[Pharmwaste] SUMMIT ON ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND FERTILITY

[Jackson, Jennifer]

Announcement:

 The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine,
 Department  of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and the
 Collaborative  on Health and the Environment announce the:

 UCSF - CHE SUMMIT ON ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
AND
 FERTILITY
 January 28-30, 2007
 UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA
 20.5 AMA PRA Category CME *
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 Summit ALERT!  Early registration period (for lowest rates) has been
 extended through January 9th.

 Summit ALERT!  For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses
 credentialing center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM issued by
 organizations accredited by the ACCME.

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 Find program, registration and more info @
 www.ucsf.edu/coe/prhesummit.html

 ~ DISCOVER WHY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE IS CRITICALLY RELEVANT TO
 REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTH.

 ~ JOIN MULTIDISCIPLINARY STAKEHOLDERS IN A PIONEERING, NATIONAL
 CONFERENCE TO EXPLORE AND SET NEW DIRECTIONS.

 Preeminent researchers will present overviews of the science on
 environmental contaminant impacts on male and female reproductive
health
 and fertility/pregnancy, including focus on:
 ~ Periconceptional/fetal origins of adult and pubertal disorders; and
 developmental health
 ~ Adult exposures of concern
 ~ Contaminants of concern
 ~ Gene-environment interactions
 ~ Critical research directions

 Multidisciplinary topics include:
 ~ Translation of research data to the clinic, wider public health and
 policy, and disease prevention
 ~ Patient advocate and community health concerns
 ~ Integration with health professional education
 ~ Federal environmental reproductive health priorities

 This summit is designed for clinical researchers and clinicians/health
 professionals (in practice or in training); scientists; allied and
 public  health professionals; policy makers, government; leaders from
patient advocacy, women's health, community and worker health,
environment,
 reproductive advocacy, and environmental justice;  and
environment/health
 funders.

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 This is not a typical data presentation conference, but rather an
 Unusual "hybrid," trans-discipline effort to raise awareness and
promote
 collaboration as we convey broad overviews and perspectives on science
 linking environmental contaminants with male and female reproductive
 health and fertility compromise.

 We've planned plenty of time for interaction and discussion. Plenary
 "town hall" discussions, concurrent sessions, and break-out groups will
focus on: translation of research to clinical care and wider public
 health/policy; environmental health in health professional education;
 critical research directions and cross-discipline collaboration to
 advance environmental reproductive health understanding; the nexus
between
 reproductive health advocacy/justice and environmental and worker
 health/justice; and next steps for various stakeholders.

 We expect participation from a wide range of environmental reproductive
 health stakeholders, including clinicians/health professionals;
 physician-scientists; allied and public health professionals; basic and
 environmental health scientists; community and worker/labor groups;
 infertility, women's health and reproductive health support
 organizations; and health and environment policy makers and funders. We
hope to encourage all of these stakeholders to become better informed
and to work in concert to promote enhanced environmental reproductive
health research agendas and education.

 Co-Chairs: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc, Professor and Chair,
 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Founding
Director, Program in Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF, and
Philip R. Lee, MD, Founding Chairman, Collaborative on Health and the
Environment; Chancellor and Professor (Social Medicine) Emeritus, UCSF;
Former US Assistant Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare.

 www.ucsf.edu/coe/prhesummit.html

 Summit Funding Partners: Adeza Biomedical, Center for Environmental
 Health, Collaborative on Health and the Environment, The Compton
 Foundation, Fred Gellert Family Foundation, National Institute of
 Environmental Health Sciences, New York Community Trust.  Some Summit
 faculty travel support has been provided by US EPA Reproductive
 Toxicology Division.
 This Summit grew out of and expands upon a February 2005 workshop at
the
 Vallombrosa Center: "Understanding Environmental Contaminants and Human
 Fertility Compromise: Science and Strategy." Find proceedings at
 www.healthandenvironment.org/working_groups/fertility. They include a
 scientific consensus statement on contaminants and infertility, and a
 companion lay monograph titled Challenged Conceptions. Links to
articles
 summarizing the scientific presentations at Vallombrosa, in a special
 June 2006 issue of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, are also provided
at
 The url above.

 * The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine is
 accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education
 to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University
 of California designates this educational activity for a maximum of
20.5
 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit
 commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For
 the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses credentialing
center
 accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits issued by organizations accredited
by
 the ACCME.