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

• AJ Agopian, PhD – Associate Professor, Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• 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
• Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor of Surgery, Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, USC Keck School of Medicine
• 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

• Suman Maity, PhD, Data Analyst/Bioinformatics
• 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