Meet our
Program Planning Committee
Bringing expertise and the voice of living experience together for the
10th International Conference on Adolescents and Adults with
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
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
International Advisory Committee
To be announced.