Principal Investigator: Philip A. May, Ph.D.
We have received a $1.6 million supplement to FASER III from NIAAA. We submitted a large R01-type proposal for a competitive supplement to a NIAAA review committee to establish this project. The priority score was 145 and funding has arrived from NIAAA (funds pooled from both NIAAA and the Office of Research on Minority Health). The project is to establish the epidemiology of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Washington, D.C. It is a joint project with Howard University who had written a previously unfunded proposal to replicate some of our South African and American Indian epidemiological methods in the District of Columbia. We will subcontract a portion of the money to Howard. Dr. Barbara Quinton is the Co-PI, Shirley Wilson, Ph.D. will oversee the psychological testing, and Howard will employ three other persons and some graduate students in this project. Also Richard Findlay, M..D. of Drew University and UCLA Medical School will serve along with Luther Robinson, M..D. and the UNM FASER staff on this project. We will be working to establish the prevalence of FAS in first graders in Washington, D.C., and in the special needs population (the child protective services and developmental disabilities arena) and to establish the specific maternal risk factors and epidemiologic characteristics of FAS among all the ethnic populations in Washington, D.C. The major focus, however, is on the African American population. Active case ascertainment of FAS has never been used in the African American population, even though African Americans have been found to have higher rates of FAS than many other ethnic groups. We suspect this is predominantly a function of social class. However, this study will help us answer this question to some degree. This project is a four year project awarded from September 30, 1999 to September 29, 2003. However, we envision that the project will not be fully underway until March, 2000.
For more information on FAS, click here.
We have received a $1.6 million supplement to FASER III from NIAAA. We submitted a large R01-type proposal for a competitive supplement to a NIAAA review committee to establish this project. The priority score was 145 and funding has arrived from NIAAA (funds pooled from both NIAAA and the Office of Research on Minority Health). The project is to establish the epidemiology of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Washington, D.C. It is a joint project with Howard University who had written a previously unfunded proposal to replicate some of our South African and American Indian epidemiological methods in the District of Columbia. We will subcontract a portion of the money to Howard. Dr. Barbara Quinton is the Co-PI, Shirley Wilson, Ph.D. will oversee the psychological testing, and Howard will employ three other persons and some graduate students in this project. Also Richard Findlay, M..D. of Drew University and UCLA Medical School will serve along with Luther Robinson, M..D. and the UNM FASER staff on this project. We will be working to establish the prevalence of FAS in first graders in Washington, D.C., and in the special needs population (the child protective services and developmental disabilities arena) and to establish the specific maternal risk factors and epidemiologic characteristics of FAS among all the ethnic populations in Washington, D.C. The major focus, however, is on the African American population. Active case ascertainment of FAS has never been used in the African American population, even though African Americans have been found to have higher rates of FAS than many other ethnic groups. We suspect this is predominantly a function of social class. However, this study will help us answer this question to some degree. This project is a four year project awarded from September 30, 1999 to September 29, 2003. However, we envision that the project will not be fully underway until March, 2000.
For more information on FAS, click here.
