ICBDSR CENTRE
International Centre on Birth Defects
Via Carlo Mirabello, 14
00195 Rome ITALY
Phone: 39-06-3701905
Fax: 39-06-3701904
E-mail: centre@icbdsr.org
Australia National: ACAMS
Elisabeth Sullivan, MD, Programme Director
AIHW National Perinatal Statistics Unit
Sydney Children's Hospital
2nd Floor, McNevin Dickson Building
Randwick Hospital Campus
Randwick NSW 2031
Australia
Phone: 61-3-96162729
Fax: 61-2-93821025
E-mail: npsu@unsw.edu.au
Web: www.aihw.gov.au/npsu
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Australia Victoria: VBDR
Jane Halliday, PhD
Consultant Epidemiologist to VBDR
Public Health Genetics
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Parkville 3052
Phone 03 8341 6260
E-mail: janehalliday.h@mcri.edu.au
Merilyn Riley
Senior Research Officer
Victorian Birth Defects Register
Victorian Perinatal Data Collection Unit
GPO Box 4003
Melbourne 3001
Phone: 03 9096 2702
E-mail: merilyn.riley@dhs.vic.gov.au
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Australia Western: WABDR
Clinical Professor Carol Bower, Programme Director
Western Australia Birth Defects Registry (WABDR)
King Edward Memorial Hospital
PO Box 134 Subiaco 6904, Western Australia
Phone: 618 9340 2721
Fax: 618 9340 2636
E-mail: caroline.bower@health.wa.gov.au
Site: http://www.kemh.health.wa.gov.au/services/birth_defects/index.htm
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Canada: CCASN
Juan Andres Leon
Maternal and Infant Health Section
Public Health Agency of Canada
10th Floor, Jeanne Mance Bldg, A.L. 1910C,
Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A OK9
Phone: 1-613.941.39205
Fax: 1-613-941-9927
E-mail: juan_andres_leon@phac-aspc.gc.ca
Jocelyn Rouleau, Senior Research Assistant
Phone: 1-613-954-4316
E-mail: jocelyn_rouleau@phac-aspc.gc.ca
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Canada Alberta: ACASS
R. Brian Lowry, MD, Programme Director
ACASS / Clinical Genetics
Alberta Children's Hospital
2888, Shaganappi Trail NW,
Calgary, AB, Canada. T3B 6A8
Phone: 403-955-7370
Fax: 403-955-2870
E-mail: brian.lowry@calgaryhealthregion.ca
Barbara Sibbald - Manager
E-mail: barbara.sibbald@calgaryhealtregion.ca
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Canada British Columbia
Vance Hanson
Director
Program Evaluation, Corporate andManagement Operations
Phone: 250- 9522438
E-mail: vance.hanson@gov.bc.ca.
Don Rintoul
Director, Informatics
Knowledge Integration and Development
Phone: 250 9521244
Fax: 250-9521534
E-mail: Don.Rintoul@gov.bc.ca
Health Sector IM/IT Division
Ministry of Health Services
2-1, 1515 Blanshard St
Victoria BC V8W 3C8, Canada
Chile-Maule: RRMC-SSM
M.Aurora Canessa,
LinaresHospital,
Maule Region- Chile.
AV. BRAZIL 753, LINARES, Chile.
Phone: 56-73-563276, 56-73-219879.
Fax: 56-73-219111, 56-73-219879.
E-mail: rrmc@ssmaule.cl
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China: BDSS-Beijing
Zhu Li, MD, Programme Director
National Centre for Maternal and Infant Health
Peking University Health Science Center
Rm 101 Research Centre, 38 College Rd.
Beijing 100191 PR China
Phone: 86-10-82801138
Fax: 86-10-82801141
E-mail: lizhu3699@gmail.com
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China: CBDMN
Zhu Jun, MD, Programme Director
National Centre Birth Defects Monitoring (CNBDM)
West China University of Medical Sciences
No. 17 Section 3-Ren Min Nam Lu
Chengdu - PRC - 610041, China
Phone: 86-28-5501363
Fax: 86-28-5501363
E-mail: cnbdms@mail.sc.cninfo.net
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Costa Rica: CREC
Lila Umaña,
Costa Rican Birth Defects Register Centre (CREC)
Department of Genetics,
Costa Rican Institute of Research and training in Nutrition and Health.
