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, DC, USA

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