Meet The Team
Lead Study Team
Patricia A. Janulewicz Llyod, MPH, D.Sc.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Patricia Janulewicz Lloyd is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. She is an environmental health expert and environmental epidemiologist with experience working with Gulf War Veterans. Dr. Janulewicz combines her expertise to examine how environmental exposures impact the nervous system. Her work spans the life-course and examines prenatal, early postnatal, childhood, and adult exposures. Dr. Janulewicz’s ongoing projects include investigating the gene-environment interactions in multiple cohorts of Gulf War veterans in order to determine why some veterans became ill following in-theater exposures and others did not, examining the link between the microbiome and veterans’ health, and more!
Angela Magardino, MPH
Research Assistant at Boston University School of Public Health
Angela’s research interests focus on how physical and social environments influence disparities in health and well-being. Angela has experience designing questionnaires as well as working with families and vulnerable populations. She is passionate about advocating for environmental, climate, reproductive, and child health justice as well as transforming the structures underlying racial and health inequities.
Our Collaborators
Boston University
Dr. Kimberly Sullivan, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Gulf War Illness Expert, Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Sullivan will be helping recruit Gulf War veterans that have participated in the Gulf War Illness consortium and BBRAIN. Dr. Sullivan is a Research Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health and the former Associate Scientific Director for the Congressionally directed Research Advisory Committee (RAC) on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses.
Maxine Krengle, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Neuropsychology
Dr. Maxine Krengel is a clinical and research neuropsychologist. Dr. Krengel completed her doctoral training at the State University of New York at Albany. She did her predoctoral and postdoctoral training in adult neuropsychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. She has been completing neuropsychological assessment batteries at BMC since the early 1990s. include the cognitive assessment of individuals with movement disorders, neurotoxicant exposures, traumatic brain injury, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, seizures, and early stages of dementia.
Rosemary Toomey, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Neurotoxicology and 1990-91 Gulf War Veterans’ Children
Dr. Toomey has been involved in research on neuropsychological functioning since her doctoral dissertation in 1992. While her research initially focused on neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, she expanded her research to include neuropsychological effects of military deployment, PTSD, addiction disorders, and Gulf War Illness. Dr. Toomey also currently trains and supervises graduate students on clinical neuropsychological assessments in her role as the Director of Neuropsychological Assessment at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at BU. She is currently the principal investigator of the Gulf War Illness Treatment Trial (GWITT), as well as an investigator of the Department of Defense supported Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) and the National Institute of Aging supported Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA).
Timothy Heeren, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Biostatistician
Dylan Keating
Project Manager
Dylan has been part of the Gulf War Illness research team for the past two years mainly working on the BBRAIN study. She is also pursuing a Masters of Public Health at Boston University’s School of Public Health. Prior to her time at Boston University, Dylan worked as research staff at Harvard Medical School on a study examining the health of former NFL players. She enjoys meeting and learning from the many veterans who engage in the research.
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC)
Nova Southeastern University
Dr. Nancy Klimas, MD
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Immunology, autoimmunity
San Francisco VA
Dr. Linda Chao, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Gulf War Illness, neurodegenerative illnesses
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Lea Steele, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Scientific Contribution: Gulf War Illness, Epidemiology
Dr. Lea Steele is a neuroepidemiologist whose current research is focused on the long-term health consequences of military service in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Active projects include studies to determine the neurological, immune, endocrine, and hematological processes that drive the symptoms of Gulf War illness, an innovative study to develop a diagnostic test for this condition, and a large project to evaluate the current health of Gulf War-era veterans nationwide.