

SPER Executive Board Officers
President
Enrique Schisterman
President-Elect
Robert Platt
McGill University Health Centre Research Institute
Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2300 Tupper St.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3H 1P3
Tel: (514)412-4400 x 23288
Fax: (514)412-4331
Email: robert.platt@mcgill.ca
Past-President
Cande Ananth
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Columbia University Medical Center
622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Tel: (212) 305-2800
Fax: (212) 342-5337
Email: cva2111@columbia.edu
Secretary 2010-2013
Courtney Lynch
Director of Reproductive Epidemiology
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
395 W. 12th Avenue, Room 580
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: (614) 366-3899
Fax: (614) 293-5877
Email: courtney.lynch@osumc.edu
Treasurer 2011-2014
Danelle Lobdell, PhD
US Environmental Protection Agency
National Hlth & Enviro Effects Research Laboratory
Environmental Public Health Division
MD-58-A
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Tel: (919) 843-4434
Fax: (919) 966-7584
Email: Lobdell.Danelle@epa.gov
Members At Large
Penelope Howards, PhD (2008-2012)
Department of Epidemiology
Emory University
1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Room 450
Atlanta, GA 30322
Tel: (404) 727-8499
Fax: (404) 727-8737
Email: penelope.howards@emory.edu
Anjel Vahratian, PhD, MD (2009-2013)
University of Michigan Medical Center
Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Domino's Farms, Lobby K, Level 3; PO Box 531
24 Frank Lloyd Wright Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Tel: (734) 930-5612
Fax: (734) 930-5609
Email: amv@med.umich.edu
Claudia Holzman (2010-2014)
Michigan State University
Department of Epidemiology
B601 West Fee Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
Tel: (517) 353-8623 x122
Fax: (517) 432-1130
Email: holzman@msu.edu
Brian Whitcomb (2011-2015)
University of Massachusetts
Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
408 Arnold House
715 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9304
Tel: (413) 577-7440
Email: bwhitcomb@schoolph.umass.edu
Student Representative (2011-2012)
Candice Johnson
Department of Epidemiology
Emory University
1518 Clifton Rd, CNR 3rd floor
Mailstop 1518-002-4AA
Atlanta, GA 30322
Email: cyjohns@emory.edu
Liaisons
Liaison with SER
Lisa Bodnar, PhD, MPH, RD
Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Tel: 412.624.9032
Fax: 412.624.7397
Email: bodnar@edc.pitt.edu
SPER's Liaison with AAP
Section on Epidemiology
Michael O'Shea, MD
Department of
Neonatology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Blvd
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
Tel: (336) 716-2529
Fax: (336) 716-2525
Email: moshea@wfubmc.edu
SPER's Liaison with Society for Pediatric Research (SPR)
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH
University of California at San Francisco
Dept of
Pediatrics
1001 Potero Ave, MS 6E
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: (415)
206-4196
Fax: (415) 206-3686
Email: efuentes@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu
SPER's Liaison with the Journal
Cande Ananth, PhD, MPH
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Columbia University Medical Center
622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Tel: (212) 305-2800
Fax: (212) 342-5337
Email: cva2111@columbia.edu
SPER's Liaison with the European Perinatal Epidemiological Network (EPEN)
Jennifer Zeitlin, DSc
INSERM U953
Epidemiological Research Unit for Perinatal Health and Women and
Infant's Health
82 avenue Denfert Rochereau
75014 Paris, FRANCE
SPER's Liaison with Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
Mark KIebanoff, MD, MPH
NICHD, NIH
Epidemiology Branch
6100 Bldg, 7B05
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510
Tel: (301) 496-5267
Fax: (301) 402-2084
Email: mk90h@nih.gov