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Dr. Richard Kramer is director of technical services for American Pest Management in Takoma Park, Md.
Kramer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture from the University of Florida in 1969. After receiving his Regular Army Commission, he served four years as the medical supply officer for the 10th Medical Laboratory in Landstuhl, West Germany.
In 1973, he returned to the University of Florida to study medical and veterinary entomology and received his master's degree in 1975. He then assumed military duties as a regional entomologist and regulatory compliance inspector for the southern division of the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency at Ft. McPherson in Atlanta, Ga. Subsequently, he served as an instructor in urban entomology and preventive medicine at the U.S. Army's Academy of Health and Sciences at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1984, he returned to the University of Florida to study urban entomology and German cockroach resistance, and received a Ph.D. in entomology in 1987. His research led to a patent for allopurinol as a German cockroach bait.
Following promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel, he served for four years as the assistant executive director of the Armed Forces Pest Management Board, where he helped develop Department of Defense pest management policy for the assistant secretary of defense for environment. After 22 years of military service, he retired from the U.S. Army in 1991 to assume the position of director of research, education, and technical resources for the National Pest Management Association.
Kramer is a board certified entomologist (B.C.E.) in urban and industrial entomology and a member of the Entomological Society of America. He also serves as the principal technical writer for GIE Media, developing technical books and training materials for the pest control industry.
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