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The National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect expired on October 25, 2007.

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National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect 

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MEMBERSHIP ROSTER

CHAIR
Jean A. Wright, M.D.

Executive Director
Backus Children’s Hospital
4700 Waters Avenue
Savannah, Georgia 31404
E-mail: wrighje1@memorialhealth.com
Term: 10/15/2003 - 05/31/2007

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
José Cordero, M.D., M.P.H.

Director, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road, N.E. (MS-E86)
Atlanta, Georgia 30333
E-mail: cab3@cdc.gov

DESIGNATED FEDERAL OFFICIAL
Mary Kate Weber, M.P.H.

Behavioral Scientist
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Team
Division on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road, N.E. (MS E86)
Atlanta, Georgia 30333
E Mail: muw1@cdc.gov


MEMBERS

Kristen L. Barry, Ph.D.

Associate Director
Health Services Research and Development
Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center
Department of Veterans Affairs
P.O. Box 130170
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113-0170
E-mail: barry@umich.edu
Term: 10/16/2003 - 05/31/2007

James E. Berner, M.D.
Director, Office of Community Health Services
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
4000 Ambassador Drive, 4th Floor
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
E-mail: jberner@anmc.org
Term: 10/19/2003 - 05/31/2007


Carole W. Brown, Ed.D.
Research Associate Professor
Department of Education
Catholic University of America
O’Boyle Hall, Room 203
Washington, D.C. 20064
E-mail: brownc@cua.edu
Term: 06/01/2005 – 05/31/2008

Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Epidemiology and Regional Dean
The University of Texas School of Public Health
Dallas Regional Campus
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Room V8.112
Dallas, Texas 75390-9128
E-mail: raul.caetano@UTSouthwestern.edu
Term: 10/20/2003 - 05/31/2005

Grace Chang, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Physician in Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
E-mail: GChang@Partners.Org
Term: 06/01/2006 - 05/31/2008

Mary C. DeJoseph, D.O.
Faculty
Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
4190 City Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
E-mail: marydej@comcast.net
Term: 06/01/2006 - 05/31/2009

Lisa A. Miller, M.D.
Division Director, Disease Control and Environmental Epidemiology Division
Department of Public Health and Environment
DCEED-EE-A3
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South
Denver Colorado 80246-1530
E-mail: lisa.miller@state.co.us
Term: 10/17/2003 - 05/31/2007

Colleen A. Morris, M.D.
Chief, Genetics Division
Department of Pediatrics
University of Nevada School of Medicine
2040 W. Charleston, Suite 401
Las Vegas, Nevada 89102
E-mail: cam@med.unr.edu
Term: 04/13/2004 – 05/31/2008

Mary J. O’Connor, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles
760 Westwood Plaza, Room 68-265A
Los Angeles, California 90024
E-mail: moconnor@mednet.ucla.edu
Term: 06/01/2006 - 05/31/2009

Melinda M. Ohlemiller, B.A., M.A.
Director, Early Childhood, Prevention and Advocacy Services
Saint Louis Arc
1816 Lackland Hill Parkway #200
St. Louis, Missouri 63146
E-mail: mohlemiller@slarc.org
Term: 04/13/2004 – 05/31/2008


Heather Carmichael Olson, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Clinical Supervisor
University of Washington Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic and Prevention Network
and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center
P.O. Box 5371/CL-08
Seattle, Washington 98105-0371
E-mail: quiddity@u.washington.edu
Term: 04/18/2004 – 05/31/2008

STANDING MEMBER
Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D.
Associate Director
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health
5635 Fishers Lane, Room 2005
Rockville, Maryland 20852-1705
E-mail: kw46m@nih.gov

LIAISON REPRESENTATIVES
American Academy of Pediatrics
George Brenneman, M.D., FAAP
Chair, Committee on Native American Child Health
American Academy of Pediatrics
5853 Main Street
Elkridge, Missouri 21075
E-mail: gbrenneman@verizon.net

American Academy of Family Physicians
Vacant

American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Robert J. Sokol, M.D.
Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, School of Medicine
Wayne State University
275 E. Hancock Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48201
E-mail: rsokol@moose.med.wayne.edu


March of Dimes
Karla Damus, R.N., Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
March of Dimes
1275 Mamroneck Avenue
White Plains, New York 10605
E-Mail: damus@aecom.yu.edu

National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Kathleen T. Mitchell

Program Director and National Spokesperson
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
900 17th Street, N.W., Suite 910
Washington, D.C. 20006
E Mail: mitchell@nofas.org

The Arc of the United States
Sharon Davis, Ph.D.
Director, Professional and Family Services
The Arc of the United States
1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 650
Silver Springs, Maryland 20910
E-mail: davis@thearc.org

Center for Science in the Public Interest
George A. Hacker, J.D.
Director
Alcohol Policies Project
Center for Science in the Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009-5728
E-mail: ghacker@cspinet.org
 

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Date: August 18, 2006
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

 

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