Team member: Dr. Eric R. Welsh

He has nearly two decades of federal workplace drug testing experience, including for federal employees and military members within the Department of Defense (DoD). In the DoD's drug demand reduction efforts, he has worked as a sample collector, a drug testing laboratory manager, laboratory inspector, the Navy drug testing program manager, and in other leading roles to establish policy and practice. Additionally, he is an inspector/auditor for the National Laboratory Certification Program for the Federal Drug Free Workplace Program under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Welsh has earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and completed a military course of study with highest distinction from the United States Naval War College.