Alison Johnson, Chair
Brunswick, Maine

Pamela Gibson,
Churchville, Virginia

Lynn Lawson
Evanston, Illinois

Ann McCampbell, M.D.
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Karen McDonell
Gig Harbor, Washington

Gerald Ross, M.D.
Bountiful, Utah

Anne Steinemann, Ph.D.
Seattle, Washington

Robert Weggel
Reading, Massachusetts

Alison Johnson, chair of the Chemical Sensitivity Foundation, received the American Academy of Environmental Medicine’s Carleton Lee award in 2004 "In recognition of exemplary efforts in furthering the principles of Environmental Medicine." She is a summa cum laude graduate of Carleton College and studied mathematics at the Sorbonne on a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She is currently a freelance editor for university presses. She has produced and directed documentaries titled Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: How Chemical Exposures May Be Affecting Your Health, Gulf War Syndrome: Aftermath of a Toxic Battlefield, and The Toxic Clouds of 9/11: A Looming Health Disaster. She has also edited a book titled Casualties of Progress: Personal Histories from the Chemically Sensitive and has written a book titled Gulf War Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War. In 2008, she will publish her latest book, Amputated Lives: Coping with Chemical Sensitivity. For information on these books and DVDs, see www.alisonjohnsonmcs.com

Lynn Lawson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in chemistry from Beloit College and received her master's degree in English from Northwestern University. She taught English composition and literature at the university level for several years before becoming a medical and technical writer. She has written one of the leading books about chemical sensitivity, Staying Well in a Toxic World: Understanding Environmental Illness, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Chemical Injuries, and Sick Building Syndrome. From 1991 to 2001, she edited the Canary News, the newsletter of the Chicago area chemical sensitivity group, which enjoyed a nationwide MCS readership.

Ann McCampbell, M.D., is a physician who had to stop practicing medicine after she developed chemical sensitivity. She was a cofounder of the Healthy Housing Coalition of New Mexico in 1994, and she is the chair of the MCS Task Force of New Mexico, which she helped found in 1995. In 1996, Dr. McCampbell organized and moderated a meeting of the Governor's Committee on the Concerns of the Handicapped held in Santa Fe. At this day-long meeting, dozens of chemically sensitive people testified about the impact of MCS upon their lives. Dr. McCampbell has written a booklet titled Multiple Chemical Sensitivity that is widely used by MCS support groups across the country. She also drafted the MCS brochure printed by the MCS Task Force of New Mexico in collaboration with the New Mexico Department of Health, the New Mexico Environment Department, and the New Mexico State Department of Education. Dr. McCampbell's latest contribution to the cause of the chemically sensitive is an article titled "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Under Siege," which was the lead article in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients in January 2001. In this article, she describes how pesticide companies are often subsidiaries or parent companies of pharmaceutical firms, a linkage that is particularly disturbing because of the enormous influence that pharmaceutical companies have through their advertising in medical journals and their funding of academic research.

Karen McDonell, who was a paralegal before a sick building exposure made her chemically sensitive, has been a leading MCS advocate in the Seattle area, where she has assembled a database of over 800 area residents with chemical sensitivity. Her efforts led to the establishment by the Washington Legislature of a task force on MCS. McDonell organized and raised funds for the first Washington State Conference on MCS, which was held in Seattle in 1993 with over 350 in attendance. She also organized a 1996 MCS conference that was cosponsored by the University of Washington, School of Continuing Education, as well as a conference on children's environmental health, and served as the facilitator at these conferences. McDonell is also a long-time board member of the Washington Toxics Coalition.

Gerald Ross, M.D., is board certified in both Family Medicine and Environmental Medicine and treated thousands of patients with MCS and many ill Gulf War veterans while on the staff of the Environmental Health Center in Dallas. Prior to that period, he served for four years in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as the medical director of the world's first government-sponsored clinic established for the evaluation and treatment of environmentally triggered illnesses, including multiple chemical sensitivity. Dr. Ross is a past president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in England. A frequent contributor to peer-reviewed journals, in 1998 he presented a paper demonstrating the link between MCS and neurotoxicity at the first seminar on chemical sensitivity conducted by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific organization. Dr. Ross was the opening speaker at an Ottawa symposium on MCS sponsored by the Canadian Department of National Defense in 2001.

Anne Steinemann, Ph.D., is 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 in 1993. Dr. Steinemann received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the highest honor for junior faculty in science and engineering. She also received the highest teaching awards for both her department and the university while a faculty member at Georgia Tech. She recently published two textbooks: Microeconomics for Public Decisions (South-Western, 2005) and Exposure Analysis (CRC Press, 2006). In addition, she has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. Together with a colleague, she has conducted national and regional prevalence studies of MCS and published the results in the American Journal of Public Health, Archives of Environmental Health, and Environmental Health Perspectives. Further information about Dr. Steinemann can be found on her website: www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/bios/steinemann_a.html

Robert Weggel received a B.S. degree in physics from MIT and studied applied mathematics on the graduate level at Harvard. From 1966 to 1996, he was an analytical engineer and applied mathematician at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab at MIT, where he became the assistant head of the Magnet Technology Division in 1992. From 1996 to 2002, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he continued to design magnets. He has lectured at dozens of international magnet conferences and has written a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles. He brings to the board of the Chemical Sensitivity Foundation the perspective of a spouse of an MCS patient, and for several years he helped his wife Diane edit the newsletter of the Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured. He is also a former treasurer of the New England Chapter of the Sierra Club.