FAE/FAS: Prevention, Intervention and Support Services Commentary on Burd and Juelson, Coles, and O’Malley and Streissguth

Dr. Larry Burd is the Director, North Dakota Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. He has worked in the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) field since the mid-1980s and has published extensively in this area, most recently on the use of community screening for detecting FAS. He is also part of the Four State FAS Consortium funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, a project aimed at determining and reducing risk factors associated with FAS in the states of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Tim Juelson is a medical student at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine.