FASD Conference 2025 Committees

Program Planning Committee

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

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

Peter W. Choate, PhD, RCSW, Clinical Social Worker, Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada

Bill Dunty, PhD, 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

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

Jan Lutke, Conference Chair, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Rajesh C. Miranda, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, USA

Christie Petrenko, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

Edward Riley, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Behavioral Teratology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

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 Goup, DC, USA

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

Joanne Weinberg, PhD, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Emerita, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

International Advisory Committee

Dorothy Badry, PhD, RSW, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada

Tatiana Balachova, PhD, Scientific Coordinator and Executive Secretary of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD), Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Claire Coles, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Director, Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development Program (MSACD), Emory University Atlanta, GA, United States

Paul Connor, PhD, Neuropsychologist, Licensed Psychologist, Private Practice and Courtesy Clinical Assistant Professor, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, University of Washington Normandy Park, WA, United States

Lori Vitale Cox, PhD, Director Elsipogtog Eastern Door Centre; Adjunct Professor UBC Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics Rexton, NB, Canada

Carmen Enache, MD, PhD, Senior Consultant, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, Bucharest, , Romania

Emily Fitzpatrick, Trainee Representative; MBBS, PhD Candidate, Paediatric Registrar, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School Sydney, , Australia

Mary Kate Harvie, Judge, Provincial Court of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Susan (Astley) Hemingway, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of Washington, Director WA State Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic & Prevention Network, Seattle WA, USA Seattle, WA, USA

Heike Hoff-Emden, Leader, FASD Centre, Central Germany/Leipzig, Germany

Parker J. Holman, Laboratory Supervisor, Anatomy, Department of Kinesiology; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Kay Kelly, Project Director, FASD Legal Issues Resource Center; Research Coordinator, Multisite Study of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Effects of Inflammation and Endocrine Dysfunction in Adulthood Brain Maturation in Adults with FASD, Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI)/Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit (FADU), University of Washington/School of Medicine/Psychiatry Seattle, WA, USA

Valerie McGinn, PhD, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Department of Population Health, University of Auckland Auckland, , New Zealand

Kathleen Mitchell, Senior Vice President of FASD Prevention and Recovery Services, FASD United Washington, DC, United States

Raja Mukherjee, MBE, MBBS, FRCPsych, PGDIP EPP, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Lead Adult Neurodevelopmental Services, FASD Specialist Clinic and Adult Autism Diagnostic Services, SABP NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey, UK Surrey, , UK

Leana Olivier, Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Alcohol Related Research (FARR) Cape Town, South Africa, South Africa

Moira Plant, Professor Emeritus Alcohol & Health Research Unit, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Adjunct Professor, Curtin University, Perth Australia Edinburgh, UK, United Kingdom

Svetlana (Lana) Popova, Senior Scientist, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Associate Professor, Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Graduate Faculty Associate Member, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada

Jon Skranes, Professor, Child Neurology and Rehabilitation, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; Head of Child Habilitation Unit and Senior Consultant, Regional Competence Center for Children with Prenatal Alcohol/Drug Exposure, Dept. of Pediatrics, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal, Norway Lillesand, Arendal, Norway