Dr. Robert B. Finkelman, retired in 2005 after 32 years with the U.S. Geological Survey. He is currently a Research Professor in the Dept. of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing. He is an internationally recognized scientist widely known for his work on coal chemistry and as a leader of the emerging field of Medical Geology. Dr. Finkelman has degrees in geology, geochemistry, and chemistry.  He has lectured and provided mentorship at colleges and universities around the world. Bob is the author of more than 900 publications including four books on Medical Geology and has been invited to speak in more than 50 countries. Dr. Finkelman is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has served as Chairman of the Geological Society of America’s Geology and Health Division; a founding member and past co-Chair of the International Medical Geology Association; he was a Board Member of the U.S. Section of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health and was on the Advisory Board of the GeoHealth Section of the American Geophysical Union and he received the GSA’s Geology and Health Division’s Distinguished Career Award, 2021