The Interplay Between Environmental Chemical Exposures and Obesity Proceedings of a Workshop (2016) / Chapter Skim
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Dr. Bailey also serves as the lead investigator for the Data Coordinating Center of PEDSnet, a collaboration across pediatric academic centers to provide a standardized model for clinical data that are accessible for observational research and clinical trials as part of the PCORnet national research network (an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute [PCORI]
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In addition to cancer development, he is now focusing on the effects of pollutants on adipose tissue functions and on the nervous system in rodents and in Caenorhabditis elegans. His additional projects include clinical studies in obese individuals, as well as studies on the toxicity of drugs and ethanol and the development of relevant biomarkers in humans.
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The Growing Up Female project is a collaborative program in which BCERP research examines the role that genetic-level markers and social, environmental, and lifestyle factors play in the timing of puberty. The researchers are specifically interested in defining how diet and environmental exposures affect when a girl starts puberty, how a girl's genes and her social environment affect when she starts puberty, and what personal and environmental factors are associated with how a girl matures through puberty.
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Dr. Conry served as chair of the California Preconception Care Council from 2006 to 2010 and currently serves on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Select Panel on Preconception, a coalition of government and health care providers that seeks to improve pregnancy outcomes by emphasizing the need for healthy choices across the reproductive life span of women.
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William Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Sumner Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Previously, he held positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tufts University, and the Floating Hospital of New England Medical Center Hospitals.
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to head its reproductive and developmental toxicology group. Twenty years ago he moved to the Division of Extramural Research and Training at NIEHS, where as a scientific program administrator he is responsible for designing, developing, administering, and assessing the impact of the NIEHS grants programs in endocrine disrupters, the developmental basis of diseases, reproductive toxicology, and obesity and diabetes.
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Survey Coordinating Committee for the WHO Global Survey of Human Milk for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) , a counselor with the International Society of Exposure Science, and a board member of the National Swimming Pool Foundation.
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She is coordinator of the European Union OBELIX (OBesogenic Endocrine disrupting chemicals: LInking prenatal eXposure to the development of obesity later in life) and NWO-VIDI projects (NWO is a national research organization in the Netherlands; VIDI offers individual grants to researchers)
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, a past president of the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity Specialty Section of SOT, and a member of the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Kristina Rother, M.D., M.H.S., is a clinical investigator in the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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Sheela Sathyanarayana, M.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor of pediatrics and adjunct assistant professor within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and an investigator within the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at the Seattle, Washington, Children's Research Institute. She is a pediatric environmental health specialist.
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the sources of environmental pollutant exposures in pregnant women and children; (2) factors, including dietary, genetic, and epigenetic factors, that are modifying the effects of exposures to environmental pollutants on metabolic outcomes; and (3)
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