Donna Cragle

Dr. Donna Cragle serves as senior technical advisor. Dr. Cragle has been involved with research of occupational hazards in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities for 35 years. The primary focus of her research has been occupational epidemiology with particular interest in radiation and beryllium exposure.

Dr. Cragle has also been involved in decision-making related to maintenance of the large worker databases. She has extensive experience with large-scale studies involving data from multiple worker populations. She has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications. She has presented Congressional testimony about mercury exposures to workers in Oak Ridge.

Prior to ORAU, Cragle worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Cragle received a doctorate in environmental epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in human genetics from the Medical College of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Indiana University.