José F. Cordero

José F. Cordero is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, teratologist, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Georgia's College of Public Health, and former Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico. Cordero was an Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service and the founding director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Much of Dr. Cordero’s research focuses on understanding the impact of endocrine disruptors and oxidative stress on preterm births and neurodevelopment. In 2017, Cordero was awarded the Sedgwick Memorial Medal from the American Public Health Association. Provided by Wikipedia