FASD Hall of Fame
Tracy Combs
Tracy Combs is a 23 year old who is a constant inspiration to individuals and families touched by alcohol-related birth defects. She was diagnosed at age two with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Her hobbies include watching movies, traveling with her Mom and talking on the phone. She works at Dave & Buster's each morning helping the restaurant prepare for the day's opening. For many years Tracy has participated ...
Jeanne Ketola
Jeanne Ketola is the mother of three adopted children from Russia. She and her husband Chuck adopted two boys and a girl after being married for 26 years. The children were 8, 9, and 10 years old when they were brought to the United States. At first the children seemed to adjust well to their new culture and life style. However, their youngest son started to ...
Kathy Kidd-Wuest
Kathy Wuest is a mother to two wonderful children. She is a wife to her husband Phil of 22 years. Early in marriage; they had their two children; a daughter followed by a son 4 years and 16 days from his sister. Kathy and her husband never thought their children would have a disability. Their lives were quickly changed. Their son showed signs of trouble from very ...
Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D.
Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D. was designated as the Associate Director for Basic Research within the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), one of the 27 research institutes encompassing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the Federal Government’s Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Warren joined the staff of NIAAA in 1976. Over the course of the past 30 years he has ...
Marceil Ten Eyck
Marceil Ten Eyck has made extraordinary and multifaceted contributions to the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)—as a professional counselor and psychotherapist, an inspiring speaker and educator, a published author, an advisor on local and national FASD policy—and, importantly, as a warm and devoted mother and grandmother. Marceil received her training at the University of Oregon and Seattle University, earning a Master’s in Counseling in 1986. ...
Dr. Faye Calhoun
Dr. Faye Calhoun retired from the position of Deputy Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a component of the National Institutes of Health, in April, 2006. While at NIAAA she organized and chaired the Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICCFAS) on FASD. The ICCFAS is a committee of government representatives from the U.S. Departments of Health, Education and Justice. Dr. Calhoun served ...
The Mabie Family
Tom and Susan Mabie are the parents of nineteen-year old Samuel, whom they adopted at the age of one month. When Samuel was ten months old they began asking doctors for help in diagnosing and problem-solving Samuel's violent rages, but he was not diagnosed with FAS until he was six years old. A year after his diagnosis, the Mabies moved to Maryland. Realizing that Samuel was going ...
HaysKids
The mission of HaysKids is to help individuals with Fetal Alcohol, their parents, and caregivers. Our heart’s desire is to help reduce the effects of secondary disabilities which are inherent to those with Fetal Alcohol, (such as trouble with the law and imprisonment, inappropriate sexual behavior, mental health issues, homelessness, victimization, unemployment, and early death). In order to grasp what the HaysKids organization does, you need to have some ...
Jodee Kulp
Since her daughter's diagnosis with FASD in 1997, successful businesswoman Jodee Kulp has become a tireless speaker and advocate for FAS. "[Although] Jodee is an adoptive parent first and foremost [...] she spends nearly every moment of her life devoted to helping families who are parenting children who have FASD", said Deb Fjeld, a Minnesota Parent Advocate. Kulp has achieved recognition for her tremendous success as an award-winning ...
Jerome Romero
For most of his career Jerome Romero has focused on helping individuals with disabilities. For the last fourteen years, he has done so as the New Mexico Statewide Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Prevention Program Director. As Director, Romero has developed many FASD prevention activities and produced a number of public campaign slogans, accompanying public messages, and educational materials to educate women of child-bearing age on ...
Heather Carmichael Olson, PhD
Dr. Heather Carmichael Olson has been working in clinical, research and teaching activities in the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders for over 20 years. She is a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences in the UW College of Arts ...
Larry Burd, PhD
Dr. Larry Burd is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for The TIC Consortium and The Early Program (screening for autism in young children). For 30 years, Dr. Burd has been with the children’s program at Altru Health System and Director of the North Dakota Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center. Dr. Burd has ...
The Teichens
Walt and Kathy Teichen live in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. They adopted their son, Kevin, when he was 3 days old. He was in Special Education from first grade through high school. After the structure of school was over he started getting into trouble. He had been evaluated all along as having ADHD. Kathy felt they should get Kevin re-evaluated, so they did this in ...