Children's
Environmental
Health
Seminar

The 2nd Annual Children's Environmental Health Seminar was held on October 11th, 2007

The Ethel Austin Martin Program in Human Nutrition at SDSU presented this free and open event to the public on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm in SDSU's Student Union in Brookings, SD.  

Speakers at the 2007 CEH Seminar included:

Bonny Specker, PhD

Dr. Bonny Specker is currently the Director and Chair of the Ethel Austin Martin Program in Human Nutrition at South Dakota State University.  Her research interests include the role of calcium in modifying bone response to physical activity in children and factors affecting longitudinal changes in bone mass and body composition throughout life.

Kimberly Yolton, PhD

Dr. Yolton is a developmental psychologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center whose research interest is in the area of toxicant exposures and effects on development and behavior in infancy and childhood. She is particularly interested in neurobehavior in the newborn period through early childhood.

Bruce P. Lanphear, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Lanphear is the Sloan Professor of Children's Environmental Health and Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Lanphear is currently principal investigator for a study examining fetal and early childhood exposures to prevalent environmental neurotoxins including lead, pesticides, mercury, alcohol, PCB's and environmental tobacco smoke.

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH
Dr. Kahn is an Associate Professor in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. His work has focused on the intersection of poverty, women's health and child health.

1st Annual Children's Environmental Health Seminar
July 12, 2006

SPEAKERS

University of Cincinnati (UC):
Kim Dietrich, PhD   Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Grace LeMasters, PhD   Professor of Epidemiology

Cincinnati Children's Hospital & Medical Center (CCHMC):
Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH   Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Environmental Health Center
Robert Kahn, MD, MPH   Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Heidi Kalkwarf, PhD, RD   Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Kimberly Yolton, PhD   Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

South Dakota State University (SDSU):
Mike Wimberly, PhD   GIS Center of Excellence (2nd day of informal lectures)
Ann Wilson, PhD   Human Development
Delvin DeBoer, PhD   Professor of Engineering (2nd day of informal lectures)
Don Evenson, PhD   Professor, Biology & Mircobiology (2nd day of informal lectures)

Other:
Myron Falken, PhD, MPH   Epidemiologist, MN Department of Health
Brad Berven,  Director of the Office of Agronomy Services- Pierre, SD
Kristin Biskeborn, MPH, RD, LN   State Nutritionist, SD Department of Health
Alicia Aalto,  EPA, Region 8 Children's Environmental Health Coordinator
Mark Mayer,  Administrator, Drinking Water Program, DENR- Pierre, SD 

In November of 2005, South Dakota State University (SDSU) was named to lead the National Children’s Study (NCSNCS, which will examine the long-term effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the USNCS will form the basis of future child health guidance, interventions and policy. (105 sites) following them from before birth until age 21. Environment is broadly defined to include: natural and man-made environments, biological, chemical, physical and social factors, behavior, genetics, culture, family and geographic location. The ) site located in Brookings Co., SD, and 3 counties in MN: Yellow Medicine, Pipestone and Lincoln (i.e., BYPL site). The Children's Health Act of 2000 authorized the