Director, Environmental Health Division
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI)
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Environmental and Chronic Disease Epidemiology, with a specific focus on the Epidemiology of Lead Poisoning.
Dr. Rhoads serves as Chairman of the National Steering Committee for the Treatment of Lead-exposed Children (TLC) trial under the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He is also listed as clinical center staff at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey site.
George G. Rhoads was Principal Investigator at the New Jersey (Newark / UMDNJ) Clinical Center of the TLC trial.
He co-authored a 1996 letter to Pediatrics with Walter Rogan describing the TLC trial design, clarifying that the enrollment range began at 20 µg/dL (not 25 as stated by the AAP Committee on Drugs) and raising a dosing concern: young TLC children needed up to twice as much succimer when dosed by body surface area rather than weight.
Rhoads led the Comprehensive Lead Exposure Assessment Reduction Study (CLEARS) at the New Jersey site, a randomized trial testing whether biweekly household cleaning by trained workers could reduce blood lead levels in urban children aged 6–36 months. The CLEARS data showed that biweekly cleaning could reduce BLLs by 17% (from 12.4 to 10.3 µg/dL), and children in homes cleaned 20 or more times experienced a 34% reduction — demonstrating what intensive environmental intervention could achieve.
Chairman, Network Advisory Committee — National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Chairman, Data Monitoring Committee — National Growth and Health Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Chairman, National Steering Committee — TLC Project, NIEHS
Member, Scientific Advisory Council — Hawaii Heptachlor Research and Education Foundation
Source: EOHSI Rutgers Guide (archived August 16, 2000)