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Robert
Geller, M.D.
Dr. Geller has served as Principal Investigator/Director of the SE PEHSU since 2005. He is board certified in pediatrics and medical toxicology. Dr. Geller is Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and serves as Chief of Pediatrics for Emory University at the Grady and CHOA-Hughes Spalding campus in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Geller has served as Medical Director of the Georgia Poison Center since 1988. He is a Past President of the Council of Poison Center Medical Directors, a Past President of the Medical Staff of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta – Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Dr. Geller received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Boston University, his pediatrics training at Medical College of Virginia, and his clinical toxicology training at the University of Virginia. He sees patients at the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic and in the Pediatric Asthma Center at Atlanta's Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital.
Selected publications since 2000:
Belson M.G., Gorman S.E., Sullivan K., Geller R.J. "Calcium Channel Blocker Ingestions in Children." Am J Emerg Med 2000; 18: 581-586.
Dart RC, Goldfrank LR, Chyka PA, Lotzer D, Woolf AD, McNally J, Snodgrass WR, Olson KR, Scharman E, Geller RJ, Spyker D, Kraft M, Lipsy R. "Combined evidence-based literature analysis and consensus guidelines for stocking of emergency antidotes in the United States." Ann Emerg Med 2000; 36: 126-32.
Geller RJ, Singleton KL, Tarantino ML, Drenzek CL, Toomey KE. "Nosocomial Poisoning Associated with Emergency Department Treatment of Organophosphate Toxicity – Georgia,2000." MMWR 2001;49:1156. Reprinted in J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2001; 39:109-11.
Belson MG, Sullivan K, Geller RJ. "Beta-adrenergic antagonist exposures in children." Vet Hum Toxicol. 2001; 43: 361-5.
Kilpatrick N, Frumkin H, Trowbridge J, Escoffery C, Geller R, Rubin L, Teague G, Nodvin J. "The environmental history in pediatric practice: a study of pediatricians' attitudes, beliefs, and practices." Environ Health Perspect. 2002; 110: 823-7.
Geller RJ, Lopez GP, Cutler S, Lin D, Bachman G, Gorman SE. "Atropine Availability as an Antidote for Nerve Agent Casualties: Validated Rapid Reformulation of High-Concentration Atropine from Bulk Powder." Ann Emerg Med. 2003; 41: 453-456
Lee JS, Lee SL, Damon SA, Geller R, Janus ER, Ottoson C, Scott MJ. "Risk communication needs in a chemical event." J Emerg Mgmt. 2006; 4 (#2): 37-47.
Geller RJ, Barthold C, Saiers JA, Hall AH. "Pediatric Cyanide Poisoning: Causes, Manifestations, Management, and Unmet Needs." Pediatrics 2006; 118 (5): 2146-2158.
Geller RJ, Rubin IL, Nodvin JT, Teague WG, Frumkin H. "Safe and Healthy School Environments." Ped Clin N America. 2007; 54: 351-373.
Rubin IL Nodvin JT, Geller RJ, Teague WG, Holtzclaw BL, Felner EI. "Environmental Health Disparities: Environmental and Social Impact of Industrial Pollution in a Community—the Model of Anniston, AL." Ped Clin N America. 2007; 54: 375-398.
Dr. Geller's e-mail address is: robert_geller@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Leslie Rubin, M.D.
Dr. Leslie Rubin is a pediatrician who has been active in the field of developmental disabilities for more than 30 years. He is currently Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine and is directing the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Curriculum for the Pediatric Residents. He serves as Medical Director of TEAM Centers, Chattanooga, TN; and Co-Invesitgator for the A Multi-Center Trial of Vitamin E in Aging Persons with Down Syndrome and Medical Director of the Adult Down Syndrome Program.
In May of 2004, he established the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability www.isdd-home.org. ISDD focuses on the relationship between social and economic disadvantage and the prevalence, severity and nature of disabilities among children. ISDD is a partner with the SE PEHSU and has spear headed the Break the Cycle programs.
His most recent endeavor is Principal Investigator of Healthcare Without Walls: A Medical Home for Homeless Children (HWW). This Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children's grant was awarded to the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability (ISDD) to work with children living with their mothers who have been homeless and are now in a rehabilitation program. It is only the 4th time since 1993 that this program has been awarded in Georgia. The project is funded for 5 years and works with the Department of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to do a health care needs assessment of the children residing with mothers at Mary Hall Freedom House, establish a Medical Home for them at the same time as providing a health literacy education program for the mothers and implement a transportable medical record for the children once the mothers leave the rehabilitation center.
