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Leendert Mostert

President
Leendert Mostert, The Netherlands
l.mostert@zhsdirksland.nl
Leendert Mostert holds a M.Sc in Pharmacy obtained in 1984 at the Utrecht University. From 1984 to 1987 he did his PhD study at department of Clinical Pathology of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. In 1989 he wrote his PhD thesis about "Aspects of iron chelation and iron release from the liver".
From 1988-1992 he was assistant clinical chemist at the Department of Clinical Chemistry of the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and became board certified clinical chemist in 1992.
From 1991-2003 he was director of Deltalab one of the biggest drug testing laboratories in the Netherlands. Since 2003 he is head of the department of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology of Van Weel Bethesda Hospital in Dirksland.
He also has a private collection and drug testing company Allchemy which performs collections on several sites in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Anya Pierce

Past-President
Anya Pierce B.Sc, Dip. Med Tox, MBA - Ireland
anya@iol.ie
Anya Pierce has worked in toxicology for more than 26 years. She is currently Head of Toxicology at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Her unit supplies the national clinical toxicology service in Ireland as well as workplace drug testing and a service to addiction centres and coroners.
She was a founder member of the Irish Society of Toxicology in 1985 and was the Irish representative to the European Commission expert group on guidelines for the detection of drugs of abuse, especially in the workplace, and co-author of the resultant recommendations.
She is founder member of the European Workplace Drug testing Society (EWDTS) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) as well as editor of the TIAFT Bulletin, the quarterly journal of the Association. She is a member of the committee on emerging trends/new synthetic drugs of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) and is secretary of the clinical toxicology committee of the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT). 


 

Secretary
Helen Vangikar, United Kingdom
helen_vangikar@o2.co.uk
I graduated from the Institute of Biology, with a Pharmacology speciality, and fulfilled an ambition of attending the MSc. in Forensic Science at the University of Strathclyde. This course, with its heavy technical troubleshooting basis led me into the field of medical research with the MRC. I have contributed to a paper on the cancerous effects of passive exposure to cigarette smoke. After a brief spell in HIV research, from which I was made redundant, I spent nearly 13 years at what was known as OmniLabs, prior to my move to Quest Diagnostics in Nov 2002.
I have spent over 15 years in Workplace Drug and Alcohol testing field and Quest Diagnostics is the second laboratory which I have set up and achieved ISO17025 accreditation.
During these 15 years I have been a frequently requested speaker; Global Safety Conference in Slovenia, October 2002; ISAM 2004 in Finland; BFI 7th 2005 in London. I have also developed a number of training courses, with Faculty of Occupational Medicine approval, for occupational health professionals. In addition I have also been published in magazines such as Occupational Health, OHS&E and OH Today.

 
Cesar Fernandez

Treasurer
Cesar Fernandez, Spain
contact@toxscreen.com
Medicine Doctor degree from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1984. Specialist in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. From 1987 to 1994 Forensic Medicine Doctor of the Spanish Justice Ministry. Actual Physician acreditted of the Spanish Sports Superior Council in antidoping affairs of the Spanish Education, Culture and Sports Ministry. Actual Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Federation of Sports Medicine. Actual Member of the Board of the Executive Committee of the European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations. Actual Member of the Liaison Commission of the International Federation in Sports Medicine. Actual Medical Director of Toxscreen (Drug and Alcohol Testing Service). Actual Head of the Medico-Legal and Labour Unity of the Institut Universitari Dexeus (Barcelona).




MEMBERS


  Ronald Agius, Germany
  Per Björklöv, Sweden
per.bjorklov@telia.com
Born in Uppsala, Sweden. Studies at University of Stockholm (teaching, information and marketing) and University of Uppsala, (Biology and Geography). Started 1991 at Department of pharmacology at Huddinge university hospital with the project "workplace drugtesting". Since 1995 also marketing and information manager for LabMedicin, which is a laboratory organisation in Stockholm which perform about 8 million analyses per year and has about 800 employees. Initiator of the first European symposium on Drugtesting at Workplace and European Workplace DrugTesting Society.
  
 
Nadia Fucci, Italy

 
 

Claire George, United Kingdom
Claire.George@swbh.nhs.uk
Registered Toxicologist, Section Head Drugs of Abuse
The Regional Laboratory for Toxicology, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
I have been actively working in the field of illicit drug monitoring and results interpretation for 8 years. I am currently the Secretary to the LTG (formally the London Toxicology Group) and a Council member of the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology. I have published numerous articles relating to drugs of abuse testing, specifically the analysis of the opiate/opioid group of drugs. In addition, I have given several oral presentations relating to drugs of abuse testing, including an invited presentation to the 3rd EWDTS Symposium on Workplace drug testing.

 

Lindsay Hadfield  
 

Lindsay Hadfield, United Kingdom
lindsay.hadfield@Medscreen.com
Policy and Education Consultant
Medscreen Limited, London.
Lindsay has been an EWDTS Board member since 2000 and has spoken on drug and alcohol testing policy issues at every EWDTS Symposium. Over the past 16 years with Medscreen, the UK based specialist workplace drug testing laboratory with a worldwide client base, she has acquired a wealth of knowledge and experience from talking to managers, employees and trade unions, which she uses to support the introduction and implementation of workplace drug testing programmes. She edited the final version of the UK Workplace Drug Testing Guidelines which were subsequently adopted by the EWDTS.

 

John O'Sullivan  
 
John O'Sullivan, Ireland
j.osullivan@claymon.ie
John O'Sullivan has over 13 years experience in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences - he joined Claymon Laboratories in 1998 as the Section Head of the Biochemistry Dept. (incorporating Drugs of Abuse Testing laboratory). He has worked extensively in Hospital Medical Laboratories in both the UK and Ireland.
He holds an M.Sc. in Biomedical Science ( Clinical Chemistry) and a Fellowship of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (FIBMS). He recently obtained the degree of Barrister-at-Law and was called to the Bar in the Irish Supreme Court in July 2002.
He is currently Director of Toxicology Services with Claymon Laboratories and also acts as an advisor with respect to drugs of abuse testing to both the public and private sector.

 
Majda Zorec-Karlovsek  
 
Majda Zorec-Karlovsek, Slovenia
majda.zorec-karlovsek@mf.uni-lj.si
Dr. Majda Zorec Karlovsek received a bachelor's degree and in a master's degree in chemistry and a doctoral degree in forensic medicine from the University of Ljubljana.
She is Assistant Professor for forensic medicine - forensic toxicology at the Institute for Forensic medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. Her main research interest is in alcohol, drugs and driving, prevention of intoxications and post-mortem biochemistry. She is an Expert for the Court for Chemistry, Forensic Toxicology and Alcoholometry. She is a member of several international and national scientific societies including TIAFT, ICADTS, GDCh and vice-president of Toxicological Society of Slovenia.
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