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| Dr. Abraham M. George
Dr. Abraham M. George is the founder and the principal benefactor of The George Foundation. Born in Kerala, India, and trained at the National Defence Academy in Kadakvasla (similar to West Point), he served as an artillery officer in the Indian Army before being honorably discharged as a Captain. Subsequently, he migrated to the US, and obtained an M.B.A in Economics, M.S. in Finance, and Ph.D. in International Finance and Banking from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. George is currently the Chairman at eMedexOnline LLC, a medical diagnostic software company in the US. His professional career includes: Chairman of Multinational Computer Models, Inc. (MCM) (a financial software applications company he founded); a Vice Chairman at SunGard Data Systems (a New York Stock Exchange listed company that bought MCM); and a Managing Director at CS First Boston (a global investment bank). After over 20 years of absence from India, Dr. George returned in 1995 to start several humanitarian projects. In order to have the freedom to carry out his ideas and concepts, and to demonstrate the obligation on the part of private individuals of financial means to make contributions to the needy segment of the society, he decided not to seek any external funding for his projects during the initial ten years of the foundation's activities. Now that several of the projects he has started have made a good beginning, The George Foundation is seeking additional funds from donors to expand its humanitarian work. Dr. Thuppil Venkatesh (Director of NRCLPI & Principal Advisor of QCI)
Govind Bommi - Founder of Filtrex
SaperR (Advisor of NRCLPI)
Dr. GeraldineMenezes, M.Sc., Ph.D
Professor Scott Clark, Ph.D., P.E., CIH,
Dr. Krishnajyoti Goswami, Director
Dr. K. Chandrasekhar M.Sc. Ph.D, Senior Environmental Coordinator
Dr. K. Chandrasekhar, a keen mountaineer loves traveling in remote areas in high altitudes of Trans-Himalaya, lot of interest in environment awareness programmers, tremendous interest of learning new things everyday, teaching and research. He has published six papers in the area of natural resource management and behavioral ecology & sociobiology in national and international peer reviewed journals. He has participated and delivered lectures in many environment awareness programmers/academic meetings/symposia/seminars/conferences/workshops. Dr.Herman D'souza
Biochemist (1995- 1996) - J.M.J Diagnova, Research Centre and super specialty Hospital, udupi. Scientific Assistant (1996-2001) - St. John's Medical College. Lecturer (2001-2005) - St. John's Medical College. Assistant Professor (2005- 2006) - St. John's Medical College. He has participated in many workshop/symposia / International conference etc. He has published a number of papers in national journals. Dr. Anita R. Bijoor MBBS, MD, Ph.D. Faculty member of NRCLPI
In January 2006 she obtained her Ph.D from Rajiv Gandhi university of Health sciences for her work on "Subclinical effects of low lead level exposure on the developing Brain of the Rat". Apart from these academic involvement , she is an active member of Medical education cell of St. John's medical college and also a member of Board of administration of St. John's National academy of health sciences. Dr. S.J.S. Flora
He did his Ph.D. from Industrial Toxicology Research Center, Lucknow, India Post doctoral research associate at Utah State University, USA. Dr. Flora has contributed significantly in the area of clinical therapeutic measures for the treatment of lead, arsenic, and gallium arsenide poisoning. He has been working on developing a new antidote for lead poisoning, suggested the role of "adjuvant", naturally occurring dietary nutrients and antioxidants in the chelating treatment of lead and arsenic poisoning besides recommending combination therapy as a new and novel treatment for cases of lead poisoning. He has published over 165 research papers in highly rated peer reviewed journals, including more than 35 Review article/chapters in book, which have been widely cited in the international literature. He has edited two international books entitled: "Pharmacological Perspectives of Toxic Chemicals and Their Antiodotes" and "Lead: Chemistry, Analytical Aspects, Environmental Impacts and Health Effects" with Prof. S.B. Cascas and J. Sordo, for Elsevier Publication, Netherlands. He is the member, editorial board of 12 international journals and Guest reviewer of more than 40 international journals. He was awarded prestigious Dr. Kailash Nath Katju award of Madhya Pradesh government in the year 2003 and Shakuntala Amir Chand award of Indian Council of Medical Research in 1995. He has also recently been conferred with prestigious Prof. S.B. Pandey ORATION of Indian Pharmacological Society and was awarded Archna Gold medal of Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB) for his contribution in the area of Metal Toxicity. He is Fellow of Association of Biotechnologists and Pharmacy (ABP), AEB and Society of Science and Environment and also elected Vice President of AEB and has served as executive committee member of Indian Pharmacological Society and Society of Toxicology. Dr. Flora has delivered more than 100 invited lectures in India and abroad and has chaired many scientific sessions. He has so far supervised 12 students for their Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry. Dr. Amusha sehgal
2004-2005 Lecturer, Ayurveda College Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Raviraj
Prof. A.A. Mahdi
Dr. Vishal Babu, (Research Associate)
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Emeritus Professor of Bio-chemistry & Biophysics Department, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, is popularly known as "Lead Man of India". The Lead assessor NABL/NABH/NABCB, Member Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He directed the "Project Lead Free" of "The George Foundation" and has been responsible for the growth of the department as its Head since the year 1992. With his extensive teaching and research experience since 1970, he has been guiding Ph.D., and MD students in Biochemistry under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences as well as Bangalore University. He is a Member, Board of Studies in several cities in India and is also involved in High altitude Biomedical Research as a keen mountaineer. He has participated in several international and national conferences and served as a President of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBI), during 1995-96. Currently he is associat with first Congress on Patron Asia pacific Society for Mountain Medicine and Chronic Hypoxia on Disease at High Altitude. He has successfully organized academic meeting /symposia/seminars/conferences / workshops.
