CAREY POPE

Expertise

Toxicology

Biography

Dr. Pope graduated with a BS in Biology (1979) and MS in Comparative Physiology (1979) from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. He received the Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in 1985. Following a National Research Council postdoctoral associate position at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle, NC (1986-1989) he was Assistant, Associate and full Professor at Northeast Louisiana University College of Pharmacy, where he served as head of the Division of Toxicology and director of the B.S. Toxicology program. After joining CVM in late 1999 as the first Sitlington Chair in Toxicology, he served as head of the Physiological Sciences Department from 2006-2012, and is currently the director of the OSU Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program.