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    • About the HBCD Study
    • HBCD Consortium Administrative Core
    • HBCD Data Coordinating Center
    • HBCD Site Principal Investigators
    • External Scientific Board
    • Observational Study Monitoring Board
    • Federal Partners
  • Families
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        • Boston Children’s Hospital
        • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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        • Emory University
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          and Kennedy Krieger Institute
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HBCD Workgroups and Committees

HBCD Workgroups

The HBCD Consortium has established workgroups to guide the development and refinement of the study design, protocols, informatics and standard operating procedures to facilitate the implementation of the study. Comprised of HBCD investigators, collaborators and staff with domain expertise, each workgroup meets regularly to assess and address the relevant needs of the study in light of scientific and technological advancements.

 

Workgroup Chairs

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

HBCD Committees

The HBCD Consortium Committees are structured to have engagement in areas that require integration across the consortium.

 

Committee Chairs

Communications, Engagement, & Dissemination
Katia Howlett (Co-chair) - katia.delrahim-howlett@nih.gov
Kathy Cole (Co-chair) - Katherine.cole@nih.gov
Terri Powell (Co-chair) - terri.powell@jhu.edu

Spanish Language
Florencia Anunziata (Co-chair) - fanunziata@health.ucsd.edu
Cynthia Cisneros  (Co-chair) - cycisneros@chla.usc.edu
Valeria Rodriguez (Co-chair) - valerod@okstate.edu

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