Roster of NCSAC Members 

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Last Reviewed:  4/16/2009
Last Updated:  4/16/2009

Roster of NCSAC Members 


Alan R. Fleischman, MD (Chair)
Senior Vice President and Medical Director
March of Dimes

Jessica N. Sapienza, MHS (Executive Secretary)
Adjunct Studies Program Analyst, National Children’s Study
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health, HHS

Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, RN
Public Health Nurse Administrator

John L. Butenhoff, PhD, CIH, DABT
Medical Department
3M Company

Maria Cancian, PhD
Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Vanderbilt University

José F. Cordero, MD, MPH
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Puerto Rico 

Janet Currie, PhD
Department of Economics
Columbia University

Ana V. Diez-Roux, MD, PhD, MPH
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
University of Michigan

Helen DuPlessis, MD, MPH
Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities
University of California, Los Angeles 

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco

Elena Gates, MD
Department of Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
University of California, San Francisco 

Bruce D. Gelb, MD
Center for Molecular Cardiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine 

Michael Furman Greene, MD
Obstetrics
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ricardo Guzman, MSW, MPH
Community Health and Social Services Center

Carol J. Henry, PhD, DABT
Advisor and Consultant

Michael Lebowitz, PhD
Retired Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology-Biostatistics
University of Arizona

Liliana J. Lengua, PhD
Department of Psychology
University of Washington 

Patricia O’Campo, PhD
Centre for Research on Inner City Health
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto

Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MBA
Office for Diversity and Community Partnership
Harvard Medical School
 

Everett Rhoades, MD 
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

R. Gary Rozier, DDS, MPH
Department of Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Public Health 

Melissa Tassinari, PhD
Worldwide Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Pfizer Inc. 

Thomas Ten Have, PhD, MPH
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine 

Michelle Williams, ScD, SM, MS
Center for Perinatal Studies
Swedish Medical Center

Duane F. Alexander, MD (Ex Officio Member)
Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health, HHS

Allen Dearry, PhD (Ex Officio Member)
Associate Director, Research Coordination, Planning, and Translation
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health, HHS

Kevin Y. Teichman, PhD (Ex Officio Member)
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH, FAAP (Ex Officio Member)
Director
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS