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H. Chip Walls
H. Chip Walls received his B.S. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1972. His professional career has covered 30 years including 9 years at the University of Miami, and 21 years with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences-Birmingham Division toxicology section and Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office laboratories. His experience encompasses post-mortem forensic toxicology, clinical toxicology, probation urine drug testing and driving under the influence cases. He has been qualified as a forensic toxicologist in federal, state, county and city courts in both criminal and civil matters. Currently, he is the Technical Director of the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Pathology.
An active member of several toxicology organizations, he has chaired national committees and has organized workshops on forensic toxicology for annual meetings. He has been an invited speaker on drug detection in pregnancy, the role of toxicology in prosecuting impaired drivers, and information resources in forensic toxicology, marijuana, antidepressants, antepileptics and alcohol. He has had work published on such topics as cocaine, marijuana, and benzodiazepines and forensic toxicology in peer-reviewed scientific journals or books, and presented at national forensic science meetings.
He has served the Society of Forensic Toxicologist (S.O.F.T.) as Past-President (1997), President (1996), Vice-President (1995), Board of Directors (1991-1994), the Executive Board (1995), and the Editorial Board of ToxTalk (1994-present). In addition, he has served on or chaired the following committees: Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (Chair), Meeting Resources (Chair), Joint Committee on Education and Training in Toxicology (JCETT) and Health/Safety. He was S.O.F.T. Special Issue Guest Editor of the Journal of Analytical Toxicology (1992). He is widely known to fellow toxicologists for his extensive bibliographic database on forensic toxicology.
He serves as a laboratory inspector (team leader) for the National Laboratory Certification Program: Federal Workplace Forensic Urine Drug Testing 1990 to Present (SAMSHA). In addition, he has served as a Scientific Review Panel Member for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) 1997 and 1998. In addition, he is on the NHTSA FARS steering committee to improve fatal alcohol case reporting.
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