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The New England Genetics Collaborative

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Charlotte Whitton

Advisory Committee

Connecticut

Beverly Burke, MSW
Coordinator, Genomics Office
Connecticut Department of Public Health

John Fontana, PhD
Connecticut Department of Public Health Laboratory

Phillip Sommers, PhD, Alternate for John Fontana
Connecticut Department of Public Health

Fay Larson, RN, MS
Nurse Consultant 
Connecticut Department of Public Health Laboratory

Maine

MaryAnn Gordon, consumer
BBCH Metabolism Program

Valerie Ricker, MD, MPH
Director, Family Health Division, Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Maine Department of Health and Human Services

Wendy Smith, MD
Maine Medical Partners Pediatric Specialty Group
Division Director, Clinical Medical Genetics,
Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital

Massachusetts

David Helm, PhD
Institute for Inclusion
University of Massachusetts 

Barbara Lerner, MS, CGC
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Brandeis University 

Heidi Rehm, PhD
Associate Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Hereditary Deafness
Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
Laboratory for Molecular Medicine

Denise Queally, consumer
91 Brierbrook Street
Milton, MA 02186 

New Hampshire

Greg Prazar, MD
CORE Physicians, Exeter Pediatric Associates 

Audrey Knight, MSN
Child Health Nurse Consultant, NH Department of Public Health Services

Martha-Jean Madison, consumer
Co-Director, NH Family Voices

Debra Nelson, consumer
NH Head Start Collaboration Office
DCYF

Rhode Island

Chanika Phornphutkul, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Rhode Island Hospital

Deborah Masland, consumer
Early Intervention Parent Consultant Program Manager
Rhode Island Parent Information Network

William H. Hollinshead, MD, MPH
Rhode Island Department of Health
Division of Community, Family Health and Equity

Vermont
Judith Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN
Executive Director,
Vermont Child Health Improvement Program
University of Vermont, College of Medicine

Donald Swartz, MD
Director, Division of Health Improvement, Department of Health
Vermont Department of Maternal Child Health