Clinician’s Guide to PFAS: Exposure, Effects, and Action Against the Forever Chemical

Join the Academy/DPHA and the Delaware Division of Public Health for the first virtual Clinician’s Guide to PFAS conference!

Agenda

12:00 – 1:00 pm:
PFAS in the Blood

Linda Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, ATS
Retired Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health; Duke University and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Association
(as a part of ChristianaCare’s Internal Medicine Grand Rounds)

1:10 – 2:10 pm:
PFAS Clinical Information for Physicians and ATSDR’s Delaware PFAS Paper

Captain Arthur Wendel, MD, MPH, FAAFP; Amy Lavery, PhD, MSPH; & Gonza Namulanda, DrPH, MS
Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2:20 – 2:50 pm:
Current Efforts in Delaware: PFAS Sampling and Remediation Efforts

Amanda Lacklen, Senior Environmental Scientist IV, Environmental Hazards & Toxicology Office, Delaware Division of Public Health
Todd A. Keyser, PG; PFAS Team Lead, Hydrologist VI, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

2:50 – 3:50 pm:
PFAS: Moving Forward & PFAS Policy

Sarah Bucic, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC & Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

4:00 pm:
Adjourn