PEHSU Grand Rounds Webinar
This webinar is part of an ongoing series of educational presentations by experts on issues that focus on current and emerging aspects of pediatric and reproductive environmental health.
Marksmanship and Adolescent Youth Lead Exposure - November 27, 2018 - 1:00 pm ET
Learning Objectives
- Discuss potential sources of lead exposure at the shooting range and how that translates to appropriate questions to ask the patient.
- Describe personal protective and hygiene measures that reduce/prevent exposures from shooting.
- Describe measures to control lead exposure in the firing range environment.
- Discuss potential adverse health effects of lead exposure to adolescents.
- Describe a strategy of medical surveillance that a health care provider could recommend.
Presenter:
Dr. Goldman is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). She is recognized as an expert in clinical occupational/environmental medicine (OEM), particularly in the area of neurotoxicity and metal toxicity. She has authored numerous chapters and articles, including one on teen marksmen and lead. As the Associate Director of the New England PEHSU, she is involved in developing educational materials relevant to exposures to children and reproductive toxicity.
Continuing Education Information:
- Take the course on the PEHSU National Classroom
- Visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps before January 1, 2021.
- Search for the activity: WD2588-112718
- Complete the Evaluation at www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline
- Pass the posttest at 80% on TCEO (Posttest consists of a mix of five multiple choice and true/false questions.)
- CE certificates will be available on your TCEO account
Disclaimer/Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the PEHSU by providing partial funding to ATSDR under Inter-Agency Agreement number DW-75-95877701-05. Neither EPA nor ATSDR endorse the purchase of any commercial products or services mentioned in PEHSU publications.