Former Head of the Chemical Hazards Assessment Group
CFSAN - US FDA
Michael Bolger
At Predict 2015 Mike will explain how agencies like the US FDA mitigate the risks and unintended consequences of major public health policy initiatives. These are Big Decisions driven by Science and Data.
Dr. Bolger received his bachelor’s degree in biology in 1971 from Villanova University and his doctoral degree in physiology and biophysics in 1976 from Georgetown University. After a three year postdoctoral position at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Dr. Bolger became a staff fellow in toxicology with the Bureau of Foods in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Upon completion of his staff fellowship, he accepted a position as a toxicologist with the Contaminants Branch, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration. Since 1980 Dr. Bolger has been involved in the hazard/safety/risk assessment of anthropogenic and naturally derived contaminants in food.
Dr. Bolger is a board-certified toxicologist by the American Board of Toxicology. Dr. Bolger is the recipient of the 2009 Arnold J. Lehman Award conferred by the Society of Toxicology and the 2010 Outstanding Risk Practitioner Award conferred by the Society of Risk Analysis. Until 2012 Dr. Bolger was director of the Chemical Hazards Assessment Staff in the Office of Food Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration which was responsible for the hazard/safety/risk assessment of food borne contaminants, and for reporting FDA monitoring efforts on food-borne environmental contaminants and the conduct of exposure assessments.
Presently Dr. Bolger is a Senior Managing Scientist at the Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety, Exponent in Washington DC. Dr. Bolger is also currently serving as a food safety expert of the World Health Organization and is a member of the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives and the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group of the World Health Organization.