Professional Profile
Ms. Amanda Burns is a board-certified toxicologist with over 17 years of consulting and project management experience. Her principal areas of training and expertise include toxicology, occupational and environmental exposure assessment, and human health risk assessment. In addition to her consulting experience, Ms. Burns has seven years of laboratory experience in the field of molecular toxicology. Her graduate work and master’s thesis focused on phthalates and a class of compounds known as peroxisome proliferators that induce liver tumors in rodents. Her consulting and project experience includes conducting quantitative exposure and dose assessments, as well as assessing risk to communities, consumers, and workers from chemicals such as benzene, asbestos, pesticides, and metals. In addition, Ms. Burns has significant experience conducting on-site exposure assessments at various types of facilities. She has authored and/or co-authored over 25 published articles, book chapters, and abstracts on the topics of talc, asbestos, benzene, nanoparticles, and phthalates.