Todd Ruthman
Practice Lead, Risk Management Technology
BASc
Joined RSI in 2006
Personal introduction
I graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1992 with a BASc in Systems Design Engineering. That degree gave me a fascination with understanding how people, nature and technology work together as a coherent and integrated system. It informs how I think about design when developing the science-based and risk-based solutions we have been building for our clients for almost two decades which leverage the right combination of data, modelling and visualization. My team specializes in creating IT solutions, with either custom web applications or off-the shelf software like Excel, Anaytica and R, to support risk-informed decision making.
Todd Ruthman: Current Focus
Todd Ruthman’s current focus is on tools that help regulators visualize and understand the public risk burden
within their mandates to help inform risk-based decisions. Mr. Ruthman provides design, management, modelling, coding, and database development expertise for these tools. Mr. Ruthman also manages the RSI development group enhancing previously released tools such as FDA-iRISK, a web-based system designed to analyze data concerning microbial and chemical hazards in food and return an estimate of the resulting health burden on a population level developed for the Food and Drug Administration, which is available at https://irisk.foodrisk.org/
Works and Accomplishments
Todd Ruthman has been developing and managing the development of web-based database applications for almost three decades and science-based and risk-based applications for almost two decades. He has provided these services to a number of clients from both the public and private sectors, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Transport Canada, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Publications:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2008.01042.x
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jfp/article/76/3/376/171897/FDA-iRISK-A-Comparative-Risk-Assessment-System-for
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963996914004724
Todd Ruthman: Extra-curricular
Todd enjoys reading a good book and occasionally tries his hand as a writer with mixed results. He also enjoys casual hiking and cycling and keeps promising himself he will do another cycling road trip one of these days.