Dr. Rubin serves on several committees and boards including:
- Chair, Heath Promotion and Coordination Committee of American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Disabilities Committee of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Chair, Home Health Committee of Georgia Chapter of AAP
- CATCH facilitator for the Georgia Chapter of AAP
- Board Member All About Developmental Disabilities
- Board Member Elaine Clark Center
- Consultant to Vision 2020, a community based program in Anniston Alabama, committed to developing programs that will enable children to reach their full functioning potential.
- Consultant to the Department of Public Policy at Vanderbilt University of an NIH funded research project examining the treatment protocols of pediatricians who treat children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Participant in Friends Family Advisory Board of The Atlanta Project
- He is co-editor of 2 books: Comprehensive Management of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Disabilities: Delivery of Medical Care for Children and Adults and a number of publications in the field.
Dr. Rubin's e-mail address is: lrubi01@emory.edu
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Maeve Howett, PhD, CNP-Ped, IBCLC, Co-Director SE PEHSU
Maeve Howett is a pediatric nurse practitioner and lactation consultant and has an appointment
as Clinical Assistant Professor in Family and Community Nursing at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
She has twenty-five years of pediatric nursing experience with research interests in women's experiences of infant feeding,
early childhood nutrition, toxic exposures in infants and lactating women and vulnerable pediatric populations.
She is particularly interested in the at-risk mother-infant dyad made vulnerable by poverty or lack of resources.
Dr. Howett sits on the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) Research Advisory Council and is facilitator of the Neonatal
and Birth Outcomes research group. Dr. Howett is president of the Southeastern Lactation Consultants Association (SELCA),
was appointed to the joint IBLCE (International Board of Lactation Consultants Examiners) She sits on the Sustainability Taskforce
for Emory Healthcare and last year chaired a conference on Sustainability in Healthcare for nurses with a grant from Healthcare Without Harm.
For the last six years Dr. Howett has taken her students to
south Georgia to care for the children of migrant workers and to Jamaica to care for children living in orphanages.
Her teaching interests include research, global health, migrant health, hospitalized children, lactation and vulnerable populations.
Dr. Howett is also involved in sustainability practices in the school, including an expanded recycling program and the
installation of a medicinal herb garden for student instruction. Dr. Howett joined the SE PEHSU team in June 2010.
Her e-mail address is: mhowett@emory.edu
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Janice Nodvin
Ms. Nodvin serves as Project Administrator, PEHSU for SE Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Ms. Nodvin is Program Director, ISDD, Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability.
She also serves as Center Director for The Adult Down Syndrome Program and Research Coordinator for the Multi-Center Trial of Vitamin E in Aging Persons with Down syndrome. Ms. Nodvin directs Project GRANDD, a program providing intensive supports to grandparents who are raising grandchildren with disabilities. Most recently she serves as the Project Coordinator for Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children's grant awarded to the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability (ISDD) to work with children living with their mothers who have been homeless and are now in a rehabilitation program. The Project is called Healthcare Without Walls: A Medical Home for Homeless Children (HWW) and is beginning research on the mothers and children served.
As Project Administrator and Educator, Ms. Nodvin serves as the initial contact to the SE PEHSU as well as the project coordinator to our Break The Cycle Projects, which is entering our 6th cycle of research projects.
Ms. Nodvin has over nine years experience as an educator and is the parent of a young adult with a dual diagnosis. With this diversity, she shares insight with parents and professionals alike. She has over thirty years' experience in all areas of developmental disabilities and is a parent advocate. Janice sits on several boards including:
- Past Chair, Community Advisory Council, Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University
- DeKalb County Developmental Disability Council
- The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Disability Department
- Jewish Family and Career Services
- All About Developmental Disabilities
- Parent-to-Parent of Georgia
- Lekotek of Georgia
- The Aging Developmental Disabilities Coalition
Ms. Nodvin can be contacted:
Tel: (404) 727-9428, (678) 595-4854
Fax: (770) 396-1011
Toll Free: (877) 33 PEHSU or (877) 337-3478
e-mail address: jnodvin@aol.com
jnodvin@disadvantagedisability.org
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