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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.

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These presentations focus on the impact of environmental exposures to chemicals on human health at the vulnerable stages of in utero and pediatric development. A number of topics will be included – all of them relevant to questions of exposure and health effects, with consideration of risk reduction. Speakers will include physicians and PhD subject matter experts, as well as individuals with expertise in areas such as home assessment, laboratory analysis, and risk communication.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this module, participants should be able to:

Identify the most common cancer risks after a nuclear power plant radionuclide release.
Describe the importance of latency in the evaluation of cancer risk from environmental sources.
Identify other non-cancer adverse outcomes in children following radionuclide releases.

Presenter: Stephen W. Borron, MD, FACMT

Medical Director, West Texas Regional Poison Center
Director and Chief Medical Consultant, Southwestern Center for Pediatric Environmental Health
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
El Paso, TX

Dr. Borron is a native of the Permian Basin region of West Texas. He completed undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University, medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati. He completed residency training and Emergency Medicine and a clinical research Fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Health, both at the University of Cincinnati, as well as a one-year preceptorship in Medical Toxicology. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Medical Toxicology. He currently serves as Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. He also serves as Medical Director of the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health and for the West Texas Regional Poison Center. Dr. Borron has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature and is editor of ToxEd, a toxicology database published by Elsevier.

Webinar Recording and Materials

Continuing Education

To receive continuing education (CE):

First establish a login with the CDC if you have not already. Click here to access the CDC Training and Continuing Education Online webpage.
Complete the activity
Complete the Evaluation at www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline
Pass the posttest at 80% at www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline (Posttest consists of a mix of five multiple choice and true/false questions.)

FEES: No fees are charged for CDC’s CE activities.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS:

CME activities with Joint Providers: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Medical Toxicology. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the (ACCME^®) to provide medical education for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Regarding WC2588 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Regarding WD2588 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Other Credit types:

CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.This activity provides 1.0 contact hours.
CEU: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is authorized by IACET to offer 1.0 CEU's for this program.
CECH: Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced level continuing education contact hours available are 0. CDC provider number 98614.
For Certified Public Health Professionals (CPH)
CDC is an approved provider of CPH Recertification Credits by the National Board of Public Health Examiners. Effective October 1, 2013, the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) accepts continuing education units (CEU) for CPH recertification credits from CDC. Please select CEU as your choice for continuing education when registering for a course on TCEOnline. Learners seeking CPH should use the guidelines provided by the NBPHE for calculating recertification credits. For assistance please contact NBPHE at http://www.NBPHE.org.

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Disclaimers

This material was supported by the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and funded (in part) by the cooperative agreement FAIN: U61TS000238-02 from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

Acknowledgement: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the PEHSU by providing partial funding to ATSDR under Inter-Agency Agreement number DW-75-92301301. Neither EPA nor ATSDR endorse the purchase of any commercial products or services mentioned in PEHSU publications

DISCLOSURE: In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.

CDC, our planners, presenters, and their spouses/partners wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters with the exception of Charles A. McKay and he wishes to disclose that he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council, Environmental Health Research Foundation (EHRF). EHRF addresses issues related to biomonitoring, a topic that is also relevant to some of the activities in the Grand Round Series that might be discussed in future sessions. EHRF receives funding from sources that includes industry. Dr. McKay has reviewed and written material for EHRF, that could create a perceived conflict of interest regarding environmental chemical exposure assessment/measurement.

Planning committee discussed conflict of interest with Dr. Charles A. McKay to ensure there is no bias. Content will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use. CDC does not accept commercial support.