Wladimir Wertelecki

{| class="wikitable" align="right" style="text-align: left; font-size: 80%; width: 350px;" |- ! colspan="2"| |- ! colspan="2"| Wladimir Wertelecki |- | Born || (1936) In Rivne, Volyn, Ukraine (at the time Poland) |- | Residence || USA |- | Fields || Clinical Teratology, Genetics and Pediatrics |- | Postgraduate || Intern, Muniz Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1961 - 1962). Intern, Deaconess Hospital, St. Louis, MO, U.S. (1963). Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO (1964 - 1966). Fellow in Clinical Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1966 - 1968) |- | Institutions || Instructor, Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1968-1969). Senior Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps., Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (1969-1972). Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (1972). Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (1973-1974). Professor and Chairman, Department of Medical Genetics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (1974-2010). Professor Emeritus, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (2010-). Director, OMNI-Net Ukraine, Birth Defects Monitoring Programs (1999-) |- | Alma mater || Medical School, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1956-1961) |- | Mentors || Taras Mykysha, Volodymyr Lasovskyi, Bernardo Houssay, [http://digital.bl.fcen.uba.ar/Download/008_ElHornero/008_ElHornero_v008_n02_articulo232.pdf Niсeto S. Loizaga, M.D.], [http://sofia.medicalistes.org/spip/IMG/pdf/ringer_and_hartmann.pdf Alexis Hartmann], [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1013492/ Harold Cummins, PhD.], Josef Warkany, Daniel C. Gajdusek, John Gofman |- | Currently known for || Population-based monitoring of developmental anomalies in Chornobyl-impacted regions |- | Notable awards || Corresponding Member of the "Academia Nacional de Medicina" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv, Ukraine), Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Lviv Medical University (Lviv, Ukraine) |}

Wladimir Wertelecki is a pediatrician and medical geneticist. In 1974, he established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at the new South Alabama University College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. Following his retirement as Chairman and Emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, and Pathology, he continued his investigations into the prevention of developmental anomalies as a Project Scientist at the Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego. Since 1996, his research has focused mainly on alcohol and the impact of ionizing radiation on congenital anomalies. He is the author [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=wertelecki+w&sort=pubdate over 135 scientific reports].

He established a regional network of clinics across southern Alabama and West Florida, and in 1978 he organized the Southern Genetic Group. This group expanded into the South-Eastern Regional Genetics Group, which enhanced genetic services in six states. Wertelecki also helped local Native-Americans gain Federal Recognition in Alabama.

In 1992, he made a presentation to the US Senate regarding the reproductive risks posed by Chornobyl radiation. In 2000, following an initial sponsorship by USAID, he established the OMNI-Net program, a not-for-profit network, to investigate the reproductive risks posed by exposure to alcohol and ionizing radiation from Chornobyl. The program trained Ukrainian professionals to monitor the frequency of birth defects. Provided by Wikipedia