Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
6100 Executive Blvd., Room B703
Rockville, MD 20852
301- 496- 1711 or 496-6155
301- 402- 2084 (fax)
| State University of New York at Buffalo | Epidemiology | Ph.D. | 2/87 |
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| State University of New York at Buffalo | Epidemiology | M.S. | 9/80 |
| State University of New York at Buffalo | Sociology | B.A. | 2/78 |
| Millard Fillmore School of Nursing | Nursing | R.N. | 6/75 |
| 2009-present | Director & Senior Investigator, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health |
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| 2007- 2009 | Acting Director, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health |
| 2000-2009 | Chief, Epidemiology Branch & Senior (Tenured) Investigator, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health |
| 2001-2004 | Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State of New York |
| 2000 | Professor (tenured), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State of New York (University Name Change) |
| 2000-2004 | Adjunct Professor, Natural Sciences Division, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, University at Buffalo, State of New York |
| 1995-2000 | Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State of New York |
| 1995-2000 | Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1997-2000 | Associate Professor, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1996-2000 | Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State of New York |
| 1998-2000 | Adjunct Associate Professor, Roswell Park Graduate Division, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1993-1995 | Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1992-1996 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State of New York |
| 1990-1997 | Assistant Research Professor, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Roswell Park Graduate Division, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1989-2000 | Graduate Faculty of SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1987-1993 | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine & Biomedical Science, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1980-1983 | Co-Project Director, Office of the Dean, School of Health Related Professions, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1978-1980 | Research Assistant, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 1975-1978 | Registered Professional Nurse, Millard Fillmore Hospital (Inactive Status, New York #276928) |
American College of Epidemiology, Elected Fellow
American Epidemiological Society, Elected Fellow
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Society for Epidemiologic Research
Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (Founding Member)
| 2001-2003 | Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine (Public Health 201), School of Public Health, George Washington University, Group Facilitator |
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| 1988-2000 | Reproductive Epidemiology (SPM 518), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, State of New York, Founder & Course Director |
| 1993-2000 | Perinatal Epidemiology (SPM 618), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, State of New York, Founder & Course Director |
| 1996-2000 | Issues and Controversies in Reproductive & Perinatal Epidemiology (SPM 619), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo, Founder & Course Director |
| 1998-1999 | Epidemiology & Biostatistics (SPM 600), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine & School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Founder & Course Director |
| 1998 | Evidence Based Medicine, (CPM, 2nd year students), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Founder & Course Director |
| 1997 | Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Preventive Medicine (SPM 600), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Director, Spring Semester |
| 1996-1997 | Clinical Based Medicine (CPM, 1st year students), School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, Course Co-director, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Module |
| 1992-1994 | Statistics, Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine (SPM 600), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo, Statistics Lab Leader for Medical Students |
| 1999 | 19th Annual New England Epidemiology Summer Program, Epidemiology Research Institute. Short Course in Reproductive Epidemiology, NERI, Bentley College, Massachusetts |
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| 2005-present | Summer Institute in Reproductive & Perinatal Epidemiology. Jointly sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the Canadian Institute for Health Research (Founding Faculty Member) |
| 1988-2000 | University at Buffalo: mentored 30 epidemiology graduate students including 11 doctoral students (chaired 8 committees) and 19 Master’s of Science students (chaired 12 committees). Graduate advisor for 24 students. Mentored 22 undergraduate medical students. |
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| 2000-present | National Institutes of Health: mentored 2 pre-doctoral IRTA fellows, 6 post-doctoral IRTA fellows, 1 Howard Hughes Scholar, and 14 summer interns. |
| 1975 | Graduation Honors, Millard Fillmore School of Nursing |
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| 1975 | American Red Cross Student Nurse Achievement Award |
| 1976 | Alpha Kappa Delta, National Sociology Honor Society |
| 1978 | Magna cum laude, State University of New York at Buffalo |
| 1978 | Student Workshop Participant, Society for Epidemiologic Research, Amherst, MA |
| 1987 | Scholl Fellow, National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Foundation |
| 1994-1997 | Merck/Society for Epidemiologic Research Fellowship Award, Merck Company Foundation |
| 1987 | Student Workshop, Society for Epidemiology Research |
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| 1987 | Abraham Lilienfeld Award, Society for Epidemiologic Research |
| 2000 | Service Award, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology |
| 2002 | NIH Merit Award. National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. For Providing Leadership and Vision in Epidemiologic Research to the Institute and the Epidemiologic Community at Large |
| 2004 | NIH Mentoring Award. National Institutes of Health. For Exemplary Performance while Demonstrating Significant Leadership, Skill, and Ability in Serving as a Mentor for the Epidemiology Branch at NICHD |
| 2005 | NIH Merit Award. National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. For Innovative Planning and Dedication to the Successful Development of the first NICHD-IHDCYH Sponsored Summer Institute for Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology |
| 2009 | NIH Merit Award. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. For Ingenuity in Designing and Dedication in Completing the LIFE Study, Whose Aim is to Identify Environmental Reproductive Toxicants |
| 2010 | Mentoring Award, Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiologic Research |
| 1988 | March of Dimes: Birth Asphyxia and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Clinical Research Administrative Grant |
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| 1988-1989 | Research Development Fund Support, School of Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo: Surfactant Database for Developmental Morbidity |
| 1994 | Multidisciplinary Research Pilot Project Program, SUNY at Buffalo. A Population-Based study of Infertile Women Who Do and Do Not Seek Medical Services, Upstate New York |
| 1994-1997 | Merck Company Foundation: A Population-Based Study of the Impact of Tubal Sterilization on Women’s Health Status |
| 1998-2000 | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health. Halogenated Organics and Endometriosis Risk (R01ES09045.01) |
| 1991-1996 | National Institute of Health, Medical Sociology, Epidemiology and Control of Cancer, Co-investigator, 3% effort (Marshall, PI) |
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| 1991-1993 | The Children’s Guild, Epidemiological Aspects of Extreme Prematurity, Co-investigator, 50% effort, (Msall, PI) |
| 1993-1994 | Wildermuth Foundation, Clinical Evaluation of Infertility Treatment, Co-investigator, 10% effort, (Severino, PI) |
| 1992-2000 | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control & Promotion, New York State Angler Cohort Study - Exposure Characterization and Reproductive and Developmental Health, Co-investigator, 20% effort, (Vena, PI; Buck, PI on Reproductive Projects for Center Grant) |
| 1993-1994 | Wildermuth Foundation, Clinical Evaluation of Infertility Treatment, Co-investigator, 10% effort, (Severino, PI) |
| 1993-1995 | March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Impact of Extreme Prematurity on Long-Term Educational Outcomes, Co-investigator, 10% effort, (Msall, PI) |
| 1993-1995 | SUNY at Buffalo, Indirect Medical Education Demonstration Project, Chronic Care and Developmental Disabilities, Co-investigator, 10% effort (Msall, PI) |
| 1994-1995 | Association for Research of Childhood Cancer, Inc., Prenatal and Early Childhood Exposures as Factors in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Co-investigator, 20% effort (Brecher, PI) |
| 1995-1996 | SUNY at Buffalo, Multidisciplinary Disciplinary Pilot Project Program, The effects of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD:dioxin) on gene expression in human endometrium, Co-investigator, 5% effort (Bofinger, PI) |
| 1997-2001 | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Medical Sociology, Epidemiology, and Control of Cancer, Co-investigator, 10% effort (Vena, PI) |
| 1998-2001 | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control & Promotion, New York State Angler Cohort Study - Reproductive and Developmental Health, Co-investigator, 20% effort (Vena, PI) |
| 2000-2002 | U.S. Army, Department of Defense, Environmental Exposures at Birth and at Menarche and Risk of Breast Cancer, Co-investigator, 2% effort (Freudenheim, PI) |
| 2000-2001 | University at Buffalo, State of New York Pilot Project Program 2000, Impact of Environmental Exposure to Pharmaceutically-Derived Hormones, Co-investigator, 10% (Jensen, PI) |
| 2003-2009 | Longitudinal Investigation of the Environment and Fertility (LIFE Study); $11,000,000 |
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| 2006-2009 | Stress and Time to Pregnancy; $107,000 |
| 2006-2009 | Persistent Environmental Compounds and Gynecologic Health (ENDO Study); $5,300,000 |
Extramural Funding
| 2002-2004 | Analysis of Correlated Pregnancy Outcomes. American Chemistry Council; $100,00 |
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| 2002-2003 | Prospective Cohort Studies of Chinese Acrylonitrile Workers - Feasibility, Acrylonitrile Group; $50,000 |
| 2005-2006 | Validity of Self Reported Time-to-Pregnancy; $27,000 |
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| 2007-2011 | Upstate KIDS Study; $5,300,000 |
Provided considerable community service to the Western New York while on faculty at the University at Buffalo, largely in the areas of maternal and child health and environmental health issues, 1987-2000. A detailed listing is provided in part 2 of my curriculum vitae.
