Our members represent multiple Philadelphia regional universities and institutions with specialties in pediatrics, toxicology, neonatology, occupational and environmental medicine, nursing, social sciences, implementation science, bioinformatics, epidemiology and more. What unites them is a focus on children’s environmental health research and healthcare.
We’re always looking for new members! To be eligible, at least part of your research must focus on children’s environmental health issues, and you must be based in the Philly region. Contact us to learn more.
Research Members
Usha Sankar, PhD
Usha Sankar, PhD, is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Biology Department at Drexel University. Prior to joining…
Noah Buncher, DO
Noah Buncher is a general pediatrician with the Department of Primary care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, South…
Carly Clayman, PhD
Carly Clayman is a research scientist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s…
Stephanie Mayne, PhD, MHS
Stephanie Mayne is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the relationship of neighborhood environmental exposures with child well-being,…
Erica Korb, PhD
Erica Korb is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine and a member of…
Anneclaire De Roos, PhD, MPH
Anneclaire De Roos is an environmental epidemiologist with extensive experience studying chemical, physical, and biological exposures as risk…
Inkyu Han, PhD, MPH
Inkyu Han is a multidisciplinary environmental health scientist in exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology. Environmental exposure and community…
Amy Bleakley, PhD, MPH
Amy Bleakley is a Professor in the Communication Department and Director of the Center for Health Communication at…
Jane E. Clougherty, MSc, ScD
Jane E. Clougherty is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) at the Drexel University Dornsife School…
Hyunok Choi, PhD, MPH
Hyunok Choi is the Associate Professor and Director of the Children’s Environmental Precision Health Institute at Lehigh University….
Kathryn Hamilton, PhD
Kathryn Hamilton is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Co-Director of the Gastrointestinal Epithelium Modeling Program, Division…
Jeffrey Field, PhD
Jeffrey Field is a Professor of Pharmacology and member of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at…
Blanca Himes, PhD
Blanca Himes is the Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics and received tenure as…
Thomas Gluodenis, PhD
Tom Gluodenis is an Associate Professor at the Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, a Senior Lecturer (hon.) at the…
Nathaniel W. Snyder, PhD, MPH, DABT
Nathaniel Snyder is an Associate Professor at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine of Temple University. Nathaniel has…
Scott A. Lorch, MD, MSCE
Scott Lorch is an attending neonatologist, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Chief of the Division of Neonatology at…
Marisa S. Bartolomei, PhD
Marisa Bartolomei is the Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. She also…
Todd J. Kilbaugh, MD
Todd Kilbaugh is an anesthesiologist and pediatric intensivist with the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, medical…
Dan Dongeun Huh, Ph.D.
Dan Huh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is…
Jessica Rice, DO, MHS
Jessica Rice is an attending physician with the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at the Children’s Hospital…
Rebecca Simmons, MD
Rebecca A. Simmons is the Hallam Hurt Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the…
Marilyn V. Howarth, MD, FACOEM
Marilyn Howarth is the Deputy Director of the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. Within the Center,…
Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD
Tyra Bryant-Stephens is a board-certified pediatrician in clinical primary care practice for over 30 years and Associate Professor…
Carsten Skarke, MD
Carsten Skarke is the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellow in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and currently an Adjunct…
Jay S. Schneider, PhD
Jay S. Schneider is Professor of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Thomas Jefferson University. Jay conducts both…
Enrique F. Schisterman, Ph.D., M.A.,
Enrique F. Schisterman is a national leader in epidemiological methods and reproductive epidemiology. He is currently the chair…
Harriet Okatch, PhD, MPH
Harriet Okatch is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Harriet’s research focuses…
Kristen Lyall, ScD
Kristen Lyall’s research seeks to identify and understand modifiable factors involved in the development of autism and related…
Thea Golden, PharmD, PhD
Thea Golden is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of…
Aimin Chen, MD, PhD
Aimin Chen is the Co-Director of the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. He is Professor of…
Sunni Mumford, PhD
Sunni Mumford is the Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Women’s Health Clinical Research Center at the…
Jianghong Liu, PhD, FAAN
Jianghong Liu is the Marjorie O. Rendell Endowed Professor in Healthy Transitions at the School of Nursing at…
David H. Jang, MD, MSc FACMT
David Jang is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician and Medical Toxicologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose research…
Yu-Chin Lien, PhD
Yu-Chin Lien is a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of…
Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD
Courtney Benjamin Wolk is a Co-Investigator of the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. Courtney is a…
Sharon McGrath-Morrow, MBA, MD
Sharon McGrath-Morrow is the Associate Division Chief in Pulmonary and Sleep at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Co-Principal…
Heather Burris, MD, MPH
Heather Burris, is a founding member of Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. Heather is a practicing…
Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Ruth McDermott-Levy is a Professor and Co-Director the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (US Region…
Eugenia C. South, MD MS
Eugenia (Gina) South is the Associate Vice President for Health Justice and Inaugural Director of the Penn Medicine…
Sara Pinney, MD, MS
Sara Pinney is a pediatric endocrinologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a physician scientist in the…
Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MS
Kevin Osterhoudt is a pediatrician, medical toxicologist and the Medical Director of The Poison Control Center at Children’s…