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Aging, Environmental Health, and IDD Teleconference Series, Fall 2010
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Healthy School Environments
Brent Ibata, PhD, JD, MPH, RAC, CCRC
Tuesday April 13 from 2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time 
Public Health Law and the Built Environment in American Public Schools: Detailed History with Policy Analysis by Brent Ibata
Poisoned For Profit: The toxic assault on our children and why it continues
Alice Shabecoff
Journalist and Author; co-author of Poisoned Profits
www.poisonedprofits.com
Tuesday, March 9 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Mercury exposure, nutritional deficiencies and metabolic disruptions may affect learning in children
Renee Dufault, MAT
Special Educator, On-line Environmental Hazard Assessment Instructor, Writer, Retired PHS Officer
United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND
Tuesday, February 9 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
1 + 1 + 1 = 300 The Effect of Multiple Environmental Toxins on the Developing
Brain, Bowel, and Immune System
Cindy Schneider MD
Center for Autism
Tuesday, November 10 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Thyroid Hormone, Brain Development and the Environment
R. Thomas Zoeller
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Aherst
Tuesday, October 13 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Prenatal tobacco smoke and postnatal secondhand smoke exposure and child neurodevelopment
Michael Weitzman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
Tuesday, September 15 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Chemical Policy and Environmental Justice in Connecticut State: A Case Example of Taking Action!
Mark A. Mitchell, MD, MPH
President, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Tuesday, May 5 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Indoor Air Quality and Health, Part II
Howard Brightman, ScD, PE, CIH
In place of Jack Spengler, PhD, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health
Tuesday, March 10 2009 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Environmental Impacts on Neurodevelopment, A Case Study from Ecuador
Alexis Jeannine Handal, PhD MPH
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico
Tuesday, February 10 2009 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units – a Resource for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Community
Jerome A. Paulson, MD, FAAP
Tuesday, December 9 2008 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Environmental Contaminants and ADHD
Daniel A. Axelrad
Tuesday, October 7 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Children's Health and Environmental Pesticide Exposures
Elizabeth A. Guillette
Research Scientist in Anthropology at the University of Florida
Tuesday, September 9 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Tracey Woodruff
Scientist and Policy Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Tuesday August 5 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
LDDI Scientific Consensus Statement
Steven Gilbert, PhD, DABT
Tuesday, July 8 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET 
Asthma in School Environments for Students and Staff
Tolle Graham, Healthy Schools Coordinator
Elise Pechter, MPH, CIH, Industrial Hygienist Occupational Health Surveillance Program
Tuesday, June 17 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Lead Exposure and Developmental Disabilities
Jay S. Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Director: Parkinson's Disease Research Unit Thomas Jefferson University
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Environmental Injustice: Focus on Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Lawrence D. Rosen, MD
Chair, Integrative Pediatrics Council
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET 
Indoor Air Quality and Health, Part I
Jack Spengler, Ph.D.
Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Cleaning for Health in New England Schools
Carol Westinghouse, specialist in Cleaning for Health programs and in the environmentally preferable purchasing of institutional cleaning products
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Environmental Health in School Settings
Stacey Gonzalez, Campaign Coordinator at the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 from 2:00-3:00 pm EST
Protecting Children's Health at School
Claire Barnett, MBA, Executive Director of the Healthy Schools Network
Kim Voss, Parent
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 from 2:00-3:00 pm EST
National Birth Defect Registry: Collecting Data That Potentially Links Environmental Exposures to Clusters of Birth Defects
Betty Mekdeci, Founder of Birth Defects Research for Children
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 from 2:00-3:00 pm EST
Detecting the Impact of Ethanol on the Fetus and Understanding its Underlying Mechanism
Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 from 2:00-3:00 pm EST
SAFER: State Alliance for Federal Reform of Chemicals Policy
Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
Sarah Doll, SAFER national coordinator
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 from 2:00-3:00 pm EST
Environmental Health Risks in Community Based Residential Settings
Allison Del Bene Davis, PhD, RN
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and the Developing Fetus: Links to Developmental Disabilities
Ann Streissguth, PhD
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Lessons about Toxic Chemical Exposures from Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Carolyn Graff, PhD, RN
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Reducing Neurotoxicity Exposure: The Dioxin Story
Robert Lawrence, MD
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Lead Exposure and Schizophrenia: Possible Connections?
Mark Opler, PhD, MPH
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Environmental Health for Nurses
Barbara Sattler RN, DrPH, FAAN
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Nicotine, Tobacco and Brain Damage, From the Fetus to the Adolescent:
Finding the Smoking Gun
Theodore A. Slotkin, Ph.D.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Mercury Exposure and Mental Retardation
Dr. Leo Trasande, MD, MPP
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
"Self-Advocates Take Action on Environmental Health"
Bill DuSold, Chester Finn, and Joe Meadours
Friday, June 9, 2006 @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
"Low-Level Lead Toxicity: The Ongoing Search for a Threshold"
Dr. Bruce Lanphear
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
"Interpreting Trace Element Analyses: Clinical Investigations of Neurotoxicity"
Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
"How Exposure to Common Pesticides Can Damage the Developing Brain: Lessons Learned from Chlorpyrifos and the Organophosphates"
Theodore A. Slotkin, Ph.D.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
"Similarities and Differences between Thimerosal Mercury and Methylmercury"
Thomas Burbacher, Ph.D.
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
Materials coming December 5, 2005.
"Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: What Do We Know About the Effects of this Common Exposure for Children?"
Kimberly Yolton, Ph.D.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
"Environmental contaminants and IQ: What is Dangerous to the Developing and Mature Brain, and How Do They Act?"
David O. Carpenter, MD
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
"A Vulnerable Population: Toxic Exposures and the DD Community"
Allison Del Bene Davis, MS, RN, The Arc of Anne Arundel County
July 13, 2005 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT
"Preventing Harm at School"
Claire Barnett, MBA, Executive Director of the Healthy Schools Network
June 15, 2005 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT
"What's the Connection? Chemical Exposures and Developmental Disabilities"
David Wallinga, MD
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT
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