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Appendix B: Biosketches for Workshop Planning Committee Member, Speakers, and Discussants
Appendix B: Biosketches for Workshop Planning Committee Member, Speakers, and Discussants
Pages 79-92
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Prior to joining George Mason in October 2017, Dr. Buck Louis was the director for the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where she conducted research aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of fetuses, pregnant women, children, and young adults.
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in biomedical science -- biochemistry from the Quillen-Dishner College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, is the founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, an innovative and model public health program in Flint, Michigan.
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She is a leader in the field of children's environmental health, serving on the external science board for the ECHO NIH Research work. She is a coleader of the health/science initiative of the Cancer Free Economy Network, cochair of the National Environmental Health Partnership Council, board chair for the Pesticide Action Network of North America, board member for the Environmental Integrity Project, and on the Maryland Children's Environmental Health Advisory Council.
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He was awarded an Australian government scholarship to study the uptake of environmental metal toxicants and its impact on human health and then was accepted as a postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a professor and vice chairman of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, division chief of Environmental Health, and director of the Laboratory for Exposomic Innovation and Precision Environmental Medicine.
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Ms. Briskin offers a wealth of experience and expertise, having worked in many programs across the EPA, including as coordinator for Hydraulic Fracturing Research in the Office of Research and Development, chief of the Standards and Risk Reductions Branch in the Office of Water, deputy director of the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division in the Office of Air and Radiation, and director of the National Pesticides Survey, and chief of the Task Force on Lead in Drinking Water.
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Alison Connolly, Ph.D., is an exposure scientist from the University of Galway, in Ireland. She is the principal investigator on the Neonicotinoid Insecticide Exposures project and a former Irish Research Council Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral research fellow on the project "Ireland's Biomonitoring Assessment of Glyphosate Exposures." Her research interest is investigating human exposures to pollutants, predominantly using a human biomonitoring sampling strategy for both environmental and occupational exposures.
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Her research interests are in the effects of environmental exposures (such as pesticides, lead, solvents, dioxin, and tobacco smoke) on reproductive, perinatal, and children's health, the reproductive and development effects of environmental toxicants on fetal and child health and reproductive health in men and women, and reproductive and pediatric epidemiology.
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She is a member of the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai, cochairs the Communications Breakout group of the CDC/APHA National Environmental Health Partnership Council, and serves on the board of CEHN and advisory board for Parson's New School Healthy Materials Lab. Paul Juarez, Ph.D., is a professor and vice chair for research, family, and community medicine at Meharry Medical College.
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McKinney School of Law and Director of the IU Environmental Resilience Institute, where she started as assistant director for policy and implementation. Her work at IU centered on establishing innovative, research-informed, and actionable solutions to reduce environmental risks and protect community and family health.
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Miller is a pediatrician whose work focuses on integrating children's development and unique vulnerabilities into environmental health risk assessment. He has also worked to integrate education about the toxic effects of environmental chemicals in pregnant women and children into medical education and clinical practice.
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Skakkebæk, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor in testicular dysgenesis and endocrine disruption at University of Copenhagen and senior researcher at the Department of Growth and Reproduction at the Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet. His primary research areas are testicular cancer, testicular dysgenesis syndrome, and endocrine disrupters.
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She also serves as a member of the EPA Board on Scientific Councilors and National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. Stephanie Yendell, DVM, M.P.H., is a senior epidemiology supervisor at the Minnesota Department of Health's Health Risk Intervention Unit of the Division of Environmental Health.
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in environmental health from the University of Minnesota and a certificate in risk sciences and public policy from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a certified industrial hygienist. Gillian Buckley, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has led a range of consensus committee studies, including Combating Antimicrobial Resistance and Protecting the Miracle of Modern Medicine and A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C, as well multiple studies on food and medicine safety and infectious disease in low- and middle-income countries. She has a master's degree in public health and doctorate in human nutrition both from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Ms. Beins focuses on the intersection of public health and toxicology and has conducted research and led community engagement initiatives with NGOs, with local health departments, and as a Fulbright Research Fellow.
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