Panel of Expert Consultants

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Personnel

	Jack Rubinstein, MD IHSFC Core Leader; Professor, Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology 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 Core Leader Professor Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Susan.Pinney@uc.edu	Strategic planning/ management of IHSFC program activities Coordination of IHSFC Core user consultations Workshops; Forth and Back clinical conferences Expert Consultant
	Changchun Xie, PhD *Statistician* Associate Professor Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Changchun.Xie@uc.edu	Sample size estimation Power calculations Statistical Analyses Multiple comparison statistical adjustments Gene association analyses
	Jeanette Buckholz, RN, MSN Research Associate Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Jeanette.Buckholz@uc.edu	Expert Consultant – biospecimen processing and storage Tissue repository; medical record retrieval Outreach to members of an exposed community
	Victoria Straughn, CMA Clinical research assistant Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Victoria.Straughn@uc.edu	Biospecimen (blood. urine and fixed tissue) procurement Consultation and database evaluations Outreach activities in collaboration with CEC

Additional Expert Consultants

	Ranjan Deka, PhD Professor Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Ranjan.Deka@uc.edu	Expert Consultant Population genetics Study design - cohort and case-control studies Genotyping
	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 Assistant Professor Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences Scott.Langevin@uc.edu	Molecular epidemiology DNA methylation studies
	Patrick Ryan, PhD Associate Professor Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, Pediatrics Patrick.Ryan@cchmc.org	Expert Consultant Study design - cohort and case-control studies Air pollution / environmental monitoring Imaging (MRIs) Atopy and Asthma

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