About Environmental Health Trust
BOARD MEMBERS
Hugh Taylor MD
Chairman of the Board
Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Taylor is the Anita O’Keeffe Young Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is immediate past president of American Society of Reproductive Medicine. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
He is also Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental biology at Yale University.
Dr. Hugh Taylor received his undergraduate training at Yale University and received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale. His postdoctoral training included a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility as well as a fellowship in Molecular Biology, both at Yale.
Dr. Taylor is a recipient of ten National Institutes of Health research grants and directs The Yale Center for Reproductive Biology. Dr. Taylor has published more than 400 articles and in leading medical journals. Dr. Taylor’s research on prenatal exposure to cell phone radiation was published in Scientific Reports. His team found increased hyperactivity and memory damage in mice.
Devra Lee Davis PhD, MPH
Founder, President Emerita, Senior Fellow
Dr. Devra Lee Davis, MPH, PhD, is recognized internationally for her work on environmental health and disease prevention. A presidential appointee who received bipartisan Senate confirmation, Dr. Davis was the founding director of the world’s first Center for Environmental Oncology and currently serves as president of Environmental Health Trust, a nonprofit devoted to researching and controlling avoidable environmental health threats. A National Book Award finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002), she lectures at universities in the U.S. and Europe and was the winner of the Carnegie Science Medal in 2010 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Green America in 2012. Her 2007 book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, details the ways that public relations strategies have undermined public health, and is used at major schools of public health, including Harvard, Emory, and Tulane University. Her book, Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation and Your Health, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Family, was published in the U.S. and U.K. by Dutton in 2010, and released in Australia, India, Turkey, Taiwan, Finland, Estonia, China, and as a book on tape. In 2024, Dr. Davis released a new, expanded, and updated edition of Disconnect: A Scientist’s Solutions for Safer Technology, which built on major global research conducted since 2010. Her research has appeared in major scientific journals and been featured on CNN, CSPAN, CBC, BBC, and public radio.
Angela Zener MPH
Secretary
Angela Zener MPH has been working closely with Dr. Davis for the past 25 years on environmental oncology issues, advising specifically in the areas of business, communication, research, and technology. In her professional career, she held executive level marketing positions at technology companies. She served as the vice president of marketing/CMO at Radius, vice president of marketing and product marketing at Findly, director of marketing at Lyris, and director of Web 2.0 Communities and Content at LexisNexis. Angela also held previous positions in marketing technology at SAP and top management consulting firms. Additionally, she has volunteered at nonprofit and educational institutions as the head of fundraising, general manager, and PR and marketing advisor and consultant. She holds a degree in molecular and cell biology and a masters in Ppblic health policy from the University of California at Berkeley. Originally from Palo Alto, California, Angela currently resides in northern California with her family. Angela contributes to Environmental Health Trust’s organization through her expertise in applying technology for communication, scientific advancement, social policy, and health education.
Tom Factor
Board Member
Tom Factor is the director of GVP, Inc. where he does utility-scale wind energy siting, wind farm design, wind resource mapping and assessment, and executive development consulting services for 5,000 megawatts of installed capacity currently in operation.
Hillel Z. Baldwin MD
Board Member
A Board Certified Neurological surgeon since 1996, Baldwin is now retired from his practice at the Carondelet Neurological Institute (CNI) of St. Joseph’s Hospital. He had been a practicing surgeon partner at Western Neuro in Tucson, Arizona since 1992. During his career, Dr. Baldwin has served as Chief of Neurosurgery at Tucson Medical Center, Northwest Medical Center and El Dorado Hospital in Tucson.
Frank Clegg, Former President of Microsoft Canada, CEO of Canadians for Safe Technology
Board Member
Mr. Clegg has played a leadership role in the country’s technology sector and in the broader Canadian community for many years. He was longtime President of Microsoft Canada and now CEO of Canadians For Safe Technology, a not-for-profit coalition whose mission is to 1) educate and inform Canadians and policy makers about the dangers of the exposures to unsafe levels of radiation from technology; and 2) to work with all levels of government to create healthier communities for children and families.
