War Related Illness and Injury Study Center
Staff/Collaborators
Complex Exposure Threats Center (CETC)
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CETC is comprised of an interdisciplinary team of VA clinicians and researchers as well as key DoD and academic collaborators that work together to evaluate potential health effects that may be linked to complex and emerging military occupational threats.
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CETC also relies on an Advisory Committee of Veteran and Service Members stakeholders and subject matter experts who work with CETC leadership to identify and predict new exposures of concern and potential health outcomes.
CETC Staff
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Mathew Reinhard, PsyD, Director of WRIISC with oversight of CETC
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John Barrett, MD, MPH, MS, FAAFP, FACPM, FACOEM, WRIISC Deputy Director and WRIISC/CETC Medical Director
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Jose Ortiz, MD, MPH, FACOEM, CETC Associate Director, WRIISC Senior Occupational and Environmental Medicine Consultant
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Michelle Costanzo, PhD, WRIISC/CETC Research Director
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Michelle Kennedy Prisco, MSN, ANP-C, Environmental Exposure Specialist
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Robert Forsten, DO, WRIISC Senior Clinician and Psychiatry Consultant
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Immanuel Samuel, PhD, WRIISC Senior Research Bioengineer
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Charity Breneman, PhD, WRIISC Senior Exercise Physiologist
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Calvin Lu, PhD, VA Advanced Fellow
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Sherri Tschida, PhD, VA Advanced Fellow
CETC Collaborators
DoD Collaborators:
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Uniformed Services University (USU) John P. Murtha Cancer Research Program (MCCRP)
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Uniformed Services University (USU) Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM)
Academic Collaborators:
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Rochester General Hospital Center for Clinical Systems Biology
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University of Maryland School of Medicine General Clinical Research Center
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University of Maryland (UMD) Applied Research Laboratory For Intelligence and Security