Vanessa A. Fitsanakis earned a B.S. in chemistry from Milligan College in TN, an M.Sc. in science and technology studies from the University of Edinburgh in the U.K., and a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in TN. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in toxicology at Wake Forest University Medical School in North Carolina. She held academic and research positions at undergraduate (King University) and medical (Vanderbilt University and Northeast Ohio Medical University) schools. She is currently an affiliated professor in the College of Pharmacy at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Fitsanakis is a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS), an active member in the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and a former officer in the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of SOT. As a member of grant review panels for the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Fitsanakis has reviewed research grant applications focused on the toxicity of drugs, alcohol, metals, or pesticides.
Dr. Fitsanakis currently works for Robson Forensic as an expert neurotoxicologist. She provides litigation support and causation analysis in matters involving alcohol, drugs of abuse, and prescription and recreational drugs, as well as environmental and occupational chemicals.