Frank was involved with the creation of KINSA, a not for profit organization with a vision to create a global safety net that protects children from online exploitation. Frank was actively involved as the Chairman and Director of Citizens 4 Clean Air, a community group that successfully caused the cancellation of a proposed gas-fired power plant in the Oakville community and continues its effort to ensure the safe siting of future power plants in Ontario. Mr. Clegg holds an Honors Degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
Aly Cohen MD
Board Member
Dr. Aly Cohen is an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey, and is triple board-certified in rheumatology, internal medicine, and integrative medicine. Dr. Cohen is on the faculty of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM), where she created and manages the environmental medicine curriculum for medical colleagues. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for elementary and high schools, colleges, universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and is a regular expert guest for television, print, and podcasts. She is a legal medical expert for toxic tort environmental exposure cases and co-authored the bestselling, consumer guidebook, Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World, published by Oxford University Press, part of the Dr. Weil Healthy Living Guides.
Lendri S. Purcell MA, Ed., Vice President, Jonas Philanthropies and Founder, FACTS (Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety)
Board Member
Lendri Purcell is the vice president of Jonas Philanthropies, whose mission is to address the growing too provide quality health care to the nation’s most vulnerable citizens by investing in scalable solutions that create the greatest impact. She is a philanthropic consultant, former advisory board member of Safe Passages, and a current advisory board member to Jonas’ Nursing & Veterans Healthcare at Columbia University School of Nursing. Ms. Purcell is the founder of LP Learning, East Bay, the Oakland Youth-Friendly Business Awards, Youth Ally Alliance, and is a co-founder of FACTS (Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety).
Joe Sandri, JD
Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, General Counsel
Joe Sandri has been an executive officer with multiple publicly traded corporations. He most recently was co-president of FiberTower Corporation, which was sold to AT&T on February 9, 2018. He was president of IDT Spectrum prior to FiberTower. He serves on several boards in the technology and public service sectors. Prior to his executive experiences he served in private practice for a Washington, DC law firm, representing numerous Fortune 100 companies in telecommunications matters. Mr. Sandri has training and experience in communications law, journalism and radiofrequency engineering. He holds a certification from the Institute for Communications Law Studies and a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Washington, DC, and a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland College Park. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a long-standing board member of the National Spectrum Management Association (NSMA). He is on the board of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. Prior to law school, he was Sports Director and Sports Anchor for CBS Television affiliate WRBL-TV.
Morris Mellion MD
Chairman Emeritus
Morris B. “Moe” Mellion, M.D., is a retired family physician, who has served as president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, Associate Medical Director of the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and Chairman of its National Council of Physician Executives. As a faculty member at the University of Nebraska’s Medical Center and Nebraska Omaha campuses, he taught family practice and sports medicine, served nineteen years as Team Physician for men’s and women’s sports, and authored multiple sports medicine textbooks. He recently retired from the Board of Directors of the Grand Teton Association.
David Servan-Schreiber MD, PhD
In Memoriam
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. was a physician, neuroscientist, science writer, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon I. He co-founded and then directed the Centre for Integrative Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following his volunteer activity as a physician in Iraq in 1991, he was one of the original founders of the US branch of Médecins Sans Frontières, the international organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. In 2002 he was awarded the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society Presidential Award for Outstanding Career in Psychiatry. He is the author of “Healing Without Freud or Prozac” (translated in 29 languages, 1.3 million copies sold) and “Anticancer, a New Way of Life”(translated in 35 languages, New York Times best-seller, 1 million copies in print) in which he discloses his own diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor at the age of 31 and the self-help program that he put together to help himself in addition to conventional treatment.
Executive Leadership
Kent Chamberlin, PhD
President
Professor Kent Chamberlin is the Past Chair and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
Robert R. Brown, MD
Vice President of Scientific Research and Clinical Affairs
Dr. Robert (“Rob”) R. Brown has over 30 years of experience as a board-certified diagnostic radiologist and is an instructor at Carnegie Mellon's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Joseph Sandri, Esq.
Vice President of Regulatory and Legal Affairs, General Counsel
Joe Sandri is a seasoned executive and legal and regulatory expert with over 30 years of experience in telecommunications, spectrum management, and environmental research and development and advocacy.
Sharon Kehnemui
Vice President of Operations
Sharon Kehnemui is a visionary managing director with a history of spearheading transformative initiatives.
Our Team
Candace Woodbury
Research Specialist
With a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from the University of Wyoming, Candace Woodbury lends her expertise in academic and technical research as EHT’s powerhouse research specialist. Candace’s personal passion and professional interest in environmental exposures and public health guides her work. She is a professional in investigating scientific and technical databases and her ability to locate educational source materials and data helps the team answer challenging questions, satisfy operational needs, and implement technological applications and know-how.
