Dr. Robert Meeks retired from Dow Corning Corp., where he served as manager of toxicology; principal toxicologist; scientific director of toxicology and risk assessment; and senior scientist. Dr. Meeks was associate professor of public health and the director of the toxicology program in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; director of toxicology at Southern Research Institute; and a senior staff fellow with the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He has been a member of the Society of Toxicology since 1983. He holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and is a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology.