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Cham Dallas

Professor and Director, Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense
cdallas@rx.uga.edu

University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706.542.5412 (voice)
706.542.5254 (fax)



Educational Background

Ph.D., Toxicology, University of Texas School of Public Health-Houston
M.S., Toxicology, University of Texas School of Public Health-Houston

Area of Specialty

Dr. Dallas has a national/international reputation in toxicology and issues regarding weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which has been established after a decade of research, teaching, and humanitarian efforts in Chernobyl-contaminated areas. Altogether, Dr. Dallas has had 20 years of experience world-wide on the toxicity of the components of WMD, including at over 40 institutions overseas. For seven years, Dr. Dallas was the Director of one of the largest University toxicology programs in the country, with 50 professors at the University of Georgia, and then for 5 years he was the Director of the Center for Mass Destruction Defense, a CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness. He currently is the Director of the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense (IHMD), and has received approximately $5 million in funding as Principal Investigator since 2001.

His Institute has established a nationally successful collaboration with the American Medical Association (AMA), the Medical College of Georgia, and the University of Texas for the development of the National Disaster Life Support (NDLS) family of courses: Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS), Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS), and Core Disaster Life Support (CDLS). The NDLS has been accepted as a national standard for WMD training by the AMA, and has been taught in 45states to over 60,000 health care personnel . Dr. Dallas and IHMD are currently conducting mass casualty evaluation exercises for Georgia hospitals, as well as devising evacuation planning for special needs populations. He was also asked three times to give presentations at the United Nations on what we have learned from the Chernobyl nuclear accident that will better prepare the world for the use of terrorist nuclear weapons. He has been the recipient of several teaching awards, including a University-wide award (out of 2000 professors). He has written scores of research papers for the scientific community and educational articles for the public on the toxic components of WMD.



Professional Affiliations

2007-present Director, Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense, University of Georgia
2002-2007 Director, Center for Mass Destruction Defense, a CDC Center in Public Health Preparedness
2007-present Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, Univ. of Georgia
2002-present Professor, Dept of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Univ. of Georgia
2004-present Clinical Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia
2003-present Adjunct Professor, Dept of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Emory Univ.
1998.2004 Director, Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program, University of Georgia
2002-present Member, AMA National Disaster Life Support Committee
2000-2005 National Civilian Consultant to the Surgeon General for Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Air Force
1995-2004 Chair, Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program Steering Committee, U. of Georgia
1995-2002 Associate Professor, Dept of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sci., U. of Georgia
1990-1995 Asst. Professor, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology, U. of Georgia
1986-1990 Assistant Res. Toxicologist, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology, U. of Georgia
1987-1989 Member, National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Safety and Occupational Health Study Section



Selected Publications

Dallas, C.E. and Evans, D. Flow cytometry and toxicity analysis, Nature 345: 557-558 (1990).

Dallas, C.E. "Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: Pharmaceutical Needs in the Republic of Belarus," American J. of Pharmaceutical Education 57: 182-185 (1993).

Parshkov, E.M., Chebotareva, I.V., Sokolov, V.A., and Dallas, C.E. Additional thyroid dose factor from transportation sources in Russia following the Chernobyl disaster, Environmental Health Perspectives 105(6): 1491-1496 (1997).

Dallas, C.E. and Atwood, C.H. Chemical and biological dosimetry of radionuclides from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Proceedings of the American Chemical Society (1997).

Dallas, C.E., Lingenfelser, S., Lingenfelser, J.T., Holloman, K., Jagoe, C.H., Kind, J.A., Chesser, R.K., and Smith, M.H. Flow cytometric analysis of leukocyte and erythrocyte DNA from Chernobyl-contaminated ponds in the Ukraine, Ecotoxicology 7: 211-219 (1998).

Dallas, C.E., Age and Species Susceptibility to Toxicity from Environmental Radioactivity Due to the Chernobyl Disaster, 8th Annual Meeting United Nations Conference on Health and the Environment, Health and the Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions (United Nations, New York), Vol. 8, p. 1 (1999).

Dallas, C.E. Pulmonotoxicity: Toxic Effects in the Lung, Chapter 9, Industrial Toxicology (Williams, P.J. and Burson, J.L., eds.), John Wiley Co. (New York), pp. 169 - 187 (2000)

Holloman, K.A., Dallas, C.E., Jagoe, C.H., Tackett, R., Kind, J.A., and Rollor, E.A. Interspecies differences in oxidative stress response and radiocesium uptake in rodents inhabiting areas highly contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19: 2830-2834 (2000).

Dallas, C.E. Mass Casualty Management and Emergency Response for Large-Scale Weapons of Mass Destruction Events International Journal of Toxicology 16(9):19 (2000).

Rowe, D.E., Dallas, C.E., and Perro, R.L. Biological/Chemical Terrorism and the University

Pepe, P.E., Schwartz, R., Dallas, C.E., Lillibridge, S., Swienton, R., Coule, P., James, J. The National Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS) course, American Heart Association Circulation (supplement) 108(17):IV-1033 (2002)

Dallas, C.E., Nuclear Detonation, Chapter 18, Medical Response to Terrorism, (Keyes, C., Pepe, P., Swienton, R., Schwartz, R., Ed.), Medical Response to Terrorism (Lippincott, New York), pp. 174 � 185 (2004).

Basic Disaster Life Support, Version 2.5, American Medical Association, (Chicago, IL), Dallas, C.E., Schwartz, R., Pepe, P., James, J., Lillibridge, S., Editors, (2003).

Bell, W.C. and Dallas, C.E. Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack – examples from four American cities. International Journal of Health Geographics 6:5 pp1-33 (2007). This publication is currently the 3rd most accessed biomedical paper worldwide in the last year (out of 170 journals on biomedcentral, over 30,000 accesses), see: www.biomedcentral.com/mostviewed (click on most viewed articles in past year).

Cockerham, L.G., Walden, T.L., Dallas, C.E., Mickley, G.A. and Landauer, M.R.
“Ionizing Radiation,” Principles and Methods of Toxicology (A. Wallace Hayes, Ed.), 5th Edition, CRC Press (Boca Raton, Florida), pp. 897–982. (2007).

Dallas, C.E. Emergency Planning and the Future of Chernobyl. World Ecology Report 19(2): 38-44(2007).

Dallas, C.E. and Bell, W.C. Extreme Inadequacy of Mass Burn Casualty Response to Urban Nuclear Attack. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, In Press, (2007).



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