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Institute of Medicine Staff

KATHLEEN R. STRATTON is a Senior Program Officer and the Associate Director of the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She did undergraduate work in natural sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and received her Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She did a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has most recently finished a major project at the IOM on adverse consequences of childhood vaccines. Other projects during her six years at the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine include work with the Committee to Study the Co-Administration of Research and Services at the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, Committee on Risk Assessment of Hazardous Air Pollutants, Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology and the Committee on Neurotoxicology and Models for Assessing Risks. Her next project concerns priorities for vaccine development.

CYNTHIA J. HOWE is a Program Officer in the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and Mental Disorders of the Institute of Medicine. She received a B.A. degree in psychology from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and has done graduate work in experimental psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Other projects during 14 years at the Institute of Medicine include the Vaccine Safety Forum; studies of the adverse effects of childhood vaccines; and a study of chronic pain and disability. Ms. Howe, along with four colleagues, is a recipient of the National Research Council's 1992 Group Recognition Award, as well as the 1991 Group Achievement Award of the Institute of Medicine for her work on the report Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines.

DOROTHY R. MAJEWSKI is a Project Assistant in the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and Mental Disorders. She received a B.A. degree in education from Carlow College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During her seven years at the National Academy of Sciences she has worked on the current project on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, as well as other projects on priorities for vaccine development, vaccine safety, adverse effects of childhood vaccines, and one on diet and health for the Food and Nutrition Board. Ms. Majewski, along with four colleagues, is a recipient of the National Research Council's 1992 Group Recognition Award, as well as the 1991 Group Achievement Award of the Institute of Medicine for her work on the report Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines.