New Members Appointed to NICHD Council

New National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, NICHD’s advisory body appointments.

Shown are (front, from l) Dr. Aaron Lopata, chief medical officer, maternal and child health, Health Resources and Services Administration; Dr. Constantine Stratakis, NICHD scientific director; Dr. Catherine Spong, NICHD acting director; and Lesli Rotenburg, general manager, children’s programming, marketing and communications, PBS. In back are (from l) Dr. Timothy Shriver, chair and CEO, Special Olympics; Dr. Della Hann, NICHD associate director for extramural research; Dr. Atul Butte, director, Institute for Computational Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco; Dr. DeWayne Pursley, associate professor of pediatrics, department of neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School; and Dr. Richard Krugman, distinguished professor, pediatrics/child abuse, University of Colorado School of Medicine.

New appointments have been made to the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, NICHD’s advisory body.