Gary M. Shaw, DrPh. Stanford University.

Gary M. Shaw is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal & Developmental Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Shaw has a long and distinguished career conducting epidemiologic research of human birth defects. Dr. Shaw has collaborated with many key researchers in the field of birth defects and has and published more than 200 scientific papers. He was the Research Director/Epidemiologist of the March of Dimes California Research Division for 20 years. He has recently been appointed Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University.

Over the last 20 years he has led 8 large population-based epidemiologic studies involving thousands of maternal interviews and DNA sample collections. These studies have involved a variety of birth defects and a variety of risk factors, including medication use, occupational exposures, alcohol use, smoking, nutritional factors, medical conditions, and genetic variants.

Dr. Shaw is currently Associate Editor of the journal Birth Defects Research and the American Journal of Epidemiology. He is an active member of the Teratology Society, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research, a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, and was awarded the Godfrey P. Oakley, Jr. Award by the National Birth Defects Prevention Network in 2007. He has been a scientific advisor to several national committees (e.g., the National Children’s Study) and strategic planning panels for several institutes of the NIH (NIEHS, NICDR, and NHLBI).

Dr. Shaw is a Collaborator on this study.

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