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Upcoming Meetings

Northwest Science Conference Call Seminar -- Human Fertility and the Environment: Looking at Links in Both Women and Men

Tuesday July 15, 2008
1:00 p.m. Pacific time, noon Alaska time

Please join other CHE-Washington and CHE-Alaska members in a fascinating discussion of the recent science on human fertility and the environment guided by leading researchers Linda Giudice, PhD, and Shanna Swan, PhD, of the University of Rochester. Dr. Swan's presentation will be "Environmental Links to Fertility: Male-mediated Factors" and Dr. Giudice's presentation will be "Environmental Contaminants and Female Reproductive Health." We will allow time for questions and discussion.

Health care professionals, researchers, tribal representatives, health and environmental advocates, government agency staff, students, health-affected persons and other concerned citizens are cordially invited to participate in this teleconference seminar.

To join this free call and receive the dial-up instructions, please RSVP to Aimee Boulanger at the Institute for Children's Environmental Health, 360-331-7904 or aboulanger@iceh.org.

Materials for this call

Presenters

Shanna Swan is professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. From 1981 to 1998, she served as chief of the Reproductive Epidemiology Section at the California Department of Health Services. Dr. Swan 's research focuses on understanding the effects of environmental agents (including organic solvents, water disinfection byproducts, pesticides, plasticizers and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals) on time to pregnancy and infertility, adverse pregnancy outcomes (spontaneous abortion, low birth weight, growth retardation), semen quality, steroids and gonadotropins, gender-related physical and behavior development and epidemiological methods for these. Since 1998, Dr. Swan has been principal investigator of the Study for Future Families, a multicenter pregnancy cohort study examining environmental causes of geographic variation in reproductive health endpoints in men, women and children. Dr. Swan was chair of the 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors.

Linda Giudice is professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, where she holds the Robert B. Jaffe, MD, Endowed Chair in the Reproductive Sciences. She received her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MD from Stanford University after postdoctoral training at Rockefeller and the NIH. Dr. Giudice completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis and was a fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Stanford. In 1987 she joined the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine and in 2005 was named the Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor Emerita. While at Stanford, Dr. Giudice served as founding director for the Center for Research on Reproduction, Women's Health and Genomic Medicine and was the director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Division from 1994 to 2005. She is on the Executive Board of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program as well as on the Frontiers in Reproduction Board of Scientific Counselors. She was recently elected presidential nominee (president in 2006) for the Society of Gynecologic Investigation. She is a co-editor of the textbook, The Endometrium. Dr. Giudice also is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Women's Health Research.

Online Calendar of Events

CHE-Washington maintains a comprehensive environmental health calendar of event of interest to residents of Washington state. Please use the link here or click the "Calendar" button in the navigation bar above to view events in the calendar.

www.chenw.org/cgi-bin/searchevents.cgi

Materials from Past Meetings

Meeting

File Size

March 2008 presentation: The National Children's Study is Coming to King County by Dr. Elaine Faustman

590 KB

December 2007 meeting notes

31 KB

December 2007 presentation: Climate Change and Health: Rising to the challenge in Washington by Catherine Karr, MD, PhD

1.4 MB

December 2007 handout: Local Solutions to Global Warming from Mo McBroom

88 KB

December 2007 handout: Washington Climate Action from Mo McBroom

53 KB

December 2007 handout: Local Farms Healthy Kids from Mo McBroom

141 KB

December 2007 handout: Evergreen Cities from Mo McBroom

102 KB

May 2007 notes

71 KB

May 2007 presentation: Community Air Monitoring for Chlorpyrifos in the Northern Yakima Valley, 2006 by Carol Dansereau

7.7 MB

January 2007 notes

50 KB

January 2007 presentation: The Pacific Northwest and Climate Change by Ann Marie Kimball MD, MPH

1.75 MB

January 2007 presentation: Facing the Climate Change Challenge by Richard H. Gammon

4.3 MB

October 2006 notes

57 KB

October 2006 presentation: Farm to Cafeteria Projects in WA by Tim Crosby

660 KB

October 2006 presentation: Linking Agriculture to Health by Erin MacDougall

719 KB

July 2006 notes

67 KB

May 2006 notes

60 KB

January 2006 notes

62 KB

October 2005 notes

43 KB

October 2005 slides

1378 KB

October 2005 research handout

9 KB

October 2005 handout of related articles

21 KB

May 2005 notes

37 KB

May 2005 slides

940 KB

February 2005

44 KB

December 2004

32 KB

September 2004

24 KB

June 2004

24 KB

March 2004

24 KB

January 2004

16 KB

September 2003

20 KB

July 2003

20 KB

April 2003

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March 2003

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