New Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health
by Shanna H. Swan, PhD
Presented Thursday, April 12, 2007
Disclosure: This course has been planned and implemented in accordance with ACOEM. This speaker has no significant financial interest or other relationship with any commercial products mentioned in this presentation.
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Learning Objectives:
- Identify recent advances in understanding of the effects of environmental contaminants on reproductive health
- Discuss currently available exposure assessment and research tools, contaminants of highest concern and crucial “windows of vulnerability” to exposure
- Discuss the value of multidisciplinary collaboration in addressing environmental challenges to reproductive health
- Discuss the value of integrating environmental reproductive science into health professional training to help clinicians translate new scientific findings into clinical practice
Shanna H. Swan, PhD
Director, Center for Reproductive Epidemiology
Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY
Dr. Swan is Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. From 1981 to 1998, she served as Chief of the Reproductive Epidemiology Section at the California Department of Health Services. Dr. Swan’s research focuses on understanding the effects of environmental agents (including organic solvents, water disinfection byproducts, pesticides, plasticizers and other endocrine disrupting chemicals) on time to pregnancy and infertility, adverse pregnancy outcomes (spontaneous abortion, low birth weight, growth retardation), semen quality, steroids and gonadotropins, gender-related physical and behavior development and epidemiological methods for these. Since 1998, Dr. Swan has been Principal Investigator of the Study for Future Families, a multi-center pregnancy cohort study examining environmental causes of geographic variation in reproductive health endpoints in men, women and children. Dr. Swan was elected Chair of the 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors. |
