Staff
Dr. Sterling K. Clarren, MD, FAAP - Scientific Director
Dr. Clarren is a Clinical Professor, with the Division of Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of British Columbia, and an Investigator with Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health, Child & Family Research Institute. He is also a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. He received his BA from Yale University and his MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He then completed pediatric residency training at the University of Washington School of Medicine before going on to do fellowships in Biosciences, Dysmorphology, and Congenital Defects at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He was on the faculty at the University of Washington as the Robert A. Aldrich Professor of Pediatrics until the fall of 2004 when he assumed the lead of the Research Network.
Contact Dr. Clarren via Krystina Tran.
Dr. Jocelynn Cook, PhD, MBA - Executive Director
Dr. Cook has a long history in the field of FASD, in both an academic and a federal program and policy context. She received a Bachelor of Science degree (Honours Biology) from Bishop’s University and then a PhD in Physiology from the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Cook studied the effects of alcohol consumption on preterm birth for her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta. She also completed an MBA, with a focus on Economics and Health Policy, from the University of Saskatchewan.
Dr. Cook was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan before joining the Public Health Agency’s FASD Team. There she managed a large National survey of health professionals and lead the development of the Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis of FASD. She also worked with First Nations and Inuit Health Branch’s FASD Team developing cost-benefit analyses for FASD diagnosis and intervention programming.
Dr. Cook has also held a number of leadership positions, including Chief Science Advisor for Assisted Human Reproduction Canada and Executive Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research. She is a past member of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Commission’s FASD Expert Advisory Committee, the National Institute of Health’s Expert Advisory Committee on Terminology related to FAS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FAS Task Force. Dr. Cook also holds an adjunct professor appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa.
Email: jcook@cw.bc.ca
Jan Lutke - Clinical Research Manager
Jan Lutke is the past co-chair of the former National Advisory Committee on FASD to Health Canada, Government of Canada. She also chaired the former FASD Provincial Consultation Group to the Province of British Columbia, co-wrote and instructs the two on-line FASD curricula of the Justice Institute of BC, and instructs the MCFD social work core curriculum on FASD. She is the founder and Senior Consultant of FASD Connections, an organization dedicated to helping adolescents and adults with FASD and their families. She also sits on numerous provincial and national advisory committees with respect to FASD.
Email: jlutke@cw.bc.ca
Michelle Sherbuck - Research Communications Manager
Michelle Sherbuck
coordinates and executes a wide range of design, knowledge translation and
communications activities for CanFASD. After seven years of technical communication and design in the high-tech sector, she now contributes her expertise in the fields of technology, user interface, website management, business communication and design. Michelle has 15 years of experience in the field of FASD including: leadership, group facilitation, writing, public speaking and event planning.
Email: msherbuck@cw.bc.ca
Krystina Tran - Administrative Assistant
Krystina Tran provides assistance, planning and support to all members of the CanFASD Research Network. She is also the administrative assistant to Dr. Sterling Clarren and Dr. Jocelynn Cook has worked at Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health for over five years.
Email: ktran@cw.bc.ca
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