TIAFTnet Committee

TIAFTnet Chairman & System Administrator

Gianpaolo Brusini, PhD

Born in Mantova, Italy. He received his degree from the University of Padova in 1985 in pharmaceutical chemistry. From 1986 to 1991 mass spectrometry application manager at FISONS instruments.
From 1991 to 1999 has worked as a researcher at the Centre of Behavioural and Forensic Toxicology of the Hospital and University of Padova, Italy. During this period he developed several informatic tools for scientific applications and has created dozens of web sites for local and international scientific societies.
From 2000 to present, he is the Scientific Manager of San Patrignano, the world's largest community for rehabilitation of drug addicts, where he is also managing the multimedia department.
He is the General Coordinator of Rainbow Network, an international network developed in collaboration with UN which is including more than 300 of Communities, Scientific Institutions and local and international Governmental Organizations. He is part of the board of TIAFT, the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists and EWDTS, European Workplace Drug Testing Society. He is also member of the IATDMCT Drugs of Abuse Committee.
His daughter is Irene.

Gianpaolo Brusini, PhD
San Patrignano, Via San Patrignano, 53, 47852 Coriano (Rimini), Italy
Fax: +39.541756108 - e-mail: gianpaolo@brusini.net

TIAFTnet Secretary & Editor

Vina Spiehler

Dr. Spiehler has a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the California College of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, CA and a M.A. in Analytical Chemistry from California State University at Fullerton, CA.
She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Toxicology and a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Dr. Spiehler is President of her own consulting firm, Spiehler & Associates.
She has published over seventy papers on the pharmacology, pharmacokynetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs and on development and validation of immunoassay, GC/MS and electromectric tests for drugs. Vina did her postdoctoral studies in Sweden with Prof. Lennart Paalsow in pharmacokynetics. Vina and her husband Ernie Spiehler spent a year has Fullbright Fellows with David Osselton at the Forensic Science Service Laboratory in Aldermaston, England applying computer artificial intelligence to toxicology and trace evidence.
Vina and Ernie love classical music and serve on the Board of the Corona del Mar Baroque Musical Festival.

Vina Spiehler
Spiehler and Associates, Newport Beach, CA, USA
e-mail: spiehleraa@aol.com

TIAFTnet Member

Robert Anderson

B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Chem., F.R.S.C., Senior Lecturer in Forensic Medicine (Toxicology), University of Glasgow. A member of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists and the Forensic Science Society. One of three toxicologists in the Department. Graduated in chemistry in Glasgow and worked in the University of Grenoble and the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm before taking up his present appointment. Current teaching interests include undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the faculties of medicine, science and law, distance learning courses in Forensic Medicine and short courses for UNDCP fellows on the analysis of controlled drugs in biological specimens. Research interests include development of new methods of analysis, for example capillary electrophoresis, and their application in forensic medicine.

Robert Anderson
Department of Forensic, Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
e-mail: R.Anderson@formed.gla.ac.uk

TIAFTnet Member

Alain G. Verstraete, MD

TIAFT member since 1988, he studied Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium and specialized in Clinical Biology and in vitro Nuclear Medicine at Ghent University Hospital. He obtained a doctorate in the biomedical sciences in October 1994. Since 1987, he is responsible for the Emergency Laboratory and the Toxicology Laboratory of Ghent University Hospital. He is part-time professor at Ghent University. His main research interest is in drugs and driving. He was advisor to the former Belgian Federal Secretary of State for Security Jan Peeters for the drafting of the legislation on drugs and driving and is coordinator of the EU project ROSITA on roadside drug testing. He is chairman on the working group on Alcohol, Drugs, Medicines and driving of directorate-general Transport and energy of the European Commission.
He is president of the Belgian Society of Clinical Biology, vice-president of the Toxicological Society of Belgium and Luxembourg, board member of the European Workplace Drug Testing society (EWDTS) and webmaster of the International Association for Therapeutic drug monitoring and clinical toxicology (IATDMCT).
He received an 2002 AACC outstanding speaker award, the 2002 ICADTS (International council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety) Haddon award given to scientists who take research findings and make changes in public policy and the 2002 TIAFT achievement award. He is member of the editorial board of Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Traffic injury prevention and Acta Clinica Belgica and deputy editor-in-chief of Annales de Toxicologie Analytique.

Alain G. Verstraete, MD
Laboratory of clinical Biology-Toxicology, Ghent University Hospital
De Pintelaan 185 - B-9000 Gent, Belgium
e-mail: alain.verstraete@ugent.be