Meet The Advisors

President & Secretary

Heidi’s professional background includes 15 years as category manager, retail product buyer and gasoline marketing management at a leading chain in the retail convenience and petroleum marketing space. 

Heidi is a parent of school aged children, and has experienced firsthand the intentional misguided practices of industry valuing profit over people and the subsequent negative outcomes for children. She earnestly seeks proactive solutions and to protect children from predatory business practices by numerous industries who carelessly categorize children as essential  early adopters and seek to monetize this as a market advantage often in deliberately unscrupulous ways. Heidi highly values health education and unbiased, independent science based research and endeavors to bring this information to stakeholders to help educate around reasonable solutions that are mutually beneficial.   She is currently engaged in children’s environmental health advocacy  working on both the local and state level to advocate for protective public health policy on challenging environmental health matters with a particular focus on pediatrics. Her hope is to ensure children have the benefit of  healthy environments in which to thrive and grow. 

Vice President & Treasurer

Educated at Stonehill College B.S. Finance, MBA Suffolk University

Over Ted’s career, he has facilitated the growth and sale of numerous private

businesses in the consumer service sector. Currently, he is working as an angel investor with innovative and environmentally conscious startups of small to medium market capitalization.

Donating his time and talents to ensure the vision of a healthy future for children, Ted works to understand and empirically evaluate various environmental toxins in children’s environments including toxins in the food chain. Ted has worked a great deal over the last six years toward the development of best practices to mitigate controllable environmental exposures.

Advisor

Since 2008 Virginia has maintained a Holistic Psychotherapy Practice in Concord

and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has thirty-six years’ experience as a

medical practitioner working with diverse populations, including college students,

young, middle-aged, and older adults.

As a Physician Assistant, she has worked in public health clinics, private medical

practices, a clinical ecology practice, student-health clinics and for ten years in

dementia research at The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry.

Learn more at: http://www.virginiabradleyhines.com 

Advisor

John Markham practiced commercial law as an associate at the Wall Street law firm of

Shearman & Sterling in New York and as a partner at Lillick McHose & Charles (now Nixon Peabody) in San Francisco. He later served as a federal prosecutor for six years in San Diego, San Francisco, and Boston, where he was appointed Chief of the Major Frauds Section. John has taught law at the Harvard Law School as an adjunct faculty member, at the University of Santa Clara Law School as a tenure track professor, and as an instructor at the Attorney General  Advocacy Institute at the Department of Justice. His writings include contributions to books and journals such as:

• California Criminal Trial Practice, Matthew Bender. A three-volume treatise on the California Evidence Code. 
• Making the Most of the Multiparty Defense, Litigation, The Journal of the ABA Section of Litigation, Vol. 18, 1992.
• Attacking and Supporting Witness Credibility, California Litigation, The Journal of the Litigation Section (California), Vol 4, No. 3, Spring 1991.

John is a member of the bar in the states of Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and

California, as well as a member of the United States District Courts in those states. He is

also admitted to the federal bar of the District of Connecticut, the United States Courts

of Appeal for the First, Second, Third and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the

United States Supreme Court.

John received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Roanoke College in Salem,

Virginia in 1969. He majored in French literature and made the Dean's List for his

academic achievements. As an undergraduate, he defended other students charged with

honor and conduct violations, was captain of the varsity tennis team and played varsity

soccer. He went on to obtain his law degree from Washington and Lee School of Law in 1972. He won the school moot court competition, competed as a regional finalist in the National Moot Court Competition, and edited and contributed to the Washington and Lee Law Review. He was a member of the Honor Council and was inducted into the prestigious Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.

Learn more at: https://markhamreadzerner.com/attorneys/

Advisor

Dr. Sasco is a physician and a scientist, having spent most of the past 35 years working in the epidemiology of cancer. Dr. Sasco graduated as an MD’78 from the University of Bordeaux, France, also earning several specialized qualifications (hygiene and social medicine, occupational medicine, spatial and aeronautical medicine, sociology). 

Dr. Sasco successfully completed three degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health: Master of Public Health ’79, Master of Science in Biostatistics and Epidemiology ’80, and Doctor of Public Health in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Evaluation ’86 while being a Harvard Teaching Fellow. Dr. Sasco Joined the INSERM (French NIH) and worked while on secondment from INSERM at the International Agency for Research on Cancer – World Health Organization (IARC-WHO) for twenty- two years, including nine years as Head of Programme and then Chief of Unit of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention and two years as Acting Chief of the WHO Programme for Cancer Control. Dr. Sasco later returned to an INSERM Research Unit at the University of Bordeaux.

Learn more at: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/trpanel/2018/march/publiccomm/sasco20180312.pdf 

Advisor

Dr. Carpenter is a public health physician who received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School. He chose a career of research and public health rather than clinical practice. His earlier work focused primarily on basic neurobiology using electrophysiological techniques. This led to more neurotoxicological approaches in study of the mechanisms whereby environmental contaminants cause reductions in IQ and altered behavior in children.  After a research position at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, he was recruited to be the Director of the Wadsworth Center of Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH). In this position, he played a major role in the creation of the School of Public Health as a partnership between the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Health, and became the first Dean of the school when it was officially established in 1985. He stepped down as Dean in 1998 and joined the faculty as Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. In 2001, he worked to establish the Institute for Health and the Environment as a mechanism to promote interdisciplinary research activities across the various schools and colleges at the University at Albany. In 2011, the Institute was designated as a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization in Environmental Health. The third re-designation was just received in July 2019.

Carpenter's research is focused on the study of environmental causes of human disease, especially the chronic diseases of older age such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, thyroid disease, and neurodegenerative diseases.  He has studied rates of hospitalization for these and other diseases in relation to living near to hazardous waste sites, fossil fuel power plants, and other areas of contamination in New York. He has used results of these ecological studies to study specific populations highly exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and persistent pesticides in Native American and Alaskan Native communities and residents of Anniston, Alabama - sites of the Monsanto plant that made PCBs. These studies have confirmed the association between PCBs exposure and rates of hypertension and diabetes that were suggested by the ecologic studies. He has ongoing collaborative studies on air pollution and health in several countries and studies health effects of electromagnetic field exposure. He has more than 450 peer-review publications and has edited six books.

Learn more at:  https://www.albany.edu/sph/faculty/david-o-carpenter