{"id":256,"date":"2022-12-06T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:05:30","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lead Study Team<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Patricia A. Janulewicz Llyod, MPH, D.Sc.<\/h2>\n

Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n

Dr. Patricia Janulewicz Lloyd is an <\/span>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!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lindsay Kastner, MPH<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Research Assistant at Boston University School of Public Health<\/h3>\n

Lindsay Kastner (she\/her) is a Program Assistant and Research Assistant at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Lindsay received a B.A. in Environmental Politics and Policy from Colorado State University and her Master of Public Health in Environmental Health from BUSPH. Lindsay’s experience ranges from policy and advocacy work to environmental research during her time in undergraduate and graduate school. She has worked with Gulf War Veterans for the past year and a half and is passionate about examining the reproductive health effects from the Gulf War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Collaborators<\/h1>\n

Boston University<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Dr. Kimberly Sullivan, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution:<\/strong> Gulf War Illness Expert, Behavioral Neuroscience<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Maxine Krengle, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution:\u00a0<\/strong>Neuropsychology<\/p>\n

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. <\/span>

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\"\"Rosemary Toomey, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution:\u00a0<\/strong>Neurotoxicology and 1990-91 Gulf War Veterans’ Children<\/p>\n

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. <\/span>She is currently the principal investigator of the\u00a0Gulf War Illness Treatment Trial (GWITT), as well as an investigator of the Department of Defense supported\u00a0Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC)\u00a0and the National Institute of Aging supported\u00a0Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Timothy Heeren, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution: <\/strong>Biostatistician<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC)\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Nova Southeastern University<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Dr. Nancy Klimas, MD<\/span><\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution:\u00a0<\/strong>Immunology, autoimmunity<\/p>\n

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San Francisco VA<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Dr. Linda Chao, Ph.D.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution: <\/strong>Gulf War Illness, neurodegenerative illnesses<\/p>\n

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Baylor College of Medicine<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Dr. Lea Steele, <\/span>Ph.D.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Co-investigator<\/h4>\n

Scientific Contribution:<\/strong> Gulf War Illness, Epidemiology<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Past Collaborators<\/h1>\n

\"\"Angela Magardino<\/h3>\n

Research Assistant at Boston University School of Public Health<\/h4>\n

Angela developed the research protocol and Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission and created the generational surveys used in the Longitudinal Effects of the Gulf War: Veteran Reproductive Health and Children\u2019s Health (LEGACY) Study. She also designed and launched the study\u2019s website to enhance participant engagement and information accessibility. Her work helped establish the study\u2019s framework for investigating potential connections between Gulf War service and reproductive, birth, developmental, and children\u2019s health outcomes among veterans and their families.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dylan Keating<\/h3>\n

Project Manager at Boston University School of Public Health<\/h4>\n

Dylan was a member of the Gulf War Illness research team for several years, contributing primarily to the BBRAIN Study. She earned her Master of Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health. Before joining Boston University, Dylan worked as research staff at Harvard Medical School on a study examining the health of former NFL players. She especially valued connecting with and learning from the many veterans who participated in the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21568,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/legacystudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}