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J. Routt Reigart, M.D.

Routt Reigart served as the Chair of the Board of CEHN until April 2002.  A professor of pediatrics, he currently is  Director of General Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.  He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served his internship and residency at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston.

Since 1972, Dr. Reigart has been involved in the development and administration of Charleston’s nationally groundbreaking comprehensive childhood lead poisoning prevention program, and the expansion of this program in 1975 to the state level, making South Carolina one of the first states with a statewide screening program.

Dr. Reigart has been both a consultant and member of each of the Centers for Disease Control Lead Poisoning Advisory Committees.  He is the past Chair of the Centers for Disease Control Childhood Lead Poisoning Advisory Committee and past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health.  He served as a member of President George H. W. Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality Task Force on Lead Poisoning Education. For ten years he was a member of the faculty of the workshops on lead prevention programs conducted by the Kentucky’s Louisville-Jefferson County Health Department. 

He has presented at numerous national and international educational programs on Children’s Environmental Health. , and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Children’s Environmental Health Network. He is past-Chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, past member of USEPA/USDA/Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee, and a member of the U.S. EPA FIFRA Science Advisory Panel. He recently co-authored the 5^th edition of Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisoning for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.