Mount Sinai Health System

Environment and Health Lunchtime Chats

Learn more and register today for Spring 2022 Lunchtime Chats https://sinaiexposomics.org/events/webinars/

March 9, 2022 – Robert Wright, MD, MPH
Understanding the role of exposomics for clinical care

March 16, 2022  - Scott Sicherer, MD
Preventing food allergy: It’s more than what is on your fork

March 23, 2022 Manish Arora, PhD
Detecting autism at birth and opportunity for early intervention

March 30, 2022 -  Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD
How daytime light improves your nighttime sleep and leads to better health

April 6, 2022 – Chris Gennings, PhD
How your foods can be protective and improve your health

April 13, 2022 – Doug Walker, PhD
Microplastics: Taking an exposome approach to measure emerging exposures of concern

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Previous webinars 

Weds, March 17 at 1pm EST
Toxic Soup: Using Science to Guide Better Choices at Home and Beyond
Sarah Evans, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

 

 Weds, March 24th 1pm EST 

Understanding the Working Conditions and Exposures to Cleaning Chemicals and Disinfectants in Latinx Domestic Cleaners in NYC 
Homero Harari, ScD,  Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  

 

Weds, April 7th 1pm EST 

Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race 
Shanna Swan, PhD, Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  

 

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Weds, April 14th  1pm EST 

Translating Children’s Environmental Health Research into Program and Policy Change: Working Together Towards Environmental Health in All Policies 
Maida Galvez, MD, MPH, Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  

 

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Weds, April 21st 1pm EST 
Children's Asthma and Reducing Environmental Triggers: Pediatric Perspectives 

Lauren Zajac, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   
Erin Thanik, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   

 

Weds, May 5th 1pm EST 
Air Pollution and Climate Change: the Next Societal Public Health Challenge 
Perry Sheffield, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   

Allan Just, PhD, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health,  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   

 

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Weds,May 12 1pm EST 
Autism, ALS, and other Complex Neurological Disorders: Understanding Life-long Environmental Exposures and Risks for Disease 
Manish Arora, BDS, MPH, PhD, FICD, Edith J. Baerwald Professor and Vice Chair, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

 

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Weds, May 26 1pm EST 
From the Air We Breathe to the Food We Eat: Uncovering the Potential of the Exposome to Understand Health

Robert Wright, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research and Ethel H. Wise Chair and Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

 

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Weds, June 2  1pm EST 
What Newborn Screening Dried Blood Spots Can Tell Us about Early Life Environmental Exposures that May Contribute to Disease
Lauren Petrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  

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Weds, June 9  1pm EST 

Stress and Childhood Asthma: How to Protect Children
Rosalind Wright, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences, and the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor in Life Course Health Research in the Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine and Public Health

 

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Virtual Event