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Wendy Nembhard, MPH, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Elijah Bolin, M.D. — Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
  • Nahed El-Hassan, M.D., MPH — Department of Pediatrics, Professor, Pediatric Neonatology
  • Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D. — Department of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor
  • Laura Gonzalez-Krellwitz, M.D. — Department of Pathology, Associate Professor, Pediatric Pathology
  • Ping-Ching Hsu, Ph.D. — College of Public Health, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Everett Magann, M.D. — Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Franscesca Miquel-Verges, M.D. — Department of Pediatrics, Professor, Pediatric Neonatology
  • Mohammed Orloff, Ph.D. — College of Public Health, Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  • Kandi Stallings-Archer, M.D. — Department of Pathlogy, Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology
  • Ram Kumar Subramanyan, M.D., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Surgery, Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, USC Keck School of Medicine
  • Jun Ying, Ph.D. — College of Public Health, Professor, Health Biostatistics
  • Yuri Zarate, M.D. — Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Pediatric Genetics

Center Collaborators/Co-Investigators at other Institutions

  • Charlotte Hobbs, M.D., Ph.D. — Vice President for Research and Clinical Management, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
  • Ming Li, Ph.D. — Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Xiangyang Lou, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida
  • Philip Lupo, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics- Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Sadia Malik, M.D. — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Jenil Patel, MBBS, MPH, Ph.D., 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, M.D. — Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Center Staff

  • Suman Maity, Ph.D. — Data Analyst/Bioinformatics
  • Sandra Phillips — Administrative Coordinator
  • Bruce Hulsey, B.S. — IT Development, Business Systems Developer
  • Dan Sobkoviak, B.S. — Senior Business Systems Developer
  • Cassandra Garman, BAS, RHIA, CCS — Health Information Specialist
  • Fadi Musfee, MPH, M.D., Ph.D. — Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Theangelo Calloway, AS — Health Information Specialist
  • Tabatha Scarborough, RHIT — Health Information Specialist
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