Project 1
Project 1: Meet the Research Team
Principal Investigator
Susan Schantz is a neurotoxicologist and a professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences. She directs the Research Center and leads the IKIDS Project.
Email: schantz@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 333-6230
Co-Investigators
Andrea Aguiar is a developmental psychologist with expertise in infant cognition, and a research faculty in the Department of Comparative Biosciences. She manages all aspects of the IKIDS Project and assists the Center Director.
Email: aaguiar@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 300-9235
Renee Baillargeon is a developmental psychologist in the Department of Psychology. She directs the Infant Cognition Research Lab, where IKIDS infants are assessed at 4-5 and 10-11 months of age.
Email: rbaillar@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 333-5557
Jodie Flaws is a reproductive toxicologist and a professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences. She is the associate director of the Center and a co-investigator on the IKIDS project.
Email: jflaws@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 333-7933
Joseph Gardiner is a biostatistician and the director of the Division of Biostatistics in of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University. He provides statistical expertise for the study.
Email: gardine3@msu.edu
Telephone: (517) 353.8623 x110
Susan Korrick is an environmental epidemiologist and occupational-environmental medicine physician. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. She leads Project 2 and provides epidemiological expertise for the IKIDS project.
Email: susan.korrick@channing.harvard.edu
Telephone: (617) 525-2771
Sidonie N. Lavergne is an immunotoxicologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences. She oversees the immunological aspects of the human and animal studies.
Email: slavergn@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 265-0315
Coordinators
Ann Hart worked as a doula before joining the research team. She now works full time enrolling and interviewing pregnant women, and doing physical measurements and assessing attention and memory of infants in the IKIDS project.
Email:ikids-research@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 333-5814
SynDee Lane is a Research Scientist who was involved in research for over 12 years before joining the IKIDS project. She is involved in all aspects of data collection and helps supervise the undergraduate students who work as RAs.
Email: ikids-research@illinois.edu
Telephone: (217) 244-6006
Graduate Students
Supida Monaikul is a graduate student in neuroscience. She helps with recruiting, enrolling and interviewing pregnant women and with physical and cognitive assessments of infants in the study.
Email: ikids-research@illinois.edu
Whitney Street is a graduate student in cognitive psychology. She designed the computer program for measuring visual attention and recognition memory of infants in the study. She also helps with the physical and cognitive assessments of infants in the study.
Email: ikids-research@illinois.edu
Volunteers
Linda McEnerney is a retired pediatrician who volunteers with the project. She helps primarily with infant assessments, interviews with mothers, and data abstraction from medical records.
Email: ikids-research@illinois.edu
Carol Miller is a retired school teacher who volunteers with the project. She helps with recruiting and interviewing pregnant women.
Email: ikids-research@illinois.edu
Sheila Maxwell is a retired registered nurse who works as a volunteer, assisting with infant assessments, phone interviews, data entry, and medical records data abstraction.
Email: ikids-research@illinois.edu
