Sheela Sathyanarayana MD, MPH

Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Associate Professor within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Sathyanarayana serves as the co-director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit in Region X. Her research interests focus on exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals including phthalates and bisphenol A and their impact on reproductive development. Dr. Sathyanarayana serves as the centre director for The Infant Development and Environment Study which is a multi-centre cohort study of phthalate exposures in pregnancy and health outcomes in children. She was named Outstanding New Investigator within the University of Washington Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH). She currently serves as chair for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and serves on the National Academies of Sciences, National Research Council Committee on Endocrine-Related Low Dose Toxicity.