FMCSA Appoints First Medical Review Board
he Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration this week named five medical experts who will serve on the agency's new medical review board.
FMCSA said it is planning updates to physical qualification regulations of commercial motor vehicle drivers and the board will provide the necessary science-based guidance to establish realistic and responsible medical standards.
The board members, all medical doctors, were appointed to two-year terms. They are:
font size=4>• Michael Greenberg, associate director for medical toxicology, Drexel University College of Medicine and director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program;
font size=4>• Kurt Hegmann, director and associate professor of the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah;
font size=4>• Barbara Phillips, chair of the National Sleep Foundation and professor at the University of Kentucky College of Health in the Department of Preventive Medicine; and
font size=4>• Matthew Rizzo, professor of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
