Jack Bend
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Jack.Bend@schulich.uwo.ca
Jack Bend is a Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Pathology; Physiology & Pharmacology; and Paediatrics at the in London, Canada. He was a scientist at the US National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS/NIH) from 1970-86 and served as Chief of the Laboratory of Pharmacology at NIEHS from 1980-86. He was appointed Chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology in the Faculty of Medicine at UWO in 1986 and served in this role until 2000. Jack served as the Associate Dean, Research at Schulich from 1999-2007. Professor Bend is the co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles describing original research findings in the areas of molecular and environmental pharmacology and toxicology. His current research includes mechanisms by which drugs, endogenous chemicals and environmental contaminants cause toxicity and contribute to the disease burden by oxidative and nitrosative stress. Through the Ecosystem Health Program in the Department of Pathology, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, he is actively involved in multi-disciplinary community-based collaborative ecosystem health projects with the Walpole Island, Chippewa of the Thanes, and Oneida First Nations in Canada and Egerton University at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. He is a member of the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA); of the Ontario Pesticide Advisory Committee; and of the Chemicals Management Plan Challenge Advisory Panel, which advises Health Canada and Environment Canada with regard to the toxicity of industrial chemicals. He previously served as the President of the Society of the Toxicology of Canada and as the Chair of the Canadian Council on Animal Care.