Annual Updates in Environmental Medicine Conference
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Annual Updates in Environmental Medicine Conference
March 15, 2014 - March 16, 2014
2014 – Environmental Causes of Common Chronic Neurological Problems – Headaches to Parkinsonism
March 15 & 16, 2014
Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, 2140 E Broadway Rd. Tempe. AZ.
Topics to be covered
* Literature review of studies showing neurologic effects of “low dose” exposure to toxicants
* Neurotoxicity in clinical practice – diagnosis and treatment
* They neurological symptom picture of the common neurotoxicants (solvents, heavy metals, organophosphate pesticides, organochlorine pesticides, etc.).
* How to spot neurotoxicity in a case history
* Balance testing – how to do it, what is shows, how to interpret, equipment
* Neurobehavioral testing – how to do it, what is shows, how to interpret, equipment
* Visual Contrast Sensitivity – how to do it, what is shows, how to interpret, equipment
* Solvent testing – how to interpret solvent panels and determine source exposures
* The role of epigenetics in chronic neurological diseases
* The food industry – what we are really being served
* The role of mycotoxins in chronic neurologic disorders
* The role of gluten in chronic neurologic disorders
Speakers for the 2014 Conference include:
* Kay Kilburn MD – Dr. Kaye H. Kilburn retired from the Ralph Edgington Professorship of Medicine at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine in 2006. His career spanned problem-solving in respiratory failure, emphysema, asbestosis and byssinosis at Duke University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. More recently neurobehavioral and pulmonary impairment as a result of exposure to common chemicals: mold, hydrogen sulfide, diesel, pesticides, and insecticides, have been a primary focus for study. Since 1982 he has investigated chemicals and the brain. He was an editor of the Archives of Environmental Health from 1973 and editor in chief from 1980 to 2006. He has published over 250 scientific papers and 3 books. Check out his articles on pub med
* William J Rea MD – Dr. Rea is one of the great leaders and pioneers in the field of Environmental Medicine and still holds board certification as a cardiothoracic surgeon. As a young trauma surgeon in Dallas, Tx. in 1963, he treated Gov. Connelly after he was shot in the car with President Kennedy.
He is the founder of the Environmental Health Center (EHC-D), and is currently director of this highly specialized Dallas based medical facility.
In 1988, Dr. Rea was named to the world’s first professorial chair of environmental medicine at the Robens Institute of Toxicology at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. He was also awarded the Jonathan Forman Gold Medal Award in 1987 and the Herbert J. Rinkel Award in 1993, both by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, as well as named Outstanding Alumnus by Otterbein College in 1991.
Not all of Dr. Rea’s articles are on medline, but some are available.
* Walter J. Crinnion ND – Chair of the environmental medicine department at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and the chief instigator of this conference. His articles are also available on PubMed.
* Oddveig Myhre ND – After graduating with an ND degree and practicing naturopathic medicine for a few years, Dr. Myhre returned to school for a masters in food science at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Myrhe with be presenting the facts behind our current food supply, dispelling myths and assumptions that we have about the state of the foods we consume.
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