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Dr. Marazita's Past and Current Trainees
Summary of Past and Current Trainees for whom Dr. Marazita served as mentor (there an additional 25 trainees for whom Dr. Marazita served as a committee member)
| Trainee |
Trainee type |
Training Period |
Previous Institution, Degree, and Year Awarded |
Title of Research Project |
Current Position or Source of Support |
| Abigail Byrnes |
Pre-doc |
1999-2001 |
B.S., M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1999 |
Parental evaluation of the experience of being informed that a child has a cleft lip and/or palate |
Genetic Counselor, Magee Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Margaret Cooper |
Pre-doc |
1994-1996 |
M.S.I.S., M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Characteristics associated with cleft lip with or without cleft palate in a Chinese population |
Research Instructor, School of Dental Medicine, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
| Abdelhakim El-Gherianai, D.M.D. |
Post-doc |
2000-2003 |
D.D.S., England, M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Genetics of mandibular hyperplasia |
Currently in orthodontics residency program |
| Manika Govil, Ph.D. |
Post-doc |
2005-present |
Ph.D., Univ. of Iowa, 2005 |
Developing Bayesian methods for analysis of complex traits |
(Current trainee) |
| Shane Holmes, D.M.D. |
Post-doc |
1998-2000 |
D.M.D., WVU, 1998; M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Asymmetry measurements in cleft lip with or without cleft palate in China |
Clinical practice of orthodontics |
| Thomas Hart, D.D.S. |
Pre-doc |
1986-1991 |
D.D.S., 1986; Ph.D. VCU |
Genetics of early onset periodontitis |
Director of Clinical Research, NIDCR |
| Elizabeth Jenkins |
Pre-doc |
2004-2006 |
B.S.; M.S. Univ. of Pittsburg |
Twin studies of behavior |
Genetic Counselor |
| Brion Maher, Ph.D. |
Pre- and Post-doc |
1996-2002 |
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Genetic analyses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its underlying dimensions |
Assistant Professor (tenure-stream), VCU |
| Rachel Malinowski (now Nussbaum) |
Pre-doc |
2002-2005 |
B.S., James Madison Univ.., 2002 ; MS Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Assessing the impact of prenatal diagnosis of clefting on the maternal/paternal birth experience |
Research Genetic Counselor, Georgetown University |
| Dawn Nicotra |
Pre-doc |
2002-2005 |
B.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2002; M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
A meta-analysis of the prevalence of common clinical characteristics in Velocardiofacial syndrome |
Genetic Counselor, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh |
| Supakit Peanchit-lertkajorn, D.D.S. |
Post-doc |
1998-2000 |
D.D.S., Thailand; M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Genetic linkage analysis of cleft lip with or without cleft palate |
Fellowship in craniofacial surgery, Univ. of Texas |
| Katherine Peters |
Pre-doc |
1998-2000 |
B.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1998; M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Heritability of temperament: a twin study |
Genetics Counselor, Univ. of California, Irvine |
| Lynn Ploughman Ph.D. |
Post-doc |
1990-1992 |
Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, 1990 |
Epidemiology of birth defects in Virginia, statistical methods |
Bio-statistician, Dupont |
| Bonnie Salbert, D.O. |
Post-doc |
1991-1992 |
D.O, Michigan State Univ. |
Genetics of cleft lip and palate |
Private practice (D.O.) |
| Jessica Sank |
Pre-doc |
1998-2000 |
B.S.; M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Psychosocial aspects related to orofacial clefting |
Research Genetic Counselor, Univ. of Florida |
| Deitrich Stephan, Ph.D. |
Post-doc |
1994-1996 |
Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1994 |
Trinucleatide repeats in orofacial cleft genes |
Director, Neuro-genomics Division, TGen, Phoenix, Arizona |
| Seth Weinberg, Ph.D. |
Pre-doc |
1998-2007 |
B.S., Temple Univ., M.S., Ph.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Analysis of 3-D facial images |
Post-doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Iowa |
| Kimberly Wentzlaff |
Pre-doc |
1994-1988 |
B.S., Univ. of Minnesota; M.S., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Handedness and non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in Shanghai, China |
Research Genetic Counselor, Mayo Clinic |
Sample publications of some of Marazita trainee’s (Trainee names in bold):
- Byrnes AL, Berk NW, Cooper ME, Marazita ML. Parental evaluation of informing interviews for cleft lip and/or palate. Pediatrics 112(2):308-313, 2003.
- Cooper ME, Stone RA, Liu Y-e, Hu D-n, Melnick M, Marazita ML. Descriptive epidemiology of nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in Shanghai, China, 1980-1989. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal,37(3):274-280, 2000.
- Cooper ME, Sank J, Marazita ML. Birth prevalence of cleft lip and cleft palate in Asia. In press, Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 2006
- El-Gheriani AA, Maher BS, El-Gheriani AS, Sciote JJ, Abu-shahba FA, Al-Azemi R, Marazita ML. Segregation analysis of mandibular prognathism in Libya. J of Dental R, 82:523-527, 2003
- Hart TC, Marazita ML, Wright JT. The impact of molecular genetics on oral health paradigms. Critical Reviews in Oral Biology,11(1):26-56, 2000.
- Hart TC, Hart PS, Michalec MD, Zhang Y, Marazita ML, Cooper ME, Yassin OM, Nusser M, Walker S. Localisation of a gene for prepubertal periodontitis to chromosome 11q14 and identification of a cathepsin C gene mutation. Journal of Medical Genetics, 37:95-101, 2000.
- Maher BS, Marazita ML, Zubenko WN, Spiker DG, Giles DE, Kaplan BB, Zubenko GS. Genetic Segregation Analysis of Recurrent, Early-Onset Major Depression: Evidence for Single Major Locus Transmission. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 114(2):214-221, 2002.
- Peanchitlertkajorn S, Cooper ME, Liu Y-E, Field LL, Marazita ML. Chromosome 17: Gene mapping studies of cleft lip with or without cleft palate in Chinese families. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 40(1):71-79, 2003
- Sank JR, Berk NW, Cooper ME, Marazita ML. Perceived social support of mothers of children with clefts. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 40(2):165-171, 2003.
- Weinberg SM, Neiswanger K, Martin RA, Mooney MP, Kane AA, Wenger SL, Losee J, Deleyiannis F, Ma L, de Salamanca JE, Czeizel AE, Marazita ML. The Pittsburgh Oral-Facial Cleft (POFC) Study: Expanding the Cleft Phenotype. Background and Justification. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, Cleft Palate Craniofac J 43:7-20, 2006.
- Wentzlaff K, Cooper ME, Yang P, Aston P, Liu Y-e, Melnick M, Marazita ML. Association between non-right-handedness and cleft lip with or without cleft palate in a Chinese population. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology, 17:141-147, 1997.
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