Cancer & Environment Forum 2023: Program

Program

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Welcome

Anil Rustgi, MD, Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Session 1: What We Know About Environmental Exposures and Cancers

  • Kate Guyton, PhD, of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, formerly of IARC
    • State of the Science: What’s a Carcinogen?
  • Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Professor Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
    • Cancer Susceptibility Across the Lifecourse
  • Rachel Zeig-Owens, DrPH, Research Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    • Cancer Risk from 9/11 Exposures
  • Steve Stellman, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
    • Historic Perspective of Early Research on Environmental Carcinogens

Panel 1: The Cancer Burden in New York: What We Know, What We Need to Know

Panel Moderator: Ginny Mantello, MD, Health Director, Staten Island Borough President’s Office

  • Mary Reid PhD, MSPH, BSN, Chief of Cancer Screening, Survivorship, and Mentorship, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Paolo Boffetta MD, MPH Associate Director for Population Sciences, Stony Brook Cancer Center.
  • David Prezant, MD FDNY Chief Medical Officer, Director of the FDNY WTC Health Program
  • Steve Stellman, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health

Session 2: Whose Responsibility? Moving Beyond Individual Behavior to Recognize Policy and Systems-level Influences

Introduction: Katrina Armstrong MD, Dean and Executive Vice President, Vagelos College and Health Sciences, Columbia University

Documentary film trailer: “Unacceptable Risk: Dr. Margaret Kripke on Cancer and the Environment” 

  • Phoenix Matthews, PhD, MS, BS, LCP, Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Columbia School of Nursing
    • Tobacco and policy failure around menthol and flavor ban
  • Jasmine McDonald, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
    • Personal and Household Level Exposures
  • Ruthann Rudel, MS, Director of Research, Silent Spring Institute
    • Chemicals that increase estradiol and progesterone steroidogenesis as likely breast carcinogens
  • Julia Brody PhD, Executive Director and Senior Scientist at Silent Spring Institute
    • Right to know, Right to act - Communicating about EDCs, cancer and uncertain health effects

Panel 2: Whose Responsibility? Moving Beyond Individual to Systems Solutions

Moderator: Laura Weinberg President, Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition

  • Bobbi Wilding MS, Executive Director, Clean+Healthy
  • Patricia Bax, RN, MS, NCTTP, ACB, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Sarah Evans, PhD, Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Mount Sinai
  • Eileen Z. Fuentes, MA, Patient Advocate and Health Educator
  • Micaela Martinez PhD, Director of Environmental Health, WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Session 3: Reducing Community-level Risks: How Health Care Providers Can Inform Policy Makers and Contribute to Institutional Change

  • Polly Hoppin Sc.D., Research Faculty Emeritus; Director, Cancer & Environment Initiatives, U-Mass, Lowell
    • A systems approach for integrating environmental chemicals in cancer prevention.
  • Ana Navas-Acien, PhD, MD, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
    • Review of evidence on metals and arsenic
  • David Christiani, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
    • Air Pollution Exposure and Policy Change
  • Dean Hosgood, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    • What we know about air pollution and cancer: science and interventions to reduce exposures
  • Perry Sheffield, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    • How Physicians Can Advocate for Patients Who Have Concerns About Environmental Exposures

Panel 3: Role of Institutions to Inform Patients and Reduce Environmental Exposures in the Communities We Serve

Moderator: Gary Miller, PhD Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health

  • Linda Mermelstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Office ofCommunity Outreach and Engagement, Stony Brook Cancer Center
  • Erica Phillips MD, MS Associate Director of Community Outreachand Engagement, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
  • Maura Abbott, PhD, AOCNP, CPNP-PC, RN Assistant Dean,Clinical Affairs, Columbia School of Nursing

Closing remarks

  • Regina Santella, PhD, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Professor Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health