Avatud konverents: raseduseaegse alkoholi mõju lootele
25. november 2015
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Peter Hepper
School of Psychology, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN
Peter Hepper is a Professor of Psychology at Queens University of Belfast. He directs the Fetal Behaviour Research Centre funded by the Wellcome Trust. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Gro CC Lohaugen
Just started as head of the new regional resource service for prenatal drug exposure. Vaata tervet CV-d.
Raja Mukherjee
Dr Raja Mukherjee is a Adult Learning Disability Consultant Psychiatrist for Surrey and Border’s Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, with interest in the management of developmental disorders across the lifespan. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s. Having worked with Jeremy Turk for 18 Months in his Child and Adolescent LD team, he continues to see and advise local colleagues on the behavioural management of children and adults with Developmental disorders across the lifespan.
In September 2009 he started the first NHS based specialist Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders behavioural clinic and since then has seen over 100 cases for specialist second opinion. The clinic is currently being expanded to offer more comprehensive national opinion on the diagnosis and behaviour management of FASD.
Dr Mukherjee completed his PhD on the subject of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in 2014. He has also acted as an invited advisor to the BMA board of science, The Department of Health and the World Health Organisation on the subject of FASD. He continues to be an active member of the international scientific panel on FASD for NOFAS UK and for the international conference held biannually in Vancouver and the European meetings related to FASD. Alongside colleagues he has helped set up the first Professional network in the UK for FASD to improve training and knowledge about the subject.
Dr Mukherjee is also Clinical lead for adult Autism Services for SABP having helped to develop the service which now provides diagnostic services to Surrey, Hampshire and Portsmouth. He is also part of the Royal College of Psychiatrist special interest group on Adult Autism.
Kersti K. Linask
Dr. Linask obtained a Master of Arts degree from UCLA and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Cell and Molecular Biology. She currently holds a University of South Florida (USF) faculty position being the Mason Endowed Professor of Translational Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at USF Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. The goals of Dr. Linask’s research have been to define the cellular-molecular mechanisms underlying environmental induction of cardiac birth defects, including of alcohol exposure and to demonstrate the mechanisms underlying folate protection of normal heart development and placentation after exposure. Recent results suggest the environmental effects that result in embryonic cardiac anomalies encompass changes in lipid metabolism. Aspects of her research on environmental exposures during gastrulation have led to new studies initiated in relation to human hematopoietic stem cells. These studies were pursued on a Fulbright Fellowship that she was awarded to carry out research at Tartu University in Estonia in the fall of 2012. Dr. Linask is also engaged in public health issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum of Disorders (FASD).
Nina Kaminen-Ahola
INina Kaminen-Ahola, Adjunct Professor in Epigenetics, gained her MSc degree in genetics at University of Oulu, Finland, in 2001 and her PhD in 2007 at University of Helsinki, Finland. Her PhD research concerned the genetics of dyslexia, which is a complex genetic disorder. After completing her PhD she joined Professor Emma Whitelaw’s Epigenetics Laboratory in Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia. During her postdoctoral period she studied the effects of alcohol on the epigenome of a developing embryo in a mouse model of fetal alcohol syndrome.In January 2013 she established a research group of Environmental Epigenetics at the faculty of medicine in University of Helsinki. Her aim is to understand the mechanisms by which environmental factors affect the gene expression in embryonic development, and the role of epigenome in it. The two environmental factors that are concerned in her current studies are rather different: gestational alcohol exposure and assisted reproductive technology therapies. To get a better understanding of the effects of these factors especially on the epigenetic reprogramming events, she is using both mouse models and human samples.
Kieran O'Malley
Dr Kieran D.O'Malley was born in Belfast , educated at Clongowes Wood College, and qualified in Medicine at University College Dublin in 1972. He trained in Public Health in Bromley, Crydon and Guys Health District (1975-1977). Later he trained in General Practice at the Royal Alexandra Hospital Edmonton, and practised there for 5 years , delivering 250 babies. ( 1978-83). Finally, he completed Adult and Child Psychiatric training at Mc Gill University Montreal, Cornell Medical School New York, University of Alberta Edmonton and Alberta Children's Hospital Calgary . He is a Board certified Psychiatrist & has practised as a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist in Canada,USA, U.K. & Ireland. Initially he started FAS Consultation Clinic at the Glenrose Hospital, Edmonton in 1991. In the late 90's he joined the Academic Psychiatric Faculty of the University of Washington, Seattle, working with Professor Ann Streissguth in the Fetal Alcohol & Drug Unit (1997-2006), He continues to be involved in clinical research , publications & teaching related to FASDs (now NDPAE), and has run the only Consultation Clinic for FASDs in Ireland over the last 8 years. He received the International Starfish Award in 2011 in Vancouver for his work with FASDs. He has 60-70 publications, 12 book chapters & 2 books. Most recent " The Knotted Cord. Transgenerational Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder. " ( ARND) , 2014.