PO Box 4-2250 Tres Ríos, Cartago.
Costa Rica, Central America.
Phone: (506) 2799911
Fax: (506) 2795546
E-mail: lumana@inciensa.sa.cr
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Cuba: RECUMAC
Maria Teresa Pérez Mateo, Recumac
Centro Nacional de Genética Medica ISCM-Habana
Victoria de Giròn, C.P. 16000
Ciudad de la Habana. Cuba.
E-mail: mauro@infomed.sld.cu
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Czech Republic
Antonin Sipek, MD, PhD, Program Director
National Register of Congenital Anomalies in the Czech Republic
Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic
Corresponding address:
Antonin Sipek, MD, PhD
Department of Medical Genetics
Thomayer University Hospital, Prague
Videnska 800
140 59, Praha 4, CZECH REPUBLIC
Phone:+420 261083636
Fax: +420 261083636
E-mail: registrvvv@seznam.cz
Web: www.vrozene-vady.cz
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England & Wales
Vera Ruddock, Programme Director
Office for National Statistics
Room 2.164 Government Buildings
Cardiff Road, Newport
Gwent NP10 8XG
Wales
Phone: 44-01633 812918
Fax: 44-01633 812335
E-mail: vera.ruddock@ons.gov.uk
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Finland
Annukka Ritvanen
The Finnish Register of Congenital Malformations
THL
National Institute for Health and Welfare
P.O.BOX 30, 00271 HELSINKI, FINLAND
Lintulahdenkuja 4, 00530 HELSINKI, FINLAND
Telephone +358 20 610 7376
Mobile: +358 50 501 2667
Telefax +358 20 610 7459
E-mail: annukka.ritvanen(at)thl.fi
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France: Paris
Babak Khoshnood, MD, PhD, Programme Director
Paris Registry of Congenital Malformations
INSERM U953
Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul, Bât Lelong – porte no. 5 – 1er étage
82 av. Denfert Rochereau 75014 Paris, France
Phone: 33-1-42345575
E-mail: babak.khoshnood@inserm.fr
Nathalie Lelong
E-mail: Nathalie.lelong@inserm.fr
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France: REMERA
Emmanuelle Amar, Programme Director
Registre Des Malformations en Rhone Alpes
Faculté Laennec
7-9 rue Guillaume Paradin
69372 LYON - FRANCE
Phone: 33-4-78771058
Fax: 33-4-78771088
E-mail: emmanuelle.amar@orange.fr
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France: Strasbourg
Bérenice Doray, Programme Director
Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale
Faculté de Médecine
11 rue Humann
67985 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Phone: 33-3-88138120
E-mail: Berenice.Doray@chru-strasbourg.fr
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Germany Saxony-Anhalt
Simone Poetzsch, Program Director, until March 31, 2010
Anke Rißmann, Program Director, from April 1, 2010
Nephrology/ Neonatology
Head of Malformation Monitoring Center Saxony-Anhalt
Otto-von-Guericke University
Leipziger Strasse 44
D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany
E-mail: Anke.Rissmann@med.ovgu.de
Web: www.angeborene-fehlbildungen.com
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Hungary
Andrea Valek, MD, Programme Director
Department of Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry and Surveillance
National Centre for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
Gyali út 2-6.
