Dr. Kenneth R. Warren
Dr. Kenneth R. Warren, PhD, is a nationally recognized expert on alcohol and pregnancy and was Acting Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) from 2008 to January 2014, when he resumed his position as Deputy Director. Dr. Warren has maintained an active interest in all areas of alcohol and health and in past years often served as the editor of the triennial Reports to Congress on Alcohol and Health. He has been particularly active in research on the effects of alcohol use during pregnancy, including fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Dr. Warren initiated NIAAA’s research program on FAS over 30 years ago. He currently chairs the government-wide Interagency Coordinating Committee on FAS. Dr. Warren has received numerous honors, including a superior service award from the Public Health Service in 1982 for his work in development of the first Surgeon General’s Advisory on FAS. In 2007, the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) honored Dr. Warren by placing his name into their Tom and Linda Daschle FASD Hall of Fame, followed by the receipt of the NOFAS Excellence Award in 2008.
Dr. Margaret M. Murray
Dr. Murray is Director of the Global Alcohol Research Program, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Murray directs NIAAA’s efforts in international research collaboration spanning each of the Institute’s priorities in biomedical, epidemiological, prevention and treatment research. She is primarily responsible for facilitating collaborative relationships at the individual institute and scientist level. Dr. Murray is also responsible for the Institute’s research translation initiatives in health professions education. She is co-author of A Medical Education Model for the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol-Use Disorders, a twenty module curriculum and faculty development course for medical school faculty in the primary care specialties. Dr. Murray received a BA degree in English from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a public honors college. She holds PHD and MSW degrees in social policy from Catholic University in Washington, DC and certificates in epidemiology and biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Dr. Murray also serves as adjunct faculty in the graduate programs at the Catholic University of America and Howard University where she teaches courses in the history of Social Welfare Policy in the United States.
Dr. Edward P. Riley
Dr. Edward P. Riley (Ph.D., 1974, Tulane University) is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Behavioral Teratology at San Diego State University. He has authored close to 300 scientific papers and reviews, primarily on the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure. He also served as Chair of the U.S. National Task Force on FAS/FAE from 2000-2004 at the request of the US Secretary of Health. He is a Past-President of the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA), The Fetal Alcohol Study Group of the RSA, and the Behavioral Teratology Society. He is the current President of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. He previously served as a member of the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Council and on the Behavioral and Social Advisory Council of the ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research. He serves on the Expert Panel for the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration’s FASD Center for Excellence and previously served as Chair of this advisory group. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship and contributions to the alcohol field, including the RSA Distinguished Researcher Award, the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Research Recognition Award, and most recently the Frank Seixas Award from the RSA. His work on FASD has been funded continually since 1978 by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He currently directs the Collaborative Initiative on FASD, an international, multisite consortium funded by NIAAA.
Dr. Diane Black
Diane Black is the adoptive mother of three children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. She is the chairperson of the European FASD Alliance, a member of the board of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Foundation of the Netherlands. One of her main interests is the role of nutrition in management of FASD. She has given presentations on this topic, and started an e-mail discussion group on Nutrition for FASD. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University (1986), and previously held various positions as researcher at the University of San Diego, Hoefer Scientific (San Francisco), INSERM (Strasbourg) and Marion Merrell Dow Research Institute (Strasbourg). Since the adoption of her three children with FASD, she has devoted her time to her children and other FAS-related activities.
Lars Moller
Lars Moller is the Programme Manager of the Alcohol and Illicit Drugs programme at WHO Regional Office for Europe. He is a medical doctor with a post-graduate specialization in public health medicine and has a doctoral degree in epidemiology.
The title of presentation is:
Protecting the unborn child against alcohol – 20 minutes.
