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Dr. Daniel B. Berch is Associate Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, where he also directs the Program in Mathematics and Science Cognition and Learning. Dr. Berch came to the Washington, DC area in 1997 as an SRCD/AAAS Executive Branch Science Policy Fellow. He was subsequently appointed Senior Research Associate at the U. S. Department of Education, advising the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement on technical and policy matters pertaining to educational research.

In his prior academic career, Dr. Berch was Director of Research for the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, where he also chaired the University's Institutional Review Board and served as Research Coordinator for the University Affiliated Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders. He has published an assortment of articles on children's numerical cognition, mathematical learning disabilities, and spatial information processing. Dr. Berch is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association's Division of Experimental Psychology and is currently serving as an ex officio member of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel, which will advise the administration on the best use of scientifically based research to advance the teaching and learning of mathematics.