Please join a special discussion with Mount Sinai scientists as they share new insights into how the environment is impacting your health, the health of your children, and future generations. Every disease has an environmental component, even the progression of genetic disorders is impacted by the environment. Learn about revolutionary scientific advances in diseases across the lifespan, from autism and childhood and adult cancers to cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and ALS. Our scientists will share the staggering innovations being developed to identify, measure, understand, and address the environment’s impact on your health and the potential that this science will have on our lives. As the global leaders with unmatched technological expertise, knowledge, and capabilities, tour team is poised to transform our approach to health and disease and empower both individuals and the medical community to make informed decisions for a lifetime of health and wellness.
This is sponsored by the Institute for Exposomic Research and its Children’s Environmental Health Center. The Institute serves as the Icahn School of Medicine’s hub for environmental health research and innovation. Founded in 2017, the Institute builds on 60 years of environmental health research at Mount Sinai, where we are committed to creating a world where we prevent disease with environmental origins and improve health outcomes for all, from the earliest stages of child development to later stages of adulthood.