Prior to returning to independent consulting and expert practice, Nancy McClellan practiced industrial hygiene management on a global scale for both AbbVie, a major producer of highly potent biopharmaceuticals and LafargeHolcim, the world’s largest building materials corporation. She has invested over 25 years in practicing occupational hygiene in a wide variety of high hazard industries and she provides expert witnessing, management, training, and select field services to sectors such as the pharmaceutical, automotive, military, hospital, electronic, food, chemical, and commercial facility industries. Ms. McClellan currently serves as the Chair of the University of Michigan Graduate School of Public Health COHSE External Advisory Board and serves as the President-Elect of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Executive Board of Directors.

Sarah A. Felknor, MS, DrPH is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Director of the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH). Dr. Felknor has over 35 years of experience in occupational safety and health (OSH) research, training, and service in the U.S. and internationally, and over 12 years of experience as a senior executive in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) where she directed the integration of research portfolios to reduce the risk of worker injuries, illnesses and fatalities through basic and applied research. Her international work in OSH earned her the NIH Director’s Award for excellence in global environmental and occupational research training. She served as Chair of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors and Chair of the NIOSH Workforce Needs Assessment Task Force. Her recent work has focused on developing strategies and tools to anticipate the occupational health challenges in the future of work and explore the need for an expanded focus for OSH through a futures-oriented approach to planning and action.

Dr. Adam M. Finkel is a Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (Adjunct) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and is also an expert witness specializing in plaintiffs’ exposure to toxicants in the workplace and general environment. From 2009 to 2017, he was Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, where he was also a Senior Fellow at the Penn Law School. From 2004 to 2009, he was a Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UMDNJ School of Public Health. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Finkel was Regional Administrator for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Denver, Colorado, responsible for OSHA’s regulatory enforcement, compliance assistance, and outreach activities in the six-state Rocky Mountain region (Region VIII). Prior to that (1995-2000), he was Director of Health Standards Programs at OSHA headquarters, and was responsible for promulgating and evaluating risk-based regulations to protect the nation’s workers from chemical, radiological, and biological hazards. Dr. Finkel holds an Sc.D. in environmental health sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, an A.B. in biology from Harvard College, and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist. He is co-author of four books, including the 2014 volume Does Regulation Kill Jobs? (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press). In 2006, he received the David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health from the American Public Health Association, for “a career in advancing science in the service of public health protection.” He lives in Dalton, NH (spring-summer-fall) and Pennington, New Jersey (winter) with his wife (a clinical psychologist) and 25-year-old daughter; he is also a professional singer and choral conductor.

Jennifer Tinsley Kubala is dedicated to promoting the health and wellbeing of Lexington Firefighters through rehabilitation, injury prevention, and management of musculoskeletal health concerns. Through a unique partnership with the University of Kentucky, she serves as the Principle Athletic Trainer for the Lexington Fire Department. Her position includes both clinical and research efforts to promote the health and wellbeing of Lexington Firefighters through Athletic Training services and clinical research. Dr. Tinsley Kubala's expertise in injury prevention and rehabilitation through a person-centered approach is the cornerstone of her work. She aims to promote firefighter health and wellbeing through early intervention and management of musculoskeletal health, as well as through her clinical research efforts. Excelling in risk management, therapeutic intervention, and injury and illness rehabilitation, Dr. Tinsley Kubala strives to keep our firefighters doing what they do best through both clinical and research activities serving Lexington.

· Graduated 2024 with PhD in Rehabilitation and Health Sciences

· Currently employed as principle athletic trainer and wellness coordinator for Lexington Fire Department

· Recent awards: Chief's Commendation 2024, 2025 Kentucky Athletic Trainers' Society Emerging Settings Athletic Trainer of the Year.

· Her time in the OAT core and CARERC further amplified the multidisciplinary approach necessary when working with occupational groups and gave me the confidence, skills, and diverse knowledge that facilitates my day-to-day operations 

Vivek is currently the HSE Manager at Chevron Pasadena Refinery in Houston, TX where we specialize in making gasoline, distillates such as jet fuel and diesel and other petrochemical products. With 15 years of experience in the energy industry, they have led work in exposure assessment and health risk domestically and internationally. Vivek led a team of health scientists to manage the company’s response to the global pandemic in 2021, led an R&D program to improve worker health and safety, and developed new data science strategies to collect and analyze complex HSE datasets. Currently, as HSE Manager of Pasadena Refinery, his goals are to continuously improve the asset’s HSE management system and integrate to company standards.

A proud graduate from the UM School of Public Health in 2011 with an MPH in Industrial Hygiene and Hazardous Substances, Vivek is passionate about mentorship, technology and innovation, community, and leadership. Vivek enjoys supporting students and early-career professionals. Outside of work, Vivek loves spending time with his two daughters, playing tennis with his wife, and experiencing other cultures.

Tammy Lockhart is presently working as a multi-Site Lead for

Employee Health & Wellbeing at Johnson & Johnson in Cincinnati,

Ohio. Tammy earned her master’s in nursing (MSN) with a focus on

occupational health from the University of Cincinnati in 2016 and is

certified as an occupational health nurse, specialist (COHN-S).

Throughout her extensive nursing career, she has strived to influence others to lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives.

Dyan Jenkins-Ali holds three roles within the university as recently appointed Chief of Staff for the Chief Health officer, Office of the President, Associate Director, VOICES UHR- Strategy and Planning and Adjunct Faculty, School of Public Health. 

In addition to these roles she held the role staff lead for the Campus Health Response Committee- President's committee and Senior Project Manager - University HR Strategy and Planning, managing administrative and operational projects that impact the development of goals and initiatives designed to enhance multiple student, staff, patient and faculty health benefits and experiences. 

Her health care career spans more than 27 years, in which time she has worked in an executive capacity with M-CARE, Delta Dental, Providence Hospital and Health Alliance Plan. Dyan has held a State of Michigan Agent//Producer License in Life, Health and Disability, and is a certified phlebotomist. 

She holds a membership with the Association of HealthCare Executives and National Association of Health Service Executives, past-treasurer of U-M's Letterwinners M Club Board in which she served nine years, and a diplomat with the U-M Credit Union. Dyan received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master’s degree from the School of Public Health both from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.