Presentations
The Lead Poisoning Treatment & Prevention Program organizes and hosts educational events, including professional and community group seminars.
Click on the links below to download our presentations:
Lead Poisoning 101: The Basics
Morri Markowitz, MD, Director, Lead Poisoning Prevention and Treatment Program, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
A Developmental Perspective on Lead Neurotoxicity
David C. Bellinger, Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lead 101: The Persistent Problem of Lead Poisoning in Childhood and Pregnancy Morri Markowitz, MD
The Business Case for Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP
The Politics of Lead Matthew J. Chachere
Montefiore (only): Lead Poisoning: A Pediatrician’s Perspective Howard Weinberger, MD
Alternative Treatments for Lead Poisoning Jacqueline Ehrlich, MD, MPH
It Takes a Community: Organizing Around Lead Stanley Schaffer, MD
Click here to see the 2016 conference brochure.
Lead Poisoning 2015: How Do We Decide What It Is and How to Treat It?
Recent Developments in Environmental and Housing-Related Lead Standards
David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH
The Case Against Lowering The Action Level For Childhood Blood Lead Levels
George G. Rhoads MD, MPH
How Do We Set Blood Lead Standards?
Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, PhD
Prevention Paradox: Why a Little Lead is Too Much
Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH
Lead Poisoning in Children and Pregnant Women in 2014: A Worldwide Problem
Lead Poisoning in Children and Pregnant Women 2013: A Persistent Public Health Problem Lead Poisoning 2015: How Do We Decide What It Is and How to Treat It?Lead Poisoning 2015: How Do We Decide What It Is and How to Treat It?