Lab Members

Prenatal Infection and Neurodevelopmental Genetics (PING) Leadership

Youssef Kousa, DO, PhD
PING Founder and Principal Investigator Founder and Director of the Zika Genetic Consortium, Neonatal Neurologist

Jose Cordero, MD
Head of Steering Committee Epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health at the University of Georgia

Study Site Investigators

• Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, PhD
  Professor of Genetics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
• Maribel Campos, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
• Priscila Casado, MSCD, PhD
  Adjunct Professor of the Department of Odontoclinics at the Fluminense Federal University (FFU)
• Roberta L. DeBiasi, MD, MS
  Division Chief, Infectious Diseases
  Co-Director, Congenital Zika Program
  Co-Director, Congenital Infection Program
  Investigator, Children's National Research Institute
• Denise Cavalcanti
  Epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Perinatal Genetics Program at the University of Campinas
• Fernanda J.P. Marques, MD, PhD
  Pediatrician and Researcher at SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals
• Macio Leyser, MD, PhD, MS
  Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician
• Jill Lebov, PhD
  RTI International Global Health Research Epidemiologist
• Deolinda M. F. Scalabrin, MD, PhD
  ZIP Study Principal Investigator and Yale University Research Affiliate
• Marisa M. Mussi-Pinhata, MD
  Department Head of Pediatrics at Ribeirão Preto Medical School
• Sarah Mulkey, MD
  Co-Director of Congenital Infection Program at Children’s National Hospital, Prenatal and Neonatal Neurologist

Children’s National Hospital Collaborators

• Tayyba Anwar, MD
  Co-Director, Hemimegaloencephaly Program
  Neonatal Neurologist
• Mark Batshaw, MD
  Distinguished Investigator and Developmental Pediatrician at Children’s National Hospital
• Dorothy Bulas, MD
  Division Chief in Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology
• Kelsey Christoffel, MD
  Prenatal-Neonatal Neurologist
• Roberta L. DeBiasi, MD, MS
  Division Chief, Infectious Diseases
  Co-Director, Congenital Zika Program
  Co-Director, Congenital Infection Program
  Investigator, Children's National Research Institute
• Adré du Plessis, MBChB
  Division Chief, Prenatal and Transitional Pediatrics
  Director, Zickler Family Prenatal Pediatrics Institute 
  Director, Prenatal and Neonatal Neuroscience Program
• Sarah Schlatterer, MD, PhD
  Director, Neurocardiac Critical Care Prenatal and Neonatal Neurologist
• Tammy Tsuchida, MD, PhD
  Neurophysiologist, Neonatal Neurologist
• Gilbert Vezina, MD
  Director, Neuroradiology
• Arthur Ko, PhD
  Data Science Faculty at Children’s National Hospital

External Collaborators

• Elizabeth J. Leslie, PhD
  Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine• Avindra Nath, MD. Senior Investigator and Clinical Director of the Translational Neuroscience Center and Section of Infections of the Nervous System at NINDS
• Tamer Mansour, PhD
  Assistant Researcher at the University of California, Davis
• Tongguang (David) Wang, MD, PhD
  Staff Scientist and Core Director of the Translational Neuroscience Center and Section of Infections of the Nervous System at NINDS
• Eric Vilain, MD
  Geneticist at the University of California, Irvine
• Marcio Layser, MD, PhD
  Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at the University of Iowa
• Miguel Del Campo, MD, PhD
  Medical Geneticist and Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego
• William Britt, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics Microbiology and Neurobiology
• Toufic Hakim, PhD
  Executive Director of Foundation for Self-Leadership and Senior Managing Partner at Group i&i Consultancy
• Jeffrey Murray, MD
  Professor Emeritus in Pediatrics at the University of Iowa
• Tarik Haydar, PhD
  Chair of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University

Barranquilla Cohort

• Sarah Mulkey, MD
  Co-Director of Congenital Infection Program at Children’s National Hospital, Prenatal and Neonatal Neurologist
• Carlos Curé
  Endocrinologist at BIOMELab
• Maribel Campos, MD
  Professor and Director of the Center for Community Outreach for Health Across the Lifespan at The University of Puerto Rico
• Denise Cavalcanti
  Epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Perinatal Genetics Program at the University of Campinas

NIH ZIP Consortium

• Deolinda M. F. Scalabrin, MD, PhD
  ZIP Study Principal Investigator and Yale University Research Affiliate
• Marisa M. Mussi-Pinhata, MD
  Department Head of Pediatrics at Ribeirão Preto Medical School
• Zilton Vasconcelos, PhD
  Public Health Researcher
• Maximilian Muenke, MD
  Medical Genetic Brain Chief and Senior Investigator

Lab Trainees

• Blain Fasil
  MD Candidate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Allison Horvath
  MD, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Shriya Singh
  MD Candidate at Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Zoe Kang
  Research Technician
• Clara Abdelmalek
  Research Assistant
• Lani Tran
  Research Technician