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Lesley C. Homer, MS
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Biosafety Officer, CVR
Environmental Health and Safety
8081 BST3
3501 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Phone: (412) 624-8768
Fax: 412-648-8917
E-mail: LCE3@pitt.edu
Webpage: http://www.cvr.pitt.edu/personnel/view.asp?uid=lce3
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Biography
The role of the RBL Biosafety Officer is to direct, maintain, and expand the biological safety program for the facility. Responsibilities include training all new personnel, providing ongoing/refresher training to approved personnel, establishing written manuals and standard operating procedures, ensuring all procedures are followed properly, validating all decontamination systems such as autoclaves and gaseous decontamination, and supporting the regulatory requirements of the Select Agent Program.
Lesley Homer is a Registered Biosafety Professional and Certified Biological Safety Professional with the American Biological Safety Association, and has received certification as a Specialist Microbiologist in Biological Safety Microbiology from the National Registry of Microbiologists, ASM. She was the lead author on a paper that received the 2012 Richard C. Knudsen Award from the American Biological Safety Association. She has provided occupational health and safety support to the University of Pittsburgh research community since 2002. Lesley received her B.S. from the University of Miami in 1992 and her M.S. from the University of Delaware in 1998.
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Selected Publications
- Homer, Lesley C., Alderman, T. Scott, Blair, Heather A., et al. (2013.) Guidelines for biosafety training programs for workers assigned to BSL-3 research laboratories. Biosecur Bioterror 11(1),10-19.
- Homer, Lesley C., Fisher, Daniel J., Heflin, Dennis T., and Cole, Kelly S. (2012.) Decontamination and digestion of infectious animal waste using a tissue dissolver in an animal biosafety level 3 facility. Lab Animal 41(11),327-335.
- Hartman, Amy L., Cole, Kelly S., and Homer, Lesley C. (2012.) Verification of Inactivation Methods for Removal of Biological Materials from a Biosafety Level 3 Select Agent Facility. Applied Biosafety 17(2), 70-75.
- Homer, Lesley C., Hartman, Amy L., Heflin, Dennis T., Trichel, Anita M., Reed, Douglas S., and Cole, Kelly S. (2011.) Enhancement of the Mentored Training Program for Investigative Staff at the University of Pittsburgh Regional Biocontainment Laboratory. Applied Biosafety 16(4(, 231-239.
- Homer, Lesley C., Heflin, Dennis T., Manning, C.R., and Cole, Kelly S. (2011.) Engineering and Work Practice Controls for the Use of Anesthetic Gases During BSL-3 Rabbit Studies. Applied Biosafety 16(3): 167-176.
- Hartman AL, Homer LC, Trichel AM, Fisher D, Frerotte J, and KS Cole. (2010.) Evolution of a facility-specific BSL-3 training program for the University of Pittsburgh Regional Biocontainment Laboratory. Applied Biosafety 15(3):137-141.
- Homer, Lesley C. et al. (2009). Hydrogen peroxide vapor decontamination of two specialized animal transport units. Session XIV, 52nd Annual American Biological Safety Association Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 18-21, 2009.
- Homer, Lesley C. et al. (2009.) Vaporized hydrogen peroxide decontamination of a Class III biosafety cabinet and mobile transfer cart. Poster session, entry #4, 3rd Annual Aerobiology in Biodefense Research Meeting, Rocky Gap, Maryland, July 13-16, 2009.
- Homer, Lesley C. et al. (2009.) Development and validation of vaporized hydrogen peroxide decontamination of a Class III biosafety cabinet. Session #255, 7th Annual ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, February 22-25, 2009.
- Homer, L.C., Roolf, D.L., Peffer, H.M., DiNardo, M.A., Balonick, T.Z., Frerotte, J.M., and L.M. Milchak, Ph.D. (2007.) Implementation of a safety-engineered sharps initiative at a large research institution. American Biological Safety Association, 50th Annual Biological Safety Conference, Nashville, TN, 2007.
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