Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics (2001 - present)
- Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics (1997 - present)
- Director, Stanford UCSF Medical Genetics Residency Program, Stanford University Medical Center (1998 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Mosbacher Family Distinguished Packard Fellow, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (2003)
- Alumni Achievement Award, Augustana College, SD (2002)
- Deans List for Excellence in Teaching in the Basic Sciences, The University of Arizona College of Medicine (1993)
- Vernon and Virginia Furrow Award for Excellence in Graduate Education or Graduate Medical Education, The University of Arizona College of Medicine (1991)
- Teacher of the Year Award, The University of Vermont College of Medicine (1985)
Professional Education
| BA Summa cum laude: | Augustana College, SD, Biology and Chemistry (1972) |
| MD: | University of Chicago, Pritzker, Medicine (1976) |
| Residency: | UC San Diego Medical Center, Pediatrics (1979) |
| Fellowship: | UC San Diego Medical Center, Clinical Genetics/Dysmorphology (1981) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community and International Work
- Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD), Upper Great Plains, Western Cape Province (South Africa), Italy, Finland&suffix=researcher
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
My research focuses on mechanisms of malformation and morphogenesis. Specific research interests include: clinical teratology (fetal alcohol syndrome and the teratogenic effects of other drugs of abuse during pregnancy); intrauterine vascular disruption as a causative mechanism of congenital anomalies; congenital overgrowth syndromes; genetic disorders in Native Americans; the provision of genetics services to underserved populations; and innovative approaches to medical genetics education. Most recently my work has helped to delineate the continuum of disability associated with maternal prenatal alcohol abuse, i.e., fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). I am part of the dysmorphology core of an NIAAA-funded international consortium of projects aimed at better clinical delineation of the continuum of FASD.
Publications
- Clinical delineation of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in Italian children: comparison and contrast with other racial/ethnic groups and implications for diagnosis and prevention. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2007; (2): 270-7
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: A practical clinical approach to diagnosis Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2007; (2): 230-8
- The epidemiology of fetal alcohol syndrome and partial FAS in a South African community. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007; (2-3): 259-71
- Comparison of motor delays in young children with fetal alcohol syndrome to those with prenatal alcohol exposure and with no prenatal alcohol exposure. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2006; (12): 2037-45
- Epidemiology of FASD in a province in Italy: Prevalence and characteristics of children in a random sample of schools Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 2006; (9): 1562-1575
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Finland: clinical delineation of 77 older children and adolescents. Am J Med Genet A. 2006; (2): 137-43
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