Wladimir Wertelecki

{| class="wikitable" align="right" style="text-align: left; font-size: 80%; width: 350px;" |- ! colspan="2"| |- ! colspan="2"| Wladimir Wertelecki |- | Born || (1936) In Rivne, Volyn, Ukraine (at the time Poland) |- | Citizenship || USA |- | Fields || Clinical Teratology, Genetics and Pediatrics |- |Education |National San Fernando Highschool, Buenos Aires, Argentina |- | Mentors || , , Bernardo Houssay, Niсeto S. Loizaga, M.D., Alexis Hartmann, Harold Cummins, PhD., Josef Warkany, Daniel C. Gajdusek, John Gofman |- | Alma mater || Medical School, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1956–1961) |- | Postgraduate || Intern, Muniz Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1961 - 1962). Intern, Deaconess Hospital, St. Louis, MO, U.S. (1963). Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO (1964 - 1966). Fellow in Clinical Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1966 - 1968) |- | Academic Posts and Tenures || Instructor, Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1968–1969). Senior Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps., Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (1969–1972). Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (1972). Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (1973–1974). Professor and chairman, Department of Medical Genetics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (1974–2010). Professor Emeritus, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (2010-). Director, OMNI-Net Ukraine, Birth Defects Monitoring Programs [http://ukraineomni.org/en/about_eng/] (1999-) |- | Awards and Honors|| Corresponding Member of the "Academia Nacional de Medicina" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv, Ukraine), Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Lviv Medical University (Lviv, Ukraine) |- | Current|| Director of OMNI-Net Programs in Ukraine. International Coordinator of [https://cifasd.org/ CIFASD] investigations in Ukraine.[https://betterbeginnings.org/what-we-do/pregnancy-health-research/alcohol/cifasd/] Investigations of teratogenesis of Chornobyl radionuclides.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqZj2MnDSE] |}

Wladimir Wertelecki is a board certified pediatrician, clinical geneticist and cytogeneticist. In 1974, he established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at the new South Alabama University College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. Following his retirement as chairman and emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, and Pathology, he continued his investigations into the prevention of developmental anomalies as a Project Scientist at the Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego. Since 1996, his research has focused mainly on [https://betterbeginnings.org/what-we-do/pregnancy-health-research/alcohol/cifasd/ alcohol] and the impact of ionizing radiation on congenital anomalies. He is the author over 135 scientific reports.

He established a regional network of clinics across southern Alabama and West Florida, and in 1978 he organized the Southern Genetic Group. This group expanded into the South-Eastern Regional Genetics Group,[https://sergg.org/] to enhance regional genetic services. Components of this network provided templates for the population-based surveillance system implemented later in Chornobyl-impacted regions in Ukraine. Wertelecki also helped local Native-Americans gain Federal Recognition in Alabama.

In 1992, he made a presentation to the US Senate regarding the reproductive risks posed by Chornobyl radiation. In 1999, following an initial sponsorship by USAID, he established the [http://ukraineomni.org/ OMNI-Net program], a not-for-profit network, to investigate the reproductive risks posed by exposure to alcohol and ionizing radiation from Chornobyl. Wertelecki is the International Cooordinator of the [http://ukraineomni.org/en/about_eng/ OMNI-Net programs]. OMNI-Net conducts population-based birth defects surveillance, is a full member of EUROCAT and [http://www.icbdsr.org/ ICBDSR], trains clinicians and provides medical assistance. Wertelecki is the editor of several internet sites related to OMNI-Net.[http://medword.net/][https://ceo.medword.net/][http://ibis-birthdefects.org/][http://utis.in.ua/] Wertelecki also is the author of articles, related to history and overviews of Human Teratology and other subjects.[https://www.pandorawordbox.com/] Provided by Wikipedia