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June 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: June 12, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Maternal and Fetal Exposures to BPA During Mid-Gestation
Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center: Formative Center - University of California, San Francisco

Tracey Woodruff
Tracey Woodruff

What will you learn:

  1. What is the BPA exposure among pregnant women in a low income populations?
  2. What are the sources and predictors of exposure to BPA?
  3. What are fetal exposures to BPA and its metabolites?

Bisphenol A and Children’s Health: Results from the CHAMACOS Study
Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH) - UC Berkeley

Kim Harley
Kim Harley

What will you learn:

  1. The sources and levels of BPA exposure to pregnant mothers and children
  2. The impact of early life BPA exposure on thyroid hormone, neurodevelopment and behavior, and obesity
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

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Additional info: Webinar Overview
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July 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: July 10, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Epigenitics, Endocrine Distruptos and Early Development
Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A & Phthalates on Child Development - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Susan Schantz
Susan Schantz

Placental Epigenetic Biomarkers of Exposure and Health
Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center - Dartmouth College

Carmen Marsit
Carmen Marsit

What will you learn:

  1. Why is the placenta an ideal functional organ to examine in children’s health research?
  2. Why are epigenetic biomarkers useful in linking exposure and children’s health?
  3. How could epigenetic alterations in the placenta lead to neurodevelopment outcomes in children?
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

Registration: Register Now Exit EPA Click for Disclaimer
Additional info: Webinar Overview
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August 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: August 14, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Autism
Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCEH) - UC Davis

Isaac Pessah
Isaac Pessah

Nutrition and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Importance and Potential Mechanisms
Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCEH) - UC Davis

Rebecca Schmidt
Rebecca Schmidt

What will you learn:

  1. Describe evidence for a role of nutrition in autism spectrum disorders
  2. Describe research findings to date on nutrition and autism, including interactions between genes and toxicant environmental exposures
  3. Understand potential mechanisms involved in the link between nutrition and autism
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

Registration: Register Now Exit EPA Click for Disclaimer
Additional info: Webinar Overview
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September 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: September 11, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Asthma
Denver Children’s Environmental Health Center - Environmental Determinants of Airway Disease in Children - National Jewish Health

Andrew Liu
Andrew Liu

Asthma
University of Southern California

Rob McConnell
Rob McConnell

Asthma
Denver Children’s Environmental Health Center - Environmental Determinants of Airway Disease in Children - National Jewish Health

David Schwartz
David Schwartz
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

Registration: Register Now Exit EPA Click for Disclaimer
Additional info: Webinar Overview
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October 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: October 9, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Parental Smoking Before and After Birth and Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia
Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE) - UC Berkeley

Catherine Metayer
Catherine Metayer

What will you learn:

  1. Exposure to tobacco-specific chemicals affects both somatic cells (child) or germ cells (parents) during critical periods of a child’s development (preconception, pregnancy, after birth).
  2. Exposure to tobacco smoke increase the risk of specific childhood leukemia subtypes.
  3. The Childhood Leukemia International Consortium combines data from over 20 studies worldwide to investigate critical windows of exposure to environmental factors, such as tobacco smoke.

Human Fetal Lung Xenograft as Model of Antenatal Arsenic Exposure
Formative Center for the Evaluation of Environmental Impacts on Fetal Development - Brown University

Monique DePaepe
Monique DePaepe

What will you learn:

  1. Strengths of pulmonary xenograft as model of fetal lung growth
  2. Limitation of pulmonary xenograft as model of fetal lung growth
  3. Preliminary insights into effect of environmentally relevant arsenic exposure on human fetal lung remodeling
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

Registration: Register Now Exit EPA Click for Disclaimer
Additional info: Webinar Overview
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Title: EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers Annual Progress Review Conference (SHC)
Date: October 29-30
Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Purpose:

During Children's Health Month, researchers, clinicians, scientists and representatives of professional organizations and other participants will convene to explore the interplay between research, clinical applications, and policy implications in children's environmental health.

EPA's Office of Research and Development, Office of Children's Health Protection, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences are sponsoring this conference to celebrate the work of the EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers program, the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) and to discuss recent developments in children's environmental health.

The meeting will feature interdisciplinary presentations and discussions that explore connections between research findings, clinical and community practice, how to protect children from harmful environmental exposures, discuss approaches for sharing research findings and technical information with the scientific community, parents and the public.

Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

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November 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: November 13, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Exposure to Pesticides and Children's Health
Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research - University of Washington

Elaine Faustman
Elaine Faustman
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

Registration: Register Now Exit EPA Click for Disclaimer
Additional info: Webinar Overview
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December 2013

Title: EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2013 Webinar Series
Date: December 11, 2013
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Webinar
Purpose: Join us for the monthly webinar series presenting the latest research findings in children’s environmental health from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers. The mission of the Children’s Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect them from environmental threats and to promote children’s health and well-being in the communities where they learn, live and play.

Featured Speakers:

Environment and Obesity
Perinatal Exposures, Epigenetics, Child Obesity and Sexual Maturation - University of Michigan

Karen Peterson
Karen Peterson

Environment and Obesity
Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health - Columbia University

Andrew Rundle
Andrew Rundle
Contact:

Richard Callan (callan.richard@epa.gov); 703-347-8051
Nica Louie (louie.nica@epa.gov); 703-347-8125

Registration: Register Now Exit EPA Click for Disclaimer
Additional info: Webinar Overview
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