Zoe Berg
Legal Fellow
Zoe Berg is a recent graduate of Tulane University School of Law, where she focused on
environmental law and telecommunications law. Zoe received her BA from Barnard College,
Columbia University in 2018, where she majored in environmental policy. Over the last decade,
she has cultivated a deep passion for educating the public about the myriad health and
environmental risks associated with exposure to wireless radiation. Zoe is from Westchester County, N.Y. and is based in Washington, D.C.
Rola Masri
Director of Government Outreach
Rola Masri works on the federal, state and local levels to educate decision makers on the science and regulatory gaps regarding wireless radiation.
Rola has spent the past 10 years working with expert scientists, engineers and attorneys, reviewing the science, researching the regulatory gaps and researching safer technology solutions. She has met with and submitted expert statements to federal, state and local governments, agencies and school boards to inform their decisions.
Prior to this work: Rola’s background is in chemistry where she has done research. She held several positions and consulted for large pharmaceutical companies.</p
Scientific Advisors
Erica Mallery-Blythe, MD
Dr. Erica Mallery-Blythe is a Special Expert at the International Commission on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) and Founder of Physicians’ Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment (PHIRE). The group is currently constructing best practice guidelines for non-ionizing radiation (NIR) health safeguarding for multiple settings including hospitals, schools and workspaces. Dr. Mallery-Blythe is a UK-trained medical doctor with a decade of experience within hospital medicine, specializing emergency trauma medicine, developing a special interest in Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) in 2008. She has been invited to lecture globally on this issue and discussed the public health issues surrounding non-ionizing radiation exposure at the highest political level both in the UK, and in Europe.
Kevin Elliott, Ph.D.
Kevin Elliott is a professor at Michigan State University. He is a philosopher of science who studies the role of ethical and social values in scientific research, focusing especially on topics related to environmental health. He is the author of Values in Science (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science (Oxford University Press, 2017), as well as a wide variety of other books, journal articles, and book chapters that explore issues related to science communication, research ethics, environmental ethics, and science policy. He has served on the advisory council for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and on two committees for the National Academy of Sciences.
Frank Barnes, Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Chair of National Academy Of Sciences Committee on Cell Phone Research Priorities Distinguished Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Chair, National Academy Of Sciences, Committee on Cell Phone Research Priorities, 2008
Paul Ben-Ishai, Ph.D.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Ariel University, Department of Physics. As an expert in Dielectric Physics and its application to Material Science as an investigative technique, he is one of the few people in Israel who works in both dielectric physics and Terahertz science, both for applications and for spectroscopy. He currently holds 3 patents in these fields and has published over 50 articles.
Alvaro De Salles, Ph.D.
Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul- UFRGS, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Brain modeling on differential RF exposures in adults and children.
Alvaro deSalles is an electrical engineer in Porto Alegre, Brazil, near the bottom of the world, who chairs a department of electrical engineering…in a series of papers and reports produced over the past decade, [he has] been making the case for applying more detailed and biologically based models to the estimation of exposures to the brains and bodies of all of us. De Salles works with a series of brain models that rely on magnetic resonance imaging made from a live ten-year-old boy and clearly shows the different absorption characteristics of different parts of the brain.
Claudio Fernandez, Ph.D., MSEE
Claudio Fernandez is an Associate Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Canoas, Brazil.
Om P. Gandhi, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Utah
“Sometimes revolutions are begun by improbable leaders. Om P. Gandhi and his group at the University of Utah were supported by the Defense Department and industry for three decades as they painstakingly devised the methods that would be used to evaluate the impact of microwaves on living systems. His team started out studying lab rats that had been deprived of food so that they would be eager to learn to perform in a maze in reward for pellets. They soon found that certain wavelengths and conditions of microwave energy could cause these starved rats to stop working for chow. That was how the first standards for exposure to microwaves for the rest of us were set.”
Albert M. Manville, II, Ph.D.
Certified Wildlife Biologist (The Wildlife Society); Adjunct Professor and Senior Lecturer, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins Univ., Washington DC Campus (23 years); and retired Supervisory and Senior Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Bird Management (17 years)
Ronald L Melnick, Ph.D.
Ronald Melnick was a Senior Toxicologist and Director of Special Programs in the Environmental Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, and is now retired. Ronald Melnick lead the design of the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Rodents.
