Joint Statement on Pregnancy and Wireless Radiation
We join together as physicians, scientists and educators to express our concern about the risk that wireless radiation poses to pregnancy and to urge pregnant women to limit their exposures.
We recognize that the exquisitely delicate systems that direct the development of human life are vulnerable to environmental insults, and that even minute exposures during critical windows of development may have serious and life-long consequences.
We know that the scientific process demands a thorough and exhaustive examination of the possible impact of wireless radiation on health; however, we believe substantial evidence of risk, rather than absolute proof of harm, must be the trigger for action to protect public health.
We call on the research community to conduct more studies to identify the mechanisms by which a fetus could be affected by wireless radiation exposures. We call on our elected leaders to support such research and to advance policies and regulations that limit exposures for pregnant women. We call on industry to implement and explore technologies and designs that will reduce radiation exposures until such research is carried out.
We affirm our role as health and science professionals to inform the public about the potential dangers associated with early-life exposures to wireless radiation, and invite all professionals engaged in obstetric, pediatric, and environmental health advocacy to join us in our quest to ensure the safety and health of future generations.
Signatories for the Joint Statement
(affiliations indicated for identification purposes only)
Mikko Ahonen, PhD, Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland
Jennifer Armstrong, MD, Ottawa Environmental Health Clinic, Ontario, Canada
Sinerik Ayrapetyan, PhD, Chair, United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Armenia
Carlo Bellieni, MD, Former Secretary, Bioethics Committee of the Italian Pediatrics Society, Neonatologist, Bioethicist, Italy
Igor Beliaev, Dr.Sc., Head, Laboratory of Radiobiology at the Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Science and Professor, Laboratory of Radiobiology in the Department of Ecological and Medical Problems, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Martin Blank, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University
Robert W. Boxer, MD, Emeritus Fellow, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, United States
David R. Brown, ScD, Public Health Toxicologist, Environment and Human Health, United States
Lois Brustman, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York
David Buscher, MD, Former President, American Academy of Environmental Medicine and Environmental Medicine, United States
Sheila Bushkin-Bedient, MD, Concerned Health Professionals of New York, New York
Marie-Claire Cammaerts, PhD, Researcher, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Carla Campbell, MD, MS, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel School of Public Health, Philadelphia
David Carpenter, MD, Director, School of Public Health, University at Albany, New York
Richard Clapp, DSc, MPH, Professor emeritus of Environmental Health, Boston University, Massachusetts
Kerry Crofton, PhD, Co-founder and Executive Director, Doctors for Safer Schools, Canada
Madhukar Shivajirao Dama, MVSc, Professor, Institute of Wildlife Veterinary Research, India
Suleyman Dasdag, PhD, Secretary General, The Turkish Biophysical Society and Professor, Biophysics Department of Dicle University, Turkey
Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, Visiting scholar, University of California at Berkeley, California
Adilza Condessa Dode, PhD, MSc, Researcher, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Larysa Dyrszka, MD, Pediatrician, New York
Erica Elliott, MD, Family Practice & Environmental Medicine, New Mexico
Dr. Elizabeth Evans, MA, (Cantab) MBBS (London), DRCOG, United Kingdom
Daniel Favre, PhD, Biologist and Apiary Advisor, Association Romand Alert, Switzerland
Aleksandra Fucic, PhD, Biologist, Genotoxicologist, Scientific Advisor, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia
Goran Gajski, PhD, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia
Beatrice A. Golomb, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Universiyt of California San Diego School of Medicine, California
Oleg Gregoriev, DrSc, PhD, Chairman, Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation, Russia
Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD, Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
Magda Havas, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University, Canada
Lena Hedendahl, MD, General Practitioner, Luleå, Sweden
Martha Herbert, PhD, MD, Pediatric Neurologist and Neuroscientist, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts
Gunnar Heuser, MD, Professor emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, California
Hiie Hinrikus, PhD, DSc, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Mae-Wan Ho, PhD, Co-founder and Director, Institute of Science in Society, United Kingdom
Heidi Hutner, PhD, Director of Sustainability Studies, Stony Brook University, New York
Isaac Jamieson, PhD, Architect, Environmental Scientist/Consultant, Biosustainable Design, London
Toril H. Jelter, MD, FAAP, General Practitioner and Certified Pediatrician, Mount Diablo Integrated Wellness Center, California
Olle Johansson, PhD, Researcher of Neuroscience, Karolunska Istitutet and Professor, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, The Natural Nurse, Arizona
Süleyman Kaplan, PhD, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey
Kavindra Kumar Kesari, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Lisbeth E. Knudsen, PhD, Director, Bachelor and Master Program in Public Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sianette Kwee, PhD, Professor emeritus of Medical Biochemistry, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Henry Lai, PhD, Bioelectromagnetics Research Laboratory, University of Washington, Washington
Michael Lerner, PhD, President, Commonweal, United States
Celia Lewis, PhD, Former Researcher, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems, Connecticut
Luana Licata, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Cynthia Johnson MacKay, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
Don Maisch, PhD, Founder, www.emfacts.com
Victoria Maizes, MD, Executive Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Arizona
Erica Mallery-Blythe, MD, Physicians’ Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment, United Kingdom
Lynn Marshall, MD, FAAEM, LMCFP, Former President of the Canadian Society for Environmental Medicine and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and faculty member, University of Toronto and Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Dr. Alfonso Balmori Martínez, Biologist, Human Ecological/Social/Economical Project, Spain
