Ms. Donna Heidel, CIH, is currently the Research Industrial Hygienist and Coordinator for the Prevention through Design program at NIOSH, USA. Ms. Heidel has 25 years' experience in the health care industry, spending 15 years building a world-class, global, integrated occupational toxicology and industrial hygiene program at Johnson & Johnson, a decentralized company consisting of 230 operating companies in 57 countries; implemented their global health hazard and control banding programs. Internationally, she established effective industrial hygiene processes in 32 operating companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and supported capital projects throughout North America, Puerto Rico, Europe, China, Singapore, Japan, and Latin and South America. Ms. Heidel is an expert in hazard and risk assessment and exposure control of highly potent compounds with extremely low occupational exposure limits, including cancer chemotherapy drugs and nanoparticles.

David M. Eherts, Ph.D., CIH, is currently the Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Dr. Eherts has decades of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry: He was Merck's Global Occupational and Environmental Toxicologist after which he joined Rhone-Poulenc (later merged to become sanofi-aventis) as Site Director of EHS for a 2,000-person R&D site; as global head of EHS for R&D and as Worldwide Director of Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene; he was the Global Director of Industrial Hygiene, Environment and Product Stewardship at the company's U.S. headquarters in New Jersey. He later joined Purdue Pharma as Executive Director of EHS at its corporate headquarters in Stamford. Outside Sikorsky, Dr. Eherts heads the Return-on-EHS-Investment (ROEHSI) Taskforce for the Organization Resources Counselors (ORC) group and is a frequent presenter at design and aviation safety conferences, occupational toxicology roundtables and other industry events.

Ms. Toral Mehta, CIH is a Certified Industrial Hygienist with Masters in Industrial Hygiene from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat. She is currently the Global Project Manager at the New York office of International Safety Systems Inc.,, a global consulting firm with offices in US, India, Brazil,China and Latin America. Toral has several years experience conducting workshops on API exposure assessments, Containment Verification with Surrogate at several Multinational Pharmaceutical companies in India, USA, UK, Singapore and Canada.

Viren Shah, MIH is currently the manager of technical and Regulatory affairs at 3M, India With his extensive pharmaceutical background including position at Aventis Pharma, Viren and his team at 3M have been active in creating Industrial Hygiene and safety awareness in the industry. As a team leader he has taken up the responsibilities of product training and technical know-how of the product line. With his in depth knowledge of Pharmaceutical Process and Personal Protective equipment selection, his involvement in product design and development for the Indian market, he has been a source of excellent support to the industry and his customers guiding them in appropriate product selection. Viren along with his 3M team have been a great support to the Health and Safety professionals in the community.