LaKind Associates, LLC

Judy S. LaKind, Ph.D., President of LaKind Associates, LLC, Adjunct Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, is a health and environmental scientist with expertise in strategic risk management, assessment of human health risks, biomonitoring, scientific and technical analysis for regulatory and litigation support, state-of-the-science reviews, and environmental regulatory review. Dr. LaKind has spoken and published extensively on risk-related issues, including children's exposures to environmental chemicals, the implications of uncertainty in the risk assessment process, weighing potential risks and benefits related to chemical use (for example, use of MTBE in gasoline, glycols in de-icing formulations, and chlorination of drinking water for zebra mussel control), the presence of environmental chemicals in human milk, and time-dependence and distributional analysis of exposure. Dr. LaKind has evaluated the use of human health risk assessment in the development of water quality criteria, and has critically analyzed the environmental fate, behavior, and bioavailability of pollutants in the context of setting regulatory criteria. She has developed risk assessments for a variety of urban industrial sites, military bases, and firing ranges, and has utilized state-of-the-science models for predicting blood lead levels in adults and children.

Previously, Dr. LaKind was a geologist at the US EPA's Office of Federal Activities, where she was responsible for the evaluation of Environmental Impact Statements and legislative reports. Dr. LaKind has taught graduate level courses at The Johns Hopkins University in risk assessment and aquatic chemistry and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. Dr. LaKind is a member of Maryland's Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council and the World Health Organization Survey Coordinating Committee for the Global Survey of Human Milk for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), and a former member of Maryland's Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission.

Dr. LaKind received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering in 1988, her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Geology in 1984, and her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1982.

Publications and Presentations

Hershey Medical Center Workshops on Human Milk, Biomonitoring, and Neurodevelopment

Research

Guest Editorial in Journal of Environmental Health: Environmental Chemicals in People: Challenges in Interpreting Biomonitoring data - click here to read