Kathleen A Costigan Author

Janet A. DiPietro, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Research & Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health. As a developmental psychologist, her interests focus on the degree to which individual differences in psychobiology and psychophysiology intersect with behavior and development. Her work documents normative development before birth and evaluates the role of maternal exposures on fetal development in an effort to understand the manner in which the fetal period provides the substrate for later life.

Kathleen A. Costigan, R.N., M.P.H. directs the Fetal Assessment Center within the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her interests involve the application of fetal surveillance methodologies to clinical and research evaluation of fetal development and well-being. She has been a collaborator on the Johns Hopkins Fetal Neurobehavioral Development project since its inception.

Kristin M. Voegtline, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests lie in developmental psychobiology, with a focus on the organizational effects of the prenatal period on postnatal physiological and behavioral regulation. Karen Brakke, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology at Spelman College. Her research interests focus on skill development in infancy and early childhood, with particular emphasis on object manipulation and bimanual coordination. She is also active in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) community.

Curt A. Sandman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine and currently is Principal Investigator of a project in a 5-year Conte Center award from the NIMH to examine Brain Programming of AdolescentVulnerabilities. Professor Sandman has maintained an NIH funded research program for over 28 consecutive years and has published over 300 scientific papers. He has been Principal Investigator for a consecutive series of studies that examined the “programming” effects of stress and activation of the HPA/placental axis on the human fetus, birth outcomes infant, and child development.