2022 Herbert E. Stokinger Awardee

The Herbert E. Stokinger Award is given each year to an individual who has made a significant contribution in the broad field of industrial and environmental toxicology.

The 2022 Stokinger Award recipient is Terry Gordon, PhD.

Dr. Terry Gordon is a Professor of Environmental Medicine at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine.  He holds an M.S. in Toxicology from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Toxicology from MIT, and was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Environmental Medicine in 1989.

Dr. Gordon joined ACGIH’s Chemical Substances – TLV Committee in 1999 and served as Chair of the Committee for 11 years.  For his work in occupational health, he was honored with the William Wagner Award in 2021.  Dr. Gordon’s broad research interest has been in inhalation toxicology with a focus on the identification and understanding of the role of susceptibility factors in the adverse pulmonary effects produced by inhaled occupational and environmental agents.

Dr. Gordon has been an active member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and served as President of its Inhalation Specialty Section (ISS) and received the ISS’s Career Achievement Award.  He has served as a consultant/author to NIH, NIOSH, NASA, Bureau of Mines, and the EPA on issues of pulmonary toxicology related to the development of various documents, and served on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Review Panels.

Previous Award Recipients

• 1977 — John A. Zapp, PhD
• 1978 — Ralph C. Wands, CIH
• 1979 — Henry F. Smyth, Jr., PhD
• 1980 — Anna Baetjer, MD
• 1981 — Ernest Mastromatteo, MD
• 1982 — Hervey B. Elkins, PhD, CIH
• 1983 — Theodore Torkelson, ScD
• 1984 — Carrol S. Weil
• 1985 — Roger O. McClellan, DVM
• 1986 — Emil A. Pfitzer, ScD
• 1987 — Robert T. Drew
• 1988 — Melvin E. Andersen, PhD
• 1989 — Mary O. Amdur, PhD, CIH
• 1990 — Bernard Weiss, PhD
• 1991 — Renate Kimbrough, MD
• 1992 — John Doull, PhD, MD
• 1993 — Morton Lippmann, PhD, CIH
• 1994 — Robert Lauwerys, MD, ScD
• 1995 — Cesare Maltoni, MD
• 1996 — Elizabeth K. Weisburger, ScD, PhD
• 1997 — Herbert E. Christensen, ScD, MPH
• 1998 — Walter W. Melvin, Jr., ScD, MD
• 1999 — Roy Ernest Albert, MD
• 2000 — George M. Rusch
• 2001 — Gunnar Johanson, Doctor of Medical Science
• 2002 — Robert A. Scala, PhD
• 2003 — Prof. Dr. med. Helmut Greim
• 2004 — Hanspeter Witschi, MD
• 2005 — B. Dwight Culver, MD
• 2006 — Richard B. Schlesinger, PhD
• 2007 — Gerald L. Kennedy, Jr., DABT
• 2008 — Curtis D. Klaassen, PhD
• 2009 — Vincent Castranova, PhD
• 2010 — Bruce D. Naumann, PhD, DABT
• 2011 — Len Levy OBE, PhD, FFOM, FBTS
• 2012 — Michelle M. Schaper, PhD
• 2013 — Günter Oberdörster, DVM, PhD
• 2014 — Franklin E. Mirer, PhD, CIH
• 2015 — Nigel Walker, PhD, DABT
• 2016 — William D. Wagner
• 2017 — John Cocker, PhD
• 2018 — Mark D. Hoover, PhD, CHP, CIH
• 2019 — Vincent Castranova, PhD
• 2020 — Dr. Robert Landsiedel
• 2021 — M. Andrew Maier, MS, PhD, CIH, DABT, FAIHA