Govind Bommi, a native of India is a US Citizen. He migrated to the United States in 1970. He is a Mechanical Engineer with MS(Plastics) and MBA (Marketing). He started his career with GE Plastics. For 15 years in GE Plastics, he held various positions from Technical/Product/Marketing Management. He later worked for Hoechst Celanese for in their Plastics Division. He was the Director, Business Development in Asia with regional office in Singapore. Govind founded Filtrex in 1999 with a Mission to develop water purifiers for the Poor. It was his way of giving back to society particularly to India and other developing countries. Govind lives in Singapore and has his manufacturing plants in India. 
Dr. Saper is a member of the Department's Research Faculty and is Director of Integrative Medicine. His interests are to develop research, educational, and clinical programs that explore how complementary and alternative therapies can be responsibly integrated with conventional medicine. Prior to joining our Department, he completed a three year Complementary Medicine Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He currently is developing a curriculum in complementary medicine for the residency program. Dr. Saper graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1988. After completing a family medicine residency at UCSF, he practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area for 8 years. Current Projects : Healer's Art Course Project Academic Career Development in CAM Research Education Yoga Project Guided Imagery Study.
Consultant Associate Professor NRCLPI Faculty, NABL assessor, Asst. Dy Technical Manager, Clinical Biochemistry Yrs. of Service: 18 yrs at St. John's. Dr. Geraldine Menezes started her service at Department of Clinical Biochemistry, St. John's Medical College Hospital, in 1990 immediately after her post graduation in Biochemistry. She is a key participant of the major project “Project Lead Free", in the year 1997. She pursued her Ph.D., in the area of lead poisoning under the guidance of Dr. Venkatesh Thuppil, at St. John's Medical College, affiliated to RGUHS. Owing to her interest in the area of Pb poisoning, she is serving in same field as a faculty member of NRCLPI in fulfilling its mission and has been trained for environmental lead monitoring. She is instrumental in creating awareness to the public of the ill effects of Pb poisoning and its management with special reference to good nutrition after the environmental lead monitoring studies which she has carried out in industries, ayurveda medicines and paints using the X-ray Fluorescence analyzer. She has been a coordinator for Lead acid battery audit program and conducted many lead awareness programs and workshops in the same field. She is actively involved in all the lead related activities at NRCLPI. She is the in-charge of Lead laboratory, Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Geraldine Menezes, a keen researcher has over 15 paper publications in the area of Pb poisoning in international and national indexed medical journals.
Has a background in environmental health engineering and has been focusing his efforts on exposure pathways and intervention evaluation for environmental lead and on exposure assessments in residential and occupational environments. He is also involved in health risk assessment and occupational hygiene education program development. He has done education from Antioch College B.S. 1961 Engineering, Science Johns Hopkins University MS Engineering 1963 Environ. Eng., Science Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. 1965 Environ. Eng., He worked in Following areas: 1965-1967 Staff Engineer, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, Cincinnati, OH 1981 Guest Research, Institute for Hygiene, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 1995 Visiting Scholar, School of Public Health, University of California (Berkeley), Berkeley, CA 1991-1997 Director, Great Lakes Regional Lead Abatement Training Center 1988-Present Director, Division of Environmental & Industrial Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1993-Present Adjunct Professor of Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Nuclear Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1967-Present Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Professor (since 1985); Associate Professor (1976-1985).
