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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT [DEC § 1992 

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF [rEsag WA on ML 
ANC ~Y DOF HER { A K 

DALLAS DIVISION | 8 ———— 

LOIS THOMPSON on behalf of and as next 
friend to TAYLOR KEONDRA DIXON, 
ZACHERY X. WILLIAMS, CALVIN A. 
THOMPSON and PRENTISS LAVELL 
MULLINS, 

Plaintiffs, 

PEOPLE UNITED FOR A BETTER 
OAKLAND, on behalf of its members; 
DENVER ACTION FOR A BETTER 
COMMUNITY, on behalf of its members; 
NEW YORK CITY COALITION TO END 
LEAD POISONING, on behalf of its 
members; ROBIN GOURLEY on behalf of 
and as next friend to BRYAN ALAN 
GOURLEY, WESLEY KYLE GOURLEY, 
BRIDGET MICHELLE GOURLEY, 
LINDA DANIELLE GOURLEY and 
BETSEY IRENE GOURLEY; TEARRAH 
ROBERSON on behalf of and as guardian 
ad litem to JUAN WILKINS; and MARY 
MARIE ROBERSON on behalf of and as 
guardian ad litem to ASHARD MOORE, 
JASON ROLLINS, ASHEA ROBERSON, 
and NASHEIKA ROBERSON, 

Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenors, 

V. 

BURTON F. RAIFORD, in his capacity as 
Commissioner of the Texas Department of 
Human Services, 

The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Defendants, 

uLOUIS W. SULLIVAN, in his capacity as 
Secretary of the United States Department of 
Health and Human Services, 

Proposed Additional Defendant.     

CADOC\THOMPSON\BRIERAMICIMEM 

a a a EE A A 

CASE NO. 3-92 CV 1539-R 

Civil Action 

Class Action 

CORRECTED DECLARATION OF J. 
ROUTT REIGART, M.D. 

 



  

CORRECTED DECLARATION OF J. ROUTT REIGART, M.D. 
  

I, J. Routt Reigart, M.D., declare as follows: 

1. The matters stated herein are true of my own personal knowledge. If called 

as a witness, I would competently and truthfully testify consistent with the following. 

2. I am an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South 

Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Attached hereto as Exhibit 1 is a copy of my 

abbreviated curriculum vitae. 

3 Since July 1991, I have served as the Chairman of the American Academy of 

Pediatrics’ Committee on Environmental Health ("Committee"). This Committee is 

reviewing the Academy’s policy on lead testing and treatment, which is currently contained 

  

in a five-year-old document entitled Statement of Childhood Lead Poisoning. We are 

currently reviewing this document because recent information about lead toxicity in children 

requires revised recommendations to pediatricians. I also serve as Chairman of the 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease 

Control ("CDC"). 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 
  

+. As a pediatrician I have devoted much of my professional career to the study, 

screening and treatment of pediatric lead poisoning. For over 20 years I have been 

researching, writing, teaching and lecturing on lead poisoning issues. In my medical 

practice I have also screened and treated several thousand children who have been lead 

poisoned. 

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5 I have authored and co-authored numerous articles and papers dealing 

specifically with pediatric lead poisoning issues, including: Chisolm, Currant, Finbert 

Hopkins, Lin-Fu, Piomelli, Reigart, Houk, "Increased Lead Absorption and Lead Poisoning 

in Young Children. A Statement by the Centers for Disease Control," J. Pediatrics, 87:824 
  

(1975); Penny, Reigart, Loadhold, Taylor, "Variability in Response to Lead Exposure: 

  

Demonstration of a Genetic Influence," (Abstract), Pediatric Research, 11:438 (1977); 

Whitlock, Reigart, Priester, "Lead Poisoning in South Carolina," SCMA Journal, 73:378 
  

(1977); Reigart, "Lead Poisoning," Hospital Medicine, 17:161 16J, 16N, 16P: August, 1981;   

Reigart, "Future Directions," Childhood Lead Poisoning — Current Perspectives (1988) and 
  

Reigart, "Recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics on Lead Screening in 

Children," Proceedings of the First National Conference on Laboratory Issues in Childhood 
  

Lead Poisoning Prevention, October 31 - November 2, 1991. 
  

6. Last month I addressed members of the Annual Academy of Pediatrics at its 

annual conference in San Francisco on the issue of "Childhood Lead Poisoning." This 

month I lectured at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, School of 

Osteopathic Medicine, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the topic of "Pediatric Lead Poison 

Prevention Continuing Education for Physicians," and in December I will facilitate a panel 

at the National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Conference discussing "Medical 

Management Issues." 

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7 I serve on numerous committees dedicated to pediatric environmental health 

issues, including: Chairman, Committee on Environmental Health, American Academy of 

Pediatrics; Member, Lead Poisoning Education Task Force, Presidents Council on 

Environmental Quality; Chairman, Centers for Disease Control Childhood Lead-Based 

Paint Poisoning Advisory Committee; and as a Member of the Pew Charitable Trust’s 

Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning. In the past I have served on the Centers for 

Disease Control Childhood Lead-Based Paint Poisoning ad hoc Advisory Committee and 

worked with the Environmental Protection Agency as a Medical Consultant for Acute 

Pesticide Poisoning. 

LEAD POISONING AND MEDICAID ELIGIBLE CHILDREN 
  

8. Speaking as a pediatrician, I am someone who has actually worked for many 

years in lead poisoning prevention out in the field. The situation in my city, Charleston, 

South Carolina, illustrates the enormity of the lead poisoning problem in young children. 

In 1972, when we began screening in Charleston, we were detecting that somewhere in the 

neighborhood of 39% of our children had blood lead levels greater than 40 pg/dL. By 

1975, I was following over 1,250 children with lead levels greater than 30 pg/dL. Today the 

Centers for Disease Control has decreased the level of concern to 10 pg/dL, so that there 

are many more children out there who are potentially injured by dangerous blood lead 

levels. 

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9, Although the American Academy of Pediatrics’ revised report is not yet 

completed, one recommendation that will certainly come from the Committee is that there 

is a need for more testing. Lead poisoning cannot be detected absent a blood test; a series 

of questions cannot verify blood lead levels. Nor will a series of questions guarantee that 

a child will be appropriately classified as low risk. In other words, a child can answer all 

risk-identifying questions in the negative and still be poisoned. 

10. Pediatricians obviously want to test for lead using a test that will accurately 

measure blood lead at the levels of concern announced by the CDC (= 10 pg/dL.) The 

erythrocyte protoporphyrin or "EP" test (which really does not measure blood lead levels 

at all) is simply incapable of accurately predicting lead levels below 40 pg/dL. 

11. In my opinion, as a pediatrician with extensive experience in lead poisoning 

prevention, Medicaid eligible children represent a high risk group since the environment 

of low-income children often contains numerous sources of lead exposure. 

12. As noted in the CDC’s October 1991 statement, "[a]lthough all children are 

at risk for lead toxicity, poor and minority children are disproportionately affected. Lead 

exposure is at once a by-product of poverty and a contributor to the cycle that perpetuates 

and deepens the state of being poor." U.S. Dep’t of Health & Human Services ("HHS"), 

Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young 
  

Children, 12 (Oct. 1991) ("CDC Statement"). 

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13. The CDC Statement concludes, and I concur, that accurate measurement of 

blood lead levels can only be determined through the use of blood lead tests. Id. at 41. 

Accordingly, if the lead testing program is to be effective and if children are to be saved 

from lead poisoning’s devastating effects, it is essential that HHS immediately mandate that 

States replace the EP test with the blood lead test as the primary lead screening method. 

I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, this 
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{ th day of December, 1992 in Charleston, South Carolina. 

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Ap Reigart, MD. 

