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Conference Schedule

(Printable .pdf)
Track 1 Asthma
Track 2 Built Environment
Track 3 Neurocognitive / Heavy metals exposure
Track 4 New born outcomes / Cancer

7:30am – 8:00am
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00am – 8:15am

Educational booth open

Welcome and Orientation
Benjamin Gitterman MD & Prentiss Ward
8:15am – 9:00am Keynote Address
Construction of an Environmentally Sustainable Campus and it's Impact
(The new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh)
Roger Oxendale

9:05am – 10:05am

Environmental Mold and Pediatric Asthma

Kolls

Obesity and the Built Environmen

Paulson & Rao

The past, present and future of lead toxicity

Needleman

Birth Outcomes:
Teratogenesis and cancer

Keuhl
10:05am – 10:20am Morning  Break
10:20am – 11:20am

Asthma

Nash

The Individual Room NICU Environment: Supporting Family and Infant Development Milford
Children's Health and the Classroom Environment
Zapalo

Mercury

Gitterman

Effects of Prenatal Neurotoxin Exposure on Neurodevelopment

Phelps

11:20pm – 11:50pm

Allegheny County Initiatives in Children's Environmental Health
Bruce Dixon
Allegheny County Health Director

11:50pm – 12:30pm  

Global Warming: A Threat to Children's Health
Jerry Paulson

12:30pm – 1:10pm

  Lunch
1:10pm – 1:50pm Exhibits Open The Implications of Critical Windows of Development for Children's Environmental Health
Devra Davis
2:00pm – 3:00pm

Environmental Mold and Pediatric Asthma

Kolls

Obesity and the Built Environment

Paulson & Rao

The past, present and future of lead toxicity

Needleman

Birth Outcomes: Teratogenesis and cancer

Keuhl
3:00pm – 3:15pm Afternoon Break
3:15pm – 4:15pm

Asthma

Nash

The Individual Room NICU Environment: Supporting Family and Infant Development Milford

Children's Health and the Classroom Environment Zapalo

Mercury


Gitterman

Effects of Prenatal Neurotoxin Exposure on Neurodevelopment

Phelps

4:15pm – 4:30pm A Foundation's Perspective on Children’s Environmental Health
Ellen Dorsey
4:30pm – 5:15pm Overview of Children’ Environmental Health
Ben Gitterman, MD
5:15pm – 5:30pm Final word  and Evaluation
Jerry Paulson
 
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