Tara Lutz, PhD, is the LEND Public Health Discipline Coordinator, Training Director of the UConn UCEDD, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UConn. Her research and ongoing studies include assessing barriers to health care for adults with disabilities, evaluating the outcomes of public health disability coursework, and secondary analyses of public health monitoring. Dr. Lutz will be presenting on social determinants of health and providing a discipline perspective on the characteristics and role of public health to disability.

Marilyn Sanders, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine at the University of Connecticut. Her specialty is neonatology. Dr. Sanders will be presenting on biological risk, including prematurity and trauma-informed care in the newborn intensive care unit and providing a discipline perspective on the characteristics and role of neonatologists.