National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India, West Bengal Professor & Head, Dept. of Biochemistry, Vivekanda Institute of Medical sciences. Chartered Chemist Clinical Biochemist, Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan Professor, Department of Biochemistry ,Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences ,99 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata-700 026 email id: Krishnajyoti@rediffmail.com Education: Doctor of Philosophy (Science) in Biochemistry Doctor of Science in Medical Biochemistry Fellow Institution of Chemists (India) Fellow International Congress of Chemistry & Environment In 16 years of research career in the field of clinical assessment and estimation of lead poisoning. Published over 75 scientific papers in medical journals of repute both national and international. Organization: Vice President, Association of Clinical Biochemists of India Organizing Secretary, 35th ACBICON 2008.
Occupational Knowledge International/National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India (NRCLPI) email id: chandu@okinternational.org. Dr. K. Chandrasekhar has joined OK International/NRCLPI in the month of February 2008 to promote BEST certification programmer in India for the lead acid battery manufacturing companies. He did his Ph.D. in 2004 from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in the area of natural resource management in high altitude cold deserts under the guidance of Prof. K.G. Saxena. After Ph.D. he worked in the lab of Prof. Raghvendra Gadagkar as Department of Biotechnology-Postdoctoral fellow in Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the area of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 
Currently working as a Assistant professor at Manipal Life Sciences Centre, KMC Manipal. He graduated from Kasturba Medical College in M.Sc, Medical Biochemistry in the year 1995. He completed his PhD in the year 2005. He joined St. John's Medical College in the year 1996 and actively participated in the "Project Lead Free" of the George Foundation. Beside then, he is having following work experience:
Is currently Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the St. John's Medical college, Bangalore. She completed MBBS from the Bangalore Medical college before joining the Department of Biochemistry and biophysics, St. John's Medical College, to do her Post Graduation. She has worked extensively in the field of Cancer Biochemistry and her work on the "Biochemical differentiation between cirrhotic and malignancy related Ascites" got her the MD degree in 1996. She is credited with the introduction of the ELISA method for the detection of the Tumor marker carcino - embryonic Antigen to be a part of diagnostic services in St. John's Medical college Hospital. In 2000 she moved over to an area close to her heart - Low level lead exposure in Children. She was actively involved in the "Project Lead Free", a project funded by the Goerge foundation, USA, in 1997. 
Joint Director and Head Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Microbiology Defense Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior
Is a Research Associate, in AVATAR, Arya Vaidya Pharmacy, Coimbatore, India. She has done her Bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery (B.A.M.S.), six year degree course, Ayurveda College Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and currently doing M.D. In (Ayurveda), three year research doctoral degree specializing in Rasa Shastra, a division of Ayurvedic Pharmaceutics pertaining to metal and mineral based medicines. Ayurveda Mahavdyalaya, Bijapur, Karnataka, India She has serve as a ayurvedic Physician at Ayurveda College Hospital, Coimbatore, India (2005) and at Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya Hospital, Bijapur, India (2005-2007) Academic Appointments:
An Assistant professor of Biochemistry at Karnataka Institute of Medical sciences, Hubli, Karnataka. He is having sixteen years of teaching experience for Medical, Dental, Nursing and MLT students and currently on deputation to St. John's Medical College for pursuing his Ph.D under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. He is pursuing his Ph.D under the guidance of Dr. T. Venkatesh (Lead Man Of India), Professor of Biochemistry, Advisor QCI; on the topic 'Evaluation of Liver function tests in Lead based Industrial workers and their Family Members'. He had visited many Battery Manufacturing/recycling units to create awareness among workers on safe handling of lead in workplace, organized and delivered lectures on the topics like - 'Occupational exposure and Health effects of lead', 'Medical Monitoring, treatment aspects and preventive measures to be taken at workplace with a aim to create lead safe environment'.
Obtained M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Medical Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University in 1987 and 1989, respectively. He has been awarded M.A.M.S. by the National Academy of Medical Sciences in the year 1997. He is presently working as Professor of Biochemistry at the C.S.M. Medical University (formerly - King George’s Medical University), Lucknow, w.e.f. June 2005.
Completed his MBBS in 2004 and currently pursuing post graduation in NRCLPI. He has visited many battery manufacturing industries & gave lectures on Medical surveillance/problems regarding lead poisoning to the battery workers. Right now doing research work in organized and unorganized sector of battery industry.