Philip Wexler
Technical Information Specialist
Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
USA
Biography
Philip Wexler is a Technical Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) and federal liaison to the Toxicology Education Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three editions of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Elsevier. 3rd ed. 2014), four editions of Information Resources in Toxicology (Elsevier. 4th ed. 2009), Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2011), and the Taylor and Francis journal, Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy. He is also overseeing an Elsevier monographic series on Toxicology History. Two volumes on Toxicology in Antiquity have been published and a follow-up on Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is scheduled for publication in March, 2017. He is a recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical Achievement and the US Society of Toxicology’s Public Communications Award.
Research Interest
Toxicoinformatics, including online database building, enhancing, and searching, Toxicology Education and Communication, Toxicology History