| 1981-1983 | Student Member, Joint Professional Staff/Faculty Senate Affirmative Action Committee |
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| 1983-1987 | Student Member, Graduate Student Admissions Committee, Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
| 1993-1996 | Member, Seminar Committee, Center for the Study of Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health |
| 1994-1977 | Member, Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care |
| 1995-1997 | Member, Health Sciences Divisional Committee |
| 1996-1997 | Member, Second Year Curriculum Committee, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences |
| 1996-1997 | Member, Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Council Steering Committee |
| 1996-1999 | Member, Advisory Board, Center for Nursing Research, School of Nursing |
| 1997-2000 | Member, First Year Curriculum Committee, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences |
| 1997-1998 | Member, Committee on Interdisciplinary Structures |
| 1998-2000 | Member, Nominating Committee for the Faculty Council |
| 1998 | Member, Search Committee, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics |
| 1997-1998 | Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Council Steering Committee |
| 1998-1999 | Chair, Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Council Steering Committee |
| 1998-2000 | Ex-Officio Member, Dean's Curriculum Task Force |
| 1999-2000 | Member, Committee on Appointments & Promotions |
| 1996-1997 | Member, Steering Committee - Joint MPH Program between SUNY at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY at Buffalo |
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| 1996-2000 | Member, Institutional Fund Reimbursement Committee |
| 1997-1998 | Member, Graduate Program Working Group |
| 1997-2000 | Member, Graduate and Admissions Committee, (Chair 1999) |
| 1997-1999 | Chair, Medical Teaching Committee |
| 1997-2000 | Member, Preliminary Examination Committee |
| 1997-2000 | Member, Search Committee (Urban Health, Director Preventive Medicine) |
| 2001- present | Women and Science Advisory Group |
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| 2002 | Search Committee Member, Tenure Track Position, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Sciences |
| 2001-2002 | Investigation Committee, Office of Intramural Research, Office of the Director |
| 2003-2006 | Second Task Force on the Status of NIH Intramural Women Scientists |
| 2005 | Selection Committee and Procedures for Women’s Health Shared Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2007 | Search Committee Member, Tenure Track/Tenured Investigators (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute |
| 2007- present | Subcommittee for Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of Women at NIH, Office of Intramural Research |
| 2007- present | NIH’s Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers |
| 2008 | Search Committee Member, Tenure Track Investigator, Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute |
| 2010- present | Global Health Communicators Subcommittee, Trans-NIH Global Health Research Working Group |
| 2000-2001 | Search Committee Member, Tenured or Tenure Track Perinatal Epidemiology Position, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research |
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| 2001 | Search Committee Chair, Tenure Track Prevention Research Position, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research |
| 2001 | Search Committee Member, Tenured or Tenure Track Biometry & Mathematical Statistics Position, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research |
| 2001 | Committee Member, SIDS Five -Year Strategic Planning Committee |
| 2001-2005 | Co-Chair, Fertility & Early Pregnancy Committee, National Children’s Study |
| 2002 | Ad hoc Tenure Review & Promotion Review Committee |
| 2003-2004 | Search Committee Member, Staff Scientist Position, Epidemiology Branch |
| 2006 | Search Committee Member, Tenure Track/Tenured Investigator, Biometry Branch |
| 2006-2007 | Committee Member, Tenure Track/Tenured Investigator, Epidemiology Branch |
| 2006 | Committee Member, Tenure Review & Promotion |
| 2008 | Search Committee Member, Office of the Director, Associate Director for Administration |
| 2008- present | Board Member, Office of the Director, NICHD Information Technology Advisory Board |
| 2008- 2009 | Interview Review Panel, NICHD COAC Director |
| 2010- present | Member, NICHD Seminar Series Committee |
| 2010-present | Director’s Advisory Group |
| 2000 | National Birth Defects Prevention Network Data and Annual Report, CDC |
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| 1995-1997 | Co-Editor, American College of Epidemiology Newsletter |
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| 2001-present | Associate Editor, American Journal of Epidemiology |
| 2009-present | Editorial Board, NIH Catalyst |
Epidemiology & Public Health: American Journal of Epidemiology; American Journal of Public Health; Annals of Epidemiology; Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health; Environmental Health; Environmental Health Perspectives; Environmental Research; Epidemiology; Epidemiologic Reviews; European Journal of Epidemiology; International Journal of Epidemiology; Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health; Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology; Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology
Clinical: American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology; European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology; Fertility & Sterility; Human Reproduction; Journal of American Medical Association; Journal of Andrology; Mental Retardation and Development Disability Research Reviews; Journal of Pediatrics; Obstetrics & Gynecology; Pediatrics; Journal of National Medical Association; National Medical Journal of Pediatrics
Other: Biomedical Central; Birth; Cancer; Cancer Research; Chemosphere; Environmental Science & Technology; Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology; Inhalation Toxicology; Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology; Journal Toxicology and Environmental Health; Journal of Toxicology and Industrial Health; Neurotoxicology and Teratology; Reproductive Toxicology; Tobacco Control; Toxicological Sciences
| 1991 | Society for Epidemiologic Research 24th Annual Meeting (Hosted by the Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo). |
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| 1991-1995, 2000 | Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research |
| 1999-2000 | 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Hosted by the Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo |
| 2001-2002 | Society for Women’s Health Research. Sex Differences in Environmental Health Research, NIH |
| 2004 | Methods & Applications of Day Specific Probabilities of Conception, NICHD |
| 2003-2004 | ISLI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, 2004 International Biomonitoring Workshop |
| 2004 | Expanding Methodologies for Capturing Day-Specific Probabilities of Conception Workshop, NIH |
| 2004-2005 | ISEE 2005 Scientific Programme Committee |
| 2006-2007 | University of California, San Francisco- Collaborative on Health and the Environment Summit. Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility |
| 2004-present | Eunice Kennedy Shrive National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and Canadian Institute for Health Research’s Summer Institute in Reproductive & Perinatal Epidemiology |
| 2008 | Preconception Care Research: Improving Birth Outcomes and Reproductive Health Workshop, NICHD |
| 2008 | Team Science: Passion for Participatory Research, NICHD |
| 1992-1994 | Committee Member, Program Planning and Continuing Education Committee, American College of Epidemiology |
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| 1992-1994 | Consultant, Consultative Committee on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
