Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) and Seattle Children’s Research Institute. She conducts research focused on endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastics, including phthalates and bisphenol A in pregnancy and childhood health outcomes. She serves as the PI for The Infant Development and Environment Study, a multi-center cohort study of phthalate exposures in pregnancy and health outcomes in children. She is also PI of the ECHO MEND study that focuses on mediators and moderators of environmental exposures on child health outcomes. She has served as the chair for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and served on the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Low Dose Toxicity. She was also a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals that advises EPA on risk assessments related to the Toxic Substances Control Act. She sees patients through the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units and the UW Newborn Nursery where she was Medical Director for six years.