Director of Environmental Health Education
Cynthia Bearer, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurosciences in the Department of Pediatrics, is Director of the Neonatology Fellowship Training Program at Rainbow Babies and Children's
Hospital. Dr. Bearer received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University and her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. She is currently serving on the Committee to Evaluate
Children’s Health of the National Academy of Science and is President of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Study Group. She is on the editorial board of “Neurotoxicology” and “Alcohol
Health & Research”.
Dr. Bearer is Chair of the Science Committee and a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Children's Environmental Health Network. She has been a member
of the Scientific Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and of the Advisory Group to the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health at
the CDC. Her major research interests are the effect of ethanol and prevalent environmental neurotoxicants on the development of the central nervous system and establishing biomarkers of prenatal
exposures. Her work is funded by the NIH and by the CDC. She has published and presented extensively on issues related to fetal and pediatric environmental exposures.
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