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NIEHS and EPA Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research: Strengthening the Network

National Institutes of Health
Natcher Conference Center
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda MD 20892

March 6 - 7, 2012

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

7:30 – 8:30 Registration, Packet Pick-up, Poster Set-up
8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Introductions Main Auditorium
Kimberly Gray, NIEHS Peter Grevatt, EPA
Linda Birnbaum, NIEHS
9:00 – 10:35
Session 1: Plenary Session
9:00-9:05Introduction
Gwen Collman, NIEHS
9:05-9:35Couple Based Approach for Assessing Persistent Environmental Pollutants and Human Reproduction and Development - Recent Findings from the LIFE Study
Germaine Buck Louis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9:35-10:05Environmental Epigenetics – Results and Opportunities for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
Andrea Baccarelli, Harvard School of Public Health
10:05-10:35Personalized Asthma Management: Addressing Environmental Impact
Stanley Szefler, National Jewish Health
10:35 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 12:15
SESSION 2: New Emerging Tools and Technologies in Exposure Science
Chair: Karen Peterson, University of Michigan
10:50-11:10Transcriptomics Whole Genome Sequencing, Lessons Learned for the NCS
Elaine Faustman, University of Washington
11:10-11:30Uncovering Early Life Metal Exposures Using Elemental Bio-Imaging of Teeth
Manish Arora, Harvard University
11:30-11:50 Update: Systematic Review Incorporating Data Mining with Graphical Tools for Researchers
Abee Boyles, NIEHS, NTP, Office of Health Assessment and Translation
11:50-12:15Questions and Answers
12:15 – 1:30 Poster Viewing and Box Lunches
1:30 – 3:15
SESSION 3: Late Breaking Science Main Auditorium
Chair: Cindy Lawler, NIEHS
1:30-1:50Pesticides and Child Health: Lessons from the Fields
Brenda Eskenazi, University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; Mt. Sinai
1:50-2:10Rice and Rice Products as Potential Dietary Sources of Arsenic in Pregnant Women and Kids
Margaret Karagas, Dartmouth College
2:10-2:30Maternal Vitamin Intake and Autism
Rebecca Schmidt, University of California, Davis
2:30-2:50Early Exposure to Bisphenol A and Lead: Effects on Metabolic Homeostasis and the Epigenome
Dana Dolinoy, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2:50-3:15Questions and Answers
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:30
SESSION 4: Communication Outreach and Translation Efforts to Protect Children from Environmental Threats
Chair: Claudia Thompson, NIEHS
3:30-3:50Columbia COTC/A Partnership between CCCEH and WE ACT for Community Outreach and Engagement
David Evans, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Peggy Shepard, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Brennan Rhodes, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
3:50-4:10UC Berkley (CERCH) COTC/Community Outreach and Engagement Addressing Environmental Health in a Multi-Faceted Agricultural Community
Daniel Madrigal, University of California, Berkeley (CHAMACOS)
4:10-4:30Duke COTC/Community Assessment: Understanding the Built Environment within a Neighborhood Health Context
Pamela Maxson, Duke University
4:30 – 5:30 SESSION 5: Children’s Advocacy Panel - Best Approach for Translation of Children’s Environmental Health Science
Chair: Nsedu Witherspoon, Children’s Environmental Health Network
5 minutes from each panel member and questions from audience
Nsedu Witherspoon, Children’s Environmental Health Network
Amy Garcia, American Nurses Association
Cynthia Pellegrini, March of Dimes Foundation
Sarah Janssen, Natural Resources Defense Council
Anthony DeLucia, American Lung Association
Karen Joy Miller, Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition, Inc.
5:30 - 6:30 SESSION 6: Poster Session and Networking
7:00 Group Dinner

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - Grantee Working Session

8:30 – 10:00
SESSION 7: Communication & Translation Efforts at NIEHS and EPA Balcony B (Main Level)
8:30-9:10Making the Most of Your Media and Public Outreach Efforts
Ed Kang, NIEHS, Office of Communications & Public Liaison
Kelly Widener, EPA
9:10-9:25 with the Congress: For Better, For Worse, For…
Mary Gant, NIEHS Congressional Liaison
9:25-9:45 Program Analysis Branch: What is Our Role in Communicating Research Results?
Christie Drew, NIEHS, Program Analyses Branch
9:45-10:00Questions and Answers
10:00-11:30 SESSION 8: Breakout Sessions

Sharing Environmental Health Data Room A (Lower Level)
Kimberly McAllister, NIEHS Symma Finn, NIEHS

GWAS and Neurodevelopment Room C1/C2 (Lower Level)
Robert Wright, Harvard University
Cindy Lawler, NIEHS

Challenges of QA/QC in the Analyses of Epigenetic Markers in Human Studies Balcony B (Main Level)
Nina Holland, University of California, Berkeley
Kim Boekelheide, Brown University
Jaclyn Goodrich, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Richard Callan, EPA

Children’s Environmental Research in Day Care and School Settings Room B (Lower Level)
Asa Bradman, University of California, Berkeley
Pat Ryan, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Nica Louie, EPA

11:30 Meeting Adjourn
1:00 Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Meeting

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