Seminars and Special Events at Dartmouth College

 

Dr. Emily Oken (Harvard Medical School) presents jointly for the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Program and Children's Environmental Health & Disease Prevention Research Center Seminar

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Time: 2:00 PM

Location: Geisel School of Medicine Campus, Vail Building, Room 202

 

Dr. Shohreh Farzan presents for the FeBAD seminar series "In utero arsenic exposure in relation to infant infection in a United States cohort: A prospective study"

Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Campus, Rubin Building, Conference Room 791

 

Dr. Abby Fleisch (Children's Hospital Boston) presents for the Children's Environmental Health & Disease Prevention Research Center Seminar "Bridging Endocrinology and Children's Environmental Health"

Date: Monday, September 10, 2012

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Campus, Rubin Building, Conference Room 791

 

Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, presents: Industrial Food Animal Production: Consequences for Agricultural Communities and Food Safety as part of Dartmouth Hitchcock's Medical Grand Rounds

Date: Friday, February 10, 2012

Time: 8:00am

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Grand Rounds

Details: Dr. Nachman is currently the Director for the Farming for the Future Program and the Science Director for the Food Production, Health and Environment Center at the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He holds appointments both in the Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and the Health Policy and Management Department. His doctoral work was in risk assessment of human exposure to arsenic from pelletized poultry house waste and biosolids fertilizer. 

2012 Dartmouth CO-OP Annual Meeting

Date: February 3-5, 2012

Location: Indian Head Resort, Lincoln, New Hampshire

Details: Please click HERE for more detailed information


Margaret Karagas, PhD presents: The New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study at the Fetal Basis of Adult Disease (FeBAD) Seminar

Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Time: 4:00 PM

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Campus, Rubin Building, Conference Room 791

Details: Please contact Craig Tomlinson if you wish to be added to the FeBAD mailing list

 

Lisa Chasan-Taber, ScD, MPH from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst presents: Exercise Interventions in High Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Opportunities and Challenges

Date: December 12, 2011

Time: Noon

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus, Rubin Building 791

Details: Please RSVP to Crystal Flaherty

 

Dartmouth-Hitchcock's eighth annual Great Issues in Medicine and Global Health symposium, "Investing in Women and Girls"

Date: November 16-18, 2011

Location: Various locations on the Dartmouth College Campus and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus

Details:

  • United States Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin MD, MBA, presents the keynote address: "Making a Difference"
    Wednesday, November 16th at 7:00pm
    Cook Auditorium at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business

  • Sarah Degnan Kambou, PhD, MPH, and president of the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC presents: "Pushing the Margins: Women, Vulnerability and Resilience in Marginalized Communities Across the World"
    Thursday, November 17th at 2:00pm
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus, Auditorium E

  • Marilyn S. Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN, and director of the Center for Global Women's Health and Health Equity Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing presents: "When Women and Girls are Healthy, a Nation is Healthy"
    Thursday, November 17th at 3:40pm
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus, Auditorium E

  • Ana Langer, MD, and coordinator of the Special Initiative in Women and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health presents: "Women and Health: Addressing Current Needs and Setting the Future Agenda"
    Friday, November 18th at 8:00am
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus, Auditorium E

  • Please click HERE for more detailed information about this event

    Please click HERE to view the flyer associated with this event


Dr Margaret Karagas Meets Surgeon General Benjamin

Dr. Benjamin presents the keynote address: Making a Difference

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: Cook Auditorium, Amos Tuck School of Business

 

Hongzhe Li, PhD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine presents: Statistical Methods for Analysis of Gut Microbiome Data

Date: Friday, November 11, 2011

Time: Noon

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Campus, Borwell 658W

Details: Lunch will be served so please kindly RSVP to Crystal Flaherty


Richard Finnell, PhD presents: Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Susceptibility to Neural Tube Defects as part of The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center Scientific Advisory Committee meeting

Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Time: 9:00 AM

Location: Wheelock Room, Hanover Inn, Hanover New Hampshire


Ying Yuan, Phd from University of North Carolina and postdoctoral candidate for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School will be giving a seminar on her area of research.

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011

Time: 11:00 AM

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus, Rubin 692


Susan Korrick, MD, PhD from the Harvard School of Public Health presents: Impact of Early Life Exposures on Neurologic Outcomes in Children and Adolescents

Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Time: 4:00 PM

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Campus, Rubin 791

Details: Hosted by Margaret Karagas, PhD


Shohreh Farzan, postdoctoral candidate, will present: Constructing Novel Models: From Hh Signaling to Paramyxoviral Fusion Proteins

Date: Friday, September 23, 2011

Time: 12:00 PM--1:00 PM

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Campus, Rubin 691

 

Michele Avissar-Whiting, Phd from Brown University will present: Effect of Prenatal Arsenic Exposure on Methylation Profiles in Cord Blood DNA

Date: Monday, September 19, 2011

Time: Noon

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus, Rubin Building, Room 791

Details: Lunch will be served so please RSVP with Crystal Flaherty if you plan to attend


Tracy Punshon presents 4th International Conference on Trace Elements in Food

Date: Friday, July 15, 2011

Location: DHMC Campus, Rubin Building, Room 791

Time: Noon

Details: Lunch will be sereved please RSVP to Crystal Flaherty if you plan to attend




Juliette Madan presents: "The Developing Microbiome in Health and Disease in Newborns"

Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Location: DHMC campus, DMS 2 E/W

Time: 1-2pm

Details: Please contact Crystal Flaherty if you have any questions

Courtney Kozul Horvath presents: Developmental Toxicity of Low Dose Arsenic in Mice: You are What Your Mother Drank

Date: Wednesday, June 1st at noon

Location: DMS 1 E/W

Directions: From the main rotunda at DHMC: walk South down the glassed hallway to the circular stairs on the right. Take the stairs to the 4th floor. DMS1 E/W is on the 4th floor, through the first door on the left. From the Rubin Building:take the Cancer Center Research elevators to the 4th floor, take a RIGHT off the elevators then straight through the door, DMS1 E/W will be on your right.


