About the Author

Janette D. Sherman, M. D. is the author of Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer and Chemical Exposure and Disease. Dr. Sherman is a specialist in internal medicine and toxicology. She has published more than 70 articles in the scientific literature and also writes for the popular press to provide information to the concerned public.

Dr. Sherman worked in radiation and biologic research at the University of California nuclear facility, and at the US Naval Research Laboratory at Hunter’s Point in San Francisco. She has an undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry from Western Michigan University and a Medical degree from Wayne State University. Dr. Sherman received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Western Michigan University in 1989, and the Foremother’s Award from the National Research Center for Women and Families in 2006. She became a member of the Cosmos Club in 2001 based on “meritorious original research in medicine and toxicology.”

From 1976-1982 Dr. Sherman served on the advisory board for the EPA Toxic Substances Control Act. She has been an advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer and to the EPA on pesticides. She is a resource person, advisor, and speaker for universities and health advocacy groups concerning cancer, birth defects, pesticides, toxic dumpsites, and nuclear radiation.

Throughout her career Dr. Sherman has served as a medical-legal expert witness for thousands of individuals harmed by exposure to toxic agents. Her medical-legal files, including scientific background data are archived and available at the National Library of Medicine. Her 5000 workers’ compensation medical files are included, the largest collection in the United States. A complete list of archived materials is included on this web site.

Currently she is Adjunct Professor at the Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and Research Associate and Lecturer with the Radiation and Public Health Project. She has recently completed the translation and editing of the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature, written by A. V. Yablokov, V. B. Nesterenko and A. V. Nesterenko, to be published by the New York Academy of Sciences in December 2009.

Dr. Sherman's primary interest is the prevention of illness through public education and patient awareness.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking
if [human]kind is to survive.—Albert Einstein