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Reproductive Health

Grand Rounds: Changing Health Behaviors to Avoid Environmental Exposures-January 17, 2018 posted on Mar 16, 2020

Learning Objectives:

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

Describe three health behavior change approaches
Employ techniques in health messaging that will increase likelihood of behavior change
List examples of health behavior change messages that may decrease exposure to environmental contaminants

Presented By:

Susan Buchanan, MD, MPH

Director, Great Lakes Center for Children’s Environmental Health
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Region 5 PEHSU

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Grand Rounds: Insect repellants during pregnancy in the Zika era- May 10, 2016 posted on Mar 16, 2020

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, attendees should be able to:

To review our understanding of the effects of Zika virus during pregnancy
To examine available toxicity data for the two insect repellants suggested for personal protection against Zika
- N, N-diethyl-30methylbenzamide (DEET)
- Permethrin
To evaluate epidemiologic data from human pregnancies about the effects of DEET and permethrin during pregnancy

Presented By:

Blair Wylie, MD, MPH

Mass General Hospital
Boston, MA

Region 1 PEHSU

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Grand Rounds: Prenatal toxicant exposure and ovarian aging and cancer - January 27, 2016 posted on Mar 16, 2020

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, attendees should be able to:

Understand the critical events during ovarian development and their timing.
Review the experimental and epidemiological evidence that exposure to environmental toxicants can lead to accelerated ovarian aging and ovarian tumors in adulthood.
Understand what is known about mechanisms by which prenatal exposures to toxicants cause ovarian failure and ovarian tumors and understand key data gaps.

Presented by:

Ulrike Luderer, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Region 9 PEHSU

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Grand Rounds: Addressing parents' environmental health concerns about a community-level exposure-December 8, 2015 posted on Mar 16, 2020

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, attendees should be able to:

Provide an overview of a multi-faceted PEHSU response to a community-level exposure.
Review key principles of pediatric environmental health that were central to PEHSU response.
Review 3 common clinical inquiries to PEHSUs regarding the community-level exposure and response to local providers:
- Increased asthma symptoms
- Request for chemical biomonitoring
- Management of possible asbestos exposure

Presented By:

Maida Galvez, MD, MPH, FAAP

Associate Professor in the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics; Co-director of the Mount Sinai Transdisciplinary Center for Early Environmental Exposures Community Outreach and Engagement Core

New York, NY
Region 2 PEHSU

Lauren Zajac, MD, MPH

Fellow - Pediatrician at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Region 2 PEHSU

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