HBCD Workgroups and Committees

Behavior and Caregiver-Child Interaction
Renee Edwards (Co-chair) - renee.edwards@northwestern.edu
Beth Planalp (Co-chair) - bplanalp@medicine.wisc.edu

Biospecimens and Omics
Julie Croff (Co-chair) - julie.croff@okstate.edu
Elinor Sullivan (Co-chair) - sullivel@ohsu.edu

Biostatistics
Wesley Thompson (Co-chair) - wes.stat@gmail.com
Yajuan Si (Co-chair) - yajuan@umich.edu

Design and Epidemiology
Keri Althoff (Co-chair) - kalthoff@jhu.edu
Engel, Stephanie (Co-chair) Stephanie.Engel@unc.edu

Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Nathan Fox (Co-chair) - fox@umd.edu
Koraly Perez-Edgar (Co-chair) - kxp24@psu.edu

Ethics, Legal, and Policy
Jenny Kingsley (Co-chair) - jkingsley@chla.usc.edu
Paul Spicer (Co-chair) - paul.spicer@ou.edu

Geocoding and Linking External Data
Chun Fan (Chair) - chunchiehfan@gmail.com

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Chris Smyser (HDCC) - smyserc@neuro.wustl.edu
Anders Dale (Co-chair) - andersmdale@gmail.com
Damien Fair (Co-chair) - faird@umn.edu

Neurocognition and Language
Julie Kable (Co-chair) - jkabl01@emory.edu
Alexi Potter (Co-chair) - Alexandra.Potter@uvm.edu

Novel Technologies and Wearables
Bill Fifer (Co-chair) - wpf1@columbia.edu and wpf1@cumc.columbia.edu
Beth Smith (Co-chair) - bsmith@chla.usc.edu

Physical Health
Leigh-Anne Cioffredi (Co-chair) - leigh-anne.cioffredi@uvm.edu
Sara B. DeMauro (Co-chair) - demauro@chop.edu

Pregnancy and Exposure, including Substance Use
Gretchen Bandoli – (Co-Chair) - gbandoli@health.ucsd.edu
Claire Coles (Co-chair) - ccoles@emory.edu
Lynne Smith (Co-chair) - Smith@lundquist.org

Recruitment, Retention, and Community Engagement
Brenda Jones Harden (Co-chair) - bjharden@umd.edu
Lorraine McKelvey (Co-chair) - mckelveylorraine@uams.edu

Rural and Sovereign Communities
Brittany Howell (Co-chair) - brhowell@vtc.vt.edu
Aleksandra Zgierska (Co-chair) - azgierska@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Social and Environmental Determinants
Ashley Acheson (Co-chair) - awacheson@uams.edu
Lea G. Yerby (Co-chair) - yerby002@ua.edu

Study Navigators
Florence Hilliard (Co-chair) - fhilliar@wisc.edu
Holly Horan (Co-chair) - hhoran@uabmc.edu

Transitions in Care
Julie Poehlmann-Tynan (Co-Chair) - julie.poehlmanntynan@wisc.edu
Rebecca Shlafer (Co-Chair) - shlaf002@umn.edu