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Cynthia F. Bearer, M.D., Ph.D.

Cynthia Bearer is tenured Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurosciences in the Department of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bearer is board certified in both pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine. She is Director of the Neonatology Fellowship Training Program at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, and is Director of Medical Education of the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case.

Dr. Bearer has had a long standing interest in the role of the environment on human development.  Dr. Bearer has published and presented extensively on issues related to fetal and pediatric environmental exposures. She has served on the Committee to Evaluate Children’s Health of the National Academy of Science and is a past President of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Study Group. She is on the editorial board of Neurotoxicology and Alcohol Health & Research. Dr. Bearer is Chair of the Science Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Children's Environmental Health Network. She has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Advisory Group to the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Bearer's major research interests are the effect of ethanol and prevalent environmental neurotoxicants on the development of the central nervous system and the development of biomarkers of prenatal exposures. Her work is funded by the NIH and by the CDC. Dr. Bearer received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University and her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.

6/27/2006