Making the Connection III: Toxics and Tomorrows? Children coference to be held March 14, 2008, 8:30am-4:00pm Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine, Portland Maine Young children and developing babies in the womb are uniquely vulnerable to toxic chemicals which also threaten wildlife development. Our federal safety system for industrial chemicals is badly broken requiring state leadership in chemical policy reform. Emerging science links chronic disease trends to preventable chemical exposures. The concerns around chemicals in children’s products have flooded the news and are moving citizens and groups to unite across the county to ignite change. This conference will bring together health and scientific experts, policy perspectives and on the ground activists to address the most pressing issues surrounding toxics and children’s health.
Keynote speaker Dr. Phil Landrigan, MD, MSc., Director of the Center for Children’s Health. In 1997 and 1998, Dr. Landrigan served as Senior Advisor on Children’s Health to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was responsible at EPA for helping to establish a new Office of Children’s Health Protection.
We are offering CMES and 5.5 (CECH)?s Continuing Education Contact Hours in Health Education.
We have confirmed our Closing Panel “Where do we go from here?” which includes: Moderator: Lani Graham, MD, MPH and PSR Maine Board of Directors; Ruth Hennig, Executive Director, The John Merck Fund; Kristen Welker-Hood, RN, Dsc, Environment and Health Program Director, PSR National; Sydney R. Sewall, MD, MPH, Maine Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics; Jacqueline Brown, MD, MPH, Obstetrician and Gynecologist and MDiv candidate at Perkins School of Theology
$45.00 per person/$75.00 per person for CME?s/Student Fee $20.00
REGISTER TODAY at www.psrmaine.org
A project of the Learning Disabilities Association of Maine, Environmental Health Strategy Center, American Lung Association of Maine, Maine Council of Churches, Toxics Action Center, University of Southern Maine Department of Environmental Science, Maine Public Health Association and Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine/
Melissa A. Boyd
Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine
P.O. Box 1771
Portland, ME 04104
Ph. 207-772-6714 FX. 207-699-5880
www.psrmaine.org