Mr. Lauri Beekmann
Mr. Lauri Beekmann has been the chairman and executive director of the Estonian Temperance Union (ETU) since 2003. In 2013, Lauri took over the responsibilities of the Secretary General of NordAN (Nordic Alcohol and Drug Policy Network). With a background in journalism, he has worked as a radio editor for 10 years and as an editor of different local magazines and portals. In 2007 he started an alcohol news blog and weekly alcohol-related newsletter –
http://alcoholweekly.blogspot.com/. He is also the editor of bimonthly newsletter for the European FASD Alliance network and is currently vice-president of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare) and board member of the Baltic Tobacco and Alcohol Control Coalition (BTACC).
Dr. Amy Salmon
Dr. Amy Salmon is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Health Economics, where she leads a variety of research and knowledge exchange initiatives in addictions, mental health, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health, and a Collaborating Scientist at the Centre for Addictions Research of BC. Dr. Salmon has worked extensively in community-based health and social service provision, as a consultant for provincial and federal governments, and with grassroots and peer-led organizations concerned with the health and well-being of marignalized women, mothers, and their families. She is the co-editor of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Obesity: Morality, Mortality, and the New Public Health (Routledge Press, 2011) and Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Who is Responsible? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and her publications appear in journals such as The Lancet Global Health, Critical Public Health, The International Journal of Drug Policy, Nursing Inquiry, and Social Science and Medicine.
Dr. Egon Jonsson
Egon Jonsson is Executive Director & CEO of the Institute of Health Economics, and Professor of Health Economics; adjunct at the universities of Alberta and Calgary. He trained in his native Sweden at the Stockholm School of Economics before serving as a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and former Editor of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Cambridge University Press.
Jody Allen Crowe, M. Ed. Admin
Crowe has eighteen years of experience as an educator in Native American schools, working as a teacher, principal, and superintendent on four different reservations in two different states. In 2007, he moved to charter schools and has served as the Executive Director of two charter schools in southern Minnesota.
He did the seminal research on the connection between school shooters and prenatal exposure to alcohol. His book, “The Fatal Link” is raising awareness on the impact of prenatal exposure to alcohol on our communities, states, and nations.
Crowe founded and serves as the President/CEO of Healthy Brains for Children, a charitable nonprofit, with a singular mission of preventing prenatal exposure to alcohol. In 2012, he introduced pregnancy test dispensers in the women’s restroom in alcohol establishments. He launched a new project, My Baby’s Breath, using monitored breathalyzers to prevent prenatal exposure to alcohol in pregnant teenagers.
Crowe is currently consulting with Alaskan leaders in developing the Alaska Empowering Hope Initiative focused on eradicating FASD in Alaska. He speaks internationally on the subject of preventing FASD.
Aurelijus Veryga, MD, PhD, Assoc.prof.
Aurelijus Veryga, MD, PhD, Assoc.prof. at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Head of Health Research Institute (WHO Collaborating Center). Aurelijus Veryga is also a therapist at nervous system research center Neuromeda, president of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Coalition of Baltic States, Board Member of Nordic Alcohol and Drug Policy Network among many other.
He has a special interest in the field of drug addictions, is an initiator of such initiatives as Nonsmoking Class, I Was Born Not Smoking, Quit and Win, Hospitals Without Tobacco etc.
Dr. Ilze Kreicberga
Ilze Kreicberga (Ph.D., MBA), neonatologist by training, presently is the Chair of the Board of Riga Maternity hospital, the largest maternity institution in Latvia, where a third of Latvian children are born. She is a member of the Board of the Latvian Society of Neonatologists. In her Doctoral Thesis “Molecular Events in Placentas of Various Gestational Ages” she also addresses the impact of anthropological parameters on placental status and neonatal health.
The main topic of interest for her is the promotion of fetal and neonatal health; as a pediatrician and neonatologist she prefers targeting the primary causes of health and developmental problems in children, especially problems related to family health and lifestyle. She is a lecturer on neonatal assessment and primary resuscitation at the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Riga Stradins university, and a lecturer on risk factors for fetal health, including fetal factors, originating adulhood diseases as well as neonatal management at the Association of Family medicine. In her opinion, alcohol consumption during pregnancy as well as its impact on fetal development is underestimated in Latvia, and signs of FASD are possibly missed or misinterpreted.
