Dr. Vlasta Molak -- CV

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                      Dr Vlasta Molak, DABT
                      President                       
                      GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc.
                      10011 Constitution Drive  
                      Cincinnati, OH 45215
 
                      tel. 513/821-0950  home. 513/521-9321
                      fax. 513/821-0950   
                      E-mail: usr1789a@TSO.uc.edu
 
 
Dr. Vlasta Molak is the International Coordinator and former
Secretary of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).  In that role she
has served to increase the SRA standing in international community
and the establishing sections of the SRA in developing countries
and Eastern Europe.  In 1989 she convened an International
Communication network to promote uses of risk analysis in solving
some of the environmental problems resulting from misuse of
technology.  On her several trips to Eastern Europe and former
Soviet Union, Dr. Molak initiated activities to start chapters of
SRA in Prague (Czechoslovakia), Zagreb (Croatia), Osijek (Croatia),
Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Moscow (Russia) and Kharkov
(Ukraine) with interested scientists and engineers in those
countries.  She had also given lectures and conducted round table
discussions in Zagreb and Kharkov on The Uses of Risk Analysis in
Evaluating and Ranking Environmental Problems, which were attended
by professionals from diverse fields interested in solving their
countries pressing environmental problems.  
 
In October 1992 she participated at the 4-day workshop on "How to
improve environmental awareness of local decision makers in Eastern
Europe, sponsored by the European Commission".  As a part of her
international activities she also chaired the Environmental
Committee of the Cincinnati-Kharkov Sister City Project.  She was
a part of the official Cincinnati delegation to Kharkov.  In
October 1993 she tought a course at the United Nations headquaters
(New York) on  "The Use of Risk Analysis in Sustainable
Development".
 
Dr. Molak is the founder and president of the Biotechnology Forum,
Inc. in Cincinnati and chairs the Subcommittee for Technical
Interpretation of the Local Emergency Planning Committee for
Hamilton County, Ohio.  Under her leadership, the Biotechnology
Forum has organized series of lectures and workshops in
biotechnology area.  The latest workshop, The Alaska Story: In
the Context of Oil Spill Problems in the Marine Environments, with
special emphasis on the biological clean-up efforts, resulted in
the proceedings edited by Dr. Molak.  
 
As a chair of the Subcommittee for Technical Interpretation, Dr.
Molak initiated the efforts for hazard analysis in Hamilton County
and formulated the strategy to complete the first stage of hazard
analysis.  Currently she is coordinating the efforts to deal with
more complex aspects of chemical safety: process safety in
manufacturing plants; transportation of hazardous materials;
and adverse effects of routine chronic releases of toxic chemicals.
Dr. Molak believes that her professional expertise in risk analysis
should be applied for the betterment of the community in which she
lives.
 
Dr. Molak has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
and at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) on developing methodologies for risk analysis of toxic
chemicals.  These methodologies are used to derive various
environmental and occupational criteria, which serve as a basis for
standards.  
 
Dr. Molak has worked for a private environmental consulting company
and now she is the founder and President of GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc.,
her own consulting company dealing with environmental and
occupational risk assessment, risk management and general
environmental problems, including strategies for pollution
prevention.
 
Her training is interdisciplinary: she has a B.S. in physical
engineering, an M.S. in chemistry, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and
post-doctoral training in molecular genetics.  Dr. Molak is a
Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT).