UCI professors appointed to California Scientific Guidance Panel

Drs. Dwight Culver and Ulrike Luderer in the UC Irvine School of Medicine have been appointed to the Scientific Guidance Panel by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Panel member provide scientific guidance to the California Biomonitoring Planning Project, which brings together the state’s academic, community and government resources to monitor and analyze the chemicals in air, water and food that can affect the health of all Californians. Culver (pictured), clinical professor of epidemiology, previously held several positions at UC Irvine, including co-director of the Cancer Surveillance Program and director of the residency training program in occupational medicine. Luderer, associate professor of occupational and environmental medicine, belongs to the Santa Ana Mountains Task Force and Society of Toxicology and is a past member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board’s Environmental Health Committee.