Scientific Leadership Committee
Voting Members
Ellen Chadwick, MD
SLC Chair
PHACS Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Director, Scientific Administrative Core
Co-Chair, SMARTT Protocol
Co-Chair, Maternal Exposures Working Group
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Paige Williams, PhD
SLC Vice Chair
PHACS Contact Principal Investigator
Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, MD, DrPH
PHACS Co-Principal Investigator
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH
PHACS Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Chair, Nutrition-Growth-Metabolism Working Group
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Engi F. Attia, MD, MPH
Co-Chair, Cardiopulmonary Working Group
University of Washington
Claire Berman, MS
Director, Health Education and Community Core (HECC)
Liaison, PHACS Young Adult Community Advisory Board
Liaison, HECC Community Task Force
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sean Brummel, PhD
Co-Chair, Genomics Task Force
Co-Director, Epidemiological and Statistical Methods Core
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sandra Burchett, MD, MSc
Co-Chair, Clinical Investigator Group
Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Mariana Gerschenson, PhD
Subject Matter Expert: Mitochondrial
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Denise Jacobson, PhD, MPH
Co-Chair, COVID-19 Task Force
Co-Chair, Nutrition-Growth-Metabolism Working Group
Co-Chair, Publications Committee
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Deborah Kacanek, ScD
Co-Chair, HOPE Protocol
Co-Chair, Maternal Exposures Working Group
Co-Chair, Women's Health Working Group
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Barbara Moscicki, MD
Chair, Site Evaluation Subcommittee
Co-Chair, Adolescent and Young Adult Working Group
Co-Chair, Oral Health Task Force
University of California Los Angeles
Sharon Nichols, PhD
Co-Chair, TERBO BRAIN Protocol
University of California San Diego
Janna B. Oetting, PhD, CCC-SLP
Subject Matter Expert: Language
Louisiana State University
Kunjal Patel, DSc, MPH
Co-Director, Epidemiological and Statistical Methods Core
Co-Chair, Complications Working Group
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kathleen Powis, MD, MPH, MBA
Co-Chair, HOPE Protocol
Co-Chair, Women's Health Working Group
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Murli Purswani, MD
Co-Chair, Clinical Investigator Group
Co-Chair, Publications Committee
BronxCare Health System
Liz Salomon, EdM
PHACS Program Director
Project Director, Data Resources Core and Scientific Administrative Core
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kimbrae Sanders
Chair, PHACS Community Advisory Board
Member, HECC Community Task Force
Baylor University School of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
Stephanie Shiau, PhD, MPH
Subject Matter Expert: Epigenetics and Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Rutgers School of Public Health
Renee Smith, PhD
Co-Chair, Neurodevelopmental and Neurology Working Group
Norwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Stephen Spector, MD
Subject Matter Expert: Genomics
Co-Chair, Genomics Task Force
University of California
San Diego School of Medicine & Rady Children’s Hospital
Kathy Tassiopoulos, DSc, MPH
Co-Chair, AMP Up Series Protocol
Co-Chair, Adolescent and Young Adult Health Behaviors Working Group
Co-Chair, Neurodevelopmental and Neurology Working Group
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peter Torre III, PhD, MS
Co-Chair, Hearing and Language Task Force
San Diego State University
Elaine Urbina, MD, MS
Subject Matter Expert: Cardiology
Director, Preventive Cardiology, Heart Institute
Professor, University of Cincinnatti Department of Pediatrics
Russell Van Dyke, MD
Co-Chair, AMP Up Series Protocol
Co-Chair, Complications Working Group
Tulane University School of Medicine
Lei Wang, PhD
Co-Chair, TERBO BRAIN Protocol
The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Tzy-Jyun Yao, PhD
Co-Chair, Hearing and Language Task Force
Co-Chair, Oral Health Task Force
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lynn Yee, MD, MPH
Subject Matter Expert: Obstetrics
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Non-Voting Members
Nahida Chaktoura, MD
Medical Officer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Ayesha Christmas
PHACS Program Assistant
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Alex DiPerna
Project Manager, PHACS Data Management Center
Frontier Science
Howard Hoffman, MA
Director, Epidemiology and Statistics Program
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Sharon Hwang, MSPH
PHACS Program Coordinator
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Hiroko Iida, DDS, MPH
Director, HIV/AIDS & Oral Health Research Program
Acting Director, Oral Health Disparities & Inequities Research Program
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Bill Kapogiannis, MD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Sonia Lee, PhD
Acting Chief, Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Nancy Liu, MPH
Protocol Specialist
Westat, Inc.
Molly Lyons, BSM
PHACS Manager of Finance
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Vikrant Sahasrabuddhe, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
Program Director, Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group
National Cancer Institute
Sue Siminski, MS, MBA
Director, PHACS Data Management Center
Frontier Science