Jeff Buzas presents "Exploring trends in variation of neonatal outcomes"

Date: Friday, May 27th, 2011

Location: DMS 2 E/W***

Details: Jeff Buzas, Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Statistics and Biostatistics Program at UVM will present his recent work regarding the analysis of variation in death rates in very low birth weight infants. Please RSVP to Crystal Flaherty.

***Directions to DMS 2 E/W:

-From the main rotunda at DHMC: walk south down the glassed hallway (towards Borwell) to the circular stairs on the right. DMS 2 E/W is on the 4th floor, on the left.

-From the Rubin building: take the Cancer Center Research elevators to the 4th floor. Go right off the elevators and through the door. DMS 2E/W will be on your right.


Chilren's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center Primary Investigator and Administrative Core Meeting

Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 3:00pm

Location:DHMC, Rubin Building, Conference Room 852


David Robbins, Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center Seminar

Date:Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 3pm

Location: Dartmouth Medical School Campus, Vail 614

Details: David Robbins will present a seminar on: Determining How Arsenic (As) Modulates Hedgehog (Shh) Signaling During Development. Please RSVP to Crystaly Flaherty if you plan to attend.


Environmental Health Tracking Programs Seminar

Date: May 6, 2011 at noon

Location: Cafe B (2nd floor of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon)

Details: Matthew Cahillane, Program Manager of Environmental Public Health Tracking at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services will be visiting and giving a seminar on Friday May 6th. His 12-noon presentation will consist of an overview of the Environmental Health Tracking program, and a demonstration of the web portal with a focus on child indicators. Please RSVP to Crystal Flaherty


Fourth Annual Dartmouth Integrative Biology Symposium "RNA and Disease: Beyond the Central Dogma"

Date: April 26th and 27th, 2011

Location: Alumni Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Registration: Click here

Overview: Symposium talks will be presented by innovative leaders who employ genomics, proteomics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, and systems biology to explore cutting-edge ideas and the latest progress in RNA biology.


Speakers: For a full list of speakers please click here

Student Poster Session: Tuesday, April 26, 5-7pm. 1st, 2nd, 3rd place wins a free iPad!!

Sponsors:

The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth
Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS)
Dartmouth Lung Biology Center
Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program
Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS)
Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC)
IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)

 

Arsenic Consortium Meeting

Date: Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Location: Hanover, New Hampshire

Xun Shi: "Detection of Spatial Associaton between Birth Defects and Arsenic in Groundwater in New Hampshire"

Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011

Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM

Location: DMS1 E/W

Directions: From the main rotunda at DHMC: walk South down the glassed hallway to the circular stairs on the right. Take the stairs to the 4th floor. DMS1 E/W is on the 4th floor, through the first door on the left. From the Rubin Building:take the Cancer Center Research elevators to the 4th floor, take a RIGHT off the elevators then straight through the door, DMS1 E/W will be on your right.


Obstetrics Grand Rounds: Dr. Thomas McElrath, MD, PhD from Harvard Medical School will present "Abdominal cerclage, A unique alternative to the prevention of recurrent preterm birth"

Date: Wednesday December 8th, 2010

Location: Auditoriums A& B, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Main Campus


Ambient Air Pollution Impairs T-Cell Function Through DNA Methylation

Date: Monday, November 15, 2010

Location: Auditorium B, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus

Details: Kari Nadeau MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Immunology and Allergy, and Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, at Stanford School of Medicine. Her research interests in the laboratory focus on the role of human T cells, specifically natural regulatory T cells (Treg, in immunological diseases). She studies how pollution, such as diesel exhaust, disrupts Treg suppressive function, and how chemokines, like lymphotactin, enhance Treg suppressive function. Dr. Nadeau is a part of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at UC Berkeley.


Silent Pandemic of Developmental Neurotoxicity and Cancer Excess After Arsenic Exposure From Contaminated Milk Powder

Date: October 15, 2010

Time: 3:00pm

Location: Auditorium G, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus

Details: Dr. Philipe Grandjean, MD, DMSc, is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard and Head of the Research Unit at the University of Sothern Denmark. Dr. Grandjean specializes in environmental epidemiology research with a focus on delayed effects of developmental exposure to environmental chemicals, in particular prospective studies of birth cohorts exposed to marine contaminants in the Faroe Islands in regard to neurotoxicity, growth, development, immunotoxicity, and endocrine disruption. Accompanying Dr. Grandjean is his colleague from Harvard, Takashi Yorifugi, MD, PhD who will also present a talk titled: "Cancer excess after arsenic exposure from contaminated milk powder".


De Kun Li: "Exposure to Bisphenol-A (BPA) During Pregnancy and It's Effect on Offspring"

Date: September 27, 2010

Time: 10:00AM

Location: Hanover Inn, Hanover, New Hampshire



    Tracy Punshon: "The Use of Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microspectroscopy in Plant Functional Genomics"

Date: Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Time: Noon, lunch will be provided

Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Rubin 691



 









 
 
 
 

 
         
         
         
   
   
         
   

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