TENDR Co-Directors:
Irva Hertz-Picciotto, MPH, PhD
Professor, MIND Institute and Department of Public Health Sciences
Director, UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of California, Davis
Maureen Swanson, MPA
Healthy Children Project Director
Learning Disabilities Association of America
TENDR Participants:
Annie Acosta, MSW
Director of Fiscal and Family Support Policy
The Arc
Laura Anderko, PhD RN
Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care & Professor, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown U.,
Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment
Jacqueline Barkoski, MPH
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Davis
Deborah Bennett, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine,
University of California, Davis
David C. Bellinger, PhD, MSc
Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, A.T.S
Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Director, National Toxicology Program
Asa Bradman, PhD, MS
Associate Director, Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH)
Associate Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Charlotte Brody, RN
National Coordinator, Healthy Babies Bright Futures
Vice President of Health Initiatives, BlueGreen Alliance
Carla Campbell, MD, MS, FAAP
Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Texas at El Paso
Aimin Chen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental Health
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Jeanne A Conry, MD, PhD
Past President, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists;
Assistant Physician in Chief, The Permanente Medical Group
Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Medicine, Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences; Acting Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine;
PI, NIEHS Center of Excellence,
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Nathaniel DeNicola, MD, MSHP, FACOG
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Liaison to American Academy of Pediatrics Executive Council on Environmental Health; Clinical Associate in Obstetrics & Gynecology,
U. of Pennsylvania
Stephanie M. Engel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Elaine M. Faustman, PhD, DABT
Professor and Director, Center for Child Environmental Health Risks, Research Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle
M. Daniele Fallin, PhD
Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Mental Health; Director, Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Robert M. Gould, MD
Associate Adjunct Professor, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment,
Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF School of Medicine
Past President, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Kimberly Gray, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Alycia Halladay, PhD
Chief Science Officer, Autism Science Foundation,
Adjunct, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Rutgers University
Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH
Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology; Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
Deborah Hirtz, MD
Professor, Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics
University of Vermont School of Medicine
Katie Huffling, RN, MS, CNM
Director of Programs
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Tanya Khemet, M.P.H., C.P.M.
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Davis
Midwife, Communicare Health Centers
Carol F. Kwiatkowski, PhD
Executive Director, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)
Assistant Professor Adjunct, Dept. of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP
Dean for Global Health, Arnhold Institute for Global Health; Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruce P. Lanphear, MD, MPH
Clinician Scientist, Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Arthur Lavin, MD FAAP
Advanced Pediatrics
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Jennifer Lowry, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City
Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Environmental Health Council
Emily Marquez, PhD
Staff Scientist
Pesticide Action Network North America
Melanie Marty, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
University of California, Davis
Jennifer McPartland, PhD
Senior Scientist
Environmental Defense Fund
Elise Miller, MEd
Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)
Mark Miller MD, MPH
Director, UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
Pamela Miller, M.S.
Executive Director
Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Mark A. Mitchell MD, MPH
President, Mitchell Environmental Health Associates
Chair, Council on Medical Legislation and
Co-Chair, Commission on Environmental Health, National Medical Association
Craig J. Newschaffer, PhD
Director, A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Drexel University
Liam O’Fallon, M.S.
Coordinator, Partnerships for Environmental Public Health,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH
Assistant Professor, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health,
University of Maryland
Heather B. Patisaul, PhD
Professor, Biological Sciences, Center for Human Health and the Environment, WM Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, NC State University
Frederica P. Perera, DrPH, PhD
Professor of Public Health; Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Professor, Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Beate Ritz MD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
Melissa Rose, MPH
Research Program Administrator,
UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center
University of California Davis
Leslie Rubin, MD
President, Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability; Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine; Co-director, Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Emory University; Medical Director, Developmental Pediatric Specialists
Jennifer Sass, PhD
Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University
Susan L Schantz, PhD
Professor of Toxicology and Neuroscience Director, Illinois Children’s Environmental Health Research Center, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ted Schettler MD, MPH
Science Director
Science and Environmental Health Network
Veena Singla, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Health Program
Natural Resources Defense Council
Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Secretary for Science and Health
California Environmental Protection Agency
Ho Luong Tran, MD, MPH
President and CEO
National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians
Thomas F. Webster, DSc
Professor, Department of Environmental Health,
Boston University School of Public Health
Robin M. Whyatt, DrPH
Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH
Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network
Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Professor and Director, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, USCF
R. Thomas Zoeller, PhD
Professor of Biology
Director, Laboratory of Molecular & Cellular Biology,
University of Massachusetts Amherst