| 1992-1995 | Committee Member, Education Committee, American College of Epidemiology |
| 1993-1998 | Committee Member, Ethics and Standards of Practice Committee, American College of Epidemiology |
| 1997-1998 | Subcommittee Member, American College of Epidemiology Ethics Guidelines Subcommittee. Writing Group |
| 1994-1997 | Chair, Communications and Public Relations Committee, American College of Epidemiology, |
| 1996 | Temporary Advisor, International Programme on Chemical Safety - Boron, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization |
| 1989-1999 | Member, Advisory Board, Western New York Regional Perinatal Data System. Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics, University at Buffalo |
| 1999-2000 | Member, Cancer Prevention and Control Committee, Gynecologic Oncology Group |
| 2000-2002 | Member, Technical Implementation Panel for Long-Range Research Initiatives, American Chemistry Council |
| 2002-2003 | Member, Finance Committee. American College of Epidemiology |
| 2003-2004 | Chair, Finance Committee. American College of Epidemiology |
| 2003-2004 | Temporary Advisor, World Health Organization. IPCS Planning Meeting to Develop Outline for EHC on “Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals,” World Health Organization |
| 2003 | Invited Panelist. University of Washington and WHO Workshop on Evaluating Developmental & Reproductive Toxicity for Risk Assessment, Seattle, Washington |
| 2003-2004 | Invited Special Emphasis Panel on Fluoxetine. National Toxicology Program, Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| 2003-2009 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board’s Environmental Health Committee |
| 2005-2007 | Member, National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors |
| 2005-2006 | Member, Congress of Epidemiology Awards (Lilienfeld Award) Committee |
| 2006 | Member, Congress of Epidemiology Student Prize Paper Award & Travel Awards Committees |
| 2006 | Chair, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Nominations Committee |
| 2007 | Member, Awards Committee, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology |
| 2007 | Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency’s Human Studies Review Board for Scientific and Ethical Approaches for Observational Exposure Studies |
| 2008-2010 | Science Advisory Panel, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada |
| 2009-present | Member, Rising Star Awards Committee, Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology |
| 2009-present | Committee Member, Awards Committee, Society for Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology |
| 2010-present | Committee Member, Research Working Group, National Agenda on Infertility, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention |
| 1991-1995 | Secretary, Society for Pediatric Epidemiology Research |
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| 1995-1998 | Board Member, American College of Epidemiology |
| 2000-2001 | President-Elect, Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiologic Research |
| 2001-2002 | President, Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Research |
| 2004-2007 | Councilor, Executive Council, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology |
| 1995-1997 | Committee Member, Subcommittee on Zinc-Cadmium-Sulfide, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Toxicology |
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| 1995-2001 | Member, Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1996-2002 | Board Member, Board of the Medical Follow-up Agency, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1997-2000 | Committee Member, Subcommittee on Reproductive and Developmental Toxicants, Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1997-2001 | Committee Member, Subcommittee on Toxicological Hazard Evaluation, Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1998-1999 | Advisor, Institute of Medicine's Study on Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces, Subtask 2.4. |
| 1998-2001 | Committee Member, Oversight Committee, Five Year Follow up of Army personnel Potentially Exposed to Chemical Warfare Agents, Medical Follow up Agency, Institute of Medicine |
| 1998-1999 | Advisor, National Research Council's Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces. Task 2.1. Assessing Health Risks during Deployments in Hostile Environments. National Academy of Science |
| 2000-2002 | Committee Member, Subcommittee on Submarine Escape Action. Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, The National Academies |
| 2000 | Committee Member, Subcommittee on Risk Assessment at Atsugi Naval Air Facility, Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, The National Academies |
| 2006 | Panel Member, Research Support Program of the National Academy of Sciences, Policy & Global Affairs Division. The National Academies |
| 2009- | Committee Member, Government Liaison Group for the Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions, The National Academies |
Presented over 60 invited (inter)national talks, seminars & grand rounds. Invited participant for 29 expert panels, advisory boards or workshops. Also, 47 contributed posters and papers at scientific meetings. A detailed listed is provided in part 2 of my curriculum vitae.
| 1992 | Ad Hoc Study Section Member, NICHD |
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| 1995 | Ad Hoc Study Section Member, NICHD & NIEHS |
| 1998 | Special Emphasis Panel, Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Promotion Research, NIEHS & EPA |
| 1999 | Ad Hoc Reviewer, Minority Biomedical Research Support, NIH |
| 1999 | Ad Hoc Study Section Member, Genetic Susceptibility & Variability of Human Malformations, NICHD & NIEHS |
| 2000 | Ad Hoc Study Section Member, Epidemiology Study Section 2, NIEHS |
| 2001 | Ad Hoc Study Section Member, VA’s Centers for the Study of War Related Illnesses, VA |
| 2003 | Ad Hoc Reviewer, Global Health Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research, NICHD |
| 2004 | Chair & Ad Hoc Reviewer. Special Emphasis Panel – Gene Environment Interactions and Breast Cancer, NIEHS |
| 2005 | Ad Hoc Reviewer. Special Emphasis Panel – Support Services for Epidemiology, NIEHS |
| 2007 | Ad Hoc Reviewer. Evaluation of an EmOC Intervention Package to Reduce Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Low Resource Settings (The EmOC Trial), NICHD |
| 2008 | Ad hoc Reviewer. National Toxicology Program, Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, NIEHS |
| 2001-2003 | Ad Hoc Reviewer. Canadian Northern Contaminants Program. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development |
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| 2001 | Ad Hoc Reviewer, Health Effects Institute |
| 2007 | Ad Hoc Reviewer, Medical Research Council |
| 2001-2003 | Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Chemistry Council |
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| 2000-2004 | Ad Hoc Reviewer, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation |
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| 2004 | Review of the Army’s Technical Guides on Assessing and Managing Chemical Hazards to Deployed Personnel. Subcommittee on the Toxicological Risks to Deployed Military Personnel, Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, The National Academies |
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| 2006 | Review of U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade’s Research Support Program of the National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs Division, The National Academies |
Buck Louis GM, Gray LE Jr., Marcus M, Ojeda SR, Pescovitz OH, Feldman Witchel S, Sippell W, Abbott DH, Soto A, Tyl RW, Bourguignon J-P, Skakkebaek NE, Swan SH, Golub MS, Wabitsch M, Toppari J,
Euling S. Environmental factors and puberty timing: expert panel research needs. Pediatrics 2008;121:S172-S191.
