Priming for Prevention teleconference 9/19 - Second call in series on enviro contributors to child development

[Guest guest]

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*J*oin us for the

CHE Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative’s

Fall 2007 Teleconference Series

" Priming for Prevention "

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*_Second call of series

_* *Overview of Science Regarding Environmental Contributors to Child

Development

Wednesday September 19th

5:00 p.m. Eastern/2:00 p.m. Pacific

*_Moderator_: /Elise , MEd, /executive director of the Institute

for Children’s Environmental Health and national coordinator of the

Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative

_Presenters_:

* / Rubin, MD/, president of the Institute for the Study of

Disadvantage and Disability and Visiting Scholar at the Morehouse

School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics: " From Substances to

Society "

* / Bellinger, PhD, MSc/, professor of neurology at Harvard

Medical School and Children's Hospital: " Lead, Socioeconomic

Factors and Child Development "

* /Jane Houlihan/, vice president for research at the Environmental

Working Group: " Toxics in Cord Blood and Body Burden Studies:

Implications for Child Development "

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**1-800-615-2900* (Toll Free in USA and Canada) or *1-661-705-2005* (for

callers outside USA and Canada)

Participant Access Code:*164622 #

This call will be recorded and a link will be sent out after the call

where you can download the audio recording

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*Call Materials*: Panelist recommended reading and/or powerpoints will

be posted by mid-day on Tuesday, Sept.ember 18 on:

_http://www.iceh.org/LDDImeetings.html

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This is the second call of a seven-part teleconference series is based

on the agenda of the conference, " Priming for Prevention: An Ecological

Approach to Research, Education and Policy, " that was to be held at the

Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2007. /Please

feel free to circulate this information to your listservs and/or other

colleagues and friends who would find this series of interest/.

_Overview_: Emerging science suggests that environmental exposures,

along with socio-economic factors, gene-environment interactions and

infectious disease, can undermine healthy child development. In

addition, these factors can contribute to increases in learning and

developmental disabilities, neurological disorders and other child

health problems. This means that to ensure children’s well-being, we not

only need to reduce environmental contaminants but to develop a whole

systems or “ecological” understanding in order to address these

complexities.

Leading researchers and advocates presenting in this teleconference

series will highlight recent studies and describe how this new science

is being translated into innovative solutions and public policy

opportunities. Our intention is to help participants on these calls come

away not only with more scientific knowledge, but with new ideas we can

collectively take to “prime for prevention” and to protect the health

and future of all children.

_Sponsors_: Collaborative on Health and the Environment's Learning and

Developmental Disabilities Initiative; American Association on

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Autism Society of America;

Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4; Institute for the Study of

Disadvantage and Disability; Learning Disabilities Association of

America; Merck Fund; National Institute of Environmental Health

Sciences; National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental

Disabilities; Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit;

University of land School of Nursing

NEXT CALL: *Research in Relation to Specific Learning and Developmental

Disabilities

Wednesday October 3rd

2:00 p.m. Eastern/11:00 a.m. Pacific

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Presenters:

* /Martha Herbert, MD, PhD/, clinical associate in neurology at

Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Morphometric Analysis

and assistant professor in neurology at Harvard Medical School:

" The Emerging Whole-Body, Gene-Environment-Epigenetics Approach in

Autism Research and Treatment "

* / Schantz, PhD/, professor at the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign: " Neurodevelopmental Effects of PCBs, MeHg and

Other Contaminants: Evidence from Animal and Human Studies "

* / , PhD, RN/, clinical instructor at the University of

land School of Nursing and affiliate of The Arc of Anne

Arundel County: " A Vulnerable Population: Environmental Health

Exposures and the Developmental Disabilities Community "

For more information on the entire series, please see:

_http://www.iceh.org/LDDImeetings.html

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Elise , M.Ed.

Executive Director

Institute for Children’s Environmental Health

1646 Dow Road

Freeland, WA 98249

Ph: 360-331-7904; Fax: 360-331-7908

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