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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Healthy Outcomes; Behrman RE, Butler AS, editors. Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2007.

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Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention.

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Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Healthy Outcomes

RICHARD E. BEHRMAN (Chair), Executive Chair,Pediatric Education Steering Committee, Federation of Pediatric Organizations, Inc., Menlo Park, CA

ELI Y. ADASHI, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences,Brown University, Providence, RI

MARILEE C. ALLEN, Professor of Pediatrics,The John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

RITA LOCH CARUSO, Professor,Environmental Health Sciences, Associate Research Scientist, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

JENNIFER CULHANE, Associate Professor,Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

CHRISTINE DUNKEL SCHETTER, Professor,Department of Psychology, Health and Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

MICHEAL G. GRAVETT, Professor and Vice-Chairman,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

JAY D. IAMS, Professor and Vice-Chairman,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus

MICHAEL C. LU, Assistant Professor,Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Deparment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

MARIE C. MCCORMICK, Professor,Department of Society, Human Development and Health, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA

LAURA E. RILEY, Director,Labor and Delivery, Director, Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

JEANNETTE A. ROGOWSKI, University Professor,Department of Health Systems and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick

SAROJ SAIGAL, Professor of Pediatrics, Director,Neonatal Follow-up Program, Senior Scientist, CIHR, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

DAVID A. SAVITZ, Professor,Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

HYAGRIV N. SIMHAN, Assistant Professor,Divisions of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Magee-Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA

NORMAN J. WAITZMAN, Associate Professor,Deparment of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

XIAOBIN WANG, Director and Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Research Professor, Children’s Memorial Hospital and Children’s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL

Health Sciences Policy Board Liaison

GAIL H. CASSELL, Vice President,Scientific Affairs, Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN

IOM Project Staff

ADRIENNE STITH BUTLER, Study Director

EILEEN J. SANTA, Research Associate

THELMA L. COX, Senior Program Assistant

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MICHAEL HAYES

Copyright © 2007, National Academy of Sciences.
Bookshelf ID: NBK11374

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