Panel of Expert Consultants
Leadership
 | Kelly Brunst, PhD Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences | Air pollution, fluoride, epigenetics, mitochondria function, neurodevelopment, psychosocial stress, career development award mentoring, and grant writing |
 | Jack Rubinstein, MD IHSFC Co-Leader Associate Professor of Clinical Department of Internal Medicine | Advanced echocardiographic imaging and myocardial energy utilization |
IHSFC Biostatistics Group
 | Changchun Xie, PhD Professor of Biostatistics Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Changchun.Xie@uc.edu
| Sample size estimation, power calculations, statistical analyses, multiple comparison statistical adjustments, and gene association analyses |
 | Liang Niu, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences | Analytical tool development, omic analyses, data mining, power calculations, and general statistical modeling |
Additional Expert Consultants
 | Senu Apewokin, MD, FACP Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Department of Internal Medicine
| Infectious disease microbiome |
 | Ranjan Deka, PhD | Population genetics, study design - cohort and case-control studies, and genotyping |
 | Roman Jandorav, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences | Exposure modeling, dimension reduction and prediction, and power calculations |
 | Scott Langevin, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Scott.Langevin@uc.edu | Molecular biomarkers, cancer epidemiology, and epigenetics |
 | Nicholas Newman, DO, MS, FAAP Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics | Community engagement, children's environmental health, asthma, and occupational medicine |
 | Susan M. Pinney, PhD, FACE Professor of Epidemiology | Strategic planning and management of IHSFC program activities, coordination of IHSFC core user consultations, workshops, forth and back clinical conferences |
 | Patrick Ryan, PhD Associate Professor Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, Pediatrics Patrick.Ryan@cchmc.org | Study design - cohort and case-control studies, air pollution, environmental monitoring, imaging (MRIs), atopy, asthma, and reporting back strategies |
 | Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA; Professor of Internal Medicine; Associate Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Health & Disease; Vice Chair, Basic Research, Internal Medicine; Director of Heart Branch of the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute; Sakthivel.Sadayappan@uc.edu | Regulators of sarcomere structure and function in cardiac and skeletal muscle, and genetics of cardiovascular disease |
 | Jeffrey R. Strawn, MD, FAACAP; Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Associate Vice Chair of Research; Director, Anxiety Disorders Research Program; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience; Jeffrey.Strawn@uc.edu | Child and adolescent psychiatry, influence of environmental exposures on brain development and neurobehavioral |
 | Micheal A. Thomas, MD Professor and Chair Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology | Reproductive endocrinology, infertility, effects of stress on reproductive function, effects of exposure on reproductive function, strategic planning, and translation coach |
 | Ying Xia, PhD Professor Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences | Gene-Environment (GxE) interactions, development toxicity; epithelial biology, signal transduction |
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