University of Texas, School of Public Health at Dallas
6011 Harry Hines Blvd., V8.112
Dallas
TXUSA
75390
Biographical Sketch: Arnold Schecter, MD, MPH is a public health physician and professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas, Texas. He has studied dioxins since 1982 and has worked in Vietnam on dioxins from Agent Orange on 26 occassions since 1984. His findings include that PCB incinerator fires can generate PCBs and PCDFs as well as dioxins and can contaminate buildings. He pioneered measurement of dioxins in human fat tissue and blood. With his colleagues he found elevated TCDD in humans in Vietnam from Agent Orange decades after it was sprayed and also described elevated dioxins in German workers 36 years after industrial exposure. His research also found elevated TBDD and TCDD in a chemist 30+ years after exposure. He has authored or coauthored over 300 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and other publications. He has served as sole or coeditor of Dioxins and Health, a reference text on dioxins for the 1st and 2nd editions and is working on the 3rd edition now.