Building Awareness: Environmental Impacts on Health in NL
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Topics and Speakers
| Registration |
| Contextualizing Environmental Medicine at a Local and Global Scale Presenter: Dr. Atanu Sarkar |
| A Tale of Two Towns/Arsenic in Rural Well Water: A Community Engagement Approach Presenter: Dr. Daniel Hewitt MD |
| Nutrition Break |
| Impacts of Environmental Carcinogens Presenter: Dr. Jinka Sathya MD, FRCR (U.K), FRCP(C) |
| Lunch |
| Student-led Initiatives in Environmental Medicine Presenter: Ms. Rebecca Quilty |
| Private Well Water Quality in Newfoundland and Labrador: An Approach to Risk and Monitoring Presenter: Dr. Kalen Thomson MD, MSc, BMus |
| Persistent Organic Pollutants and Environmental Health Presenter: Ms. Nicole Babichuk |
| Seasonal variation of tuberculosis transmission in Canadian First Nations on-reserve Presenter: Mrs. Victoria Ridgley Januszkiewicz Bsc, MSc (cand.) |
| Pesticides and Environmental Medicine Presenter: Dr. Meg Sears |
| Panel Discussion |
| Conference Adjourns |
Accreditation Review
Dr. Pamela SnowThe Office of Professional and Educational Development (OPED), Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME), a subcommittee of the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS). This standard allows OPED to assign credits for educational activities based on the criteria established by The College of Family Physicians of Canada, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.