| 1992 | Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Epidemiologic Research - A Three-Day Short Course |
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| 1992 | Unraveling the Association between Illness and Environmental Exposure. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC |
| 1994 | Epidemiology Summer Institute, Tufts University |
| 1995 | Geographic Information Systems: Short Course. Public Health Service, CDC |
| 1997 | Case Studies in Science. University at Buffalo |
| 2006 | Bayesian Analysis – A Three-Day Short Course, NIH |
| 2007 | Keystone Symposia. Reproduction Advances and Challenges |
| 2004 | Negotiating for Women Scientists, National Institutes of Health |
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| 2006 | Scientific Leadership Course (Managing Up & Down, Motivating Others, Dealing with Conflict, Negotiating/Hiring Skills, Mentoring Skills), The Center for Health Professions at the National Institutes of Health |
| 2007 | Dealing with Difficult Personalities, National Institutes of Health |
| 1987-1990 | Member, Western New York SIDS Advisory Task Force |
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| 1988-1993 | Vice President & Board Member, Buffalo Regional Task Force for Comprehensive Prenatal-Perinatal Services Network Development, Inc., |
| 1988-1993 | Chairman, Program Committee, Buffalo, New York |
| 1988-1993 | Member, Finance Committee |
| 1993-1995 | President & Board Member, Buffalo Regional Task Force for Comprehensive Prenatal-Perinatal Services National Development, Inc., Buffalo, New York |
| 1996-1999 | Emeritus Board Member, Buffalo Regional Task Force for Comprehensive Prenatal- Perinatal Services Network Development, Inc., Buffalo, New York |
| 1992-1997 | Member, Caring for Tomorrow’s Children Committee, County of Erie, Buffalo, New York |
| 1993-1995 | Member, Infant Mortality Task Force, Health Systems Agency, Western New York |
| 1994-1996 | Member, Hospital Futures Task Force of Western New York, Health Systems Agency of Western New York, Inc. |
| 1994-1996 | Member, Health Systems Agency’s Speaker Bureau, Western New York |
| 1995-1998 | Member, Community Review Team, Infant Mortality in Erie County, Erie County Health Department |
| 1996-1997 | Committee Member, Buffalo Environmental Management Commission |
Epidemiology of SIDS. Division of Epidemiology. School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. May 1992
Epidemiology of SIDS - Prevention Strategies. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY. September/October (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998)
Time to Pregnancy, NYS Angler Cohort Study. Program in Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. February 2, 1995
Opportunities for Family Medicine in Perinatal Epidemiology. Family Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. April 20, 1995.
Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. Eastern Great Lakes Perinatal Research Study Group, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, December 13, 1996.
Women’s Health and Reproduction. Rochester Women’s Health Research Group, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, February 2, 1996.
Role of Epidemiology in Developing Indicators of Health Status and Health Services Research. School of Nursing, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1996, 1997, 1998.
Paternal Consumption of PCB Contaminated Lake Ontario Fish and Risk of Conception Delay. College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Biosciences. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, October 3, 1997.
Public Health Surveillance. School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State of New York, April 7, 1999.
Reproductive Factors and Cancer. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, April 12, 1999.
Consumption of Environmentally Contaminated Sport Fish and Fecundability. George Washington University, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Services, October 4, 1999.
Parental Consumption of Contaminated Sport Fish from Lake Ontario and Fecundability. National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institute of Health. Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Prevention, February 11, 2000.
Contaminated Fish Consumption and Fecundability. School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Joint MD/PhD Seminar, University at Buffalo, February 29, 2000.
Ethics in Epidemiologic Research: The American College of Epidemiology’s Ethics Guidelines. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, March 6, 2000.
PCB Congeners and Fecundity, New York State Angler Cohort Study. 43rd Annual International Conference on Great Lakes Research, Cornwall, Ontario, May 24, 2000.
Sex Fecundity and Reproduction: Scientific, Social and Ethical Challenges. Dialogues in Research Ethics. University of Miami, Miami, Florida, March 30, 2001.
Existing and Potential Sources/Uses of Human Genetic Biomarker Data. International Council for Chemical Associations’ Genomic Workshop, Orlando, Florida, March 7, 2001.
Epidemiology of Infertility: Critical Data Gaps. National Summit on Safe Motherhood: Investing in Health of Women, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, September 6, 2001.
Findings from the New York State Angler Cohort Study. School of Public Health, George Washington University, March 13, 2002.
Critical Issues for Assessing Environmental Threats to Reproductive Health. Environmental Health Sciences, George Washington University, March 13, 2002.
Use of Prospective Inquiry for Studying Environmental Threats to Human Reproduction. School of Public Health, University of Texas – Houston, March 20, 2002.
Partnering with the Community to Answer Questions about Environmental Influences on Human Reproduction and Development. Environment & Society Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, April 19, 2002.
Developmental Outcomes after Reproductive Technologies. Society for Developmental Pediatrics, Baltimore, Maryland, May 6, 2002.
Environmental PCBs and Pesticide Exposure and Risk of Endometriosis. International Congress on Environmental Health and Reproduction and Development, Chieti, Italy, October 12, 2002.
Environmental Pesticides & PCB Exposure and Risk of Endometriosis. Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, Mt. Sinai Medical School, March 7, 2003.
Environmental Influences on Gynecologic Health. Department of Biometry & Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, February 10, 2003.
Environmental Influences on Endometriosis. School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 9, 2003.
Statistical Issues in Modeling Pregnancy Outcome Data. Australian Epidemiological Association, Perth, Australia, September 22, 2003.
Human Exposure to Environmental Factors. The Role of Environmental Factors on the Onset and Progression of Puberty-Expert Panel Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, November 7, 2003.
Rationale for Pinpointing Conception and Overview of Day-Specific Probabilities of Conception. Expanding Methodologies for Capturing Day-Specific Probabilities of Conception, Washington, DC, May 17, 2004.
Measuring Pregnancy Loss. Symposium on the Epidemiology of Miscarriage, Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiologic Research and the Teratology Society, Vancouver, BC, June 30, 2004.
Research Update and Happenings in the Epidemiology Branch, NICHD. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Trial Park, NC, August 9, 2004.
Environmental Influences on Female Fecundity. Understanding Environmental Contaminants and Human Fertility: Science and Strategy. Women’s Health at Stanford and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Stanford University, February 28, 2005.
Overview of Methodologic Challenges Facing Reproductive Epidemiology. International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region, Austin, Texas, March 22, 2005.
Toward a Clearer Understanding of the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Child Health. Health Effects Institute Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 18, 2005.
Environmental Contaminants and Effects on Reproductive Health. Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, St. Petersburg, Florida, September 9, 2005.
Environmental Influences on Women’s Health. Department of Epidemiology, Case Western University Medical School, September 27, 2005.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Child Health. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Texas A & M University, Rural School of Public Health, November 3, 2005.
