James Rasmuson, PhD, CIH, DABT, FAIHA
Dr. Rasmuson holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University, he is a certified industrial hygienist (CIH), certified toxicologist (DABT), AIHA Fellow (FAIHA), and is the founder and Senior Scientist at C&IH.
Dr. Rasmuson has seven publications including a book chapter on various aspects of asbestos science including but not limited to validation of quantitative exposure assessment and quantitative risk assessment. For asbestos, this includes risk of lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, and peritoneal mesothelioma. He has more than 65 scientific society presentations on these topics. Dr. Rasmuson utilizes both qualitative and quantitative exposure and risk assessment in his daily work. He has taught numerous professional development courses on both quantitative exposure assessment and quantitative risk assessment, both for the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) in England as well as in Kazakhstan. In his professional and research work, he also addresses various topics in toxicology, aspects of methodology validation, applied biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental science, and analytical chemistry. He performs exposure modeling with USEPA air dispersion models and also with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). He also evaluates the chemical action of toxic substances (chemical and physical agents) on the human body. Dr. Rasmuson and his staff have also performed specialized exposure simulation testing utilizing C&IH’s simulation chamber facility to reconstruct and/or extrapolate worksite exposures. For his contributions in original research, policy, industrial hygiene leadership, and teaching, Dr. Rasmuson has been awarded the AIHA “Fellow” designation by his peers, an honor reserved for less than five percent of the AIHA membership.