Meet the people shaping FASD 2027.

Our Program Committee brings perspectives from across disciplines, institutions, communities, and countries to guide the scientific and practical direction of the 20th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

Laura Bousquet

FASD Self-Advocate, Parent to a Young Adult with FASD, LEND Alumni, Texas FASD Network Board Member, IACP Consortium Member, FASD United Family Navigator, USA

Heather Carmichael Olson

Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

R. Colin Carter

M.D., M.M.Sc., Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Nutrition and Emergency Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine and the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA

Michael Charness

MD, Chief of Staff, VA Boston Healthcare System; Faculty Associate Dean, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Dean, Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, West Roxbury, MA, USA

Dan Dubovsky

MSW, FASD Specialist, Independent Contractor, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Bill Dunty

Ph.D., FASD Research Coordinator and Program Director, Division of Metabolism and Health Effects, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Elizabeth Elliott

Professor of Paediatrics and Ctey; Consultant Paediatrician Sydney Children’s Hospital Network; and Leadership Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Australia

Susan (Astley) Hemingway

Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of Washington; Director, Washington State FAS Diagnostic & Prevention Network, Seattle, WA, USA

Christine Loock

MD, FRCPC, FAAP, Developmental and Social Pediatrician, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, BC Children’s Hospital & Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Rajesh C. Miranda

Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, USA

Christie Petrenko

Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

Siara K. Rouzer

Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University

Susan Shepard Carlson

JD, Chair, FASD United, FASD justice trainer, writer and speaker; former Hennepin County District Court Judicial Officer, Minneapolis, MN, USA and member of ICCFASD Justice Work Group, DC, USA

Fernando Valenzuela

MD, PhD, Regents’ Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Jo Votolato

Conference Director, FASD United, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Joanne Weinberg

Ph.D., Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Emerita, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Conference Contact
Jo Votolato, Conference Director
[email protected]

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by 5R13AA028176-06 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.