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John Constantino
 Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Child Psychiatry)

Constantino is an expert on genetic and environmental factors that influence early social development. In particular, he studies the genetic influences that contribute to autism. In other research he also is working with very young children and their parents, hoping to better understand the earliest ...

Expertise: autism, early social development, genetic influences on autistic social impairment, psychiatric disorders in children

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu

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Michael DeBaun
 Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics and Neurology

Dr. DeBaun is a professor of pediatrics, biostatistics and neurology and directs the Sickle Cell Medical Treatment and Education Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology. He received a MPH in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University ...

Expertise: overgrowth cancer predisposition syndromes, public health issues, sickle cell disease

Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu

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Keith Hruska
 Professor of nephrology

Hruska is a leader in studies of the links between the kidney and the skeleton, which can cause devastating side effects for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Kidneys and bones produce factors that support each other's development and maintenance, and when CKD damages the kidney and reduces ...

Expertise: kidney, chronic kidney disease, bone, bone weakening, adynamic bone disorder, secondary hyparathyroidism, bone morphogenetic protein

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Diane Merritt
 Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Diane F. Merritt, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology specializes in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. She treats gynecologic disorders of infants, children, and teens. She has an interest in congenital abnormalities of the reproductive tract, genital injuries, and pelvic endometriosis, ...

Expertise: pediatric and adolescent gynecology, hormone therapy, pubertal disorders, menopause

Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu

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Randall Odem
 Division Chief, Reproductive Endocrinology

Odem treats infertility and its underlying causes. He also has been involved in the study of the causes of recurrent miscarriage.

Expertise: infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, gynecology surgery, IVF, laparoscopic, preimplantation, in vitro fertilization, …

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu

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Valerie S. Ratts
 Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Ratts works with patients who have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and other fertililty related disorders, in order to increase fertility in these patients and also lower risks and treat problems related to gynecologic cancers.

Expertise: infertility, polycystic ovarian syndrome, metformin, PCOS, fertility, gynecologic cancers

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu

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Yoel Sadovsky
 Director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Ultrasound

Sadovsky, also professor of obstetrics and gynecology, studies reproductive development and function, specifically the mechanisms that determine placental differentiation during human pregnancy.

Expertise: development, differentiation, functional genomics, reproduction, placenta

Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu

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