Overview of the Epidemiology Branch and Research Happening. Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, March 2, 2006.
Epidemiology of Infertility: Role of Paternally Mediated Effects. University of Albany, School of Public Health, Albany, New York, September 19, 2006.
Endocrine Disruptors and their Role in the Pathology of Endometriosis. Endometrial Biology and Pathologies Conference, San Francisco, California, November 17, 2006.
So What Can We Say about Periconception as a Critical Window? Advising the Pregnancy Planning Couple. UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility, San Francisco, California. January 30, 2007.
Overview of Reproductive & Perinatal Epidemiology. Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, April 17, 2007.
Fetal Origins of Gynecologic Disorders: Environmental Exposures and Lifestyle. Marsh Poulson Invited Lecture, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 30, 2007.
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Endometriosis. Society for Epidemiologic Research, Boston, Massachusetts, June 20, 2007.
Designing Human Fecundity and Fertility Research - What Every Clinician Should Know”. American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Washington, DC, October 17, 2007.
Making Babies Isn’t Always Easy: Implications of Infertility. 11th Annual Meeting of the National Birth Defects Prevention Network, Washington, DC, February 13, 2008.
Periconceptional Influences on Adult Reproductive Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development’s Preconception Care Research: Improving Birth Outcomes and Reproductive Health Workshop, Washington, DC, April 14, 2008.
Research Happenings & Update, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research, University of South Carolina Research Consortium on Children and Families (RCCF) and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, April 16, 2008.
Infertility, Treatment and the Male. University of Albany, School of Public Health, Albany, New York, October 21, 2008.
Elements of a Successful Epidemiologic Research Consortium. Orphan Mechanisms of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency: Passion for Participatory Research, Bethesda, MD, October 2, 2008.
State of the Science: An Epidemiologic Perspective of Critical Data Gaps Regarding Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Assisted Reproduction Canada, October 27, 2008.
The Environment and the Unborn: Case for In Utero Origin of Gynecologic Health. LocalMotion (Community Group), Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, November 19, 2008.
Infertility, ART & Birth Defects. National Birth Defects Prevention Network Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, February 24, 2009.
Early Origins of Gynecologic Disorders: Role of Life Course Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, March 30, 2009.
Preconception Prospective Cohort Studies for Assessing Environmental Influences on Human Reproduction & Development – LIFE Study. Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental, Barcelona, Spain, May 12, 2009.
Designing Epidemiologic Studies Involving the Preconception Recruitment of Couples for the Assessment of Environmental Reproductive Toxicants. (Seminar) Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, George Washington University School of Public Health, Washington, DC, June 1, 2009.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development’s Perspective of the Early Origin of Disease. PPTOX II: Role of Environmental Stressors in the Developmental Origins of Disease. Miami Beach, Florida, December 7, 2009.
Early Origins of Gynecologic Disease: Case for Ovarian Dysgensis. PPTOX II: Role of Environmental Stressors in the Developmental Origins of Disease. Miami Beach, Florida, December 9, 2009.
Stress and Female Fecundity. Assisted Reproduction Canada. Ottawa, Canada, April 26, 2010.
How do I get pregnant, Doctor? Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1, 2007.
Fetal Origins of Gynecologic Disorders – Role of Environmental Exposures. Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, January 28, 2008.
Rethinking the Fertile Window: What do the Data Say? Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, January 28, 2008.
Do Gynecologic Disorders Originate In Utero? Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe, Gross Michigan, November 19, 2008.
Statistical Challenges in Modeling Human Fecundity (with Dr. Rajeshwari Sundaram). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Biostatistical Grand Rounds, Baltimore, Maryland, November 18, 2009.
Keynote Speaker. Critical Windows for Child Health – Periconception Window. International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, France, September 3, 2006.
Commencement Speaker. School of Public Health & Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State of New York, May 10, 2008.
Workshop Participant, Workshop on Perinatal Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, June 13-15, 1993
Panel Member, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Dioxin Peer Review Workshop, Chapter 7, Epidemiology/Human Data, Arlington, VA, September 7-8, 1993
Symposium Convener, Ethics Workshop, Society for Epidemiologic Research, Miami Beach, FL, June 15, 1994.
Symposium Convener, Round Table Discussion of Case Histories on Topics Related to Ethical Issues of Publication and Informed Consent, American College of Epidemiology, September 11, 1994.
Symposium Convener, Round Table Discussion - Case Presentations on Ethical Topics in Epidemiologic Research, Snowbird, UT, June 22, 1995.
Committee Speaker, Analysis of Reproductive and Developmental Effects: EPA’s Reassessment. Presented at the Committee on the Health Effects of Waste Incineration, National Research Council, Newport Beach, CA, September 3, 1995.
Moderator, Pregnancy Contributed Papers. Society for Epidemiologic Research, Boston, MA, June 13, 1996.
Roundtable Leader, Round Table Discussion. Infertility: Conceptual and Methodologic Issues, Society for Epidemiologic Research, Boston, MA, June 15, 1996
Workshop Facilitator, Methods for Ethical Decision-Making in Epidemiology. American College
Of Epidemiology. Boston, MA, September 21, 1997.
Moderator, Spotlight Session – Environmental Threats to Male or Female Reproductive Health.
Society for Epidemiologic Research, Baltimore, MD, June 10, 1999.
Group Facilitator, Consultation Meeting II – Child Longitudinal Cohort Study, Washington, DC, December 12, 2000.
National Toxicology Program. Reproductive & Developmental Toxicity Guidelines. Research Triangle Park, NC May 25, 2001.
Workshop Panelist, European Chlorinated Solvent Association. Workshop on Reproductive Toxicity of Tetrachloroethylene (PER). Brussels, Belgium, October 30-31, 2001.
Workshop Panelist. A Century After Curie. The Experience of Women in Science. Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. February 5, 2002.
Workshop Leader. Environmental & Human Reproduction: Overcoming Methodologic Challenges: International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Vancouver, British Columbia, August 11, 2002.
Poster Session Discussant. Reproduction & Neonatal Health. International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Vancouver, British Columbia, August 14, 2002.
Moderator, Contributed Papers on Reproductive Health. International Congress on Environmental Influences on Reproduction and Development. Universita G. D’Annunzio. Chieti, Italy, October 12, 2002.
Panelist. Envisioning the Future of Exposure Research. LRI Scientific Meeting. American Chemistry Council. Herndon, Virginia, June 25, 2003.
Faculty Member, Epidemiologic Student Workshop, Australian Epidemiological Association, Perth, Australia, September 22, 2003.
Meeting Participant. International Life Sciences Institute’s Subcommittee on Integration of Biomonitoring Exposure Data into the Risk Assessment Process. Washington, DC. October 27, 2003.
Panelist. Role of Environmental Factors on the Onset and Progression of Puberty Expert Panel Workshop. Serono Symposia International, EPA & NIEHS. Chicago, Illinois. November 6-8, 2003.
Case Facilitator. International Biomonitoring Workshop. ISLI Health & Environmental Sciences Institute. Research Triangle Park, NC. September 21-22, 2004.
