PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Winifred J. Hamilton, PhD, SM
Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Medicine
Director, Environmental Health Section
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Stuart L. Abramson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Pediatrics
and Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Allergy and Immunology Section
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Debra C. Cherry, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational
Health Sciences
The University of Texas Health
Science Center at Tyler
Medical Consultant
Southwest Center for Pediatric
Environmental Health
Tyler, TX

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Tamara C. Greiner, MA

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of the symposium, participants should be able to:
  • Identify the major environmental health hazards that pose a threat to children
  • Take an environmental health history
  • List resources available to help diagnose and treat environmentally-induced or exacerbated diseases in children
  • Refer children to appropriate environmental health centers, if needed
  • Arrange for exposure testing of a home, school or other facility if warranted
  • Explain the current state of knowledge with regard
    to environmental hazards and children
  • Explain the current research techniques used to study pediatric environmental health.

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast health care
    professionals including primary care physicians,
    nurses, social workers, and public health officials
  • Environmental health researchers, community
    environmental health advocates, and medical and
    nursing students

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

  • Lectures
  • Syllabus
  • Audiovisual Aids
  • Case Presentations
  • Question and Answer Sessions

EVALUATION
Evaluation by questionnaire will address program content, presentation, and possible bias.

ACCREDITATION/CREDIT DESIGNATION
Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Baylor College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.25 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

Nurses
8.4 Type I CNE contact hours available to nurses. Texas Children's Hospital is an approved provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This activity meets Type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.

Social workers
This program has been approved for .725 CEUs by the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston. Hours are also acceptable for LPCs.
 
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