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Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Pages 113-119

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... · Recognize that current in viva and in vitro toxicological testing models are inadequately designed to capture the data that chemicals influence gestation length. · Given that preterm delivery is a substantial public health concern, develop toxicological approaches to improve understanding of chemical impacts on gestational length.
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From page 114...
... Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and Medical Director, March of Dimes SESSION I: CLINICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF PREMATURITYCAUSES, INTERVENTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES Moderator: ,Ieannette Rogowski, Ph.D. Senior Economist RAND Graduate School 9:30 a.m.
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... Exposures to Environmental Agents and Preterm Delivery Matthew Longnecker, M.D. Intramural Scientist National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
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... Welcome Back Lynn Goldman, M.D. Vice-Chair, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health
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... James Law Professor of Reproductive Physiology Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University 9:15 a.m. Function of Steroids in Parturition and Preterm Labor William Gibb, Ph.D.
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... Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Medical Director, March of Dimes Panel Discussion Woodie Kessel, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Surgeon General U.S.
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... Director, Community Programs Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women' s Health, Albert Einstein School of Medicine Fernando Guerra, M.D. Director of Health San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Texas Catherine Spong, M.D.
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  • preterm birth
  • child health
  • reproductive sciences
  • gestational length
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  • human development
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  • health aspects
  • emory university
  • intramural research
  • toxicological testing
  • inadequately designed

  • mount sinai
  • antonio metropolitan
  • molecular mechanisms
  • boston university
  • fetal size

  • albert einstein
  • improve understanding
  • genetic aspects
  • environmental toxicants
  • summarize cellular

  • environmental chemical
  • prevention research
  • health concern
  • samuel lunenfeld
  • sinai hospital


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