Committees
The Society encourages all members to participate in the life of the society by taking an active role on a committee. If you are interested, please contact the committees for further information.
Vision and Visibility
This is a presidential committee. The role of this committee is to evaluate adherence to the society mission/vision, spearhead new initiatives in line with the vision, and increase visibility of the society. This committee also conducts research/assessment of how FIT’NG fits within the broader context of academic societies and develop new relationships and maintain/strengthen existing relationships with stakeholders in order to increase the Society’s outreach and support its initiatives.
Courtney Filippi (Chair)
University of Maryland
Jerod M. Rasmussen (Co-Chair)
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Lindsay Bowman
University of California Davis
Sam Wass
University of east london
Sobana Wijeakumar
University of Nottingham
Sam McCann
King's College London
Communications Committee
The committee serves to coordinate communications between FIT’NG, its membership, and the public on matters central to the Society’s vision and mission. The committee advises the board on developing and executing a communication strategy consistent with the Society’s values and priority goals as well as administering and overseeing the website and other Society related electronic/print communications including social media and listerv.
Kelly Vaughn (Chair)
Children’s Learning Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Claudia Lugo-Candelas (Co-chair)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Roxane Licandro
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Medical University of Vienna
Tara Rutter
Oregon Health & Science University
Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova
University of Maryland
Isabella Mariani Wigley
University of Padua
Ogy Nwana
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Trainee Committee
The Trainee Committee represents the postdocs and students of FIT’NG. Its goals are to organize professional development activities for students and postdocs, ad-hoc networking opportunities based on research interests, and international collaborations between trainees. The committee manages FIT’NG Together events.
Aiden Ford (Co-chair)
Emory University
Halie Olson (Co-chair)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parvaneh Adibpour
INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research)
M. Catalina Camacho
Washington University in St. Louis
Ola Dopierala
University of British Columbia
Abigail Fiske
University of Oxford
Genesis Flores
University of Southern California
María José C. Gómez
McGill University
Collin Gregg
Virginia Tech
Marta Korom
University of Delaware
2023 Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Program Committee works to organize the annual conference. Committee leadership select the content of the conference, and organize the review process.
Tomoki Arichi (co-chair)
King's College London
Emily Jones
Birkbeck University of London
Chad Sylvester (co-chair)
Washington University
Ana Namburete
University of Oxford
Alice Graham (Board Liaison)
Oregon Health & Science University
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
INSERM
Marta Korom (Trainee Liaison)
University of Delaware
Lauren Emberson
University of British Columbia
Reviewers
Marta Korom, Trainee Liaison, University of Delaware
Lauren Emberson, University of British Columbia
Emily Jones, Birkbeck University of London
Ana Namburete, University of Oxford
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM
Nora Moog, Charité
Ashok Panigrahy, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Wei Gao, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Elizabeth Norton, Northwestern University
Courtney Filippi, New York University
Natasha Marrus, Washington University
Cameron Ellis, Yale University
Gang Li, University of North Carolina
Duan Xu, University of California at San Francisco
Robert Hermosillo, University of Minnesota
Jana Hutter, King’s College London
Elina Thomas, University of Vermont
Cynthia Rogers, Washington University