Panel of Expert Consultants
Personnel
![]() | Jack Rubinstein, MD, FACC, FASE IHSFC Core Leader; Associate Professor, Internal Medicine; Division of Cardiology; Director, Physician Scientist Training Program jack.rubinstein@uc.edu | Developmental origins of adult heart disease, endocrine disruptors and heart health |
![]() | Kelly Brunst, PhD IHSFC Core co-leader Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology kelly.brunst@uc.edu | Psychosocial stress, traffic pollution, mental health, epigenetics, mitochondrial function |
Susan Pinney, PhD | Strategic planning/ management of IHSFC program activities | |
Changchun Xie, PhD | Sample size estimation | |
Jeanette Buckholz, RN, MSN | Expert Consultant – biospecimen processing and storage | |
Victoria Straughn, CMA | Biospecimen (blood. urine and fixed tissue) procurement |
Additional Expert Consultants
![]() | Ranjan Deka, PhD | Expert Consultant |
![]() | Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA; Professor of Internal Medicine; Associate Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Health & Disease; Associate Chair, Basic Research, Internal Medicine; Director of Heart Branch of the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute; sakthivel.sadayappan@uc.edu | Expert consultant. Regulators of sacromere structure and function in cardiac and skeletal muscle; genetics of cardiovascular disease |
![]() | Ying Xia, PhD; Professor of Environmental Health, Division of Environmental Genetics and Molecular Toxicology; Director of CEG Integrative Technologies Support (ITS) Core; ying.xia@uc.edu | Expert consultant. Gene-Environment (GxE) interactions, development toxicity; epithelial biology, signal transduction |
![]() | Jeffrey R. Strawn, MD, FAACAP; Associate 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 | Expert consultant. Child and adolescent psychiatry; influence of environmental exposures on brain development and neurobehavior |
![]() | Michael Thomas, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Michael.Thomas@uc.edu | Expert Consultant, Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility, Effects of stress on reproductive function, Effects of exposure on reproductive function, Strategic planning, Translation coach |
| Scott Langevin, PhD | Molecular epidemiology |
Patrick Ryan, PhD | Expert Consultant |
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