Martin D. Barrie, J.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Barrie has over 25 years combined experience in the scientific disciplines, practices, and principles of epidemiology, toxicology, industrial hygiene, exposure and risk assessment, and in the practice of law in toxic tort and environmental litigation. Dr. Barrie integrates these disciplines with the legal theories, practices, and issues in toxic tort and environmental litigation.

Dr. Barrie’s Doctoral training was in occupational epidemiology and exposure assessment. His Masters training was in genetic toxicology and industrial hygiene. Dr. Barrie has practiced as a field Industrial Hygienist for international companies, performing area and personnel monitoring and exposure assessments in refining, chemical, and maritime operations to identify, evaluate and control potential exposures to various chemicals, products, and physical agents. Using this information, Dr. Barrie evaluated health risks for the development of various diseases. Dr. Barrie has also been involved in assessing environmental and occupational exposures and disease risks, including solvent exposures and leukemia and community air pollution and cancer risk. He has also conducted genetic studies to analyze the mutagenicity of air particulates and formaldehyde for health risk assessments. In the area of epidemiology, Dr. Barrie has designed and conducted field epidemiologic studies for occupational and childhood toxic exposures to investigate the putative association between various exposures and diseases. In addition to his scientific experience, Dr. Barrie established his own litigation firm in 1993 specializing in toxic tort and chemical exposure cases where he investigated and litigated the etiology, risk factors and confounders of various occupational diseases, including: various leukemia’s (AML, ALL, CML, CLL), multiple myeloma, and lymphomas; neurological diseases; and cancers, including cancers of the lung, stomach, bladder, nose and upper respiratory system, kidney, liver and brain.

In 1996, Dr. Barrie established a litigation support company to aid and assist various industries, businesses and attorneys involved in occupational and environmental disease cases as a result of alleged exposures to asbestos, benzene, chlorinated solvents, silica, welding fume, pesticides, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, chromium, nickel, arsenic, carbon disulfide, among other toxicants.

Co-Developer/Presenter: Roundtable on the Future and Science of Benzene Litigation, Houston, TX, October 17, 2006.

Barrie MD. The courts and scientific evidence: a quantitative study of judicial opinions after Havner. Dissertation, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2003.

Conner TH, Barrie MD, Theiss JC, Matney TS, Ward, JB, Jr. Mutagenicity of formalin in the Ames assay. Mutat Res 1983; 119:145-149.

Barrie MD. Retrospective analysis of mutagenic activity in Harris County air particulate filters. Thesis, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 1982.

• Founding President, Science with Law, Inc. (f/k/a Toxic Health Consultants, Inc.), Toxic Tort and Environmental Consulting, 1996-2006
• Contract Attorney, ExxonMobil; Houston, Texas, 1998-2002
• Attorney, Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation; Law Office of Martin D. Barrie, P.C., 1993-2006
• Attorney, Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation; Burrow, Countiss & Barrie, L.L.P., 1992-1993
• Attorney, Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation; Provost Umphrey, Beaumont/Houston, Texas, 1987-1992
• Preventive Medicine Advisor, Industrial Hygiene, Arabian American Oil Company; Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, 1982-1984
• Senior Research Assistant, Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1982
• Industrial Hygiene Intern, Shell Oil Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1981
• Safety Engineer, Safety and Industrial Hygiene, Tradco-Vulcan, Ltd.; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1978-1980
  

• American Industrial Hygiene Association, YUMA Pacific Southwest Section
• Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), SRA Risk Science & Law Specialty Group
• American Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity