Phyllis J. Mullenix, Ph.D. - Biography
DR. PHYLLIS J. MULLENIX, Ph.D. is a pharmacologist and toxicologist by
training. She graduated from the Truman State University (Zoology --
magna cum laude). Her Postdoctoral Training was as a Research Fellow,
Environmental Medicine, The John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health, Baltimore. In the 1980s, Dr. Mullenix was Head of the Toxicology
Department at the Forsyth Dental Center, a world renowned dental research
institution affiliated with the Harvard Medical School. She was invited
to start Forsyth's Toxicology Department because of her expertise in
neurotoxicology. She is presently a Research Associate in Psychiatry at
the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Mullenix's
academic appointments, professional positions held, teaching experience,
awards, honors and many published scientific research articles to her name
are numerous.
The first test Dr. Mullenix was asked to perform at the Forsyth
Dental Center was a test related to neurotoxicity of fluoride. The person
who asked her to perform this test was Dr. Harold C. Hodge, one of the
founders of the Society of Toxicology. Since that time, Dr. Mullenix has
conducted additional research related to fluoride including one study
which is about to be published. She is considered to be the world's
foremost expert on the neurotoxicity of fluoride compounds.
Because of her expertise, Dr. Mullenix is very busy publishing research,
presenting at conferences, and meeting a large number of other
obligations. But she has generously offered to discuss the issue of
pre-natal and post-natal fluoride neurotoxicity and its relationship to
ADD/ADHD and other neurological conditions.