Podcast: Pediatric Environmental Health Radio
In this podcast, PHI’s Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) National Program Office highlights stories from leading experts in pediatric environmental health across the country.
From the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) National Program Office, led by the Public Health Institute (PHI), Pediatric Environmental Health Radio highlights stories from leading experts in pediatric environmental health across the U.S. Each episode highlights a topic in children’s environmental health and brings together two experts from the PEHSU network.
The PEHSU National Program Office supports a network of ten regional PEHSUs across the nation, whose vision is to create healthy environments for all children. Get to know the PEHSU experts and see how their work is improving health in communities across the country:
Ep 2: Childhood Cancer, the Environment and the Role of Community Health Workers with Mark Miller, MD, MPH, and Erica Guerrero MS, MPAS, PA-C
Host Whitney Sterten-Hall speaks to Mark Miller MD, MPH, an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Director Emeritus of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WSPEHSU), and Erica Guerrero, MS, MPAS, PA-C, a PA (Physician Assistant) in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center El Paso about environmental factors that contribute to childhood cancer, and how community health workers can educate local populations about cancer and environmental risks.
Speakers:
Mark Miller MD, MPH is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is also the Director Emeritus of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WSPEHSU) at UCSF lead for the National PEHSU Childhood Cancer and the Environment Program. He was the director of the Community Outreach and Translation Core of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment at UC Berkeley (CIRCLE). He received his medical degree and completed a Pediatric residency at Michigan State University. He received his Masters in Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley and completed a residency with the California Department of Health Services in Preventive Medicine.
Erica Guerrero, MS, MPAS, PA-C, is a PA (Physician Assistant) in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center El Paso. Erica began working with the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health (SWCPEH) in 2018 as a principal collaborator. The opportunity to work with SWCPEH has sparked a deeper interest in issues related to pediatric environmental health. Additionally, she is passionate about environmental health and health issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ep 1: Lead Exposure in Children with Marissa Hauptman MD, MPH, FAAP & Nick Newman, DO, MS, FAAP
Host Whitney Sterten-Hall speaks to Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAA, co-director of Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU), and Nick Newman, DO, MS, FAAP the satellite director for the PEHSU Network, based out of Region 5, about lead exposure in children. Speakers discuss their work with lead testing and indicators for children, how COVID impacted their work with testing children for lead exposure, and how clinicians can help families minimize lead risks in their home. “Lead exposure is a major cause of preventable learning disabilities and doing a blood test is the best way to find out if a child was seriously exposed,” said Nick Newman, DO, MS, FAAP.
Speakers:
Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAAP is the Co-Director of Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU); Co-Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center; a Pediatrician for Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Nick Newman, DO, MS, FAAP is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health and Lead Clinic at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental & Public Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Satellite Director for the PEHSU Network, based out of Region 5.
Originally published by Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units
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