Prakash Srinivasan Timiri Shanmugam, PhD, is currently a Senior Toxicologist at Avanos Medical, Inc. in Alpharetta, Georgia. He was previously contracted as an SME–Biocompatibility at Baxter International, Inc. in Round Lake, IL, United States, and at Johnson & Johnson Medical Device Sector. He has an MSc and a PhD in the specialization of Pharmacology and Toxicology with Chemistry (interdisciplinary) from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, and completed his postdoctoral research at Tulane University and LSUHSC-Shreveport, Louisiana. He has authored 5 books, contributed several book chapters, and published research articles in various peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings/abstracts.