The Great Lakes Center for Children's Environmental
Health
Education & Training
The
Center is involved in ongoing development of web-based case studies pertaining
to children's environmental exposures and health issues for health care
providers. For those wishing to obtain CME credit, one and one-half hours
credit is available upon completion of each case study.
Methyl
Parathion Case Study
Lead
Exposure Case Study
The Center
offers a monthly lecture series for pediatric residents and attending
physicians at Cook County Hospital on pediatric environmental health.
Topics include taking an environmental health history, the toxic effects
of mercury exposure, environmental triggers of asthma, and GIS mapping
of lead cases in the city of Chicago among others. The lectures are presented
at Cook County Children's Hospital, usually the third Thursday of each
month. If you are interested in attending, please call 312-633-5310 to
confirm the date and time and the topic of the month.
Our
faculty is also involved in presenting Grand Rounds and providing
continuing education programs pertaining to pediatric environmental
health at hospitals and health care facilities throughout
our region. Health care providers interested in scheduling
a presentation on a specific children's environmental health
issue for your group are invited to call us at 312-633-5310.
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