Cancer & Environment Forum 2025: Agenda

Friday November 14 2025

10:30 – 10:40 AM | Welcome and Introduction 

  • Linda Mermelstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, Stony Brook Cancer Center

10:45 - 11:45 AM | Panel 1: Environmental Risk Factors for cancer in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics

Moderator: Alexandra Goho, MS, Communications Director, Silent Spring Institute

  • Jasmine McDonald, PhD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Linda Kahn, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Chelsea DeBolt, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Hannah Thompson, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Keynote Geoffrey Howe Lecture

  • Paolo Boffetta, MD, Associate Director for Population Sciences, Stony Brook Cancer Center

12:45 - 1:30 PM | Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 PM | Panel 2: What We Know About Environmental Exposures and Primary Care & Internal Medicine

Moderator: Ian Kronish, MD, MPH, Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  • Leo Trasande, MD, MPP, Director, NYU Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards; Division Chief, Environmental Pediatrics & Vice Chair for Research in Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Robin Dodson, ScD, Associate Director of Research Operations, Research Scientist, Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment, Silent Spring Institute
  • Laurel Schaider, PhD, Senior Scientist, Environmental Chemistry and Engineering, Silent Spring Institute

2:40 - 3:40 PM | Panel 3: How Cancer Care Providers Can Address Patient Concerns

Moderator: Adana Llanos, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  • Marybeth Hans, MS, PA-C, Clinical Director, B-Prep Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Eileen Fuentes, M.Ed., SHRM-CP, Director, Human Resources & Faculty Affairs, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Yaguang Wei, PhD, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

3:45 - 4:00 PM | Wrap Up

  • Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Executive Director, Silent Spring Institute
  • Sarah Evans, PhD, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai