Past Events

2007

Friday, Apr 13, 2007
Time: 8 - 9 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Nick Newman
Title: "Environmental Toxins: An Introduction to Pediatric Environmental Health."
Location: Bronson Methodist Hospital, Gilmore Auditorium, Jasper & Walnut Streets, Kalamazoo, MI.
Contact: Jan Minges at 269-337-6453 or minges@kcms.msu.edu.

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2007
Time: 8 – 9 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Ted Schettler
Title: "Children's Health and the Environment"
Location: Hurley Medical Center, One Hurley Plaza, Flint, MI 48503. The talk will be giving in classroom 1011.
Map: www.mapquest.com
Contact: Chandra Kuta at 810-762-7042 or ckuta1@hurleymc.com

Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007
Time: 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Nick Newman
Location: Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Butterworth, 100 Michigan NE, Grand Rapids MI, in the East Auditorium
Maps: Helen Devos Children's Hospital
Spectrum Health map (pdf)
Pediatric Grand Rounds Topics (pdf)
(Contact: Kim Eddy, phone number is 616-391-2154)
Free and open to the public.

January 11, 2007
Speaker: William B. Weil, Jr., M.D., F.A.A.P., Professor Emeritus & Founding Chair, Pediatrics/Human Development, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
Location: Sparrow Hospital Auditorium (lower level of the hospital), MSU Lansing
Children's Environmental Health Issues in Michigan

 

2006

December 15, 2006 - Grand Rounds on Children's Environmental Health
Speaker: Ted Schettler
Location: Wayne State University - 1st Floor of Children's Hospital of Michigan, 3901 Beaubien Blvd, Detroit, MI 48201. 

October 23, 2006
Network members gathered for their first annual planning meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They shared information about activities of their own organizations and about similar work taking place in other states and countries and deepened their commitment to bringing about change in Michigan. Details on the Network's strategic plan are forthcoming.

 

2005

November 2005
Out of Harm's Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child Development in Michigan . More than 150 health and environmental professionals met to discuss the intersection between exposure to common environmental chemicals and childhood development, and clinical interventions to reduce neurotoxic threats throughout the lifecycle. This conference launched the Michigan Network for Children's Environmental Health. Click here to view the conference materials page.