General Session: April 3rd

8:30 - 9:00 AM
Improving the ACGIH Threshold Limit Value (TLV) Process

​In 1978, Carr J. Smith graduated from the University of South Alabama with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in chemistry. In 1984, he received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Florida State University. From 1984-1986, he trained in human experimental pathology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine under William A. Gardner, Jr.,  M.D. He has been board certified in General Toxicology for 25 years.  Dr. Smith has published 104 articles and 40 abstracts in the biomedical literature that have been cited 3,000 times by other authors. His current research interests include optimizing the hazard assessment of chemicals in collaboration with Dr. Thomas A. Perfetti, and the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease in collaboration with J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., Ph.D.  In 2020, Dr. Smith will serve as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. He has held faculty appointments at the medical schools at the University of South Alabama, Wake Forest University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Dr. Smith is currently adjunct faculty in the Department of Nurse Anesthesia at Florida State University. His career highlight was a multi-decade long collaboration with Dr. Corwin Hansch, the Father of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR). For the last eight years, Dr. Smith has been a full-time toxicology advisor at Albemarle Corporation.