 



MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 

ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE 

NAME Reigart gp Routt DATE OF BIRTH 01/28/43 
Last First Middle Initial 

SOCIAL SECURITY NO.: 212-44-1620 

CITIZENSHIP AND/OR VISA STATUS: US CITIZEN 

OFFICE ADDRESS: MUSC Childrens Hospital TELEPHONE: 792-5345 
171 Ashley Avenue 
Charleston, SC 29425 

HOME ADDRESS: 1036 Ft. Sumter Dr : TELEPHONE: 795-3831 
Charleston, SC 29412 

EDUCATION: 

Dartmouth College 1961-1964 A.B.Biology 
Dartmouth Medical School 1964-1965 Bachelor Med Science 
Harvard Medical School 1965-1967 eM. 
Marine Biology Lab 1964 Embryology Course 

GRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING: 
INTERNSHIP: Childrens Hospital Medical Center 1967-1968 

Boston, Massachusetts 

RESIDENCIES OR POST DOCTORAL TRAINING: 
Childrens Hospital Medical Center 
Boston, Massachusetts 1968-1969;1971-1972 

BOARD CERTIFICATION: DATE: 
Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics July 1973 

LICENSURE: Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners 1968 
South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners 1970 

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: : 
PLACE DATES RANK 

Harvard Medical School 1971-1972 Teaching Fellow 
Medical University of SC 1972-1976 Assist Professor 
Medical University of SC 1976-1992 Assoc Professor 
Medical University of sc 1973-1978 Assist Prof Med 
MUSC Family Medicine 1978-1992 Assoc Professor Connecticut & Ohio Academies of 
Family Practice/Core Content Review 1973-1976 Faculty 
MUSC Clinical & Institutional Pharmacy 1983 Assist Professor 

FIRST APPOINTMENT TO MUSC: RANK: Assistant Professor DATE: 1972  



  

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 
CURRICULUM VITAE 

NAME: Reigart John Routt November 18, 1992 

HOME ADDRESS: 1036 Ft. Sumter Drive PHONE #: 795-3831 
Charleston, SC 29412 

OFFICE ADDRESS: MUSC Childrens Hospital PHONE #: 792-5345 
171 Ashley Avenue 
Charleston, SC 29425 

SOCIAL SECURITY #: 212-44-1620 

EDUCATION: 

YEARS TRAINING IOCATION 
1961-1964 A.B.Biology Dartmouth College 
1964-1965 Bachelor Med Sc Dartmouth College 
1965-1967 M.D. Harvard Medical School 
1964 Embrology Course Marine Biology Lab 
1967-1968 Intern, Medicine, Childrens Hospital Medical 

Center, Boston, Mass 
1968-1969 Junior Assistant Resident, Medicine, 

Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Boston, 
Mass 

1971-1972 Assistant Resident, Medicine, Senior 
Program, Childrens Hospital Medical Center, 
Boston, Mass 

SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION: 
1973 Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics 

LICENSURE: 

1968 National Board of Medical Examiners 
1970 South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners 

MILITARY SERVICE: 
1969-1971 USNR, Naval Weapons Station Dispensary 
1970 Senior Medical Officer, NWS Dispensary 

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: 
| 1971-1972 Teaching Fellow/Pediatrics Harvard Medical School 

1972-1976 Asst Professor/Pediatrics MUSC 
1976-1992 Assoc Professor/Pediatrics MUSC 
1973-1978 Asst Prof/Medicine MUSC 
1978-1992 Assoc Professor MUSC - Family Medicine 1973-1976 Faculty Core Content Conn/Ohio Acadenies 
1983-1992 Asst Prof of Clinical/Inst Pharmacy, MUSC 

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS: 
1972-1975 Utilization Review Committee 
1983 Bed Space Utilization ad hoc Committee 
1987-1992 Director, Division of General Pediatrics 

 



  

1983-1992 
1981-1992 
1987-1992 
i972-1992 
1989-1992 
1972-1992 
1977-1992 

1977-1983 

1972-1975 

1975-1992 

1973-1983 

1976-1977 

1979-1982 

1987 

1987 

¥986 

Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee 
Medical Records Committee 
Children's Hospital Executive Committee 
Charleston Memorial Hospital Active Pediatric Staff 
Charleston Memorial Hospital Chief of Pediatrics 
Medical University Hospital Pediatric Staff 
Medical University Hospital Medical Director 
Infant Acute Care Ward 
Medical University Hospital 
Control Center 

Medical Director Poison 

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS: 
Project Pediatrician, Charleston Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Detection Project, 
Project Pediatrician, South Carolina Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Project 
Consultant in Pediatrics, South Carolina Pesticides 
Project 
Principal Investigator: Medical Decision Theory, A 
Synopticon of the Literature 
Principal Investigator: Amino-Levulinate Dehydratase 
Variation and Susceptibility to Lead Induced 
Protoporhyrinemia. NIEHS 
Co-Investigator: A Comparative Study of Parenteral 
Sulbactam Ampicillin versus Ampicillin and 
Chloramphenicol in the Treatment of Meningitis in 
Infants and Children - Pfizer, Inc. 
Co-Investigator: Hemophilus Influenzae Protocol. 
noncomparative study of Parenteral CP-45, 899 in 
Combination with Ampicillin - Pfizer, Inc. 
Principal Investigator: Contract - HRSD 86-316(P) ~ 
To Develop an Administrative Guide for Prevention of 
Lead Poisoning in Children. 

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AWARDS, HONORS, MEMBERSHIP IN HONORARY SOCIETIES: 
Outstanding Young Men of America Selection, 1976 
Pediatric Attending of the Year Award 1989 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL/SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES: (INCLUDING OFFICES 

NATIONAL SOCIETIES AND COMMITTEES 
American Academy of Pediatrics 

Chairman, Committee on Environmental Hazards, 1991-1992 Environmental Protection Agency 
Medical Consultant for Acute Pesticide Poisoning, 1974-1982 Presidents Council on Environmental Quality 
Member, Lead Poisoning Education Task Force, 1992 

Dept of Health and Human Services/BHCDA/MCH/SPRANS 
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, 1986-1992 

Southern Society for Pediatric Research 
Executive Council, 1976-1980 

American Academy of Clinical Toxicology 
Moderator: Annual Meeting, Boston MS, 1983 

American Medical Association 

 



  

Consultant for Drug Evaluations, Division of Drugs & 
Toxicology, 1992 

enters for Disease Control 
Childhood Lead-Based Paint Poisoning ad hoc Advisory 
C ittee, 1977-78 

airman, Childhood Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Advisory 
Committee 1984-1992 

National Academy of Sciences 
Member, Committee on Enhancing the Role of the Primary Care 
Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1989- 
1990 

Pew Charitable Trusts 
Member Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning, 1992 

Kids And The Environment 
Member, National Advisory Committee, 1992 

NIH/NIEHS/OSAAD 
Medical Consultant, 1988-1992 

LOCAL SOCIETIES - 

Charleston County Medical Society 
South Carolina Medical Association 
South Carolina Pediatric Association 
South Carolina Pesticide Advisory Committee 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS: Assistant Editor - Poisondex 
Reviewer - Journal of American Medical Assoc 
Reviewer - Hospital Formulary 
Reviewer - Pediatrics 
Reviewer - Journal of Pediatrics 
Reviewer - JAMA 
Reviewer - New England Journal of Medicine 

EXTRAMURAL GRANTS/AWARD AMOUNTS 
A Safety and Efficacy Trial of 2,3-Dimercaptosuccinic Acid (DMSA 
in Children with Lead Toxicity) ~ 5% Effort 
McNeil Consumer Products company 
04-18-91 to Open 
Direct Costs $19,500 Indirect Costs $4,524 

Pediatric Emergency Room Coverage 
Charleston Memorial Hospital : 07/01/90 - 06/30/91 : Direct Costs $132,000 
07/01/91 - 06/30/92 
Direct Costs $193,645 

General Pediatric Service Contract 
Naval Regional Medical Center 
Charleston Navy Hospital 
04/01/92 - 3/30/94 

Low Country Childrens Center Contract 
Low Country Childrens Center 
12/01/91 - 11/30/92 

 



  

