Scientific Advisory Council

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    George Allen

    George Allen is the Chief Scientist at NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management), an interagency association of the eight Northeastern States.

  • Ann Backus

    Ann Backus

    Bio coming soon!

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    Paul Barach

    Paul Barach MD, MPH, Maj (ret.) is an academic scientist, and practicing board-certified in Anesthesia and Critical Care.

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    Mathias Basner

    Mathias Basner, MD, PhD is Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

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    Peter Bingham

    Bio coming soon!

  • Les Blomberg

    Les Blomberg

    Les Blomberg, MA, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, which serves a vital role in archiving important publications about noise and its effects on health and society and making these available to researchers and activists.

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    Arline Bronzaft

    Arline Bronzaft, PhD, is Professor Emerita of the City University of New York, and a researcher, public advocate, and consultant on the effects of noise worldwide for five decades.

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    Jennifer Deal

    Jennifer A. Deal, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.

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    Daniel Fink

    Daniel Fink, MD, MBA, FACP, is a board-certified internist and medical management expert.

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    Steve Haas

    Steve Haas is the CEO and Principal Consultant of SH Acoustics, he has more than thirty years of residential and commercial experience and has led the acoustic/audio design for a wide range of award-winning projects.

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    Neelakshi Hudda

    Neelakshi Hudda, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University.

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    Karen Jubanyik

    Karen Jubanyik, MD, is Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, in New Haven, CT.

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    Nina Kraus

    Nina Kraus is Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology, Otolaryngology, and Linguistics at Northwestern University where she directs the Knowles Hearing Center.  

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    Regina LaRocque

    Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH is an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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    Sally Lusk

    Sally Lechlitner Lusk, PhD, RN, FAAOHN, FAAN, is a Professor Emerita at The University of Michigan where she conducted research to prevent noise-induced hearing loss.

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    James Medeiros

    James M. Medeiros, DO, MPH, is a current Harvard Occupational & Environmental medical resident with an expected graduation date of June 30, 2022.

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    Rick Neitzel

    Rick Neitzel is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Global Public Health whose research focuses on the characterization of exposures to noise, heavy metals and other toxins.

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    Michael Osborne

    Michael T. Osborne, MD is a cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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    Antonella Radicchi

    Antonella Radicchi, Ph.D., RA, MArch, is Senior Research Associate at the TU Berlin Institute of City and Regional Planning, Principal Investigator of the Hush City project, and a licensed architect.

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    Kathleen Romito, MD

    Kathleen Romito, MD, is a retired family physician and a champion for patient empowerment. Dr. Romito is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

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    Maribel Salas

    Maribel Salas, MD, MSc, DSc, FACP, FISPE, is Executive Medical Director and Head of Epidemiology and Cardiovascular Therapeutic Area, Daiichi Sankyo Inc., and Adjunct Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

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    Mary Tatigian

    Mary Tatigian is founder of Quiet Florida, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing harmful noise.

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    Erica Walker

    Erica Walker, ScD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.

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    Lucy Weinstein

    Lucy Weinstein, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at SUNY/Stony Brook School of Medicine in Stony Brook, NY.