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National Public Health Week Event at City Club: Bruce P. Lanphear, MD, MPH on child health

By Norm Roulet
Created 03/19/2006 - 22:48
04/04/2006 - 12:00
04/04/2006 - 14:00
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:00 PM
Low-Level Lead Toxicity: The Ongoing Search for a Threshold
Bruce P. Lanphear, MD, MPH
Sloan Prof. of Children's Environmental Health & Dir., Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Ct

Reservation [1]
Lead poisoning is still one of the most serious public health concerns facing children in Cuyahoga County. Rates of childhood lead poisoning are well above 20% in many Cleveland neighborhoods and East Cleveland. Cleveland’s rate is in the top five nationally, with the current U.S. overall rate at under 2%.

Dr. Bruce Lanphear, The Sloan Professor of Children's Environmental Health and the Director of the Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, will review new data on the adverse health effects of childhood lead exposure, review the major sources of childhood lead exposure and discuss the regulations and tools necessary to shift our focus toward primary prevention.

Lanphear is the principal investigator for a NIH/EPA-funded Children's Environmental Health Center to study fetal and early childhood exposures to prevalent environmental neurotoxins, including lead, pesticides, and environmental tobacco smoke. He is also conducting a randomized controlled trial to test the safety and efficacy of housing repairs to reduce childhood lead exposure and residential injuries in 400 children followed from birth.

Lanphear serves on the Science and Research Work Group of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Children’s Environmental Health Protection, and is a scientific consultant for the National Center for Healthy Housing.

This special program is in collaboration with the Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council. The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.5 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Nurses and sanitarians can also claim CME credits for this educational activity.

http://www.cityclub.org/content/speakers/SpeakerDetail.aspx?spkID=5311

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Speakers > Bruce P. Lanphear, MD, MPH [2]


Location

The City Club
850 Euclid Avenue 2nd Floor
Cleveland, OH
United States
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[1] https://www.cityclub.org/Content/speakers/SpeakerRegister2.aspx?spkID=5311
[2] http://www.cityclub.org/content/speakers/SpeakerDetail.aspx?spkID=5311
[3] http://maps.google.com?q=850+Euclid+Avenue%2C+Cleveland%2C+OH%2C+%2C+us
[4] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/annual+meeting+external.pdf
[5] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/skating+flyer+3-14.jpg
[6] http://smtp.realneo.us/good-cause-for-Christians
[7] http://smtp.realneo.us/HARMFUL-AMOUNTS-OF-LEAD
[8] http://smtp.realneo.us/lead-and-ADHD