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.
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