Decade of the Developing Brain
Friday, February 24, 2017
9:30am - 12:00pm
Check-in and light breakfast: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 5th Avenue (at 103rd Street)
New York City, NY 10029
Event Program
Check-in and Light Breakfast....................................................................... 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Welcome...................................................................................................... 9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH
Ethel Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health
Director, Children's Environmental Health Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
A Population Perspective on the Neurodevelopment
Toxicity Associated with Environmental Chemicals.................................. 9: 40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
David Bellinger, PhD
Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston Children's Hospital
Environmental and Genetic Contribution to Autism Risk......................... 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Avi Reichenberg, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Break....................................................................................................... 10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
Toxic Stress and the Developing Brain: Risk and Resilience................... 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH
Deputy Director, Children's Environmental Health Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai
Reconstructing the Early Life Environment to understand
our Long-term Health Trajectories............................................................ 11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Manish Arora, BDS, MPH, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Question and Answer Panel..................................................................... 11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Moderators
Maida Galvez, MD, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Shevon Skinner, RN, MSN, MPH
LSA Family Health Services