INTRAMURAL GRANTS/AWARD AMOUNTS 
Pediatric Continuity Clinic 
Children's Hospital 
09/01/90 - 06/30/91 
Direct Costs $82,210 
07/01/91 - 06/30/92 
Compensation $102,710 

Continuity Care Clinic 
MUSC Hospital 
09/01/90 - 06/30/91 
Direct Costs $225,000 
07/01/91 - 06/30/92 
Subsidy =~ $236,250 

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES: 
UNIVERSITY 
Physical Therapy Program Medical Advisory Committee (1978- 

present) 
Graduate Student Advisory Committee 

COLLEGE 

Curriculum Review Committee (1983) 
Children's Hospital Executive Committee (1985-present) 
Continuing Medical Education Committee 
Behavioral Science Course Committee (1973-1978) 
Faculty Advisory Council (1972-1976) 
Interviewer for Admission Committee (1973-1979) 
Curriculum Review Sub-committee (1983-1986) 
Intro to Clinical Medicine Steering Committee (1985-1988) 
Chairman, Curriculum Review Committee (1984-1986) 
Basic Clinical Genetic Course ad hoc Committee (1983) 
Task Force on National Boards (1983-1984) 
Task Force on Premedical Education (1983-1984) 

DEPARTMENT 

“Pediatric Executive Committee -/937-/442 
Student Curriculum Committee (1983) 

DIVISION 

Director (1987-1992) 

FOR TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES: (CURRENT) 

UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 
Division Director Pediatric Core Course 
Core Course Ward Teaching 

GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 

Resident Lectures and Clinical Teacher 

 



  

GRADUATE STUDIES EDUCATION 
Fellow Lectures/Training 
Graduate Student Advisory Committee 

Sherry Stine, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry 
William McLean, M.S. Biochemistry 
Richard Porter, M.S. Biometry 
Julie McElrath, Ph.D. Pathology 
Sandra Russ, M.S. —- CAH, MUSC 

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION 
Ground Rounds Lectures : 
Instructor for Louisville/Jefferson Co Dept of Health, Childhood 
Lead Poisoning Training Workshop 

MAJOR CLINICAL INTERESTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 
General Pediatrics, Toxicology 

INVITED LECTURES: 
"Experience with Newborn Transport Systems". New England 
Pediatric Society, December, 1971. 

"Diagnosis and Treatment of Lead Poisoning". Memorial Hospital, 
Savannah, Georgia, August 27, 1973. 

"Longitudinal Studies of Blood Lead and Free Erythrocyte 
Protoporphyrin". Also Workshop Moderator. "Screening and 
Treatment". Tri-Regional Lead Poisoning Staff Conference, New 
Orleans, Louisiana, December 11, 1974. 

"Diagnosis and Implications of Low Level Lead Toxicity". South 
Carolina Pediatric Society, April 5, 1974. 

Moderator - South Carolina Forum on Child Protection, Columbia, SC, March 14, 1974. 

"Longitudinal Observations of FEP and Blood Lead", Charleston, 
SC., May 29, 1974. National Conference of Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Control Projects, Center for Disease Control, 

"Clinical Aspects of Childhood Lead Poisoning".Pediatric Grand 
Rounds, South Alabama Medical Center, July 22, 1975. 

Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Louisville School of 
Medicine, August 22, 1975. -"Clinical Aspects of Childhood 
Lead Poisoning". 

National Conference of Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, 
Norfolk, VA, October 22, 1975. "Program Operations with 
Erythrocyte Protoporphyrins". 

Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Tennessee Medical School, 
Memphis, November, 1975. "Clinical Aspects of Childhood Lead 
Poisonings". 

 



  

Chairman - Sessions Medical Management. HEW ~ Tri-Regional 
Conference of Childhood Lead Poisoning Projects - February 
25, 1976. Mobile, Alabama. 

Visiting Professorship and Grand Rounds - University of North 
Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill. Topics: Lead Poisoning 
and Toxicology. March 4-5, 1976. 

"Variability in Response to Lead Exposure - Demonstration of a 
Genetic Influence" - APS-SPS Annual Meeting. April 29, 1977. 
San Francisco, CA. 

"Clinical Aspects of Childhood Lead Intoxication! - Workshop on 
Planning Pediatric Lead Screening Program in North Carolina, NIEHS-RTP, NC, May 5, 1977. 

"New Aspects of Prevention of Lead Poisoning". National 
Association for Retarded Citizens. Northeast/Southeast Regional 
Conference. Myrtle Beach, SC, April 15, 1978, 

"Lead Poisoning in Childhood" ~ Grand Rounds. M.C.G. - Augusta, 
Georgia, March 15, 1979. 

"Symposium on Childhood Lead Poisoning". South Carolina 
Department of Health and Environmental Control. Columbia, SC, 
October 23, 1980. 

"Interaction of Nutrition and Lead Poisoning in Childhood". 
Nutrition Council and Area Health Education Center. Columbia, SC, June 20, 1980 

"6th Annual Conference on Vital Records and Statistics". 
Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, SC, 
October 5-6, 1980. 

"An Alternative Method of Intravenous Drug Administration in 
Pediatric Patients - The Use of Low Volume Tubing", Vander-veen 
TW, Reigart, JR, and Smith S. Presented ASHP MidyearClinical 
Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, December 5-9, 1982. 

"Management of Common Ingested Poisons in Children", Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Patient. Charleston, SC, December 3, 
1982. 

"Medical Evaluation and Management of Pesticide Exposure", 
Southeast Louisiana Emergency Medical Services Council, 
Recognition and Management of Environmental Disease in the 
1980's, New Orleans, 1A, December 9, 1983. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning" - Pediatric Grand Rounds, University 
of Louisville College of Medicine, March 25, 1984. 

"Pesticide Exposure in Children", 1984 Migrant Health 
Conference, The Migrant Child. Charleston, SC, April 14, 1984. 

 



  

"Acute Pesticide Exposure" - Care of the Critically Ill or 
Injured Patient =~ Charleston, SC, November 17, 1984. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning" - New Jersey Anti-Lead Poisoning 
Coalition, Trenton, New Jersey, October 10, 1984. 

"Medical Aspects of Childhood Lead Poisoning" - Migrant Health 
Workshop - salt Lake City, Utah, January 18, 1985. 

"Relationship Between E.P., Iron Deficiency and Lead Poisoning", 
Workshop, Commonwealth of Virginia - Richmond, VA, August 29, 
1985. 

"Diagnosis, Supportive Management and Chelation Therapy" - 
Current Issues in Pediatric Lead Poisoning - Chicago Department 
of Health - March of Dimes, Chicago, Illinois, May 3, 1985. 

"Children at Risk: The Impact of Lead" - Eastern Area Health 
Education Center, Greenville, NC, April 4, 1986. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Grand Rounds - Rhode Island 
Hospital, June 6, 1986. 

"Current Perspectives - Future Directions", National childhood 
Lead Poisoning Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, Decenber, 
1987. 

"Lead Poisoning Prevention", Injury Control/Lead Poisoning 
Prevention Program, Chatham County Department of Public Health, 
Savannah, Ga, May 10, 1989. 

"Health Effects and Medical Management of Lead Poisoning", First 
Lead Poisoning Workshop, North Carolina Department of Human 
Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 3, 1989. 

"Laboratory Issues in Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention", 
Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory 
Directors, Columbia, Md, November 1991. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Committee on Children with 
Disabilities, Chicago, Ill, December 1991 

"Pesticides, Children, and Food Safety", Public Voice's 1992 
Children and Nutrition Conference (Guiding Kids to a Healthy 
Life), Washington, D.C., January 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Division of Children's Health Grand 
Rounds, Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, SC January 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention" Trident Regional Hospital, Charleston, SC, May 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Grand Rounds, Orangeburg Regional Hospital, Orangeburg, SC June 1992. 

