Event:

Workshop, June 20-21, 2006

“Enhancing Capacity to Study Gene-Environment Interactions in Complex Traits: Implications for Health Disparities.

Project Team

Workshop Participants

Research Staff

Invited Dinner Guests

 

 

 

Project Team

David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D
Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Medicine
Harvard Medical School
7 Cambridge Center, Off. 5013
Cambridge, MA 02142

Kim Fortun, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Science and Technology Studies
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Russell Sage Laboratory 5th Fl
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

Kenneth Olden, PhD, Sc.D., L.H.D
Chief, Metastasis Section, LMC
NIEHS/NH-04
P.O. Box 12233
RTP, N.C. 27709

Alexandra E. Shields, PhD
Director
Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114

Kevin B. Weiss, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Professor of Medicine
Division of General Medicine
Director, Center for Healthcare Studies
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research
Hines VA Hospital
Building #1, Room B260
5th Ave and Roosevelt Rd.
Hines, IL 60141

Rosalind J. Wright, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Channing Laboratory
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
181 Longwood Avenue
Boston , MA 02115

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Workshop Participants

David Christiani, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Professor, Department of Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health
Building I, Room 1407
665 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., PhD, M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health
1214 S. University 2nd Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548

Michael Fortun, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Russell Sage Laboratory, 5th Fl
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

David Hunter, M.B.B.S., Sc.D.
Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer
Prevention
Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health
Building II, Room 111
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Sharon Kardia, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Public Health Genetics Program
Co-Director, Center for Genomics and Public Health
Co-Director, Life Science and Society Program
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Room 246
611 Church St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3028

Patricia A. King, J.D.
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine,
Ethics, and Public Policy
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Teri Manolio, M.D., PhD
Senior Advisor to the Director for Population Genomics
National Human Genome Research Institute
Building 31, Rm. 4B-09
31 Center Drive, MSC 2154
Bethesda, MD 20892-2154

Michael A. McGeehin, PhD, M.S.P.H.
Director
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MS-F-52
Atlanta, GA 30333

David B. Peden, M.D., M.S.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Medicine
Director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology
Chief, Division of Pediatric Immunology & Infectious Disease
Associate Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine
EPA Human Studies Facility, Office 544
104 Mason Farm Road, CB# 7310
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7310

Joan Reibman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine
NYU Medical School
NBV 7 7N24
462 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Lawrence W. Reiter, PhD
Director, National Exposure Research Lab
Environmental Protection Agency
USEPA Mailroom
Mail Code: D305-01
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

John Ruffin, PhD
Director
National Center on Minority Health and Health
Disparities
National Institutes of Health
6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 800
MSC-5465
Bethesda, MD 20892-5465

Peggy Shepard
Executive Director
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
271 West 125th Street, Suite 308
New York, NY 10027-4424

Edwin K. Silverman, M.D., PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Channing Laboratory
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
181 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115

Elizabeth J. Thomson, DNSc, RN, CGC, FAAN
Program Director
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
5635 Fishers Lane, Suite 4076
Bethesda, MD 20892-9305

Scott T. Weiss, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Channing Laboratory
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
181 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115

Samuel H. Wilson, M.D.
Deputy Director
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health (B2-06)
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233

Harold Zenick, PhD
Acting Director
National Health and Environmental Effects Research
Laboratory
Environmental Protection Agency
USEPA Mailroom
Mail Code: B305-01
109 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

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Research Staff

Renée Betancourt
Research Assistant
Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114

Vida Foubister
Independent Journalist
405 Cortlandt Avenue
Mamaroneck, NY 10543

Aalok Khandekar
Graduate Student, Science and Technology Studies
5705 Russell Sage Laboratory
110 8th Street
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180

Maya Y. Mauch, M.P.H.
Project Manager
Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114

Molly McGinn-Shapiro
Research Assistant
Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114

Invited Dinner Guests

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
Director
Institute for Health Policy
Their Professor Medicine / Health Policy
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114

Evelynn Hammonds, PhD
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
1350 Massachusetts Avenue
Holyoke Center 877
Cambridge, MA 02138

Saj-nicole A. Joni, PhD
President and CEO
Cambridge International Group Ltd.
170 Coolidge Hill
Cambridge, MA

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