H-1966 Budapest, Pf. 64
Hungary
Phone: 36-1-476 1129
Fax: 36-1-476 1389
E-mail: e-vrony@oszmk.antsz.hu
valek.andrea@ogyei.hu
Programme Management Team:
Judit Beres, PhD, E-mail: beres.judit@oszmk.antsz.hu
Julia Metneki, PhD, E-mail: metneki.julia@oszmk.antsz.hu
Janos Sandor, MD, PhD, E-mail: janos.sandor@med.unideb.hu
Margit Vadasz, E-mail: vadasz.margit@oszmk.antsz.hu
Inactive Staff (Maternity leave):
Erzsebet Horvath-Puho
Melinda Csaky-Szunyogh, MSc
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Iran: TROCA
Saeed Dastgiri, PhD, Programme Director
Department of Community and Family Medicine
School of Medicine
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Tabriz, Iran
Phone: 98 914 415 7039
Fax: 98 411 336 4668
E-mail: saeed.dastgiri@gmail.com
Web: http://www.tbzmed.ac.ir/troca
Ireland: Dublin
Bob McDonnell, MD, Programme Director
Population Health Directorate
Health Service Executive
Dr. Steeven’s Hospital
Dublin 8 - Ireland
Phone: 353-1-6352752
Fax: 353-1-6353745
E-mail: bob.mcdonnell@hse.ie
Virginia Delany, Registry Co-ordinator/Research nurse
Phone: 353-1-6352751
Fax: 353-1-6353745
E-mail: virginia.delaney@hse.ie
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Israel: IBDSP
Prof. Paul Merlob, Programme Director
Dept. of Neonatology
Rabin Medical Center
Beilinson Campus
Petah Tikva 49100, Israel
Phone: 972-3-9377473/2
Fax: 972-3-9220068 / 9219685
E-mail: merlobp@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Zully Gelman-Kohan,
Director, Medical Genetics,
Kaplan Medical Center,
Rehovot, Israel.
Phone: 972- 08- 9441390
Fax: 972- 08- 9441765
E-mail: zully@inter.net
Dr. Eric Shinwell
Director of Neonatology
Kaplan Medical Center
Rehovot, Israel
Phone: 972- 08- 9441218
Fax: 972- 08- 9441768
E-mail: Shinwell@netvision.net.il
Prof. Francis Mimouni
Head, Department of Neonatology,
Lis Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital,
Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Phone: 972- 03- 6925690
Fax: 972- 03- 6925681
E-mail: mimouni@tasmc.health.gov.il
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Italy Campania: BDRCam
Gioacchino Scarano,
Registro Campano Difetti Congeniti (BDRCam),
Medical Genetics Division,
Azienda Ospedaliera "G. Rummo", Via dell’Angelo 1,
82100 Benevento, Italy
Phone: 39- 0824-57374
Fax: 39-0824-57495
E-mail: giorecam@tin.it
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Italy Emilia-Romagna: IMER
Guido Cocchi, MD, Programme Director
Istituto di Pediatria Preventiva/Neonatologia
Universita' di Bologna
Via Massarenti 11
40138 Bologna, Italy
Phone: 39-051-342754 /6364654
Fax: 39-051-342754
E-mail: guido.cocchi@unibo.it
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Italy Lombardy: RMCL
Programme Directors:
Giovanna Tagliabue, MD
E-mail: giovanna.tagliabue@istitutotumori.mi.it
Paolo Contiero, PhD
E-mail: paolo.contiero@istitutotumori.mi.it
Roberto Tessandori, Sabrina Fabiano, Lucia Preto, Anna Maghini, Daniele Vergani, Andrea Tittarelli
Congenital Malformation Registry of Northern Lombardy (CMRL)
National Cancer Institute
Via Venezian 1, I-20133 Milan, Italy
Phone: +39 02 2390 3539
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Italy North-East
Romano Tenconi, MD, Programme Director, until May 23, 2010
Maurizio Clementi, MD, Programme Director, from May 24, 2010
Servizio di Informazione Teratologia
Genetica Medica Dipartimento Pediatria
Via Giustiniani, 3
35128 Padova, Italy
Phone: 39-049-8213513
Fax: 39-049-8211425
E-mail: Maurizio.clementi@unipd.it
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Italy Sicily: ISMAC
Sebastiano Bianca, MD, Programme Director
Sicilian Registry of Congenital Malformations (ISMAC)
Genetica medica ARNAS
Garibaldi Nesima
Via Palermo, 636
95122 Catania, Italy
Phone: 39-095-7595384
Fax: 39-095-7595384
E-mail: sebastiano.bianca@tiscali.it
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Italy Tuscany: RTDC
Fabrizio Bianchi, MD, Programme Director
IFC-Unit of Epidemiology
CNR Area di Ricerca di San Cataldo
Via Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa
Phone: 39-050-3152100
Fax: 39-050-3152095
E-mail: fabriepi@ifc.cnr.it
Web: www.rtdc.it
Dr. Anna Pierini, BSc, Project Manager
Phone: 39-050-3152102
Fax: 39-050-3152095
