Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ATSDR/CDC) and the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) are sponsoring these two webinars.   SAVE THE DATE!

Are you interested in learning more about health effects from fine particulate air pollution?  Perhaps you are a health professional short on free time and looking to earn some continuing education credits?  Two upcoming, FREE lunch hour webinars in February 2011 might help!

Each webinar will provide 1 hour of CME, CNE, CEU, and CPE credit (approval pending). You are welcome to attend either one or both of these events.

February 15, 2011, noon-1:00 pm, Particulate Matter and Patient Health, Module 1 (see agenda below, 1 hour of continuing education credit--pending)

February 22, 2011, noon-1:00 pm, Particulate Matter and Patient Health, Module 2 (see agenda below, 1 hour of continuing education credit--pending)

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ATSDR/CDC) and the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) are sponsoring these two webinars.  Participants are welcome to register for either or both of these events.  All you will need is a connection to the Internet and a phone line to participate in these live events.  During the live broadcasts on February 15 and 22, you will have the opportunity to ask questions of leading experts in this field.  Afterwards, these webinars will be archived on the ACMT website (www.acmt.net).

The first hour will focus on what is particulate matter, how it gets into the environment, trends in air quality, air quality regulations, where to find air quality information and how air quality affects the health status of a community.  The second hour will focus on clinical impacts of particulate matter in the environment, sensitive populations and appropriate interventions.

If you have any questions or you would like to let us know that you plan to attend, please contact Lora Siegmann Werner, ATSDR Region 3 at 215-814-3141, lkw9@cdc.gov or Tarah Somers, ATSDR Region 1 at 617--918-1493, tsomers@cdc.gov.  Thank you!

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Particulate Matter and Public Health  Module 1 -  February 15, 2011 at 12pm (Eastern Time) Particulate Matter and Public Health Module 2 - February 22, 2011 at 12pm (Eastern Time)

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Particulate Matter and Patient Health – Module 1 Patrick Breysse, MHS, PhD, CIH  (25 minute presentation ) Objective:  Describe sources of particulate matter (PM) and how it affects air quality --Types of pollutants that affect air quality -- Description of how PM settles in atmosphere and characteristics that determine location of deposition in airways --Importance of fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM 2.5)

Ronald H. White, MST   (20 minute presentation) Objective: Appraise air quality trends and interpret their relevance for exposures and health effects --Sources of PM and PM 2.5 (indoor and outdoor sources of PM) --Air quality trends --Testing for PM 2.5 in the environment --National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for PM 2.5 and how they are set

Patrick N Breysse, MHS, PhD, CIH (15 minute presentation) Objective: Identify available resources to investigate and manage particulate matter exposures --What do local medical practitioners need to know about local air quality data --The Air Quality Index --Where to find local air quality conditions

Particulate Matter and Patient Health – Module 2 Andrew Stolbach, MD (20 minute presentation) Objective:  Explain the clinical impact of fine particulate matter on health --Health effects of PM 2.5 (pulmonary, extrapulmonary, acute, and chronic) --Acute & chronic exposure evidence --Pathophysiology of PM 2.5 injury

Ronald H. White, MST (15 minute presentation) Objective: Recognize populations particularly susceptible to particulate matter exposures --Special population considerations (elderly, pediatric)

Andrew Stolbach, MD (25 minute presentation) Objective: Describe approaches to management and interventions regarding particulate matter exposures -- Reduction of PM 2.5 exposure at the level of the community and the individual patient --Management of exposure to PM 2.5 --Case studies – Intervention studies

Information on Webinar Faculty:

Dr. Patrick Breysse is currently the Director of the Division of Environmental Health Engineering and is the Director of the ABET accredited Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Academic Program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment. His research focuses on the evaluation and control of chemical, biological, and physical factors that can impact health or well being. In this context, Dr. Breysse's research concentrates on risk/exposure assessment. Exposure assessment research includes pollutant source characterization, exposure measurement and interpretation, development and use of biomarkers of exposure/dose/effect, and evaluating relationships between sources, exposures, doses and disease.  Dr. Breysse's research currently includes studies of indoor and outdoor air pollution and childhood asthma. He is also researching secondhand smoke exposure assessment methods using airborne and hair nicotine.  Dr. Breysse previously collaborated on a large health effects study evaluating the health impact of the 1990 Gulf War on the citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has also collaborated on a follow-up study of World Trade Center clean-up workers.  Dr. Breysse co-directed a medical screening program for former Department of Energy Workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This program offers screening to former atomic bomb workers based on a historical assessment of exposure to a wide variety of agents including ionizing radiation, beryllium, solvents, asbestos, lead, and noise. He is currently working on a project to extend the former workers program to Sandia National Laboratory.

Dr. Andrew Stolbach is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. He leads the Johns Hopkins University Toxicology training Curricula and works clinically at both Howard County and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a Magna cum laude graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Life Science along with a minor in history.  He furthered his education at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and received his Doctorate of Medicine Degree in 2002.  Dr. Stolbach completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City from 2002-2005 where he was Chief Resident. He completed his Fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Bellevue Medical Center and New York University School of Medicine.

Ronald White Ronald H. White is Associate Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, where he serves as Deputy Director of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute. He previously served as Assistant Executive Director, Education, Research, and Community Affairs at the National Osteoporosis Foundation and in several positions at the American Lung Association National Office, culminating in Assistant Vice President, National Policy. He earned his Master of Science in environmental studies from Antioch University, and his Batchelor of Science in environmental science from Clark University. Prior to joining the American Lung Association, he was senior transportation/air quality planner and then public participation coordinator for air quality planning at the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission in New York.  Mr. White currently serves as a member of the External Science Advisory Committee for the National Environmental Respiratory Center, and has served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter, and as a consultant to the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for the Particulate Matter NAAQS review. He has also served as a member of the Integrated Human Exposure Committee of the EPA Science Advisory Board, as well as on the EPA Blue Ribbon Panel to review the use of oxygenates in gasoline. He serves as project director for a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contract with Johns Hopkins University to prepare a report “State of the Science: Low Dose-Response Extrapolation Approaches”.

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Lora Siegmann Werner, MPH Senior Regional Representative Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Region 3 Department of Health and Human Services 1650 Arch Street, 3HS00,  Philadelphia, PA  19103 phone: 215-814-3141, fax: 215-814-3003 cell: 215-588-9778 email: lkw9@cdc.gov

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