 



  

"Clinical Answers: The Modern Approach", Metal Binding in 
Medicine~--Lead/Cadmium Conference, Great Lakes Association of 
Clinical Medicine Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, September 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Annual AAP Meeting, San Francisco, 
CA, October 1992 

Moderator for NIEHS Meeting, Triangle Research Park, NC, 
November 1992. 

"Pediatric Lead Poison Prevention Continuing Education for 
Physicians", University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ, School of 
Osteopathic Medicine, Atlantic City, NJ, November 1992. 

"Medical Management Issues", Facilitator; National Childhood 
Lead Poisoning Prevention Conference, December 1992. 

EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 
Get the Lead Out Committee 
Childhood Lead Poisoning Talk Forum, Channel 5 
Charleston Lead Poisoning Prevention Coalition 
Charleston Memorial Hospital Executive Committee 

COMMUNITY SERVICE: 
District Enrollment Director, SC District, Dartmouth College 
President, Kiwanis Club of Charleston 
Board of Directors, MUSC Childrens Hospital Fund 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

JOURNALS: 

Lash J, Reigart JR, Studies in Ascidian Metamorphosis: 
Birefringence in Tail Epidermis", Biological Bulletin 
129:395:1965. 

Habercam JW, Keil JE, Reigart JR, Croft HW. "Lead Content of 
Human Blood, Hair, and Deciduous Teeth:Correlation with 
Environmental Factors and Growth". The Journal of Dental 
Research, 53:1160, 1974. 

  

Reigart JR, Brueggeman JL, Keil JE, "Sodium Fluoracetate 
("1080") Poisoning". American Journal of Diseases of Children, 
129: 1124, 2197S. 
  

Harmon GE’, Reigart JR, "Long-Term Follow-up of Survivors of 
Severe Acute Pesticide Poisoning". South Carolina Medical 
Association Journal. 71:253, 1975. 

  

  

Reigart JR, Whitlock NH, "Longitudinal Studies of Blood Lead and 
Free Erythrocyte Protoporphyrin". Pediatrics, 57:54, 1976. 

  

Cupp CM, Kleiwer G, Reigart JR, Sandifer SH, "Hypothermia in 
Organophosphate Poisoning and Response to PAM". South 
Carolina Medical Association Journal, 71: April, 1975.   

 



  

Allen RC, Harley RA, Reigart JR, "Quantitative and Qualitative 
Studies of Protease Inhibitor Phenotyping by Isoelectric 
Focusing on Polyacrylamide Gel Slabs". (Abstract) American 
Journal of Clinical Pathology, 63:767, 1975.   

Reigart JR, Graber CD, "Evaluation of the Humoral Immune 
Response of Children with Low Level Lead Exposure". Bulletin 
of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 16:112, 1976.   

Chisclm JJ, Currant AS, Finbert AS, Hopkins DR, Lin-Fu Js, 
Piomelli Ss, Reigart JR, Houk VH, "Increased Lead Absorption and 
Lead Poisoning in Young Children. A statement by the Center for 
Disease Control", J. Pediatrics, 87:824 1975. 

Penny LD’, Reigart JR, Loadhold CB, Taylor HL, "Variability in 
Response to Lead Exposuro: Domonctration of a Cenetic 
Influence". (Abstract), Pediatric Research, 11:438, 1977. 

Whitlock N, Reigart JR, Priester L, “Lead Poisoning in South 
Carolina". SCMA Journal, 73:378, 1977. 

Reigart JR, "Lead Poisoning". Hospital Medicine, 17:161 16J, 
16N, 16P: August, 1981. 

Trammel HL, Sandifer SH, Reigart JR, and Hurwitz GA 
(Abstract) "National Pesticide Telecommunications Network: A 
Specialized Poison Information Center", Veterinary and Human 
Toxicology, 23:52, 1981. 

Reigart JR and Trammel HL. (Abstract), "Treatment of Acute 
Dapsone Intoxication in a Child by Pulse Dosing with Activated 
Charcoal". Veterinary and Human Toxicology. 23:58, 1981. 

Thompson DF’, Trammel HL, Robertson NJ, and Reigart 
JR."Telephone Evaluation of Regional and Non-Regional Poison 
Centers", New England Journal of Medicine. 308: January 27, 
1982, Number 4. 
  

Reigart JR, Trammel HL, and Lindsey JM, "Treatment of 
Symptomatic Dapsone Poisoning by Repetitive Activated Charcoal 
Treatment in a Child". Journal of Toxicology-Clinical se 
Toxicology. 19:1061, 1983. = 
  

  

Reigart JR, and Trammel HL: "Plasma and Red Blood Cell 
Cholinesterase Levels are Poor Predictors of Cholinergic - 
Symptomatology". Veterinary and Human Toxicology. 24:276, 
1982. (Abstract). 
  

Olanoff LS, Bristow W, Colcolough J, and Reigart JR. "Acute 
Chlordane Intoxication". Toxicologyv-Clinical Toxicology 
20:291-306, 1983. 
  

Medical Students’ Graduate Students® Residents’ 

 



  

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Trammel HL, and Reigart JR. "Acute Herbicide Intoxication". 
Clinical Toxicology Consultant. 5:56-69, 1983.   

Rogan WJ, Reigart JR, and Gladen BC, "Association of Amino 
Levulinate Dehydratase Levels and Ferrochelatase Inhibition in 
Childhood Lead Exposure". The Journal of Pedjatrics. 109:60- 
64, 1986. 

Weist DB, ONeal W, Reigart JR, Brundage RC, Gillette PC, and 
Yost RL, "Pharmacokinetics of Ranitidine in Critically I11 
Infants". Developmental Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dev 
Pharmacol Ther 1989; 12(1): 7-12 

Durand RP, Fincher RE, Reigart JR, Lichtenstein LS, Lancaster, 
CJ, and Levine JH "An Analysis of Third Year Medical Students’ 
Abilities to Order Appropriate Diagnostic Tests and Procedures". 
Learning. Academic Medicine. 66(11):702-04, July, 1991. 

Hammill WW', Reigart JR, Laver J, "Ehrlichia Canis Infection in 
a Child in South Carolina", Clinical Pediatrics, Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1992 Jul; 31(7):432-4. 

  

Reigart JR, Chairman, Committee on Drugs, American Academy of 
Pediatrics; and Committee on Environmental Health, American 
Academy of Pediatrics, "Use of Chloral Hydrate for Sedation in 
Children" Pediatrics (In Press). 

Reigart JR, Chairman, Committee on Environmental Health, 
American Academy of Pediatrics, "Lead Poisoning - From Screening 
to Prevention" Pediatrics, (In Press). 

Reigart JR. Chairman, Committee on Environmental Health, 
American Academy of Pediatrics, "Ambient Air Pollution: 
Respiratory Hazards to Children", Pediatrics, (In Press).   

BOOKS AND OTHER MONOGRAPHS: 

Krall AR, McLean Jr ws¥, Gamble HF, Rogers Jr EW, Reigart JR, 
Collawn Ss”, "Effects of Magnesium Infusions on the Metabolism 
of Calcium and Lead: Evidence for Release of Calcitonin and 
Parathyroid Hormone in Response to Changes in Plasma Magnesium 
Content." In Magnesium in Health in Disease Proceedings of 2nd 
Int. Symposium on Magnesium, Montreal. May, 1976. 
  

  

Miller MC, Westphal MC, Reigart JR, Barner C,Medical Diagnostic 
Models: A Bibliography. University Micro-films International, 
1977. 
  

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Miller MC, Westphal MC, Reigart JR, Mathematical Models of 
Medical Diagnosis. Praeger, Inc, NY, NY, 198). 

  

  

Reigart JR, "Future Directions", Childhood lead Poisoning - 
current Perspectives, 1988. 

