Rodney Dietert
Dr. Rodney Dietert, Ph.D. is Professor of Immunotoxicology in the
Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY and has been on the Cornell faculty for 37 years. He has
more than 300 publications with the majority focused on prevention of
non-communicable diseases by: 1) seeding and feeding a healthy
microbiome and 2) protecting the developing immune system from
environmental insult. Among Rodney's authored and edited books are:
Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System (World Scientific
Publishing, 2010), Immunotoxicity Testing (Springer, 2010),
Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction, and Chronic Disease (Springer,
2012) and Science Sifting: Tools for Innovation in Science and
Technology (World Scientific, 2013). Rodney previously directed
Cornell's Graduate Program in Immunology, the Program on Breast Cancer
and Environmental Risk Factors and the Institute for Comparative and
Environmental Toxicology and served as a Senior Fellow in the Cornell
Center for the Environment. He is editor of Springer's toxicology book
series: Molecular and Integrative Toxicology. Since 2010 his grant and
advisory panel work includes: the Institute of Medicine, the NIH, the
EPA, the CDC, HESI and the WHO. Rodney has presented recent invited
lectures for: the NIH's STEP program for grant panel managers, the
NIEHS's Partnership for Environmental Public Health, the Harvard School
of Public Health's Center for Environmental Health, the FDA, the 2014
Society of Toxicology's symposium on the microbiome, the USDA's
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a Gordon Conference on
Endocrine Disruptors, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment,
and an Autism Research Institute Conference. Rodney has an interest in
history and decorative arts and has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on
both Scottish history and Scottish goldsmithing. In addition to
co-teaching basic immunology at Cornell, Rodney offers a Cornell course
and workshops in creative problem solving for both scientists and
general audiences.
