New Members Appointed to NICHD Council

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.