Prebic Executive Council

Ram Menon, PhD
Executive
Director
The University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston
Galveston, TX, USA

Hanns Helmer, MD
Executive Council Member
Medical University
Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Nanbert Zhong, MD, PhD
New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

Bo Jacobsson, MD, PhD
Sweden

Elizabeth Bonney, MD
University of
Vermont
Burlington, VT, USA
Prebic Board of Directors

Sam Mesiano, PhD
President
Case Western
Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

Hadijat Raji
Secretary
Associate Professor and Consultant Obstetrician-Gynaecologist
South Africa, Nigeria

Tom McElrath
Treasurer

Brandie DePaoli Taylor, PhD, MPH
Advocate Aurora Research Institute, Oak Park, IL

Jaroslaw Kalinka, MD, PhD
University of
Medicine
Lodz, Poland

Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD
Columbia
University
New York, USA

Chong Qiao, MD, PhD
China

Hadijat Raji
Secretary
Associate Professor and Consultant Obstetrician-Gynaecologist
South Africa, Nigeria

Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, MD
University
of Ghana
Accra, Ghana

Lauren Richardson
Co-Director, Young Investigators
Assistant
Professor
Division of Basic Science & Translational Research
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Kristina Adams-Waldorf, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Bo Jacobsson, MD, PhD
Chair of The Board of EU PREBIC Branch
Sweden

Prof. Dilly OC Anumba
MBBS FWACS FRCOG MD LL.M (Medical Law)
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Rachel Tribe, PhD
Branch Director - FPhysiol, FRCOG, King’s College
London, United Kingdom
Our Vision and Values
The core beliefs of PREBIC are to advance scientific knowledge to prevent preterm birth through open, global collaborative research based on the principles of open communication, trust and honesty. Through our mission and vision, PREBIC aims to optimize newborn health and long-term development for mothers and childrens.
The values of PREBIC are to:
- Develop global collaborative research into preterm birth.
- Create a community of researchers to increase our understanding of the mechanisms leading to PTB.
- Stimulate scientific enquiry to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms leading to preterm birth.
- Create scientific guidelines for global collaborative research in preterm birth.
- Engage international collaborative research to prevent preterm birth.
- Facilitate collaborative using transdisciplary approaches to improve knowledge into preterm birth.
- To expedite preterm birth research by combining the resources of multiple research groups across multiple geographic populations.
- Encourage young researchers to work in international collaborative multidisciplinary teams to advance knowledge to prevent preterm birth.