About EHS School Coordinators


UCI EHS School Coordinators are Environmental Health & Safety staff acting as liaisons to each of UCI's academic schools. EHS coordinators can represent your needs to EHS, help identify and report unsafe conditions, provide compliance assistance, answer health & safety questions, and clarify regulatory requirements.

Meet Our Team

Name Title Email
Joe Rizkallah Interim Associate Director, EHS jar@uci.edu
Angela Geissbuhler EHS Coordinator: School of Physical Sciences, School of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences ageiss@uci.edu
Sarine Hendershot EHS Coordinator: School of Medicine, Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing sdadouri@uci.edu
Christian Ritter EHS Coordinator: School of Engineering, CalIT2 crritter@uci.edu
Lorena Andrade EHS Coordinator: School of Biological Sciences, School of Population and Public Health, School of Social Ecology andradel@uci.edu
Eric Allton EHS Coordinator (Interim): Division of Continuing Education, Education, Humanities, ICS, Law, Libraries, School of Business, Social Sciences egallton@uci.edu

Our Programs

  • EHS program management
  • New Researcher Program
  • Research compliance program
  • Safety-on-Site (SOS) program
  • TANGO

Our Services

  • Accident investigations
  • Ad hoc surveys and inspections
  • Building surveys follow-ups
  • FM Project management Support
  • General safety consultation
  • Lab safety surveys
  • Laboratory cleanouts
  • Laboratory design and set-up consultation
  • Laboratory relocation assistance
  • New Principal Investigator (PI) onboarding and partnering
  • Odor response and spill response support
  • PPE Spot Checks
  • Safety Representative (SR) ;training
  • School requested projects
  • Tailored communications