National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council Roster

Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council

(Terms end 11/30 of designated year)

Chairperson

Diana W. Bianchi, M.D.
Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Council Members

AIZER, Anna, Ph.D.  
Professor 
Department of Economics 
Brown University 
Providence, RI 

BROOKS, Susan L. 
Professor of Law
Drexel University Kline School of Law 
Philadelphia, PA 

CEDARS, Marcelle Ivonne, M.D. 
Professor 
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences 
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA

FAIR, Damien, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN

GYAMFI-BANNERMAN, Cynthia, M.D. 
Chair and Professor 
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
University of California San Diego School of Medicine 
San Diego, CA

JABS, Ethylin Wang, M.D. 
Chair of the Department of Clinical Genomics 
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN 55905

MALDONADO, Yvonne A., M.D.
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

VAN DEN VEYVER, Ignatia B., M.D. 
Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 

Ad Hoc Members and Subject Matter Experts

COHN, Shannon
Executive Director
Endo Collective
New York, NY 

COLE, Francis Sessions, M.D. 
Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus
Division of Newborn Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
St. Louis, MO

FIELD-FOTE, Edelle, Ph.D. 
Director
Spinal Cord Injury Research Program
Hulse Research Laboratory
Crawford Research Institute
Shepherd Center
Atlanta, GA

GREGORY, Kimberly, M.D., M.Ph
Helping Hand of Los Angeles – The Miriam Jacobs
Chair in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Professor, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine & UCLA-Fielding School of Public Health
Los Angeles, CA

HU, Zhanzhi “Mike”, M.D. 
Cofounder-President
Bingo Biotech LLC
Union City, CA

MANDL,Ken, M.D. 
Director,
Computational Health Informatics Program
Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

MORENO, Megan A., M.D. 
Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI

ROBERTS, James, M.D. 
Professor, 
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Magee Women’s Research Institute
University of Pittsburg
Pittsburgh, PA

VELLODY, Kishore, M.D. 
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

WOLFNER, Marianna, Ph.D. 
Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts & Sciences in Molecular Biology & Genetics
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Ex Officio Members

DORN, Patricia, Ph.D.
Director of Rehabilitation Research and Development
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC

GHANDOUR, Reem, DrPH, MPA
Director
Division of Epidemiology
Office of Epidemiology and Research
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Rockville, MD

Department of Defense

VADAY, Gayle, Ph.D. 
Civilian Deputy Director, 
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command 
Fort Detrick, MD

NABMMR Liaison

CONTRERAS-VIDAL, Jose L., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cullen College of Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Executive Secretary

RASOOLY, Rebekah, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, MD