Asish Mehta, MD, MCh, DNB, Neurological surgeon, Mumbai, India
Ron Melnick, PhD, Retired Senior Toxicologist, National Toxicology Program and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States
Stella Canna Michaelidou, PhD, President of the National Committee on Environment and Children’s Health, Cyprus, Turkey
Sam Milham, MD, Adjunct Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, New York
Anthony B. Miller, MD, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Hamid Mobasheri, PhD, Head of Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Macromolecules, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran
SMJ Mortazavi, PhD, President of the Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (INIRPRC) and Professor, Medical Physics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Joel Moskowitz, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator, Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Joachim Mutter, Physician of Internal Medicine, Germany
Lisa Lavine Nagy, MD, The Preventive and Environmental Health Alliance Inc., Massachusetts
Dr. Göknur GÜLER ÖZTÜRK, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Biophysics Department, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
Hildur Palsdottir, PhD, NYU School of Medicine, New York
Janet Perlman, MD, MPH, Pediatrician, Bayside Medical Group, California
Claudio Gomez-Perretta, MD, PhD, Researcher, University La Fe of Valencia, Spain
Rangasamy Ramanathan, MD, LAC+USC Women’s & Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, California
William J. Rea, MD, Environmental Health Center, Dallas, Texas
Mary Redmayne, PhD, Adjunct Research Associate, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, California
Elihu D Richter, MD, MPH, Retired Head of the Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Injury Prevention Center, Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Lisa Ridgway, MD, Pediatrician, Victor Med Clinic, Victor, Idaho
Aviva Romm, MD, Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Nader Salama, Professor, Department of Urology & Andrology, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Timur Saliev, PhD, Lead Researcher, Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Alvaro Augusto A. de Salles, PhD, Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil
Annie J. Sasco, MD, DrPH, Director of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention, University of Bordeaux, France
Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network, United States
Nesrin Seyhan, BsC, PhD, Director, Gazi Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (GNRK) Center, WHO EMF IAC Representative of Turkey, Professor, Biophysics Department, Gazi University, Turkey
Amit J. Shah, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Georgia
Kara Sheinart, MD, Neurologist affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital & Medical Center, New York
Fatih Senturk, MSc, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Biophysics Department, Gazi University, Turkey
Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, Pediatric Neurologist and Pediatrician, New York
Stephen Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C., C.N.S., C.B.T., Cardiologist, Manchester Memorial Hospital, Connecticut
Narendra P. Singh, PhD, Research Professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, South Carolina
Eugene Sobel, PhD, Emeritus Professor, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Colin L. Soskolne, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Canberra, Australia
Ken Spaeth, MD, MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Professor, Hofstra University, North Shore – LIJ Health System, New York
Yael Stein, MD, Physician and Researcher, Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Anne Steinemann, PhD, Professor of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne School of Engineering, Australia
Hugh Taylor, MD, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut
Arin Tomruk, MSc, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Biophysics Department, Gazi University, Turkey
Leonardo Trasande, MD, Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
John Wargo, PhD, Professor of Risk Analysis, Environmental Policy and Political Science, Yale University, Connecticut
Dr. Ulrich Warnke, PhD, Professor and Director, Department of Biomedicine, University of Saarland, Germany
Lucy Waletzky, MD, Psychiatrist (private practice), New York
Andrew Weil, MD, Founder and Director of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Arizona
John West, MD, Co-founder and Chairman, Board of the Breast Health Awareness Foundation and General Surgeon, United States
Jingduan Yang, MD, Director of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Program, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Pennsylvania
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Wafaa Aborashed, Executive Director, Bay Area Healthy 880 Communities
Nancy Alderman, MES, President, Environment and Human Health. Inc.
Mary Beth Brangan & James Heddle, Co-Directors, EON
Giorgio Cinciripini, Co-founder, Italian Network of No-Electrosmog NGOs
Frank Clegg, CEO, Canadians For Safe Technology
Anton Fernhout, Environmental Engineer with MEng Environmental Sciences, Association Romande Alerte aux Ondes Electromagnétiques (ARA), Morges, Switzerland
Marjukka Hagström, LL.M., M.Soc.Sc, Principal Researcher, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Radio and EMC Laboratory, Finland
Desiree Jaworski, Executive Director, Center for Safer Wireless
Tarmo Koppel, Chair of Labor Environment and Safety, Ergonomics Lab at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
B. Blake Levitt, Former New York Times contributor, Medical/Science Journalist, Author
Ellen Marks, California Brain Tumor Association, California
Jean Monro, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, FAAEM, DIBEM, MACOEM, Medical Director and Founder, Breakspear Hospital, United Kingdom
L. Lloyd Morgan, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Health Trust
Janet Newton, EMRadiation Institute
Camilla Rees, MBA, ElectroMagneticHealth.org
Kathleen Riley, ND, Founder and Physician, Eclectic Naturopathic Medical Center, LLC, Connecticut
Cindy Sage, MA, Co-Editor, BioInitiative 2012 Report, Sage Associates
Donna Wolf, RD, CLT, Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and Certified LEAP Therapist, San Diego, California
Patricia J. Wood, Executive Director of Grassroots Environmental Education and Visiting Scholar, Adelphi University, School of Nursing and Public Health, New York
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