  

Mahaffey KR, McKinney J, and Reigart JR, "Lead and Compound". 
(1991) In: Critical Reviews of Environmental Toxicants. EQ. M. 
Tiinnmann Van Nnetrand Rainhnld, Nam Vark 
  

Reigart JR, "Recommendations of the American Academy of 
Poediatrice on Lead Sorooning in Children", Drocecdings ef the 
First National Conference on Laboratory Issues in Childhood Lead Doiconing Droevention, Ooctobor 21 - November 2, 19291 

  

  

  

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS 

DALLAS DIVISION 

LOIS THOMPSON on behalf of and as next 
friend to TAYLOR KEONDRA DIXON, 
ZACHERY X. WILLIAMS, CALVIN A. 
THOMPSON and PRENTISS LAVELL 
MULLINS, : 

Plaintiffs, 

PEOPLE UNITED FOR A BETTER 
OAKLAND, on behalf of its members; 
DENVER ACTION FOR A BETTER 
COMMUNITY, on behalf of its members; 
NEW YORK CITY COALITION TO END 
LEAD POISONING, on behalf of its 
members; ROBIN GOURLEY on behalf of 
and as next friend to BRYAN ALAN 
GOURLEY, WESLEY KYLE GOURLEY, 
BRIDGET MICHELLE GOURLEY, 
LINDA DANIELLE GOURLEY and 
BETSEY IRENE GOURLEY; TEARRAH 
ROBERSON on behalf of and as guardian 
ad litem to JUAN WILKINS; and MARY 
MARIE ROBERSON on behalf of and as 
guardian ad litem to ASHARD MOORE, 
JASON ROLLINS, ASHEA ROBERSON, 
and NASHEIKA ROBERSON, 

Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenors, 

V. 

BURTON F. RAIFORD, in his capacity as 
Commissioner of the Texas Department of 
Human Services, 

The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Defendants, 

uLOUIS W. SULLIVAN, in his capacity as 
Secretary of the United States Department of 
Health and Human Services, 

Proposed Additional Defendant.     

CADOCQTHOMPSON\BRIERAMICIMEM 

CASE NO. 3-92 CV 1539-R 

Civil Action 

Class Action 

CORRECTED DECLARATION OF J. 
ROUTT REIGART, M.D. 

 



  

CORRECTED DECLARATION OF J. ROUTT REIGART, M.D. 
  

I, J. Routt Reigart, M.D., declare as follows: 

1. The matters stated herein are true of my own personal knowledge. If called 

as a witness, I would competently and truthfully testify consistent with the following. 

2. I am an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South 

Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Attached hereto as Exhibit 1 is a copy of my 

abbreviated curriculum vitae. 

3. Since yuly 1991, I have served as the Chairman of the American Academy of 

Pediatrics’ Committee on Environmental Health ("Committee"). This Committee is 

reviewing the Academy’s policy on lead testing and treatment, which is currently contained 

  

in a five-year-old document entitled Statement of Childhood Lead Poisoning. We are 

currently reviewing this document because recent information about lead toxicity in children 

requires revised recommendations to pediatricians. I also serve as Chairman of the 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease 

Control ("CDC"). 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 
  

4. As a pediatrician I have devoted much of my professional career to the study, 

screening and treatment of pediatric lead poisoning. For over 20 years I have been 

researching, writing, teaching and lecturing on lead poisoning issues. In my medical 

practice I have also screened and treated several thousand children who have been lead 

poisoned. 

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3. I have authored and co-authored numerous articles and papers dealing 

specifically with pediatric lead poisoning issues, including: Chisolm, Currant, Finbert 

Hopkins, Lin-Fu, Piomelli, Reigart, Houk, "Increased Lead Absorption and Lead Poisoning 

in Young Children. A Statement by the Centers for Disease Control," J. Pediatrics, 87:824 
  

(1975); Penny, Reigart, Loadhold, Taylor, "Variability in Response to Lead Exposure: 

Demonstration of a Genetic Influence," (Abstract), Pediatric Research, 11:438 (1977); 
  

Whitlock, Reigart, Priester, "Lead Poisoning in South Carolina," SCMA Journal, 73:378 
  

  

(1977); Reigart, "Lead Poisoning," Hospital Medicine, 17:161 16J, 16N, 16P: August, 1981, 

Reigart, "Future Directions," Childhood Lead Poisoning — Current Perspectives (1988) and 
  

Reigart, "Recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics on Lead Screening in 

Children," Proceedings of the First National Conference on Laboratory Issues in Childhood 
  

Lead Poisoning Prevention, October 31 - November 2, 1991. 
  

6. Last month I addressed members of the Annual Academy of Pediatrics at its 

annual conference in San Francisco on the issue of "Childhood Lead Poisoning." This 

month I lectured at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, School of 

Osteopathic Medicine, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the topic of "Pediatric Lead Poison 

Prevention Continuing Education for Physicians," and in December I will facilitate a panel 

at the National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Conference discussing "Medical 

Management Issues." 

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7. I serve on numerous committees dedicated to pediatric environmental health 

issues, including: Chairman, Committee on Environmental Health, American Academy of 

Pediatrics; Member, Lead Poisoning Education Task Force, Presidents Council on 

Environmental Quality; Chairman, Centers for Disease Control Childhood Lead-Based 

Paint Poisoning Advisory Committee; and as a Member of the Pew Charitable Trust's 

Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning. In the past I have served on the Centers for 

Disease Control Childhood Lead-Based Paint Poisoning ad hoc Advisory Committee and 

worked with the Environmental Protection Agency as a Medical Consultant for Acute 

Pesticide Poisoning. 

LEAD POISONING AND MEDICAID ELIGIBLE CHILDREN 
  

8. Speaking as a pediatrician, I am someone who has actually worked for many 

years in lead poisoning prevention out in the field. The situation in my city, Charleston, 

South Carolina, illustrates the enormity of the lead poisoning problem in young children. 

In 1972, when we began screening in Charleston, we were detecting that somewhere in the 

neighborhood of 39% of our children had blood lead levels greater than 40 pg/dL. By 

1975, 1 was following over 1,250 children with lead levels greater than 30 pg/dL. Today the 

Centers for Disease Control has decreased the level of concern to 10 pg/dL, so that there 

are many more children out there who are potentially injured by dangerous blood lead 

levels. 

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9, Although the American Academy of Pediatrics’ revised report is not yet 

completed, one recommendation that will certainly come from the Committee is that there 

is a need for more testing. Lead poisoning cannot be detected absent a blood test; a series 

of questions cannot verify blood lead levels. Nor will a series of questions guarantee that 

a child will be appropriately classified as low risk. In other words, a child can answer all 

risk-identifying questions in the negative and still be poisoned. 

10. Pediatricians obviously want to test for lead using a test that will accurately 

measure blood lead at the levels of concern announced by the CDC (= 10 pg/dL.) The 

erythrocyte protoporphyrin or "EP" test (which really does not measure blood lead levels 

at all) is simply incapable of accurately predicting lead levels below 40 pg/dL. 

11. In my opinion, as a pediatrician with extensive experience in lead poisoning 

prevention, Medicaid eligible ilies represent a high risk group since the environment 

of low-income children often contains numerous sources of lead exposure. 

12. As noted in the CDC’s October 1991 statement, "[a]lthough all children are 

at risk for lead toxicity, poor and minority children are disproportionately affected. Lead 

exposure is at once a by-product of poverty and a contributor to the cycle that perpetuates 

and deepens the state of being poor." U.S. Dep’t of Health & Human Services ("HHS"), 

  

Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Preventing I.ead Poisoning in Young 

Children, 12 (Oct. 1991) ("CDC Statement"). 

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13. The CDC Statement concludes, and I concur, that accurate measurement of 

blood lead levels can only be determined through the use of blood lead tests. Id. at 41. 

Accordingly, if the lead testing program is to be effective and if children are to be saved 

from lead poisoning’s devastating effects, it is essential that HHS immediately mandate that 

States replace the EP test with the blood lead test as the primary lead screening method. 

I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, this 

_ th day of December, 1992 in Charleston, South Carolina. 

