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Personnel

CRECER (Continuation of the RESPIRE Early Childhood Exposures Research) is a long-term study involving many different organizations including:

• Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, San Francisco

Kirk R. Smith
Principal Investigator
UC Berkeley
krksmith@berkeley.edu

Mirriam Rafiq
Project Coordinator
UC Berkeley
mrafiq@berkeley.edu

Carolina Romero
Field Project Manager
Centro de Estudios en Salud
Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala

John Balmes
Co-Principal Investigator/Study Pulmonologist
UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco

Byron Arana
Project Director
Centro de Estudios en Salud
Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala

Amanda Northcross
Post Doctoral Fellow
Environmental Health Sciences
UC Berkeley

Zohir Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
Environmental Health
San Diego State University

Lisa Thompson
Assistant Professor
Family Health Care Nursing
UC San Francisco

Ilse Ruiz
Grad Research Asst
UC Berkeley

Nick Lam
Grad Research Asst
UC Berkeley

Alan Hubbard
Biostatician
UC Berkeley

Ira Tager
Epidemiologist
UC Berkeley

Erika Barrios
Study Physician
Centro de Estudios en Salud
Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala

Gilberto Davila
Field Supervisor
Centro de Estudios en Salud
Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala

Eduardo Canúz Castro
Data Monitoring Specialist
Centro de Estudios en Salud
Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala

FIELD WORKERS

Domitila Velasquez Ambrosio
Expedita Ramirez Marroquín
Aura Perez
Micaela Isidro Marroquín
Victoria Perez
Vicente Tema

PLANCHA REPAIR TEAM

Rene Rabanales
Bernabe Perez

DATA

Rudinio Acevedo
Data Manager

Data Entry
Maritza Barrios Barrios