Anthony B. Miller MD
Emeritus
Professor Emeritus at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. He has served as Senior Epidemiologist for the International Agency for Research on Cancer and was Director of the Epidemiology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics at the University of Toronto and Consultant to the Division of Cancer Prevention of the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
Mary Redmayne, Ph.D.
Victoria University of Wellington ·School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
Mary Redmayne’s PhD research focused on young adolescents’ well-being and their use of cellphones and cordless phones. She enthusiastically advocates educating children, school communities, and health professionals in understanding wireless technology enough to be able to make informed decisions about using it. Mary is currently developing an education programme on wireless technology for sixth grade students. She is an established and well-respected member of the bio-electromagnetics community as a researcher, reviewer and Editorial Board member. She is also a Participating Member of the Standards Australia Committee on Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields.
Joshua M. Rosenthal, MD, FACS
Board Certified ENT & Sleep Medicine
Joshua Rosenthal, M.D., is Board Certified in both Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Sleep Medicine as well as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His practice specializes in the treatment of adults and children in all aspects of Otolaryngology. He is also certified by the American College of Surgeons in Head and Neck Ultrasound and performs ultrasound guided biopsies of the neck and thyroid in the office. Together with this high resolution imaging, he offers “true” minimally invasive surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid, reducing pain, recovery, and incision size, with truly satisfying patient results. In addition, Dr. Rosenthal is the first surgeon on Long Island to perform incision-less Balloon Sinuplasty in the office, an advanced minimally invasive technique for treating sinus problems with less pain, less risk and quicker recovery. His expertise also includes minimally invasive surgical removal of the pituitary gland which he performs with neurosurgeons through the nose and sinuses to avoid more dangerous brain surgery.
Anne Steinemann, Ph.D.
Dr. Anne C. Steinemann is a Visiting Professor and Program Manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.C. San Diego, and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, where she also was a Postdoctoral Scholar. Prior to the University of Washington, she was a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and had held positions as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Florida Institute of Technology, and Linköping University in Sweden.
Business Advisory Group
Mark Barron
Chairman
Mark Barron served as the Mayor of of Jackson Wyoming for 12 years where he directed a $15 million budget and oversaw 100 employees. During his tenure the town became a model for green energy and conservation and also adopted a cell phone safety ordinance. The town of Jackson draws all of its energy from renewable resources. He is also the owner of High Country Linen Service and started Blue Spruce Cleaners, the state’s first green dry cleaner, currently owned by his daughter Mary.
Laurent Roux, JD
Founder and President of Gallatin Wealth Management, LLC
In 1980, Roux joined Pictet & Cie in Geneva, one of Switzerland’s largest and oldest private banks, and his 25 year career spanned the Far East and Europe. He served as a portfolio manager, and as a managing director of several of the Pictet Group’s international offices and was a director of Pictet & Cie until 2005. He then founded the independently-owned, family wealth advisory and consultancy firm Gallatin Wealth Management in Jackson, Wyoming.Roux has some 30 years of experience working with families and family offices worldwide. Activities range from strategic wealth management – family legacy and stewardship, family office construction, coordination, and trouble-shooting and consulting, to international asset management, asset allocation, portfolio management, manager selection, performance reviews, mutual fund administration and global custody. He was a Director and Managing Director at Pictet & Cie, Private Bankers, Geneva, Switzerland and a number of its international affiliates during his 25 years at his family’s firm. In 2005 he returned to the US and founded Gallatin Wealth Management, a Wyoming LLC. The firm is a wealth management advisory and consultancy which acts as trusted advisor to a limited number of families, family offices and mfo’s.Laurent holds a JD degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego (1980), received a BA from the University of Colorado with majors in History and Political Science in 1976, and attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies Masters program in Geneva. He was a member of the Cal Western International Law Journal, received several Dean’s Awards and Advocacy Honors Board Awards. He currently is a board member of the Family Firm Institute, the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum, an advisory board member of the Family Office Assocaition, and the East West Institute, a global conflict prevention think and do tank, and holds other board, adv board, and investment committee positions, including treasurer of the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs. He has spoken at numerous forums in Asia, Europe and the US, and was an advisor/participant in the Far Eastern Economic Review ‘Where To Put Your Money’ Quarterly’s in Asia. He has written about family offices, family wealth advising, private banking and the concept/role of trusted family advisors.