LaKind Associates, LLC
LaKind Associates, LLC
Judy S. LaKind, Ph.D.
106 Oakdale Avenue Catonsville Maryland 21228 USA
Judy S. LaKind, Ph.D., President of LaKind Associates, LLC, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a health and environmental scientist with expertise in strategic risk management, assessment of human health risks, biomonitoring, 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, biomonitoring, 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.
Dr. LaKind has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland in risk assessment and aquatic chemistry. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology and the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
Dr. LaKind is a member of the World Health Organization Survey Coordinating Committee for the Global Survey of Human Milk for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure. She also served on the Maryland Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council and the Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission and was a Science Advisor at the Maryland Department of the Environment.
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