Prior to his appointment to the VRC, Mr. Mittelman served as managing director of a consultant group on behalf of NIAID's research programs, and as a regulatory scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has managed technical, administrative, and budgetary activities for cross-cutting biomedical and health research programs. Besides NIAID and EPA, his government experience encompasses the NIH Office of the Director; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Cancer Institute; the DHHS Office of Minority Health; the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health; the NIH Office of Science Education; the National Toxicology Program; the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; NASA; the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Health Resources and Services Administration; the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Mr. Mittelman has co-authored numerous publications, including review articles, state-of-the-science reports and book chapters, and has chaired or facilitated high-profile national expert panels and workshops for NIH and the Executive Office of the President.

Mr. Mittelman earned his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. He received his graduate and undergraduate training in toxicology and chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Yeshiva University Graduate School of Science.