About Us

Leigh Tenkku, PhD, MPH, Chair Family and Community Medicine Saint Louis University 1402 South Grand Avenue Donco Building, 2nd Floor St. Louis, MO 63104-1087 314-977-8481 tenkku@slu.edu Coordinator for: Missouri	Melinda Ohlemiller, MA, Faculty Nurses for Newborns Foundation 7259 Lansdowne, Suite 100 St. Louis, MO 63119 314-544-3433 melinda.ohlemiller@nfnf.org Coordinator for: Missouri and Louisiana

Mark B. Mengel, MD, MPH Associate Project Director University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Regional Programs 4301 W. Markham St., Slot 599 Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5260 mmengel@uams.edu Coordinator for: Arkansas and Kansas	P. Kevin Rudeen, PhD, Faculty University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center College of Allied Health 801 NE 13th St. Rm 128 Oklahoma City, OK 73126 475-271-2298 Kevin-Rudeen@ouhsc.edu Coordinator for: Oklahoma and Nebraska

Elizabeth Barlet, MD, Faculty McCune Brooks Regional Hospital 1515 Hazel Carthage, MO 64836 417-358-0188 elizabeth.barlet@mbrh.org >Coordinator for: Missouri and Iowa	G. Bradley Schaefer, MD, FAAP, FACMG University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics 800 Marshall Street Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1442 SchaeferGB@uams.edu Coordinator for: Arkansas and Nebraska

Kelly Everard, PhD, Faculty Family and Community Medicine Saint Louis University 1402 South Grand Avenue Donco Building, 2nd Floor St. Louis, MO 63104-1087 314-977-8586 keverard@slu.edu Coordinator for: Illinois	Ajeet Charate, M.B., B.S., MA., LCPC FASD Program Director NOFAS-Illinois/Trinity Services, Inc., Joliet, IL 13318 W Lincoln Highway New Lenox, IL 60451 815-462-4273 acharate@trinity-services.org

Wesley Jones, PhD Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas Randolph Building 1000 Lincoln Street Emporia, KS 66801 620-343-2211	Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD Director of Native American Programs Center on Child Abuse and Neglect University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 940 N.E. 13th St. OUCPB 3 B3406 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-271-8858 dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu

Beth Conover, RN, MS, PNP Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation 985430 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE 68198-5430 402-559-5071 bconover@unmc.edu	Kim M. Keppler-Noreuil, MD Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Div of Medical Genetics Program Director for the Medical Genetics Residency Program & Clinical Director of Birth Defects, Iowa Registry for Congenital & Inherited Disorders University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics 200 Hawkins Dr., W126GH Iowa City, IA 52242 319-356-2674 Kim-Keppler@uiowa.edu