Children First: Promoting Ecological Health for the Whole Child

October 1, 2010

University of California, San Francisco

Mission Bay Conference Center

1675 Owens Street

AGENDA

(updated6/25/10)

7:15 – 8:00 a.m.Registration

Continental breakfast provided

8:00 a.m. Welcome

Philip Lee, MD PhD, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health; Former Chancellor of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF); Chair, Collaborative on Health and the Environment(CHE)

Margaret Chesney, PhD, Director, UCSF Osher Center forIntegrative Medicine; Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine; Former Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

8:30 a.m.The Whole Child: Towards an Integrative Paradigm for Ecological Health

Lawrence Rosen, MD, Founder and Director, the Whole Child Center; Vice-chair, American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Complementary and Integrative Medicine; Medical Advisor, Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at Hackensack University Medical Center

9:00 a.m. Panel: Linking Environmental Health Science and Children’s Health

Elise Miller, MEd, Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE); Former Executive Director, Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (Moderator)

Panelists:

  • Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN, Professor and Director, University of Maryland School ofNursing; Steering Committee Member, Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment
  • Cynthia Bearer, MD, Chief, Division of Neonatology, University of Maryland School of

Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

  • Kathy Shea, MD, MPH, Director, Health Community Responding to Climate Change;

Research Associate, Environmental Resource Program, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences,UCLA School of Public Health

10:30 a.mBreak

10:45 a.m.Creating Optimal Healing Environments

Wayne Jonas, MD , President and CEO, Samueli Institute; Associate Professor of FamilyMedicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

11:15 a.m.Nature and Children’s Health

Richard Louv, Author, Last Child in the Woods; Co-Founder, Children and Nature Network

12:00 p.m.Lunch and networking

1:30 p.m.Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

Fritjof Capra, PhD, Founding Director, Center for Ecoliteracy; Faculty at Schumacker College,

England; Author, The Science of Leonardo, The Hidden Connections, TheWeb of Life, The Tao of Physics among other bestselling titles

2:00 p.m.Cultivating Leadership for Ecological Sustainability

Joel Kreisberg, DC, DC, MA, Founder and Senior Director, Teleosis Institute; Adjunct Faculty,

John F. Kennedy University, Graduate School of Holistic Studies; Instructor,Acupuncture and Integrative Medical College

2:45 p.m.Break

3:00 p.m. Panel: Nutrition and Children’s Health

David Becker, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California-San Francisco Department of Pediatrics (Moderator)

Panelists:

  • Daphne Miller, MD, Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor; Adjunct, Department of

Family and Community Medicine, University of California-San Francisco

  • Oscar Guardado, Bilingual Health Educator, Nutrition Wellness Program, Division of

Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services, County of Marin; Former Health Education Director at Marin Community Clinics; Former Public Health instructor at Universidad de El Salvador

  • Stacey AntineMS, RD, Founder and CEO, HealthBarn USA, Inc

4:15 p.m.The Greening of Medicine

Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Director, Fellowship, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine; Former

member, White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;

Former member, Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

4:45 p.m. Closing remarks

Elise Miller, MEd, Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment

5:00 p.m. Adjourn