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