  

J. Routt Reigart, M.D. 

 



MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 

ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE 

NAME Reigart J. Routt DATE OF BIRTH 01/28/43 
Last First Middle Initial 

SOCIAL SECURITY NO.: 212-44-1620 

CITIZENSHIP AND/OR VISA STATUS: US CITIZEN 

OFFICE ADDRESS: MUSC Childrens Hospital TELEPHONE: 792-5345 
171 Ashley Avenue 
Charleston, SC 29425 

HOME ADDRESS: 1036 Ft. Sumter Dr TELEPHONE: 795-3831 
Charleston, SC 29412 

EDUCATION: 

Dartmouth College 1961-1964 A.B.Biology 
Dartmouth Medical School 1964-1965 Bachelor Med Science 
Harvard Medical School 1965-1967 M.D. 
Marine Biology Lab 1964 Embryology Course 

GRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING: 
INTERNSHIP: Childrens Hospital Medical Center 1967-1968 

Boston, Massachusetts 

RESIDENCIES OR POST DOCTORAL TRAINING: 
Childrens Hospital Medical Center 
Boston, Massachusetts 1968-1969;1971-1972 

BOARD CERTIFICATION: DATE: 
Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics July 1973 

LICENSURE: Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners 1968 
South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners 1970 

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: 
PLACE DATES RANK 

Harvard Medical School 1971-1972 Teaching Fellow 
Medical University of SC 1972-1976 Assist Professor Medical University of SC 1976-1992 Assoc Professor Medical University of SC 1973-1978 Assist Prof Med 
MUSC Family Medicine 1978-1992 Assoc Professor 
Connecticut & Ohio Academies of 
Family Practice/Core Content Review 1973-1976 Faculty 
MUSC Clinical & Institutional Pharmacy 1983 Assist Professor 

FIRST APPOINTMENT TO MUSC: RANK: Assistant Professor DATE: 1972  



MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 
CURRICULUM VITAE 

NAME: Reigart John Routt November 18, 1992 

1036 Ft. Sumter Drive 
Charleston, SC 29412 

HOME ADDRESS: PHONE #: 795-3831 

OFFICE ADDRESS: MUSC Childrens Hospital 
171 Ashley Avenue 
Charleston, SC 29425 

PHONE #: 792-5345 

SOCIAL SECURITY #: 212-44-1620 

EDUCATION: 
YEARS 

1961-1964 
1964-1965 
1965-1967 
1964 
1967-1968 

TRAINING 

A.B.Biology 
Bachelor Med Sc 

IOCATION 

Dartmouth College 
Dartmouth College 

M.D. Harvard Medical School 
Embrology Course Marine Biology Lab 
Intern, Medicine, Childrens Hospital Medical 
Center, Boston, Mass 
Junior Assistant Resident, Medicine, 
Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Boston, 
Mass : 
Assistant Resident, Medicine, Senior 
Program, Childrens Hospital Medical Center, 
Boston, Mass 

1968-1969 

1971-1972 

SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION: 
1973 

LICENSURE: 
1968 
1970 

1969-1971 
1970 

Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics 

National Board of Medical Examiners 
South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners 

MILITARY SERVICE: 
USNR, Naval Weapons Station Dispensary 
Senior Medical Officer, NWS Dispensary 

~ FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: 
1971-1972 
1972-1976 
1976-1992 
1973-1978 
1978-1992 
1973-1976 
1983-1992 

Teaching Fellow/Pediatrics 
Asst Professor/Pediatrics 
Assoc Professor/Pediatrics 
Asst Prof/Medicine 
Assoc Professor MUSC - Family Medicine 
Faculty Core Content Conn/Ohio Academies 
Asst Prof of Clinical/Inst Pharmacy, MUSC 

Harvard Medical School 
MUSC 

MUSC 

MUSC 

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS: 
1972-1975 Utilization Review Committee 
1983 Bed Space Utilization ad hoc Committee 
1987-1992 Director, Division of General Pediatrics  



  

1983-19892 

1991-1962 

1987-1992 

1972-1992 

1989-1992 

1972-1992 

1877-1992 

1877-1983 

Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee 
Medical Records Committee 
Children's Hospital Executive Committee 
Charleston Memorial Hospital Active Pediatric Staff 
Charleston Memorial Hospital Chief of Pediatrics 
Medical University Hospital Pediatric Staff 
Medical University Hospital Medical Director 
Infant Acute Care Ward 
Medical University Hospital Medical Director Poison 
Control Center 

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS: 
1972-1975 

1975-1992 

1973-1983 

1976-1977 

1979-1982 

1987 

1987 

X986 

Project Pediatrician, Charleston Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Detection Project, 
Project Pediatrician, South Carolina Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Project 
Consultant in Pediatrics, South Carolina Pesticides 
Project 
Principal Investigator: Medical Decision Theory, a 
Synopticon of the Literature 
Principal Investigator: Amino-Levulinate Dehydratase 
Variation and Susceptibility to Lead Induced 
Protoporhyrinenia. NIEHS 
Co-Investigator: A Comparative Study of Parenteral 
Sulbactam Ampicillin versus Ampicillin and 
Chloramphenicol in the Treatment of Meningitis in 
Infants and Children - Pfizer, Inc. 
Co-Investigator: Hemophilus Influenzae Protocol. (A 
noncomparative study of Parenteral CP-45, 899 in 
Combination with Ampicillin - Pfizer, Inc. 
Principal Investigator: Contract - HRSD 86-316(P) - 
To Develop an Administrative Guide for Prevention of 
Lead Poisoning in Children. 

AWARDS, HONORS, MEMBERSHIP IN HONORARY SOCIETIES: 
Outstanding Young Men of America Selection, 1976 
Pediatric Attending of the Year Award 1989 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL/SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES: (INCLUDING OFFICES HELD) 

NATIONAL SOCIETIES AND COMMITTEES 
American Academy of Pediatrics 

Chairman, Committee on Environmental Hazards, 1991-1992 
Environmental Protection Agency 

Medical Consultant for Acute Pesticide Poisoning, 1974-1982 
Presidents Council on Environmental Quality 

Menber, Lead Poisoning Education Task Force, 1992 
Dept of Health and Human Services/BHCDA/MCH/SPRANS 

Member, Technical Advisory Committee, 1986-1992 
Southern Society for Pediatric Research 

Executive Council, 1976-1980 
American Academy of Clinical Toxicology 

Moderator: Annual Meeting, Boston MS, 1983 
American Medical Association 

 



  

Consultant for Drug Evaluations, Division of Drugs & 
Toxicology, 1992 

Centers for Disease Control 
Childhood Lead-Based Paint Poisoning ad hoc Advisory 
Committee, 1977-78 

airman, Childhood Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Advisory 
Committee 1984-1992 

National Academy of Sciences 
Member, Committee on Enhancing the Role of the Primary Care 
Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1989- 
1990 

Pew Charitable Trusts 
Member Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning, 1992 

Kids And The Environment 
Member, National Advisory Committee, 1992 

NIH/NIEHS/OSAAD 
Medical Consultant, 1988-1992 

LOCAL SOCIETIES - 
Charleston County Medical Society 
South Carolina Medical Association 
South Carolina Pediatric Association 
South Carolina Pesticide Advisory Committee 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS: Assistant Editor - Poisondex 
Reviewer - Journal of American Medical Assoc 
Reviewer - Hospital Formulary 
Reviewer - Pediatrics 
Reviewer - Journal of Pediatrics 
Reviewer - JAMA 
Reviewer - New England Journal of Medicine 

EXTRAMURAL GRANTS/AWARD AMOUNTS 
A Safety and Efficacy Trial of 2,3-Dimercaptosuccinic Acid (DMSA 
in Children with Lead Toxicity) ~ 5% Effort 
McNeil Consumer Products company 
04-18-91 to Open 
Direct Costs $19,500 Indirect Costs $4,524 

Pediatric Emergency Room Coverage 
Charleston Memorial Hospital 
07/01/90 - 06/30/91 
Direct Costs $132,000 
07/01/91 - 06/30/92 
Direct Costs $193,645 

General Pediatric Service Contract 
Naval Regional Medical Center 
Charleston Navy Hospital 
04/01/92 - 3/30/94 