Workshop Participant. Understanding Environmental Contaminants and Human Fertility: Science and Strategy. Women’s Health @ Stanford and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment. Palo Alto, California. February 27-March 1, 2005.
Panelist. Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Children’s Health: Role of Prenatal and Early Life Exposures. Health Effects Institute’s Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. April 17-19, 2005.
Data Sources for Assessing Infertility Treatment and Pregnancy Outcomes and Child Health. NICHD Workshop on Infertility Treatment and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome. Washington, DC, September 13, 2005.
Roundtable Leader. Is Human Fecundity Declining and What are the Implications for Early Onset Disease? Society for Epidemiologic Research Invited Roundtable Discussion. Boston, Massachusetts; June 21, 2007.
Meet the Expert Workshop. Society for Epidemiologic Research. Chicago, Illinois, June 25, 2008.
AHRC-CIHR Assisted Human Reproduction Research Workshop: Developing a National Research Agenda, Montreal, Canada, October 14-16, 2008.
Participant, HESI Scientific Mapping Meeting in Reston, VA, near Washington, DC, July 28-29, 2009.
1979 Recent Research Trends in Adolescent Fertility. Lecture presented at the Erie Medical Center Sixth Annual Spring Seminar Series, Buffalo, NY
1981 Nurse Practitioner Longitudinal Study. Paper presented at Health Care: The Dollar Dilemma Conference and Other Political, Economic and Clinical Issues for Primary Care. Continuing Nurse and Medical Education and Nurse Practitioner Association of Western New York, Buffalo, NY
1984 The Relationship Between Parity and Ectopic Pregnancy in a Norwegian Population. Paper presented at UNYSOEG Spring Meeting, Toronto, Canada
1986 Methodology to Assess the Reliability of Vital Certificate Data. Paper and poster presented at the 14th International Cancer Congress, Budapest, Hungary
1986 Infant Birth Characteristics and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in Upstate New York. Paper presented at 114th Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Las Vegas, Nevada
1987 Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Paper presented at the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Amherst, MA
1987 Dose-Response Relations in Exposure to Human Teratogens: The Importance of Timing. Paper presented at the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Amherst, Massachusetts
1987 SIDS: An Historical Perspective. Paper presented at the New York Academy of Science, New York City, New York
1987 Assessment of In Utero Hypoxia and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Paper presented at the 115th Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
1987 Timing of Prenatal Care and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Poster displayed at the 115th Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
1988 Birth Asphyxia, Fetal Distress and Risk of SIDS. Paper presented at Joint Session American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research/American Pediatric Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
1988 Risk Factors for SIDS. Poster displayed at the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Vancouver, British Columbia
1989 Incidence of Neurodevelopmental Impairments in a Cohort of Premature Infants Enrolled in a Randomized Clinical Trial of Calf Lung Surfactant Extract: Five-Year Follow-up. Poster displayed at the Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, Birmingham, Alabama
1989 Labor and Delivery Events and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Paper presented at the Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, Birmingham, Alabama
1989 Labor and Delivery Events and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Poster displayed at the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Birmingham, Alabama
1991 Risk Factors for Major Neurodevelopmental Impairments in a Cohort of Survivors of Extreme Prematurity. Poster displayed at the Fourth Annual Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, Buffalo, New York
1991 Native American Births in Upstate New York, 1980-86: Comparisons to White, Black and Other Race Births. Poster displayed at the Fourth Annual Society for Pediatric Research, Buffalo, New York
1991 Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation. Poster displayed at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Buffalo, New York
1992 Racial Variation in Spontaneous Fetal Deaths (>20 weeks) in Upstate New York, 1980-86. Poster displayed at the fifth annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1992 Racial Variation in Spontaneous Fetal Loss. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.
1992 Follow-up of a Cohort of Women Surgically Treated for Endometriosis: Health and Fertility Outcomes. Poster displayed at the American Fertility Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
1993 Role of Cystic Periventricular Leukomalacia in Predicting Cerebral Palsy Typology. Poster displayed at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research, Keystone, Colorado
1993 Consumption of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Contaminated Fish From Lake Ontario and Birthweight. Poster displayed at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research, Keystone, Colorado
1993 Perinatal Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds. Paper presented at the International Workshop at the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
1993 PCB Contaminated Fish Consumption and Birth Weight. Paper presented at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Update and Review of the Historical Origins of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Paper presented at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, Buffalo, New York
1995 Resolved and Unresolved Infecundity and Consumption of PCB-Contaminated Fresh Water Fish. Poster presented at 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, Snowbird, Utah
1995 Consumption of PCB-Contaminated Fresh Water Fish and Risk of Delayed Conception. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
1995 Application of Biomarkers in Assessing Female Fecundity and Fertility. Symposium paper presentation, American College of Epidemiology, St. Louis, Missouri
1996 Consumption of Contaminated Fish and Time-To-Pregnancy, New York State Angler Cohort. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Edmonton, Alberta
1997 Prospective Pregnancy Study: New York State Angler Cohort. Poster presentation, Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Health Conference ’97. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1997 Paternal Lake Ontario Fish Consumption and Risk of Conception Delay: New York State Angler Cohort. Symposium paper presentation, Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Health Conference ’97. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1998 Does Paternal Consumption of Contaminated Sport Fish From Lake Ontario Alter Fertility? Paper presented at 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts
1998 Parental Consumption of Contaminated Lake Ontario Fish and Reduced Fecundability. Paper presented at 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 Perinatal Factors and Risk for Neuroblastoma. Poster Presentation. 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Research. Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Promising Methods for Designing, Collecting, Managing and Analyzing Data for Reproductive and Development Epidemiology. Paper presented at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Buffalo, New York
2000 Web Based Technologies and Epidemiologic Research. Paper presented at the Reproductive Sciences Branch, NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland
2001 Web-Based Data Capture and Management in Epidemiologic Investigations. Paper presented at the 14th International Electrical Engineering Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Maryland
2001 Environmental Pollutants and Menstrual Cycle Length. Paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
2002 Concentrations of Heavy Metals and Female Fecundity, New York State Angler Prospective Pregnancy Study. Poster Presentation at the 14th Annual Meeting of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Vancouver, British Columbia
