Presented By: Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Hosted By: Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer and Hematology Centers
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 (8:30 am - 4:30 pm)
The Duncan NRI at Texas Children’s Hospital, 1250 Moursund Street Houston, TX 77030
The role of environmental factors on risk of developing pediatric cancers and their treatment outcomes are not well understood. Technological advancements in exposure assessment methods may help identify important environmental factors but have not been widely adopted in studies of pediatric cancers. Additionally, there are emerging questions related to the impact of climate change on pediatric cancer susceptibility and outcomes, as well as how best to engage communities at risk for environmental injustices. This symposium will bring together a transdisciplinary panel of experts to review the current state of knowledge of environmental risk factors of pediatric cancer, introduce novel exposure assessment tools that can be applied to the field, and highlight opportunities to study the impact that environmental health disparities may contribute to pediatric cancer susceptibility and outcomes.

Confirmed Speakers
  • Keynote: Zdenko Herceg, PhD – International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
  • Manish Arora, PhD, MPH, BDS – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Dan Coulter, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Adam de Smith, PhD, MSc – Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
  • Bill Funk, PhD – Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
  • David Haynes, PhD – University of Minnesota
  • Thanh Hoang, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
  • Amy Hughes, PhD, MS – Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health; UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Stephen Linder, PhD - UTHealth School of Public Health
  • Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH – American Cancer Society
Registration is required but it is free of charge, through the generous support of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.


Registration deadline was September 15, 2023, 6:00 PM CST.
Registration Closed
The meeting will also feature a poster session, and all conference attendees are invited to submit an abstract. Abstract submissions are limited to ONE per presenting author.
Abstract Submission


For questions or additional information, please email your inquiries to txchconference@texaschildrens.org.


NWMF

This conference is made possible by the generous support of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.