How do exposures in the womb and during early childhood put children at risk for disease later in life? 

Join Mount Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) for a half-day workshop that examines the environmental causes of some of the most common diseases – ADHD, autism, breast cancer, obesity, and infertility.  Discover how some of the ingredients in everyday cosmetics – like phthalates – are contributing to rising rates of these conditions.  Learn how to keep your family healthier by preventing these toxic exposures.

Monday, December 5, 2011
New York Academy of Medicine (1216 Fifth Avenue, New York City)
9:30am – 12:00pm
To register please contact katherine.southwick@mssm.edu or register online at http://conta.cc/snMDfe

An introduction to children’s environmental health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine Professor of Pediatrics, Dean for Global Health Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Endocrine Disruption 101: Alteration to the male reproductive system by prenatal phthalate exposure – an example of endocrine disruption
Shanna H. Swan, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Endocrine disruption and the developing brain
Amir Miodovnik, MD, MPH
Instructor, Department of Preventive Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Endocrine disruption and childhood obesity
Michele La Merrill, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Children’s Environmental Health
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Endocrine disruption and breast cancer
Maida P. Galvez, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Where do we go from here?
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine Professor of Pediatrics, Dean for Global Health Mount Sinai School of Medicine