Organization

Wendy Nembhard, MPH, PhD, FACE
Chair & Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Director, Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Center Co-Investigators

Elijah Bolin, MD
Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology

Nahed El-Hassan, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics, Professor, Pediatric Neonatology

Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, PhD
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Assistant Professor

Laura Gonzalez-Krellwitz, MD
Department of Pathology, Associate Professor, Pediatric Pathology

Anthony Goudie, PhD
College of Public Health, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management

Ping-Ching Hsu, PhD
College of Public Health, Assistant Professor,Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

Everett Magann, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Franscesca Miquel-Verges, MD
Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Pediatric Neonatology

Mohammed Orloff, PhD
College of Public Health, Associate Professor, Epidemiology

Kandi Stallings-Archer, MD
Department of Pathlogy, Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology

Jun Ying, PhD
College of Public Health, Professor, Health Biostatistics

Sean Young, PhD
College of Public Health, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health

Yuri Zarate, MD
Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Pediatric Genetics

Center Collaborators/Co-Investigators at other Institutions

Charlotte Hobbs, MD, PhD
Vice President for Research and Clinical Management
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine

Ming Li, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Indiana University Bloomington

Xiangyang Lou, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida

Philip Lupo, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics- Hematology-Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine

Sadia Malik, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Jenil Patel, MBBS, MPH, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health

Maria Politis
Research Fellow at Icanh School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Zachary Stowe, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Center Staff

Rachel Jones, BA, MSc, Research Program Manager
Suman Maity, PhD, Epidemiology
Sandra Phillips, Administrative Coordinator
Bruce Hulsey, BS, IT Development, Business Systems Developer
Dan Sobkoviak, BS, Senior Business Systems Developer
Cassandra Garman, BAS, RHIA, CCS, Health Information Specialist
Fadi Musfee, MPH, MD, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Theangelo Calloway, AS, Health Information Specialist
Tabatha Scarborough, RHIT, Health Information Specialist