2002 Maternal Consumption of Contaminated Sport Fish and Infant Gestation and Birth Size, New York State Angler Prospective Pregnancy Study. Poster Presentation at the 14th Annual Meeting of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003 Environmental PCB and Pesticide Exposure and Risk of Endometriosis. Paper presented at the American Epidemiological Society, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 Estrogenic and Anti-Estrogenic PCBs and Endometriosis. Paper presented at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Perth, Australia
2005 PCBs and Female Fecundity. Poster presented at the 3rd Copenhagen Workshop on Environment, Reproductive Health & Fertility, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 Persistent Environmental Chemicals and Female Fecundity. Poster presented at the 12th World Congress on Human Reproduction. Venice, Italy
2009 Stress and Female Fecundity. Poster presented at the Third International IVI Congress - Reproductive Medicine and Beyond. Madrid, Spain
2009 Stress and Time to Pregnancy. Paper presented at the Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology. Anaheim, California
| 1988-1998 | Thomas Obst, doctoral student |
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| 1989-1993 | James Shelton, master’s student |
| 1989-1998 | Paula Rosenbaum, doctoral student |
| 1991-1993 | Pauline Mendola, doctoral student |
| 1991-1999 | Leslie Brailsford, doctoral student |
| 1992-1994 | Alma Mia Alfonso-Garcia, master’s student |
| 1993-1995 | Evelyn McCarley, master’s student |
| 1993-1996 | James Shelton, doctoral student |
| 1994-1998 | Eileen Healy, master's student |
| 1994-2000 | Chatali Ghosh, doctoral student |
| 1994-1999 | Laurene Tumiel, doctoral student |
| 1994-2002 | Danelle Lobdell, doctoral student |
| 1995-2000 | Kimberly Perez, doctoral student |
| 1995-1997 | Judith Gendler, master’s student |
| 1996-1997 | Joanne Bond, master's student |
| 1996-1997 | Jay Newman, master’s student |
| 1997-1998 | Bridgett McGuinness, master's student |
| 1997- 2000 | Jean Jurek, master's student |
| 1998-1999 | Donna Pillittere, master's student |
| 1999 | Juireith Mudie, master's student |
| 2000 | Marisa Prosser, master’s student |
| 1999-2004 | Chao Ju Chen, doctoral student |
| 1999-2000 | Julie Baker, master’s student |
| 2000 | Margie Muniak, master’s student |
| 1989 | Pamela Khurana, M.D., M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Member Thesis: Effects of Asphyxia on Newborns |
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| 1988-1989 | Lucinda R. Kahler, R.N., M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee MemberThesis: Determinants of Participation and Identification of Barriers for Pregnant Women in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children in Erie County |
| 1989-1990 | Pauline Mendola, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Member Thesis: An Assessment of Knowledge and Behavior in a New York City American Indian Community With Regard to Risk Factors for Developmental Disabilities |
| 1989-1990 | Christina Chih-Chun Wan, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: The Epidemiology of Extreme Prematurity |
| 1990 | Martha Jean Kemsley, R.N., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Member Dissertation: Maternal Psychosocial Factors, Maternal Preventive Health Practices and Child Care Arrangements as Predictors of the Health of Young Children |
| 1991-1995 | Sameera Raza, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Natural Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: The Role of Maternal Weight Gain and Hypertension During Pregnancy in Relation to SIDS |
| 1992-1994 | Pauline Mendola, Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Dissertation: Spontaneous Fetal Death Prior to Live Birth in Relation to Fish Consumption and PCB Exposure, New York State Angler Study Student Prize Paper Recipient, Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, June 15, 1994, Miami Beach, Florida Student Prize Paper Recipient, American College of Epidemiology, September 12, 1994, Arlington, Virginia |
| 1993-1995 | Danelle Lobdell, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Natural Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Elderly Primigravidas in Upstate New York, 1988 Student Prize Paper Recipient, New York State Public Health Association, June 1997 Selected for Graduate Research Ethics Education Initiative. Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Bloomington, Indiana, June 7-11, 2000. |
| 1993-1995 | Laurene Tumiel, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Antenatal Characteristics of Hispanic Mothers and Fathers Best Poster by a Resident or Student, North American Primary Care Research Group, Texas Academy of Family Physicians Research Committee, November 9- 11, 1995, Houston, TX. |
| 1994-1995 | Sanda Yu, MD, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Efficiency of Oral Feeding at 35 Weeks Gestation and Risk of Developmental Disabilities |
| 1990-1996 | Linda H. Snell, R.N., M.S.N., D.N.S. Doctoral Dissertation, School of Nursing, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Committee Member Dissertation: Epidemiology and Treatment of Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy |
| 1990-1998 | Paula Rosenbaum, M.S., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo, Committee Chair Dissertation: Prenatal and Early Childhood Exposures as Factors in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: The Western and Central New York Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| 1994-1999 | Thomas Obst, M.S.N., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Dissertation: Determinants of Obstetrical Anesthesia Care Among Women With Vaginally Delivered, Singleton, Liveborn Infants in Upstate New York |
| 1996-1997 | Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Sociocultural and Gynecologic Risk Factors for Hysterectomy Among Previously Sterilized Women |
| 1996-1997 | Jeffrey N. Bethony, Ed.M., M.S. Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Epidemiology and Immunology of Necator Americanus and And Ancylostoma daudenale in Rural Thailand: The Role of Acquired Immunity in Determining Infection Intensity |
| 1996-1997 | Jacqueline Christman, M.D., M.S. (Preventive Medicine Resident) Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo Preventive Medicine Residency. Committee Chair Thesis: Peritoneal Pockets in Women with Endometriosis and Their Relation to Health and Fertility Status |
| 1996-1997 | Joanne Bond, M.S. Master's Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Determining the Types of Information Obtainable from Three Methods of Preparing Scientific Literature Reviews |
| 1996-2000 | Leslie Brailsford, M.S., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, State of New York. Committee Chair Dissertation: Risk Factors for Male Infertility, NYS Angler Cohort Study |
| 1997-2000 | Laurene Tumiel, M.S., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, S University at Buffalo, State of New York. Committee Chair Dissertation: A Case-Control Study of Intrauterine Growth Retardation Among SIDS Infants and Their Siblings |
| 1997-2001 | Danelle Lobdell, M.S., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, State of New York Buffalo. Committee Chair Dissertation: Conception Delay and Pregnancy Outcome Selected for the Society for Epidemiologic Research’s Student Workshop Forum. Seattle, Washington, 2000. Selected for Graduate Research, Ethics Education. Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Indiana University, June 2000-2001. Student Prize Paper Recipient, Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, June 18, 2002, Palm Desert, California Saxon Graham Dissertation Research Award, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, 2002. Dean’s Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, 2002. |
| 1997-1998 | Bridget McGuinness, M.S. Master's Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: A Methodological Examination of the Relationship between Oral Contraceptives and Twin Pregnancy in the National Survey of Family Growth |
| 1997- 2000 | Chatali Ghosh, M.S., Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo. Committee Chair Dissertation: Follicular Response and Pregnancy among Women Undergoing Ovulation Induction and Intrauterine Insemination |
| 1997- 2000 | Jean Jurek, M.S. Master's Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Multiple Variable Analysis of Birth Certificate Data Quality in New York State Using Hospital Medical Records and the Influence of birth Year on Data Quality |
| 1997- 2000 | Eileen Healy, M.S. Master's Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Member Thesis: Association between PCB-Contaminated Sport Fish Consumption during Pregnancy and Neonatal Jaundice |
