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NEAVS Advisory Board
The NEAVS Board of Directors is pleased
to announce the appointment of the following dedicated professionals
to our Advisory Board. These outstanding individuals bring a wealth
of experience, skills and enthusiasm to fulfilling NEAVS' mission.
We welcome them.
Holly Cheever, DVM
Graduate of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine;
founding member and Board Director of the Association of Veterinarians
for Animal Rights
- Advisor, inspector, and expert on behalf
of urban carriage horses
- Testified before the House Subcommittee
on the Animal Welfare Act
- Cruelty investigation workshop instructor
- Humane educator
- Expert witness for animal abuse cases
- "The GH Vet" for Good Housekeeping
magazine
Murry J. Cohen, MD
Physician; practicing psychiatrist and founding Co-chair of
the Medical Research Modernization Committee
- Advisory board member of the Association
of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, Concern for Helping Animals
in Israel, Jews for Animal Rights, and Students United Protesting
Painful Research on Sentient Subjects
- Testified before Congress on issues
related to animal experimentation
- Medical consultant to the Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Listed in Who's Who in Medicine
and Healthcare
- Authored and co-authored numerous books,
articles, chapters, and letters on animal experimentation and
related issues including Alcoholic Rats and Other Alcohol
Research Using Animals; Aping Science: A Critical Analysis of
Research at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center; and Of Pigs, Primates,
and Plagues, a scientific critique of xenotransplantation
Marjorie Cramer, MD, FACS
Plastic surgeon; Past Vice President, NEAVS
- Presents and debates on radio, television,
and college campuses
- Committee member on Legal Issues Pertaining
to Animals of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Wrote "Questioning Animal Experimentation"
in The Witness; "Vegetarianism: Myths and Realities
- A Doctor's Viewpoint" in The Animals' Agenda
- Past Board Director of the Medical Research
Modernization Committee
- Advisory Board member of Jews for Animal
Rights and Animals' Agenda
Barbro Ekwall, M Sc.
Program associate, Cytotoxicology Laboratory (CTLU), Uppsala,
Sweden; wife and colleague of the late Bjorn Ekwall, MD, PhD, Director,
CTLU
- Co-developed and validated in vitro
toxicity tests to replace animal tests
- Past Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
at Uppsala University
- Past Chemistry Editor of the Swedish
natural science journal, Elementa
- Co-author of Multicenter Evaluation
of In Vitro Cytotoxicity Test (MEIC) papers
- Managing member of MEIC's Evaluation-guided
Development of In Vitro Tests (EDIT)
Roger S. Fouts, PhD
Director
Deborah H. Fouts, MS
Co-Director
Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute
- Co-Directors of Project Washoe, the
first and longest running project focusing on chimpanzee and human
communication
- Published numerous articles in scientific
journals and books
- Founded the Chimpanzee and Human Communication
Institute (CHCI) at Central Washington University (CWU) and active
in efforts to protect chimps in the wild and captivity
- Contributors to the Great Ape Project
- Nationally and internationally recognized
experts on chimpanzees
- Roger Fouts, Professor of Psychology
and a CWU Distinguished Research Professor, authored Next
of Kin, selected by The Los Angeles Times and Publisher's
Weekly as one of the top 100 books for 1997
Jane Ellen Hoffman, Esq.
Attorney in private practice in New York City; founding member
of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Legal Issues
Pertaining to Animals
- Pro bono work includes providing counsel
to Legal Action for Animals, Inc. and other not-for-profit organizations
- Participated in the Volunteers of Legal
Services' Elderly Project
- Secretary of the Board of In the Life
Media, Inc., and chair of its Board Development, Finance, and
Administration Committees
Beverly Rockhill, PhD
Professor, University of North Carolina; author; epidemiologist
- Former Assistant Professor of Medicine
at Harvard Medical School
- Principal investigator on studies predicting
breast cancer; co-investigator on study of diet and cancer in
women
- Instructor for the National Breast Cancer
Coalition’s Project LEAD (Leadership, Education, and Advocacy
Development)
- Participant in the Massachusetts Department
of Public Health’s division of cancer control.
- Papers in the Journal of the American
Medical Association; American Journal of Public Health; Hispanic
Journal of Behavioral Sciences; American Journal of Epidemiology;
American Journal of Preventive Medicine; Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, among others.
Ethel Thurston, PhD
Founding trustee of the American Fund for Alternatives to Animal
Research (AFAAR)
- Developed funding for scientific projects
worldwide on the replacement of animal testing
- Recipient of the NEAVS Cleveland Amory
Humane Achievement Award, 2000
- Advisor to numerous animal rights organizations
regarding nonanimal research methods
- Studied music in Paris with Nadia Boulanger
and served as Chair of the Department of Music History at the
Manhattan School of Music
Paul Waldau, JD, D. Phil.
Professor, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, Ethics
and Values Signature Program
- Executive Director of the Great Ape
Project
- Senior Fellow, Harvard University's
Center for the Study of World Religions
- Author of numerous articles on ethics,
religion, and philosophical issues pertaining to animals
- Advisor to many environmental and animal
protection groups
- Juris Doctor degree, UCLA Law School;
graduate degree in Religious Studies, Stanford University; Doctor
of Philosophy degree, Oxford University, England
- National and international lecturer
- Author, The Specter of Speciesism:
Early Christian and Buddhist Views of Animals
- Co-editor, A Communion of Subjects:
Religion and Animals
Steven M. Wise, Esq.
Author, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals;
Attorney in private practice
- Has taught/lectured at Harvard Law School;
John Marshall Law School; Vermont Law School; The Tufts Center
for Animals and Public Policy
- National and international lecturer
- Frequent guest on television and radio
including Animal Planet, Dateline/ NBC, WRKO, WBUR, NPR
- Published in USA Today, The Chronicle
of Higher Education, Journal of the American Bar Association,
Journal of NIH Research,TWA Ambassador Magazine, and Science
- Representative on the three-person Mayor's
Blue Ribbon Committee on the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
in Cambridge, MA, resulting in the unanimous passage of the first
municipal laboratory animal protection ordinance
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