ranging from pesticides to metals and solvents, including recently focusing on the susceptibility of young children for lead. He has led teams that produced a large number of Criteria Documents used for setting Occupational Exposure Limits, both in the UK and the EU.

Dr. Levy's contributions have earned him the Herbert E. Stokinger Award. The Stokinger Award will be announced at the AIHce Opening Session and presented to Dr. Levy at the Stokinger Lecture on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The lecture will be entitled "Some Recent Changes in the Control of Toxic Substances in the Workplace in the UK and the EU," and will be held in Room B110 of the Oregon Convention Center from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.