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September 16, 2006

Fourth Biennial Scientific Symposium on Children’s Health as
Impacted by Environmental Contaminants
McKinney Roughs Nature Center
Cedar Creek, Texas

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2006 Symposium Agenda
Primary Program Objectives

Keynote Address

Dr. Alan Fleischman, Chair
National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee (NCSAC)

The National Children’s Study

Learn how the National Children’s Study, the largest long-term study of human health ever conducted in the United States, will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21. Study researchers hope to better understand how children’s genes and their environments interact to affect their health and development. In the study, "environment" not only includes factors like air, water, food and house dust, but also how children are cared for, the safety of their neighborhoods, and how often they see a doctor. http://nationalchildrensstudy.gov/

Featured programs include:

Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Children’s Health and Well Being

Learn why establishing protocols for defining preparedness should be a part of your emergency planning. This program will focus on identifying and providing for the needs of communities and families with an emphasis on the need for strategic guidelines for children: where they live, learn, worship and play.

Children’s Health as Impacted by the Built Environment

Learn about healthy building design, construction and maintenance. The development of standards for materials and the adoption of policies for operating practices can reduce health risks to children by decreasing their exposure to unnecessary environmental contaminants.

Audience

Physicians and other health professionals; architects, engineers and others in the building industry; faith communities; educators, childcare administrators and child advocates.

Location

McKinney Roughs Nature Park is located just 13 miles east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and is seated in 1,100 acres on the Colorado River. It includes rolling box canyons, wildflower meadows, lazy river bends and a diverse biological population. For more information visit: http://www.lcra.org/parks/developed_parks/mckinney_roughs.html

Keynote Address

Dr. Alan Fleischman, Chair
National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee (NCSAC)

Fourth Biennial Scientific Symposium on Children’s Health as Impacted by Environmental Contaminants

Alan R. Fleischman, M.D. is Senior Advisor to The New York Academy of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Born in New York City, Dr. Fleischman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the City College of New York and Alpha Omega Alpha from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He continued his education in Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed a fellowship in perinatal physiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland through a Royal Society of Medicine Foundation scholarship at Oxford University in England.

He joined the faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Center in 1975, where he became Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and served as Director of the Division of Neonatology until 1994. From 1994 to June of 2004, he served as Senior Vice President of the New York Academy of Medicine, responsible for initiatives in urban health, education, public policy, ethics and public health. In addition, Dr. Fleischman is a Fellow of the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York.

In the academic area, he has written extensively in the field of neonatal and fetal physiology with a research emphasis on nutrition. He has also written, taught and lectured about many aspects of the developing field of bioethics, emphasizing the rights of individual patients and the responsibilities of health care professionals. His most noteworthy contributions are in the field of infant and fetal ethics and the translation of ethical principles into medical practice. This work has resulted in over one hundred publications, including his book, edited with Robert Cassidy, entitled Pediatric Ethics — From Principles to Practice and published by Harwood Press.

Dr. Fleischman is currently a member of the New York State Governor's Task Force on Life and the Law, the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children’s Study, a longitudinal study of environmental effects on child health and development for the National Institutes of Health, and a consultant to the March of Dimes, where he is co-chair of the National Bioethics Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association, the American Public Health Association, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association.