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Dr. Correa is a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, where his major responsibilities include direction and conduct of surveillance and research activities of the Birth Defects Surveillance Team, mentoring of junior investigators, and overall management of the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program, an active and ongoing population-based surveillance system of birth defects. He is also an adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He completed his training in pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California San Francisco, and in preventive medicine at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. From 1987 to 1998 he was a member of the Department of Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health where he was most recently Associate Professor. His research interests include occupational and environmental exposures and reproductive outcomes; birth defects surveillance, etiology, and outcomes; and children’s health. He has served in several advisory bodies, including the U.S. EPA Advisory Board, the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, Task Force on The Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Children of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, the Epidemiology Committee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute pre-doctoral fellowship panel, Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Core Committee of the Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction. He serves as a member of a federal Interagency Coordinating Committee that oversees the development and implementation of the National Children’s Study (NCS), a longitudinal study of children that will examine the role of a of prenatal and postnatal exposures and gene-environment interactions on child health and development. He also serves as a liaison from the NCS to a consortium of international investigators interested in developing harmonized methods for longitudinal cohort studies of the impact of environment and gene-environment interactions on child health and development in developing countries.
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