Andrew Yeh

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Biography

Dr. Yeh is a board-certified toxicologist and expert in environmental toxicology and chemical risk assessment. He evaluates toxicological, epidemiological, and mechanistic data in support of causation analyses in a variety of litigation matters and human health and ecological risk assessment projects. He also conducts chemical risk assessments in safety evaluations of consumer products and medical devices. Before joining Gradient, Dr. Yeh was a senior fellow in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. He earned a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology at UW, where he examined metabolic effects associated with exposure to contaminants of emerging concern (e.g., in pharmaceuticals and personal care products) in the contexts of both ecotoxicity and seafood safety. He is secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists, a member of the Chemical and Petroleum Planning Committee of the Washington Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Board, and a member of the Microplastics Consumer Messaging Workgroup of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council Microplastics Subcommittee.