Healthy Homes Grand Rounds 3/11/25

Overview

The Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and the New England Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) welcome health professionals to attend the monthly virtual Pediatric Environmental Health (PEH) Grand Rounds.

This Grand Rounds series will provide healthcare providers with state-of-the-science content on current topics in pediatric environmental health. Such information will fill in the knowledge gaps of practitioners, enabling them to effectively counsel families whose children face possible health issues due to environmental chemicals, toxins, and other insults. The PEH Grand Rounds will also educate on practice strategies for the biomonitoring of children at risk for specific exposures to environmental pollutants.

Course Format 

This course will be Presented online via Zoom, optimizing virtual interactions between faculty and participants and facilitating interactive discussions.

Course Topic: 
Childhood Cancer and the Environment: Prevention to Survivorship Objectives

Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD

Dr. Catherine Metayer received her medical degree from the University of Bordeaux II in France, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Tulane University, School of Public Health in New Orleans. She is currently Professor at the UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Dr. Metayer was a scientist at the US National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. Her work primarily focuses on environmental, dietary, and genetic risk factors of childhood leukemia and testicular cancer, which disproportionately affect the Latinx communities in California. She is the Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), and the immediate past Chair of the Childhood and Cancer Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC). She collaborates with researchers at the intersection of various omics including genetics, epigenetics, metabolomics, and adductomics.

Mark Miller, MD, MPH

Dr. Mark Miller is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco and Director Emeritus of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) at UCSF. Since 2022, Dr. Miller has been the lead for the Childhood Cancer and the Environment Program at the PEHSU network. This project, funded by the CDC/ATSDR, works to educate and activate health professionals to address environmental influences on childhood cancer. He was the Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at the California EPA, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment for 13 years. He was also the director of the Community Outreach and Translation Core of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE) at UC Berkeley, the first group of academic experts to tie the research findings showing environmental exposures increase childhood leukemia risk to discussion about the opportunities for prevention of childhood leukemia.

Dr Miller completed his MD degree and pediatric residency from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, an MPH in environmental health sciences at U.C. Berkeley, as well as a residency in preventive medicine with the California Department of Health Services. Dr. Miller spent many years as a pediatrician in private practice in Chico, California. He is a past president of the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment (ISCHE). Dr. Miller is a primary author of the award winning Story of Health multi-media eBook series that includes a chapter on childhood cancer and the environment.

A short Q&A will follow the presentation.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Understand the contribution and trends of environmental exposures on risk for developing childhood cancers
2. Identify key methods to change clinicians attitudes and practices to include environmental health
3. Recognize the impact of environmental exposures in survivors of childhood cancer  on outcomes and identify risk  reduction strategies

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Physician Assistant

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 1.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosures

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: 

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