Low Country Childrens Center Contract 
Low Country Childrens Center 
12/01/91 - 11/30/92 

 



  

INTRAMURAL GRANTS/AWARD AMOUNTS 
Pediatric Continuity Clinic 
Children's Hospital 
09/01/90 - 06/30/91 
Direct Costs $82,210 
07/01/91 - 06/30/92 
Compensation $102,710 

Continuity Care Clinic 
MUSC Hospital 
09/01/90 - 06/30/91 
Direct Costs $225,000 
07/01/91 ~ 06/30/92 
Subsidy ~ $236,250 

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES: 
UNIVERSITY 

Physical Therapy Program Medical Advisory Committee (1978- 
present) 

Graduate Student Advisory Committee 

COLLEGE 

Curriculum Review Committee (1983) 
Children's Hospital Executive Committee (1985-present) 
Continuing Medical Education Committee 
Behavioral Science Course Committee (1973-1978) 
Faculty Advisory Council (1972-1976) 
Interviewer for Admission Committee (1973-1979) 
Curriculum Review Sub-committee (1983-1986) 
Intro to Clinical Medicine Steering Committee (1985-1988) 
Chairman, Curriculum Review Committee (1984-1986) 
Basic Clinical Genetic Course ad hoc Committee (1983) 
Task Force on National Boards (1983-1984) 
Task Force on Premedical Education (1983-1984) 

DEPARTMENT 

Pediatric Executive Committee - /787-/692 
Student Curriculum Committee (1983) 

DIVISION 
Director (1987-1992) 

FOR TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES: (CURRENT) 

UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 
Division Director Pediatric Core Course 
Core Course Ward Teaching 

GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 
Resident Lectures and Clinical Teacher 

 



  

GRADUATE STUDIES EDUCATION 
Fellow Lectures/Training 
Graduate Student Advisory Committee 

Sherry Stine, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry 
William McLean, M.S. Biochemistry 
Richard Porter, M.S. Biometry 
Julie McElrath, Ph.D. Pathology 
Sandra Russ, M.S. - CAH, MUSC 

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION 
Ground Rounds Lectures : 
Instructor for Louisville/Jefferson Co Dept of Health, childhood Lead Poisoning Training Workshop 

MAJOR CLINICAL INTERESTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 
General Pediatrics, Toxicology 

INVITED LECTURES: 
"Experience with Newborn Transport Systems". New England 
Pediatric Society, December, 1971. 

"Diagnosis and Treatment of Lead Poisoning". Memorial Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, August 27, 31973. 

"Longitudinal Studies of Blood I.ead and Free Erythrocyte 
Protoporphyrin®". Also Workshop Moderator. "Screening and 
Treatment". Tri-Regional Lead Poisoning Staff Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11, 1974. 

"Diagnosis and Implications of Low Level Lead Toxicity". South Carolina Pediatric Society, April 5, 1974. 

Moderator - South Carolina Forum on Child Protection, Columbia, SC, March 14, 1974. 

"Longitudinal Observations of FEP and Blood Lead", Charleston, SC., May 29, 1974. National Conference of Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Control Projects, Center for Disease Control, 

"Clinical Aspects of Childhood Lead Poisoning".Pediatric Grand Rounds, South Alabama Medical Center, July 22, 1975. 

Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Louisville School of Medicine, August 22, 1975. -“"Clinical Aspects of Childhood lead Poisoning", 

National Conference of Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Norfolk, VA, October 22, 1975. "Program Operations with Erythrocyte Protoporphyrins®. 

Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Tennessee Medical School, Memphis, November, 1975. "Clinical Aspects of Childhood Lead 
Poisonings®", 

 



Chairman - Sessions Medical Management. HEW - Tri-Regional 
Conference of Childhood lead Poisoning Projects - February 
25, 1976. Mobile, Alabama. 

Visiting Professorship and Grand Rounds - University of North 
Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill. Topics: lead Poisoning 
and Toxicology. March 4-5, 1976. 

"Variability in Response to Lead Exposure - Demonstration of a 
Genetic Influence" - APS-SPS Annual Meeting. April 29, 1977. 
San Francisco, CA. 

"Clinical Aspects of Childhood Lead Intoxication" - Workshop on 
Planning Pediatric Lead Screening Program in North Carolina, NIEHS-RTP, NC, May 5, 1977. 

"New Aspects of Prevention of Lead Poisoning". National : 
Association for Retarded Citizens. Northeast/Southeast Regional 
Conference. Myrtle Beach, SC, April 15, 1978. 

"Lead Poisoning in Childhood" - Grand Rounds. M.C.G. - Augusta, Georgia, March 15, 1979. 

"Symposium on Childhood Lead Poisoning. South Carolina 
Department of Health and Environmental Control. Columbia, SC, 
October 23, 1980. 

“Interaction of Nutrition and Lead Poisoning in Childhood". 
Nutrition Council and Area Health Education Center. Columbia, SC, June 20, 1980 

"6th Annual Conference on Vital Records and Statistics". 
Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, SC, 
October 5-6, 1980. 

"An Alternative Method of Intravenous Drug Administration in 
Pediatric Patients - The Use of Low Volume Tubing", Vander-veen TW, Reigart, JR, and Smith S. Presented ASHP MidyearClinical Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, December 5-9, 1982. 

"Management of Common Ingested Poisons in Children", Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Patient. Charleston, SC, December 3, 
1982. 

"Medical Evaluation and Management of Pesticide Exposure", 
Southeast Louisiana Emergency Medical Services Council, 
Recognition and Management of Environmental Disease in the 
1980's, New Orleans, LA, December 09,1983. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning" - Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Louisville College of Medicine, March 25, 1984. 

“Pesticide Exposure in Children", 1984 Migrant Health 
Conference, The Migrant Child. Charleston, SC, April 14, 1984.  



"Acute Pesticide Exposure™ - Care of the Critically 111 or 
Injured Patient - Charleston, SC, November 17, 1984. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning" - New Jersey Anti-Lead Poisoning 
Coalition, Trenton, New Jersey, October 10, 1924, 

"Medical Aspects of Childhood Lead Poisoning" - Migrant Health 
Workshop - Salt Lake City, Utah, January 18, 1985. 

"Relationship Between E.P., Iron Deficiency and Lead Poisoning", 
Workshop, Commonwealth of Virginia - Richmond, Va, August 29, 
1985. 

"Diagnosis, Supportive Management and Chelation Therapy" - 
Current Issues in Pediatric Lead Poisoning - Chicago Department 
of Health - March of Dimes, Chicago, Illinois, May 3, 1985. 

“Children at Risk: The Impact of Lead" - Eastern Area Health 
Education Center, Greenville, NC, April 4, 1986. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Grand Rounds - Rhode Island 
Hospital, June 6, 1986. 

"Current Perspectives - Future Directions", National childhood Lead Poisoning Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, December, 
1987. 

"Lead Poisoning Prevention", Injury Control/Lead Poisoning 
Prevention Program, Chatham County Department of Public Health, Savannah, Ga, May 10, 1989. 

"Health Effects and Medical Management of Lead Poisoning", First Lead Poisoning Workshop, North Carolina Department of Human 
Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 3, 1989. 

"Laboratory Issues in Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention", Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors, Columbia, Md, November 1991. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning, Committee on Children with 
Disabilities, Chicago, I11, December 1991 

"Pesticides, Children, and Food Safety", Public Voice's 1992 Children and Nutrition Conference (Guiding Kids to a Healthy Life), Washington, D.C., January 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Division of Children's Health Grand Rounds, Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, SC January 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention" Trident Regional Hospital, Charleston, SC, May 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Grand Rounds, Orangeburg Regional Hospital, Orangeburg, SC June 1992.  



  

“Clinical Answers: The Modern Approach", Metal Binding in 
Medicine--Lead/Cadmium Conference, Great Lakes Association of 
Clinical Medicine Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, September 1992. 

