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National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Willinger, Marian

Title:Health Scientist Administrator
Phone:301-435-6896
E-mail:WillingM@mail.nih.gov
Address: 6100 Executive Blvd Room 4B03H, MSC 7510
Bethesda Md 20892-7510
For FedEx use:
Rockville Md 20852
Fax:301-496-3790 
Organization:  Pregnancy & Perinatology (PP) Branch
Specialty: Fetal and Infant Development
Stillbirth
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
PASS Network
Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network

Biosketch: 
Marian Willinger, Ph.D., is the NICHD special assistant for SIDS, responsible for the direction of the Institute's SIDS research program, which has included the development of the third, five-year research plan. She also serves as an expert on SIDS within the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Willinger is a program scientist for the CHIME Study, the Prenatal Alcohol and Stillbirth and SIDS Network, and the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network. She also recently completed contracts to support SIDS epidemiological studies. Dr. Willinger has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Back to Sleep campaign and serves as a consultant to the AAP Task Force on Infant Positioning and SIDS. Over the last five years, Dr. Willinger has participated in NIH- and government-wide activities, including the Advisory Board of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research and the Interdisciplinary Research Workgroup of the NIH Roadmap. She has been federal co-chair of the Pregnancy and the Infant Working Group for the National Children's Study.