| 1997- 2000 | Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo. Committee Member Dissertation: Genetic Epidemiology of the Schistosoma MansoniI Infection in a Rural Area of Brazil |
| 1999-2000 | Michael Bloom, MS Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo. Committee Member Thesis: Burden of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Pesticides in Anglers from 16 counties Adjacent to Lakes Erie and Ontario. |
| 1999-2000 | Julie Baker, MS Master’s Thesis, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo. Committee Chair Thesis: Fertility in Men Before Diagnosis of Testicular Cancer, The Upstate Male Health Study. |
| 1999-2004 | Chao-Ju Chen, MS, PhD Doctoral Candidate, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo. Committee Chair (through 2000) Dissertation: Reproductive Risk Factors and Ovarian Cancer. Are Controls Really Controls? |
| 2000-2001 | Margie Muniak, MS Master’s Thesis, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo. Committee Member. Thesis: Risk Factors for Endometriosis in Prevalent versus Incident Cases in a |
| 2001-2003 | Mark Travers, MS Master’s Candidate, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo. Committee Member. Thesis: Sex Ratio - Effect of Environmental Toxicants? |
| 1992 | Kate L. Guernsey and Thomas A. Owen. Developmental Outcomes of Preterm Infants with Cystic Periventricular Leukomalacia Awarded second place for poster presentation at the 12th Annual Student Research Forum, SUNY at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, December 1992 |
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| 1992 | Steven Finklestein. J &N Adam Medical Tolerance Study |
| 1992 | Jennifer C. Wargula and Brian Brett. Medical Implications for Dually Diagnosed Residents of West Seneca Developmental Center |
| 1993 | Kathryn McVicar and Alex Momspoint. The Health FIM - A Feasibility Study Awarded first place for poster presentation at the 13th Annual Student Research Forum, SUNY at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences & Awarded Runner Up, National Student Research Forum, May 1994, Galveton, Texas |
| 1993 | Karen Dull. Food Refusal in Adults with Severe Multiple Developmental Disabilities |
| 1993 | Kalaya N. O’Kerke. Aspiration Risk and Maturation in Children with Dysphagia |
| 1993 | Kate L. Guernsey and Thomas A. Owens. Developmental Outcomes of Preterm Infants with Grade III and IV Intraventricular Hemorrhage |
| 1994 | Rachna Gupta. The Prevalence of Premenstrual Syndrome in a Select Sample of Indian Women Awarded third place for poster presentation at the 13th Annual Student Research Forum, SUNY at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, December 8, 1994 and Awarded Runner Up, National Student Research Forum, April 1995, Galveston, Texas |
| 1994 | Adrienne Deyo. Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Children with a Single Ventricle Heart Anomaly |
| 1994 | Ronica Dua. Oral Feeding Efficiency and Neurologic Status of Preterm Infants at 35 Weeks Postmenstrual Age Awarded second place for poster presentation at the 13th Annual Student Research Forum, SUNY at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, December 8, 1994 |
| 1994 | Dori R. Marshall, Indrani Sinha and Susan Szimonisz. Infant Mortality in Upstate New York: A Rural/Urban Comparison |
| 1994 | James Murray, Validation of a Functional Independence Measure in Preschool Children Attending Early Intervention |
| 1995 | Melissa Azaula. Measuring Functional Independence in Children With Cerebral Palsy |
| 1996 | Crystal Dyer, NHLBI Summer Research Program. Extreme Prematurity and Risk of Adverse Health and School Outcomes |
| 1997 | Rachna Gupta, National Cancer Institute Medical School Research Apprenticeship. Premenstrual Syndrome among Indian Women |
| 1998 | Joanne V. Davson, NHLBI Summer Research Program; Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Developmental Outcomes of Infants Diagnosed With Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of Newborns |
| 1998 | Heather Ripstein; Guild Summer Student; Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. WeeFIM in At-Risk Pediatric Populations |
| 1996 | Delia Dianna Cadle, National Institutes of Health High School Research Apprenticeship, Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Maternal Consumption of Fish From Lake Ontario and Neurodevelopmental Status of Offspring |
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| 2001 | Patricia Grace Tee, MPH, University of Texas @ Houston School of Public Health Evaluation of Gestation and Birth Size in Relation to Consumption of Sport-Caught Fish in the New York State Angler Cohort |
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| 2001 | Adam K. Hamm, Medical College of Virginia (Biostatistics) Do Concentrations of Heavy Metals Affect Female Fecundity? |
| 2002 | Mark Travers, MS, University of Buffalo, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine Paternal Consumption of Sport Fish from Lake Ontario and Secondary Sex Ratios |
| 2003 | Julie Baker, MS, University of Buffalo, Medical School Long Term Follow-up of Study Participants with Minimal Contact Information |
| 2003 | Renee Ferrari, MPH, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill School of Public Health Twinning and Female Fecundability |
| 2003 | Heather Lyons, MPH, University of Texas @ Houston School of Public Health Body Shape and Risk of Endometriosis |
| 2004 | Maureen Hoover, MPH, George Washington University School of Public Health Conception Delay and Risk of Preterm Delivery and Low Birth Weight |
| 2004 | Renee Ferrari, MPH, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill School of Public Health Twinning and Female Fecundability |
| 2005 | Kira Taylor, MPH, Emory University School of Public Health PCBs and Secondary Sex Ratio (Co-mentored with Dr. Leila Jackson) |
| 2005 | Jeremy Rassen, MPH, Harvard University School of Public Health Women’s Behaviors over the Course of Attempting Pregnancy (Co-mentored with Dr. Courtney Lynch) |
| 2006 | Rebecca Stevens, Walt Whitman High School Legal Requirements for ART Medical Coverage for US States (Co-mentored with Mary Hediger) |
| 2006 | Josefa Penna, University of Texas Rural School of Public Health Intrauterine Exposures and Risk of Endometriosis (Co-mentored with Mary Hediger) |
| 2007 | Aisha Siebert, MPH, Columbia University School of Public Health Comparison of Persistent Organochlorine Exposures in Maternal Serum and Breast Milk in the Postnatal Period (Co-mentored with Courtney Lynch, Staff Scientist) |
| 2008 | Anna Pollack, MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Caffeinated Beverage Consumption and Risk of hCG Pregnancy Loss |
| 2010 | Naomi Nemoto, MPH Candidate, School of Public Health, Tulane University Organochlorine Pesticides and Female Fecundity (Co-mentored with Maureen Cooney, IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow) |
| 2010 | Lisbeth Inglesias-Rios, MPH Candidate, School of Public Health, New Mexico Polychlorinated biphenyls and menstruation (Co-mentored with Maureen Cooney, IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow) |
| 2002 | Maureen A. Hoover. MPH Candidate – Epidemiology. The George Washington University, School of Public Health. Association of Conception Delay & Adverse Infant Outcomes |
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| 2004 | Tara Collins, Howard Hughes Scholar. Low Dose Aspirin and Pregnancy Loss. Emory University Medical School and Rollins School of Public Health |
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| 2003-2005 | Leila W. Jackson, PhD. Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow (co-mentoring with Dr. Enrique Schisterman) |
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| 2003-2004 | Courtney D-J Lynch, PhD. Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow |
| 2004-2006 | Brian Whitcomb. Predoctoral IRTA Fellow (co-mentoring with Dr. Enrique Schisterman Poster Award Recipient, Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiologic Research, 2004 |
| 2005-2009 | Maureen A. Cooney, MPH. Predoctoral IRTA Fellow |
| 2006-2007 | Alexis Handal, PhD, MPH. Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow |
| 2007-2009 | Anca Dragomir, PhD. Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow |
| 2009-present | Maureen A. Cooney, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow |
| 2009 | Dr. Roberto Augilla |
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