E-mail: apier@ifc.cnr.it
Web: www.rtdc.it
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Japan: JAOG
Fumiki Hirahara, MD
Yokohama City University Hospital
Dept. OB V GYN
3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawaku,
Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan
Phone: 81-45-787-2689
Fax: 81-45-787-2689
E-mail: hirafu@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp
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Malta: MCAR
Miriam Gatt, MD, Programme Director
Malta Congenital Anomalies Registry
Department of Health Information
95, Guardamangia Hill
Guardamangia PTA 1313
Malta
Phone: 356 25599000
Fax: 356 25599385
E-mail: miriam.gatt@gov.mt
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Mexico: RYVEMCE
Osvaldo Mutchinick, MD, Programme Director
RYVEMCE Departamento de Genetica Inst. Nacional de Nutricion
Tlalpan 1400
Mexico DF, Mexico
Phone: 52-5-5731200/ 52-5-5730611
52-5-5737333 (ext 2426, 2425)
Fax: 52-5-6556138
E-mail: osvaldo@servidor.unam.mx ^TOP
New Zealand
Associate Professor Barry Borman, Programme Director
New Zealand Birth Defects Monitoring Programme
Centre for Public Health Research
Massey University
PO Box 756
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Phone: +64-4-801-5799
Fax: +64-4-380-0600
E-mail: b.borman@massey.ac.nz
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Northern Netherlands
Marian Bakker, Programme Director
Department of Genetics
University Medical Centre Groningen
University of Groningen
PO Box 30001
9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
Phone: 31-50-3617110 / 3617115
Fax: 31-50-3617232
E-mail: Marian Bakker: m.k.bakker@medgen.umcg.nl
Hermien de Walle: h.e.k.de.Walle@med.rug.nl
Web: www.eurocatnederland.nl
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Norway
Stein Emil Vollset, MD, Programme Director
Department of Medical Birth Registry of Norway
Norwegian institute of public health
Kalfarveien 31
NO-5018 Bergen - Norway
Phone: 47- 53 20 4002
Fax: 47 - 53 20 4001
E-mail: vollset@uib.no
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Russia Moscow Region: MRRCM
Ludmila Joutchenko, MD, Programme Director
Moscow Regional Research Scientific Institute of Obstetric and Gynecology
22a, Pokrovka St.
101000 Moscow Russia
Phone: 007-0959246228
Fax: 007-0959215398
E-mail: mrrcm@mail.ru
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Slovak Republic
Elena Szabova, Programme Director
Slovak Teratologic Information Centre
Slovak Medical University
Limbova 12
833 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Phone: 00421 2 59370324
E-mail: elena.szabova@szu.sk
Eva Veghova, MD
Centre of Clinical Genetics
America´s square 3
813 69 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Phone: 00421 2 58968855
E-mail: genetika@faneba.sk
PhDr. Daniela Brašenova
Head of Section for Public Relations
National Health Information Centre
Lazaretská 26
811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Phone: 00421 2 57263901
E-mail: daniela.brasenova@nczisk.sk
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South Africa: SABDSS
Rauf Sayed
Dept. of Public Health and Primary Health Care
University of Cape Town-Medical School
Observatoy 7925
Cape Town, South Africa
Phone: 27-21-4066482
Fax: 27-21-4066163
E-mail: Rauf.Sayed@uct.ac.za
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South America: ECLAMC
Eduardo Castilla, MD, Programme Director
ECLAMC/Dept.Genetica/FIOCRUZ
C.P. 926
20010-970 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Phone: 55-21-25528952
Fax: 55-21-22604282(5521)
E-mail: castilla@centroin.com.br
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Spain: ECEMC
Prof. María Luisa Martínez-Frías, PhD
Director of the ECEMC (Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations)
and CIAC (Centro de Investigación sobre Anomalías Congénitas)
Chief of the 724 Group of the CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
C/Sinesio Delgado nº 6. Pabellón 3, 1ª planta
28029 - Madrid, Spain
Phone: 34-91-8222424
Fax: 34-91-3877541
E-mail: mlmartinez.frias@isciii.es
Eva Bermejo, PhD
Researcher of the Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras (IIER)
Person in charge of the Epidemiology Section of the ECEMC.
