About Us
Phronesis Scientific Consulting professionals have decades of practical and successful experience in the areas of human health toxicology and risk assessment, product stewardship and registration, and product active ingredient safety evaluation. Our human health toxicologists have years of experience assisting national and international clients with their most pressing occupational and environmental human health toxicology and risk assessment problems and providing sound, science and data-driven solutions. Our product stewardship, registration, and safety evaluation toxicologists have years of experience designing and ensuring compliance with global regulatory protocols, and have placed, monitored, and interpreted clinical, non-clinical, and ecological studies resulting in successful registrations and product support on a global basis. Phronesis Scientific Consulting experience is supported by a network of well-seasoned independent strategic partners throughout the United States that expands the firm’s capabilities into such areas as occupational and pulmonary medicine, health and social impact assessment, water resources, hydrogeology, and risk communication.
Dr. Michael Wernke
Dr. Michael Wernke is the Founder, Managing Member and Senior Toxicologist of Phronesis Scientific Consulting. Dr. Wernke has over thirty years of experience in the areas of human health toxicology and risk assessment, exposure assessment, risk communication, and strategic planning. He is also a licensed (Ohio) pharmacist. Dr. Wernke has successfully competed for, coordinated, managed, and contributed to large, cross-disciplinary projects that included human health toxicology and risk assessment, exposure assessment, forensic chemistry, and environmental impacts for large multi-national clients. Dr. Wernke co-led and assisted in the development of a knowledge management practice wherein large datasets of structured and unstructured data were used to develop actionable intelligence for exposure assessment, environmental decision-making, and document management. Dr. Wernke has thoroughly and critically evaluated the human health information, experimental data, mode of action, dose-response relationships, and pharmacokinetic/toxicokinetic data for a large number of environmental and occupational chemicals, radioactive materials, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food and feed additives or contaminants and consumer products for private and public sector clients to assist them in making science-based decisions.
