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Media InquiriesExpert SourcesHuman Violence/ Animal Violence and Psychological Research | Dissection/ Non-Animal Alternatives | Animals in Research/ Medicine | Humane Issues/Animal Abuse | Animals, Religion and Ethics | Animal Communication | "Alternatives" to Animal Research | Animal Rights | Contact Human Violence/ Animal Violence and Psychological Research Theodora Capaldo, EdD, has been president and executive director of NEAVS since 1998. A licensed psychologist, she is also a past president of Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Dr. Capaldo is a member of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. She co-authored "Resensitizing Society: Understanding the Connection Between Violence Toward Human and Non-Human Animals," which appeared in the August 1999 issue of The Forensic Examiner. She has written many articles on the use of animals in psychological research, and authored "NEAVS, Psychology and the Making of an Anti-Vivisectionist," the first in NEAVS’ Viewpoints 2000 series in which professionals in fields dominated by vivisectors discuss why they chose a different path. [ Back to top ] Dissection/ Non-Animal Alternatives Anne Rylestone, DVM, PhD, became a veterinarian after a career studying and teaching literature, philosophy and religion. She is a contributor to NEAVS’ Viewpoints 2000 series focusing on veterinary medicine. Dr. Rylestone discusses the importance of non-animal teaching methods in order to benefit the intellect, moral development and physical and emotional well being of future veterinarians. She is a founder and co-director of the Animal Welfare Network. Veterinary Professor Lara Rasmussen, DVM, a contributor to NEAVS’ "Veterinary Viewpoints," is a pioneer in replacing the detrimental use of animals in education. A faculty member at the Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Rasmussen is developing a program of solely ethical-sourced cadavers, inanimate models and simulators, and is working with shelters so vet students can learn surgery skills through spays/neuters and other necessary surgeries. [ Back to top ] Ray Greek, MD, is a physician who is board-certified in anesthesiology and sub-specialty certified in pain management. He has published in several medical journals including JAMA, JAVMA, Geriatrics, Pain Digest and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. He has performed experiments on animals and research on humans. With his wife, veterinarian Jean Swingle Greek, he wrote Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals, now in its third printing. The Greeks’ thought-provoking letters-to-the-editor have appeared in leading newspapers across the country, and their Op/Ed pieces have sparked debate among readers nationally and internationally. Dr. Ray Greek is frequently interviewed by the BBC and other media. Marjorie Cramer, MD, FACS, NEAVS Advisory Board member, believes that animal experiments often harm human health. Because species are different in physiology, biochemistry and metabolism, animal testing of pharmaceuticals often results in inaccurate human conclusions, according to Dr. Cramer. She has been a plastic surgeon for more than 25 years and is a member of the Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals, of the Bar of the City of New York. With Dr. Ray Greek, she wrote "NEAVS, Medicine, and the Making of an Anti-Vivisectionist," the second in NEAVS’ Viewpoints 2000 series. Murry Cohen, MD, NEAVS Advisory Board member, is a physician and practicing psychiatrist. He is the author of 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. [ Back to top ] Holly Cheever, DVM, NEAVS Advisory Board member, graduated first in her class from Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Since 1988, she has been inspecting urban carriage horses, testifying on their behalf, and is a national expert on their abuse. She has taught cruelty investigation workshops and has been an expert witness in many animal abuse cases. She contributed to "NEAVS, Veterinary Medicine, and the Making of an Anti-Vivisectionist." [ Back to top ] Paul Waldau, D. Phil, JD, NEAVS Advisory Board member, teaches at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Waldau has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University and is a former Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. He also has a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School. He is an adjunct faculty member of Boston College School of Law, where he teaches the animal law class, and has been appointed Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School for the Spring 2002 term during which he will teach the expanded animal rights law class. He is the author of The Specter of Speciesism: Early Christian and Buddhist Views of Animals and co-editor of the forthcoming A Communion of Subjects: Religion and Animals. [ Back to top ] Dr. Roger and Deborah Fouts, NEAVS Advisory Board members, are co-directors of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University. Since 1967, the Foutses have been a part of Project Washoe, the longest-running sign language program with non-human primates. Washoe, a chimpanzee, was the first animal to acquire a human language, American Sign Language for the Deaf. Roger Fouts’ memoir, Next of Kin, was selected by The Los Angeles Times and Publisher’s Weekly as one of the top 100 books of 1997. [ Back to top ] "Alternatives" to Animal Research Barbro Ekwall, M Sc. and the late Björn Ekwall, MD, PhD, of the Cytotoxicology Laboratory in Sweden, are scientists who have international authority in in vitro (non-animal) toxicity testing. Their research is a prime example of how both animals and people are well served by a scientific and ethical commitment to non-animal methods. Dr. Ekwall has demonstrated that in vitro testing using human cells can predict toxicity at a precision rate of 75%, compared to only 60 – 65% with traditional LD50 tests using animals. Dr. Ekwall’s team is carrying on his important work, coordinated by Cecilia Clemedson, PhD. Ethel Thurston, PhD, is a NEAVS Advisory Board member and Founding Trustee of the American Fund for Alternatives to Animal Research (AFAAR), a major funding organization for "alternatives" research. [ Back to top ] Steven Wise, Esq., NEAVS Advisory Board member, is an attorney in private practice and an expert in animal protection litigation. He has taught and lectured on animal rights law and is the author of Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, a book hailed as "the animals’ Magna Carta." [ Back to top ] Please contact NEAVS at 617-523-6020 to schedule an interview with any of these experts. [ Back to top ]
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