E-mail: eva.bermeja@iscii.es
Elvira Rodriguez-Pinilla, MD, PhD.
Researcher of the CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)
Person in charge of the Teratology Section of the ECEMC
and the Teratology Information Services (SITTE and SITE)
David Prieto, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Lecturer of the Department of
Epidemiology & Population Health (Medical Statistics Unit)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Sweden
Karin Gottvall, PhD
National Board of Health and Social Welfare
S-106 30 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: 46-8-752443899
Fax: 46-8-752473176
E-mail: karin.gottvall@socialstyrelsen.se
Karin Källén, PhD
National Board of Health and Social Welfare
S-106 30 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: 46-46-2227538
E-mail: karin.kallen@med.lu.se
Goran Anneren, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Gentics
Uppsala University Children's Hospital
S-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: 46-18-665942
Fax: 46-18-554025
E-mail: goran.anneren@genpat.uu.se
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Ukraine: OMNI-Net
Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki, International Coordinator
Department of Medical Genetics
University of South Alabama
307 University Blvd., CCCB, 274
Mobile, Al, USA 36688
Phone/Fax: 1 251 460 7505
E-mail: genfir3@gmail.com
Dr. Lyubov Yevtushok, Medical coordinator
“OMNI-Net for Children”
36, 16 Lypnya Str., Room 709
Rivne, Ukraine 33028
Phone/Fax: 38 036 262 3447
E-mail: rivneomni@gmail.com
yevtushokl@gmail.com
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UK Wessex: WANDA
Dr Diana Wellesley
Head Of Prenatal Genetics
Wessex Clinical Genetics Service
Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton SO16 5YA
Phone: +442380 796167
Fax: +442380 794346
E-mail: dgw@soton.ac.uk
Lysa Styles
Specialist Midwife in Fetal Medicine
E-mail: lysa.styles@suht.swest.nhs.uk
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USA Atlanta: MACDP
Adolfo Correa MD, PhD
Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mailstop E-86
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
U.S.A
Phone: 404.498.3811
Fax: 404.498.3040
E-mail: ACorrea@cdc.gov
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USA California: CBDMP
Marcia Ehinger, MD, Program Director
California Birth Defects Monitoring Program
California Department of Public Health
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division
Center for Family Health
1615 Capitol Avenue, MS 8300
Sacramento, CA 95814 USA
Phone: 1-916-6500367
E-mail: Marcia.Ehinger@cdph.ca.gov
Web: www.cdph.ca.gov
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USA Texas: BDES
Texas Birth Defects Epidemiology and Surveillance
Mark A. Canfield, Ph.D., Branch Manager
PO Box 149347
Austin, TX 78714-9347, USA
Phone: 512-458-7232
Fax: 512-458-7630
E-mail: mark.canfield@dshs.state.tx.us
Lisa K. Marengo, M.S.
Epidemiologist
Texas Birth Defects Epidemiology and Surveillance
PO Box 149347
Austin, TX 78714-9347, USA
Phone: 512-458-7232
Fax: 512-458-7630
E-mail: Lisa.Marengo@dshs.state.tx.us
Web: www.dshs.state.tx.us/birthdefects
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USA Utah: UBDN
Marcia Feldkamp, Director
Utah Birth Defect Network
Utah Department of Health
PO Box 144697
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4697 USA
Phone: 801 584 8490
Fax: 801 883 4668
E-mail: marcia.feldkamp@hsc.utah.edu
Miland Palmer, Surveillance Coordinator
Utah Birth Defect Network
Utah Department of Health
PO Box 144697
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4697 USA
Phone: 801 584 8573
Fax: 801 883 4668
E-mail: mpalmer@utah.gov
Website: http://www.health.utah.gov/birthdefect/
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Wales: CARIS
Margery Morgan, Programme Director
Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service (CARIS)
Congenital Anomaly Register & Information Service,
Level 3 West Wing,
Singleton Hospital, Sketty Lane
Swansea, Wales, SA2 8QA
Phone: 44 1792 285241
Fax: 44 1792 285242
Relevant Contact Person: Dave Tucker
E-mail: dave.tucker@swansea-tr.wales.nhs.uk