Expert Planning Committee
Jan Lutke, Conference Chair, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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, Clinical Social Worker, Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada
Bill Dunty, PhD, Program Director, Division of Metabolism and Health Effects, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kristina Hiemstra, BSocSc, Director, UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Brenda Knight, Registered Psychologist, Private Practice, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Christine Loock, MD, FRCPC, DABP, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia; Medical Director, BC Children’s Hospital Provincial Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Program; RICHER Social Pediatrics Program; Children Complex Development Behavioural Conditions Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mansfield Mela, MBBS, FWACP, FRCPsych, MSc, FRCPC, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Edward Riley, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Behavioral Teratology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Joanne Weinberg, PhD, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Emerita, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Expert Advisory Committee
Sabrina Agnihotri, Student Representative; MD/PhD, PGY-1, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ilona Autti-Rämö, MD, General Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Steering of healthcare and social welfare, Council of Choices in Health Care; Adjunct Professor at the Childneurology Department, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
Dorothy Badry, PhD, RSW, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Tatiana Balachova, PhD, Scientific Coordinator and Executive Secretary, Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD); Senior Scientific Administrator, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research (DEPR), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Claire D. Coles, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Paul D. Connor, PhD, Neuropsychologist, Private Practice and Courtesy Clinical Assistant Professor, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Lori Vitale Cox, PhD, Director, Eastern Door Diagnostic Team for FASD and Related Conditions; Adjunct Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Director, Nogemag Healing Lodge for Youth, Rexton, NB, Canada
Elizabeth Elliott, AM, FAHMS, MD, MPhil, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPCH, FRCP, Professor Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sydney; and Consultant Paediatrician, The Sydney Children’s, Hospitals Network, Westmead, Sydney, Australia
Carmen L. Enache, MD, PhD, Senior Consultant, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
James P. Fitzpatrick, FRACP, MBBS, BSc, PhD, Paediatrician, Lead Investigator, Making FASD History Program, Telethon Kids Institute; Director, PATCHES Paediatrics, Perth, Australia
Emily Fitzpatrick, Student Representative; MBBS, PhD Candidate, Paediatric Registrar, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia
Erikson F. Furtado, MD, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, Department of Neurosciences and Behavior, Division of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Alcohol & Drugs Program – PAI-PAD, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Therese Grant, PhD, Professor and Ann Streissguth Endowed Professor in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
The Honourable Mary Kate Harvie, Judge, Provincial Court of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Heike Hoff-Emden, MD, Head Doctor, Social Paediatric Centre Leipzig, Fruehe Hilfe Leipzig, Germany
Parker J. Holman, Student Representative; PhD, MSEd, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sarah Inkelis, Student Representative; MS, PhD Student, San Diego State University/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA
Denis Lamblin, MD, Developmental Pediatrician; President SAF FRANCE; President International SAFTHON (FASTHON), Reunion Island, France
Rebecca Martell, Adjunct Lecturer, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
Philip A. May, PhD, Research Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-Nutrition Research Institute, Kannapolis, NC, USA
Valerie McGinn, PhD, Clinical Neuropsychologist, The FASD Centre, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Rajesh C. Miranda, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, USA
Kathleen T. Mitchell, MHS, LCADC, Vice President and International Spokesperson, National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS), Washington, DC, USA
Raja Mukherjee, MBBS, FRCPsych, PGDIP EPP, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist, Tandridge CTPLD; Lead Clinician, FASD Specialist Clinic and Adult Autism Diagnostic Services, SABP NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn, PhD, Psychologist, State Agency For Prevention of Alcohol Related Problems, Warsaw, Poland
Leana Olivier, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Alcohol Related Research (FARR), Cape Town, South Africa
Moira Plant, PhD, Professor Emeritus Alcohol & Health Research Unit, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Adjunct Professor, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Svetlana Popova, MD, PhDs, MPH, 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
Ihsan Sarman, MD, PhD, Senior Neonatologist emeritus, Sachsska Children Hospital, Southern Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Lina Schwerg, BSc, Student Representative; Master Student, Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam; Assistant Manager of the FASD-Fachzentrum Sonnenhof, Berlin, Germany
Jon Skranes, MD PhD, 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; Senior Paediatrician / Head of Child Habilitation Unit, Department of Pediatrics and Senior Consultant in Child Neurology, Regional Competence Center for Children with Prenatal Alcohol/Drug Exposure Health, South-East, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal, Norway
Paula Stanghetta, Facilitator, Coach, Trainer, Paula Stanghetta & Associates Inc., Kitchener, ON, Canada
Local Planning Committee
Jan Lutke, Conference Chair, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kristina Hiemstra, BSocSc, Director, UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Brenda Knight, Registered Psychologist, Private Practice, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Christine Loock, MD, FRCPC, DABP, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia; Medical Director, BC Children’s Hospital Provincial Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Program; RICHER Social Pediatrics Program; Children Complex Development Behavioural Conditions Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cheryl McIntee, CPCA-RPC, MPCC (Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling), Cheryl McIntee Counselling and Consulting, White Rock, BC, Canada
Alanna Schlatter, Manager, Inclusion Supports and Services Policy Team, Ministry of Children and Family Development, Government of British Columbia, Victoria, BC
Kee Warner, Executive Director, Whitecrow Village FASD Society, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Marsha Wilson, MA, Leadership, Faculty Member, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC, Canada
Leadership Committee
Katrina Griffin, Change Maker, Mentor, Speaker, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Myles Himmelreich, Change Maker, Mentor, FASD Consultant, Speaker, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Anique Lutke, Change Maker, Mentor, Music, Vancouver, BC, Canada
CJ Lutke, Change Maker, Mentor, Speaker, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Justin Mitchell, Change Maker, Mentor, Speaker, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Emily Travis, Change Maker
More information on the Adult Leadership Committee here: https://interprofessional.ubc.ca/alc/