Comprehensive Toxicology

AFFILIATIONS Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona. Research Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Jay Gandolfi was born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. He attended college at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Oregon State University. This was followed by a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in anesthetic fate and toxicity. He joined the University of Arizona in 1978 and is currently Professor of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology. His interests are in the mechanisms of cellular toxicity and cell death. Current studies concentrate on the role of the immune system in fluorocarbon induced hepatotoxicity, the reversal of toxicity using agents adminstered post-intoxication, and the use of in vitro systems to evaluate cell specific injury. The toxicants of interest include: halogenated hydrocarbons, volatile anesthetics, metals, cysteine conjugates, and classical hepatic/renal toxicants. He has served on the Toxicology Study Section for the National Institutes of Health and has held several offices in the Society of Toxicology including President of the Mechanisms Specialty Section. He is currently Chair of the Graduate Program in Pharmacology and Toxicology and Associate Director of the Superfund Hazardous Waste Program. He lives with his wife, Judi, on the "Double J Ranch" on the outskirts of Tucson. They enjoy horseback riding in the mountains of Southern Arizona and playing with their numerous pets. They have three grown sons, two who are engineers and one who is in advertising. E-mail: gandolfi@u.arizona.edu You can also access Jay Gandolfi's WWW Homepage via: http://aruba.ccit.arizona.edu/~gandolfi/ Dr. McQueen received a B.S. in Biology from Marywood College (1969), a M.S. in Pharmacology (1972) from New York University and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She joined the staff of the American Health Foundation and established a research program in chemical carcinogenesis and pharmacogenetics. In 1990 she moved to the University of Arizona where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, a member of the Center for Toxicology/Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC), and Director of the SWEHSC Community Outreach and Education Program. Dr. McQueen is a Councilor for the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics and a member of the Education Committee of the Society of Toxicology. She is also active in the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. She has served as member of the National Research Council Committee on Naturally Occurring Carcinogens in the Diet. Her editorial responsibilities include the editorial boards of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Cell Biology and Toxicology, Toxicology in Vitro and Drug Metabolism and Disposition.