Perspectives On Medical Research

Biographical Information

on Contributors

 

Marc Bekoff, Ph.D.

 Dr. Bekoff received his Ph.D. from Washington University with a major in animal behavior in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Colorado, Department of EPO Biology since 1982. He has written or co­authored 110 articles and book chapters. He has written Coyotes: Biology, Behavior, and Management and co-edited The Development of Behavior: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects. With Dr. Dale Jamieson, he has co­edited the two volume set Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior.

 

Todd Czarnecki, B.S.

Mr. Czarnecki is a fourth year veterinary student at the University of California at Davis, where he received his B.S. in veterinary medicine in 1990. He participated in the 1989 Physicians Commitee for Responsible Medicine summer fellowship program.

 

Eric Dunayer, V.M.D.

Dr. Dunayer received his B.A. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Environmental Health and Sciences from Drexel University, and a V.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A practicing veterinarian, Dr. Dunayer has written and spoken widely on alternatives to the harmful use of nonhuman animals in research, education, and testing.

 

Irene Haralabatos

Ms. Haralabatos graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a major in biophysics. She is currently a fourth year student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has done neural network research using computer models based on known physiologic properties of neurons. She plans tospecialize in obstetrics/gynecology. She participated in the 1989 Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine summer fellowship program.

 

Coenraad F.M. Hendriksen D.V.M., Ph.D.

Dr. Hendriksen qualified from Utrecht Veterinary School, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on use of alternatives in research including Laboratory Animals in Vaccine Production and Control: Replacement, Reduction and Refinement (1988). He is co-editor of the monograph Animals in Biomedical Research Replacement, Reduction, Refinement; Present Possibilities and Future Prospects (1991). He is currently the animal welfare officer at the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM) in Bilthoven, the Netherlands and coordinator of the RIVM Center on Alternatives to Animal Testing. His research activities are focused on reduction and refinement, especially in vaccine quality control.

 

Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.

Dr. Kaufman received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He completed an ophthalmology residency at New York University Medical Center and a retina fellowship at Manhattan Eye Ear & Throat Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He was the principal investigator of a review of animal models of human diseases, published as Volume 1 supplement of Perspectives on Animal Research. He is the Chair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee.

 

Molette M. Richadson B.S.

Ms. Richardson received a B.S. from St. Augustine's College and is currently a fourth year veterinary student at Tuskegee University. She participated in the 1989 Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine summer fellowship program.

 

Christopher D. Smith, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.

 Dr. Smith received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He then completed a residency in internal medicine and did one year of general surgery training at Martin Luther King, Jr. General Hospital in Los Angeles. He is Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He was Chief of Staff at Dominguez Medical Center from 1984-1985. He is currently with the Department of Emergency Medicine at Pali Momi Medical Center in Aiea, Hawaii and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Hawaii.

 

Roger Ulrich, Ph.D.

Dr. Ulrich received a B.S. from North Central College, an M.A. from Bradley University, a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University, and did a post doctoral fellowship at Indiana University. He has co-authored 60 scientific papers, most of which have reported results of experimental aggression in animals. He has written or co-authored nine books. Six have dealt with behaviorism. His three most recent titles are Touchstones on the Path: Experiments in Living Rites of Life, and Observe and Respect: The Experiment of Life.

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