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R: REDACTED MATERIAL Position: Birth Date: Education: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: BARBARA J. VAN DEN BERG Research Pediatrician April 26, -__ State University, Leiden, Netherlands, M.D., 1949, Medicine Netherlands Inst. of Preventive Medicine, D.P.H., 1953, Medicine State University, Leiden, Netherlands, Dr's Degree, 1959, Medicine Passed Exam. for Foreign Medical Graduates, 1967, Medicine - 1949: 1950: 1950-1952: 1953-1963: 1964-1965: 1965: RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE General practice, Netherlands. Resident Pediatrician, St. Ignatius Hospital, Breda, Netherlands. Resident Pediatrician, St. Elisabeth Hospital, .Haarlem, Netherlands. . , .. ,. . ..r . _.~-.._.... ~ ... -- -~-.-.--.-- --- - Research Associate and Department of Health Chairperson Protem, Netherlands Institute of Preventive Medicine, Leyden, Netherlands. Visiting scientist, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C. Child Health and Development Studies, Director since November 1973, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Contributing Editor for Pediatric Epidemiology, Journal of Pediatrics, C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri. Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Editorial Board member., Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, Blackwell Scientific Publications,, Bristol, United Ringdom. 2501070397

1988- Adjunct Professor of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS van den Berg, B.J. Ongevallensterfte in Nederland in het bijzonder bij kinderen tegen de achtergrond van het ongevallenvraagstuk in het algemeen (Accident mortality in the Netherlands especially among children against the background of the accident problem in general). Thesis, Leiden 1959. van den Berg, B.J. and Yerushalmy, J. The relationship of the rate of intrauterine growth of infants of low birth weight to mortality, morbidity, and congenital anomalies. J. Pediat. 1966, 69:531-545. van den Berg, B.J. and Yerushalmy, J. Studies on convulsive disorders in young children. I. Incidence of febrile and nonfebrile convulsions by age and other'factors. Pediatric Research 1969;--3:298-304. van den Berg, B.J. and Yesushalmy, J. Studies on convulsive disorders in young children. II. Intermittent phenobarbital prophylaxis and recurrence of febrile convulsions. J. Pediat. 1971; 78:1004-1012. van den Berg, B.J. Studies on convulsive disorders in young children. III. Recurrence of febrile convulsions. Epilepsia 1974; 15:177-190. van den Berg, B.J. Studies on convulsive disorders in young children. IV. Incidence of convulsions among siblings. Develop. Med. Child-Neurol. 1974; 16:457-464. van den Berg, B.J. and Yerushalmy, J. Studies on convulsive disorders in young children. V. Excess of early fetal deaths among pregnancies preceding the birth of children with febrile or nonfebrile convulsions. J. Pediat. 1974; 84:837-840. Milkovich, L. and van den Berg, B.J. Effects of prenatal meprobamate and chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride on human embryonic and fetal development. N. Engl. J. Med. 1974; 291:1268-1271. Beck, G.J. and van den Berg, B.J. The relationship of the rate of intrauterine growth of low-birth-weight infants to later growth. J. Pediat. 1975; 86:504-511. van den Berg, B.J. Epidemiologic observations'of prematurity; effects of tobacco, coffee and alcohol. I"n: The Epidemiology of 2 2501070398

Prematurity, editors: D.M. Reed and F.J. Stanley. Baltimore, Maryland: Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1977; pp. 157-176. van den Berg, B.J. Comparisons of blood pressure measurements by auscultation and physiometrics infrasonde recording techniques. Hvnertension Supplement 1 1980;2:8-17. van den Berg, B.J. Maternal variables affecting fetal growth. Am. J. Clin. Nutr_ 1981; 34:722-726. Torfs, C.P., Milkovich, L. and van den Berg, B.J. The relationship between hormonal pregnancy tests and congenital anomalies. Am. J. Epidemiol. 1981; 113:563-574. Christiansonr R.E., van den Berg, B.J., Milkovich, L., et al. Incidence of congenital anomalies among white and black live births with long-term follow up. Am. J. Public Health 1981; 71:1333-1341. Chiang, C.L. and van den Berg, B.J. A fertility table for the analysis of human reproduction. Mathematical Biosciences 1982; 62:237-251. van den Berg, B.J. and Parry, M.A. Adolescents' preference of source to obtain contraceptive information. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 1983; 147:719-721. van den Berg, B.J. and Oechsli, F.W. Prematurity. In: Perinatal Epidemioloqy, editor: M.B, Bracken. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984; pp. 69-85. Torfs, C.P., van den Berg, B.J., Sever, J.L., et al. Long-term frozen sera for epidemiological studies of antibodies. The Lancet 1986; i(8479):503-504. Chiang, C.L. and van den Berg, B.J. Measure of maternal death and its impact on the female population. In: New Developments in the Analysis of Mortality and Causes of Death, editors: H. Hansluwka, A.D. Lopez, Y. Porapakkham, and P. Prasartkul. Geneva: World Health Organization, and Bangkok: Mahidol University, 1986; pp. 153-171. van den Berg, B.J. and Chiang, C.L. Maternal Mortality and differentiation by cause of death. In: New Developments in the Analysis of Mortality and Causes of Death, editors: H. Hansluwka, A.D. Lopez, Y. Porapakkham and P. Prasartkul. Geneva: World Health organization, and Bangkok: Mahidol University, 1986; pp. 239-256. Oechsli, F.W., Seltzer, C.C. and van den Berg, B.J. Adolescent smoking and early respiratory disease; a longitudinal study. Annals of Aller4v 1987; 59:135-140. 3 2501070399

C van den Berg, B. J., Christianson, R.E. and Oechsli, F.W. The California Child Health and Development Studies of the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemioloqy 1988, 265-282. Torfs, C.P., van den Berg B.J., Oechsli, F.W. and Curnmins, S. Prenatal and perinatal factors in the etiology of cerebral palsy. J. of Pediat. 1990; 116:4, 615-619. 4