Gulf Coast Pediatric Environmental Health Symposium

描述（由申请人提供） 贝勒医学院（Baylor College of Medicine）、得克萨斯儿童医院（Texas Children's Hospital）和西南儿科环境健康中心（Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health）将于2004年3月19日在休斯顿得克萨斯医疗中心的休斯顿医疗中心皇冠假日酒店（Crowne Plaza Houston Medical Center Hotel）合作举办一次会议，即"墨西哥湾沿岸儿科环境健康研讨会"。 选择的日期，星期五3月19日，使我们能够将星期五上午的BCM-TCH儿科大轮纳入专题讨论会，以及吸引地区学校护士和教育工作者谁是春假的那一周。 主要目标受众是德克萨斯州和路易斯安那州墨西哥湾沿岸的医疗保健专业人员，包括初级保健医生和居民，护士和公共卫生官员。 研讨会的主要目标是：（1）教育卫生保健专业人员关于环境暴露与儿童健康之间关系的最新知识，特别强调休斯顿和周围的墨西哥湾沿岸地区;（2）提供实用资源，帮助区域卫生专业人员解决环境诱发或加剧的儿童疾病;（3）强调卫生专业人员在制定保护儿童健康的社会政策中的作用。 在为期一天的研讨会上，国际知名专家包括拉尔夫·费金、布鲁斯·兰菲尔、索菲·巴尔克、佩顿埃格莱斯顿、赫伯特·尼德曼和霍华德·弗鲁姆金等。 所有发言者都确认愿意参加。 我们预计开幕式约有400名与会者，全天约有300名注册者。 屡获殊荣的贝勒医学院继续医学教育办公室（OCME）正在协调医生和护士与会者的继续医学教育学分，监督研讨会的许多后勤工作，并将征求和监督商业支持。 该研讨会是有史以来第一次儿科环境健康研讨会将在得克萨斯州医疗中心（TMC）举行，并努力产生了广泛的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), the Texas Children 's Hospital (TCH) and the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health (SW-CPEH) are partnering to host a conference, the "Gulf Coast Pediatric Environmental Health Symposium, " to be held March 19, 2004, at the Crowne Plaza Houston Medical Center Hotel in the Texas Medical Center, Houston. The date chosen, Friday March 19th, allows us to integrate the Friday morning BCM-TCH pediatric grand rounds into the symposium, as well as to attract area school nurses and educators who are on spring break that week. The primary targeted audience is Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast health care professionals including primary care physicians and residents, nurses, and public health officials. The primary objectives of the symposium are (1) to educate health care professionals on the most up-to-date knowledge about the relationships between environmental exposures and children's, health, with special emphasis on the Houston and surrounding Gulf Coast region; (2) to provide practical resources to help regional health professionals address environmentally induced or exacerbated disease in children; and (3) to emphasize the role of health professionals in setting social policies that protect children's health. The one-day symposium features internationally renown experts including include Ralph Feigin, Bruce Lanphear, Sophie Balk, Peyton Eggleston, Herbert Needleman and Howard Frumkin, among others. All of the speakers have confirmed their willingness to participate. We expect approximately 400 attendees for the opening session, and 300 registrants for the entire day. The award-winning Baylor College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education (OCME) is coordinating continuing medical education credits for physician and nurse attendees, overseeing many of the logistics of the symposium, and will solicit and oversee commercial support. The symposium is the first ever pediatric environmental health symposium to be held in the Texas Medical Center (TMC), and the effort has engendered broad support.