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McDaniel Lambert is committed to developing successful, cost-effective, and socially responsible solutions for addressing health and environmental issues. We offer an integrated program of environmental medicine and law, toxicology, and risk/crisis communication. McDaniel Lambert provides sustainable solutions that reduce time spent in crisis while building trust. Mary McDaniel and Charles Lambert are technical and communication specialists with more than 20 years experience between them. McDaniel Lambert is adept at balancing scientific, community, and communication issues, and specializes in preparing technical information for lay audiences. The principals of McDaniel Lambert bring together a unique combination of expertise, skills, and experience in support of health and environmental relations. |
The principals in McDaniel Lambert have expertise in environmental medicine and law, health risk assessment, toxicology, and communication. Our company specializes in building relationships through collaborative process, which is essential to developing successful community outreach and social responsibility programs.
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Mary F. McDaniel, DO, JD, MPH
Education: MPH, Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 1988 JD, University of Tulsa, 1976 BS, Journalism, University of Tulsa, 1971 |
Dr. Mary F. McDaniel is a board-certified physician, licensed attorney, and expert in risk and crisis communication. She is a co-founder of McDaniel Lambert.
Dr. McDaniel is committed to developing proactive health and environmental risk management and communication initiatives. She assists clients with strategic risk communication planning, environmental health evaluations, and legal and regulatory assessments. Dr. McDaniel works closely with clients to help them identify and respond to potential hazards and community, employee, or agency concerns. Over the course of her career, Dr. McDaniel has combined her expertise in medicine and law with frontline experience in risk and crisis communication. She has planned, facilitated, and served as health advisor at public meetings throughout the United States. She possesses extensive experience in negotiation and collaborative process. She has designed crisis communication programs and served as spokesperson during crisis situations. Dr. McDaniel's work has frequently taken her overseas, including Southeast Asia, where she has developed strategies to reduce the health and environmental impacts of industrial facilities on residential and commercial areas. She has also played a major role in many high profile health and environmental projects in the United States. Following a chemical release in California, she established and provided oversight to a community health clinic that offered medical care to more than 1,200 people. She has also worked frequently with water districts in California. Dr. McDaniel developed and conducts McDaniel Lambert's risk communication training program and is a frequent speaker on the topics of risk communication, community right-to-know, and environmental health.
In 1986, Dr. McDaniel received her medical degree from Oklahoma State College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also holds a law degree, a master's in Public Health, and a bachelor's in Journalism.
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Charles E. Lambert,
Ph.D., DABT
Education: BS, Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 1983 BS, Biology, University of California, Irvine, 1983 |
Charles Lambert is a board-certified toxicologist and risk and crisis communication specialist. He is a co-founder of McDaniel Lambert.
Dr. Lambert assists clients with strategic planning, project management, and chemical toxicity evaluations. He is an expert in human health and ecological risk assessment. Dr. Lambert's technical and communication expertise gives him a broad perspective on the complex issues involved in the analysis of health and environmental hazards. He works with clients to coordinate environmental assessments and clean-ups and to develop communication strategies to accompany these projects. Dr. Lambert has managed many high profile health and ecological risk assessments, all of which have required a significant commitment to the principles of risk communication. He has worked extensively with agencies throughout California, including the Cal-EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the California Department of Health Services, the Bureau of Land Management, and the San Luis Obispo Air Pollution Control District, among others. His projects have included the preparation and approval of risk assessments, health-based clean-up levels, and the development of safe exposure levels for occupational and residential settings. Dr. Lambert designed and implemented a community monitoring plan used during the excavation and remediation of a petroleum-contaminated site on the Central Coast of California. He has also frequently worked overseas. In Thailand, he oversaw health and ecological risk assessments and other studies undertaken to assess the potential for human health impacts from mercury in the Gulf of Thailand. Dr. Lambert is adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. He developed and conducts McDaniel Lambert's risk communication training program.
Dr. Lambert received a Ph.D. in Toxicology and Pharmacology from the University of California, Irvine, in 1987, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. He also holds bachelor's degrees in Chemistry and Biology.
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Marcela Solórzano
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Marcela Solorzano assists with community relations and other forms of project coordination. She joined McDaniel Lambert in August 1999.
Ms. Solorzano previously served as Community Relations Coordinator for Unocal Corporation in Nicaragua. In this role, she was responsible for identifying and analyzing issues relevant to the community; disclosing information to key audiences within the communities of Unocal's project; developing proactive outreach; and receiving and responding to complaints and requests for information. During this time, Ms. Solorzano coordinated humanitarian relief efforts after Hurricane Mitch hit Nicaragua. She also coordinated a public meeting held by Unocal to present the environmental impacts of the geothermal project.
Ms. Solorzano has a BA in International Relations from the University of Mobile, Latin American Campus, which is located in San Marcos, Nicaragua.
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