"Childhood Lead Poisoning", Annual AAP Meeting, San Francisco, 
CA, October 1992 

Moderator for NIEHS Meeting, Triangle Research Park, NC, 
November 1992. 

"Pediatric Lead Poison Prevention Continuing Education for 
Physicians", University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ, School of 
Osteopathic Medicine, Atlantic City, NJ, November 1992. 

"Medical Management Issues", Facilitator; National Childhood 
Lead Poisoning Prevention Conference, December 1992. 

EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 
Get the Lead Out Committee 
Childhood Lead Poisoning Talk Forum, Channel 5 
Charleston Lead Poisoning Prevention Coalition 
Charleston Memorial Hospital Executive Committee 

COMMUNITY SERVICE: 
District Enrollment Director, SC District, Dartmouth College 
President, Kiwanis Club of Charleston 
Board of Directors, MUSC Childrens Hospital Fund 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

JOURNALS : 
Lash J, Reigart JR, Studies in Ascidian Metamorphosis: 
Birefringence in Tail Epidermis", Biological Bulletin 
129:395:1965. 

  

Habercam JW, Keil JE, Reigart JR, Croft HW. "Lead Content of 
Human Blood, Hair, and Deciduous Teeth:Correlation with 
Environmental Factors and Growth". The Journal of Dental 
Research, 53:1160, 1974. 

  

  

Reigart JR, Brueggeman JL, Keil JE, "Sodium Fluoracetate 
("1080") Poisoning". American Journal of Diseases of Children, 129: 1124, 1975.   

Harmon GE’, Reigart JR, "Long-Term Follow-up of Survivors of 
Severe Acute Pesticide Poisoning". South Carolina Medical 
Association Journal. 71:253, 1975. 

  

  

Reigart JR, Whitlock NH, "Longitudinal Studies of Blood Lead and Free Erythrocyte Protoporphyrin". Pediatyice, 57:84, 1976,   

Cupp CM, Kleiwer G, Reigart JR, Sandifer SH, "Hypothermia in 
Organophosphate Poisoning and Response to PAM", South 
Carolina Medical Association Journal, 71: April, 197s,     

 



  

Allen RC, Harley RA, Reigart JR, "Quantitative and Qualitative 
Studies of Protease Inhibitor Phenotyping by Isoelectric 
Focusing on Polyacrylamide Gel Slabs". (Abstract) American 
Journal of Clinical Pathology, 633767, 1975. 

  

  

Reigart JR, Graber CD, "Evaluation of the Humoral Immune 
Response of Children with Low Level Lead Exposure". Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 16:112, 1976.   

Chisolm JJ, Currant AS, Finbert AS, Hopkins DR, Lin~Fu JS, 
Piomelli §, Reigart JR, Houk VH, "Increased Lead Absorption and 
Lead Poisoning in Young Children. A statement by the Center for 
Disease Control". J. Pediatrics, 87:824 1975. 

Penny LD’, Reigart JR, Loadhold CB, Taylor HL, "Variability in 
Response to Lead Exposuro: Domonctration of a Cenctic 
Influence". (Abstract), Pediatric Research, 11:438, 19577. 

Whitlock N, Reigart JR, Priester L, "Lead Poisoning in South 
Carolina". SCMA Journal, 73:378, 1977.   

Reigart JR, "Lead Poisoning". Hospital Medicine, 17:161 1l6J, 16N, 16P: August, 1981. 

‘Trammel HL, Sandifer SH, Reigart JR, and Hurwitz GA 
(Abstract) "National Pesticide Telecommunications Network: A 
Specialized Poison Information Center", Veterinary and Human 
Toxicology, 23:52, 1981. 

  

Reigart JR and Trammel HL. (Abstract) , "Treatment of Acute 
Dapsone Intoxication in a Child by Pulse Dosing with Activated Charcoal". Veterinary and Human Toxicology. 23:58, 1981.   

Thompson DF’, Trammel HL, Robertson NJ, and Reigart 
JR."Telephone Evaluation of Regional and Non-Regional Poison 
Centers", New England Journal of Medicine. 308: January 27, 1982, Number 4. 
  

Reigart JR, Trammel HL, and Lindsey JM, “Treatment of 
Symptomatic Dapsone Poisoning by Repetitive Activated Charcoal Treatment in a Child". Journal of Toxicology-Clinical 
Toxicology. 19:1061, 1983. 
  

Reigart JR, and Trammel HL: "Plasma and Red Blood Cell 
Cholinesterase Levels are Poor Predictors of Cholinergic - Symptomatology". Veterinary and Human Toxicology. 24:276, 
1982. (Abstract). 
  

Olanoff LS, Bristow W, Colcolough J, and Reigart JR. "Acute 
Chlordane Intoxication". Toxicology~-Clinical Toxicology 
20:291-3086, 1983. 
  

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Trammel HL, and Reigart JR. "Acute Herbicide Intoxication. 
Clinical Toxicology Consultant. 5156-69, 1983.     

Rogan WJ, Reigart JR, and Gladen BC, "Association of Amino 
Levulinate Dehydratase Levels and Ferrochelatase Inhibition in 
Childhood Lead Exposure". The Journal of Pediatrics. 109:60- 64, 1986. 

  

Weist DB, ONeal W, Reigart JR, Brundage RC, Gillette PC, and 
Yost RL, "Pharmacokinetics of Ranitidine in Crirically J11 
Infants". Developmental Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dev 
Pharmacol Ther 1989; 12(1): 7-12 
  

Durand RP, Fincher RE, Reigart JR, Lichtenstein LS, Lancaster, 
CJ, and Levine JH “An Analysis of Third Year Medical Students 
Abilities to Order Appropriate Diagnostic Tests and Procedures". 
Learning. Academic Medicine. 66(11):702-04, July, 1991.   

Hammill WwW’, Reigart JR, Laver J, "Ehrlichia Canis Infection in a Child in South Carolina", Clinical Pediatrics, Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1992 Jul; 31(7):432-4. 
    

Reigart JR, Chairman, Committee on Drugs, American Academy of 
Pediatrics; and Committee on Environmental Health, American 
Academy of Pediatrics, "Use of Chloral Hydrate for Sedation in 
Children" Pediatrics (In Press). 

Reigart JR, Chairman, Committee on Environmental Health, 
American Academy of Pediatrics, "Lead Poisoning - From Screening to Prevention" pediatrics, (In Press).   

Reigart JR. Chairman, Committee on Environmental Health, 
American Academy of Pediatrics, "Ambient Air Pollution: 
Respiratory Hazards to Children", Pediatrics, (In Press).   

BOOKS AND OTHER MONOGRAPHS: 

Krall AR, McLean Jr Ws®, Gamble HF, Rogers Jr EW, Reigart JR, Collawn SS", "Effects of Magnesium Infusions on the Metabolism of Calcium and Lead: Evidence for Release of Calcitonin and 
Parathyroid Hormone in Response to Changes in Plasma Magnesium Content." In Magnesium in Health in Disease Proceedings of 2nd Int. Symposium on Magnesium, Montreal. May, 1976. 
  

  

  

Miller MC, Westphal MC, Reigart JR, Barner C,Medical Diagnostic Models: A Bibliography. University Micro-filns Internaticnal, 
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Miller MC, Westphal MC, Reigart JR, Mathematical Models of 
Medical Diagnosis. Praeger, Inc. NY, NY, 198]. 

  

    

  

Reigart JR, "Future Directions", Childhood Lead Poisoning - 
Current Perspectives, 1988. 
  

Mahaffey KR, McKinney J, and Reigart JR, "Lead and Compound". 
(1991) In: Critical Reviews of Environmental Toxicants. Ed. M. 
Tinnmann Van Nnetrand RainhnldA, Nau Varlk 
  

Reigart JR, "Recommendations of the American Academy of 
Pediatrice on Lead Sorooning in Children", Drececcdinegs of the 
First National Conference on Laboratory Issues in Childhood Lead Doiconing Drovontion, Octobor 21 - November 2, 19921 

  

  
  

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