TUESDAY , December 9, 2008

The Mount Sinai Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and the
Children’s Environmental Health Center invite you to a lecture:

Plastics, chemicals & Early Puberty
Raising Healthy Children in a toxic world

Plastic baby bottles, food cans, shampoos, plastic toys, sports bottles, and
hand lotions may contain chemicals that act in ways similar to hormones
naturally found in our body. Our children are developing faster than ever.
Is there a connection?

Join us as leading experts in the field of environmental pediatrics discuss the
latest research on the health effects of plastics and personal care products and
announce news of the upcoming National Children’s Study.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
9:30 am Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 11:15 am Presentation,
followed by Q&A
Stern Auditorium
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Annenberg Building, 2nd Floor
1468 Madison Avenue at 100th Street

RSVP by Monday, December 2, 2008 to Meghan Bullock at (212) 824-7125
or cehc@mssm.edu.

Speakers

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, the Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman for
the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a
pediatrician and an international leader in public health and preventive medicine.
Dr. Landrigan’s pioneering research on the effects of lead poisoning in children led
the US government to mandate removal of lead from gasoline and paint, actions
that have produced a 90% decline in incidence of childhood lead poisoning over
the past 25 years. His leadership of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on
pesticides in children’s diets generated widespread understanding that children
are uniquely vulnerable to toxic chemicals in the environment. The findings of the
NAS Committee secured passage of the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996, this
nation’s major federal pesticide law and the first environmental statute to contain
specific protections for infants and children. Dr. Landrigan served as Senior Advisor
to the US Environmental Protection Agency where he was instrumental in helping
to establish the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection. Dr. Landrigan has been
a leader in developing the National Children’s Study, the largest study of children’s
health and the environment ever launched in the United States.

Maida P. Galvez, MD, MPH, an Assistant Professor in the Departments of
Community and Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, is the Director of Mount
Sinai’s Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) and a practicing
pediatrician. Dr. Galvez received her MD and MPH from Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, trained in the Social Pediatrics Residency Program at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, followed by a Pediatric Chief Residency at Jacobi Medical
Center and a fellowship in Environmental Pediatrics at Mount Sinai. Her areas of
interests include the urban built environment, endocrine disruptors, and childhood
growth and development. Dr. Galvez is Co-Principal Investigator and a designated
New Investigator of a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
and EPA funded research project entitled “Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem,” a
community based research project examining the environmental determinants of
childhood obesity. She is also Co-Investigator of an NIEHS/NCI (National Cancer
Institute) funded project assessing environmental determinants of puberty in girls.

About the Children’s Environmental Health Center
www.cehcenter.org
The Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) provides
support and guidance to the Department of Community and Preventive
Medicine of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Our mission is to protect children
against environmental threats to health. The CEHC supports initiatives in
promising research areas, sustains programs to educate the next generation of
medical students and pediatricians about preventable environmental hazards,
and supports efforts to communicate with families, policy makers, and the
American public the importance of protecting children from environmental
threats to health.

About the National Children’s Study
www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov
The National Children’s Study is a long-term research project, funded by the
National Institutes of Health, aimed at improving the health and well-being
of children. The study will follow 100,000 children across the United States
to examine the effects of environmental influences on children’s health and
development. Findings from the National Children’s Study will provide a
vast resource of information that will form the basis of child health guidance,
interventions, and policy for generations to come.
Mount Sinai leads a New York and New Jersey consortium that will launch the
study in Queens in January 2009. The National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development selected the Queens Vanguard Center as one of the first
two locations to lead the implementation of this important study.