TIAFTnet Committee

Chairman

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

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 Toxicology Laboratory of Ghent University Hospital. He is part-time full 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 was coordinator of the EU projects ROSITA and Rosita-2 on roadside drug testing. He is chairman of the working group on Alcohol, Drugs, Medicines and driving of directorate-general Transport and energy of the European Commission.
He is vice-president of the Belgian Society of Clinical Biology, vice-president of the Toxicological Society of Belgium and Luxembourg, board member and webmaster 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, the 2002 TIAFT achievement award and the 2005 Grand Prix of the French Society of Analytical Toxicology. He is member of the editorial board of Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Traffic Injury Prevention, Drug Testing and Analysis and Acta Clinica Belgica.

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

Member

Dimitri Gerostamoulos

I am a Toxicologist and Pharmacologist, I hold a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine) in the field of Forensic Toxicology and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree from Monash University, Australia. I have published a number of scientific papers and am an active member of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) and have been since 1993 when I first went to TIAFT in Leipzig.

As they say the rest after that is history and I currently manage the forensic toxicology laboratory at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in Melbourne Australia. The annual meeting of TIAFT was in Melbourne in 2003.

My other hobbies include playing football, watching football and reading all about football especially Liverpool. Otherwise my little boy keeps me entertained pretty much all the time. To my friends I am more commonly known as Dimitri.

Dimitri Gerostamoulos
Toxicology Section/FSS, VIFM
57-83 Kavanagh St, Southbank 3006, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
e-mail: dimitrig@vifm.org

Member

Jochen Beyer

Short CV online soon.

Jochen Beyer
Toxicology Section/FSS, VIFM
57-83 Kavanagh St, Southbank 3006, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
e-mail: jochenb@vifm.org