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Richard Parent, PhD, DABT, FATS, RAC, ERT
President of Consultox Limited

Phone: 207-563-2300
Fax: 207-563-8990
PO Box 1239
Damariscotta, Maine  04543
United States

Since 1984, Dr.Richard Parent has been providing consultations and testimony for both plaintiff and defense and has testified in local, state and federal courts around the country. He has lectured and continues to lecture on causation related to toxic exposures. He is board certified in Toxicology by the American Board of Toxicology and the Academy of Toxicological Science and is also Regulatory Affairs Certified and a recognized expert in Toxicology in the European community. Dr Parent sits on several editorial boards of toxicology journals and has over one hundred peer-reviewed publications and abstracts.

Although Dr. Parent still provides individual testimony individual cases, he has assembled a team of Medical/Toxicological experts to deal with complex mass tort litigation relating to drugs and environmental exposures and offers to provide technical management assistance in such cases. In addition, his team approach has been applied to health surveys in occupational/ enviromental venues and in cases involving adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals.

Recent activities have included sampling and health evaluation of over one thousand persons living next to a PCB and dioxin contaminated site in Mississippi and occupational evaluation of workers involved in the production of PVC, with specific emphasis on clinical tests to identify possible early stages of liver cancer. These massive projects have involved team efforts involving a physician, a toxiclogist, phlebotomists and nursing assistance.

Individual cases have involved benzene and blood dyscrasias, diesel fumes and lung cancer, smoking and lung cancer, sulfur dioxide and reactive airways disease, trichloroethylene and vinyl chloride in drinking water, manganese exposure and Parkinsonism, welding fumes and lung cancer, lindane and seizures, formaldehyde and respiratory sensitization, PPA, Ephedra and hemorrhagic stroke, hexavalent chromium and lung cancer and oral cancer, and ammonia exposures.