12/2 SFMS Webinar: The First Thousand Days: Chemical Exposure in Early Life and Beyond November 10, 2014 Educational Event, Local Events, San Francisco Medicine, SFMS Member CHE, Environmental Health, San Francisco Medicine, Webinar 0 On Tuesday December 2, 2014 at 10:00 am Pacific/1:00 pm Eastern join a distinguished multidisciplinary roster of contributors to a new CHE-themed San Francisco Medicine issue on environmental health, published by the San Francisco Medical Society. The authors will summarize their pieces on early life exposures, reproductive health issues, cancer and chemical mixtures, climate change and health, agriculture and the microbiome, and more. The brief presentations will be followed by discussion amongst authors and, time permitting, Q&A with call participants. Featured Speakers: Elise Miller, MEd, is the the Director of the CHE. In addition, Ms. Miller serves on the Board of Directors of The Endocrine Disruptor Exchange (TEDX) and was named to the National Advisory Board of the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) after 12 years of service on the Network’s Board of Directors. She is also a member of the professional advisory boards of four other nonprofits in the environmental health field. From 2007–2011, she was a member of the US EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. Ms. Miller founded the national Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (ICEH) in 1999 and served as its Executive Director for 10 years. Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, is the Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network..He also serves as science director of the Collaborative on Health and Environment. He has a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a masters in public health from Harvard University. Schettler has addressed the connections between human health and the food, chemical, built, and social environments in numerous publications and presentations. He has served on advisory committees of the US EPA and National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Schettler is most recently the author of The Ecology of Breast Cancer: The Promise of Prevention and the Hope for Healing. Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, is a Professor and Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Woodruff's research interests are to advance scientific inquiry, professional training, public education and health policies that reduce the impacts of environmental contaminants on reproductive and developmental health. William Goodson, MD, is a private practictioner who has 30 years of experience in the diagnosis and care of breast diseases. He is a leader in breast care in San Francisco, California, and he was the only Northern California surgeon to participate in the original clinical trials that demonstrated that breast conservation, i.e. “lumpectomy,” is a safe and effective treatment for early breast cancer. His commitment to the best care possible means that he has conducted and published original peer-reviewed research on most aspects of breast diseases. He is a past-president of the San Francisco Medical Society. John Balbus, MD, MPH, serves as a senior advisor to the Director on public health issues and as NIEHS liaison to its external constituencies, stakeholders, and advocacy groups. He also leads NIEHS efforts on climate change and human health. In this capacity he serves as HHS principal to the US Global Change Research Program, for which he also co-chairs the Interagency Cross-Cutting Group on Climate Change and Human Health. Dr. Balbus' background combines training and experience in clinical medicine with expertise in epidemiology, toxicology, and risk sciences. He has authored studies and lectures on global climate change and health, transportation-related air pollution, the toxic effects of chemicals, and regulatory approaches to protecting susceptible subpopulations. Mark Miller, MPH, MD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine (Division of Occupational and Environmental Health) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is also the Director of the UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) and the director of the Children’s Environmental Health Program at California Environmental Protection Agency. He received his medical degree and completed a Pediatric residency at Michigan State University. The call will be moderated by Steve Heilig, MPH, CHE Director of Public Health & Education, and Director of Public Health & Education, San Francisco Medical Society. The call will last one hour and will be recorded for archival purposes. Click here to RSVP for this webinar. Comments are closed.
