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The Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health (PEH) Program
has
a staff that unites physicians and other healthcare professionals. Our
team of experts includes:
Philip
J. Landrigan MD, MSc, DIH, Project Chief and
the Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman, Department of Community and
Preventive Medicine
Dr. Philip J. Landrigan is a pediatrician and Director of the Center
for Children’s Health and the Environment at the Mount Sinai School
of Medicine in New York City. He has been involved for many years in
studying the impact of environmental toxins on the health of children.
From 1988 to 1993, he chaired the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets
of Infants and Children at the National Academy of Sciences. The findings
of this Committee provide the basis for the current recognition in public
policy in the United States of the special vulnerability of children
to environmental toxins and set the stage for the unanimous passage
by both houses of the U.S. Congress of the Food Quality Protection Act,
the principal federal statute regulating pesticide use. In 1997 and
1998, Dr. Landrigan served as a Senior Advisory to the Administrator
of EPA, and at EPA he help to establish the Office of Children’s
Health Protection.
Dr.
Landrigan has been involved since 1999 in development of the National
Children’s Study, a major prospective epidemiological study that
will follow 100,000 American children from conception to age 21 years
in order to identify preventable environmental causes of disease and
developmental dysfunction. Dr. Landrigan is a retired Captain in the
Medical Corps of the United States Navy.
Joel
Forman, MD, Pediatric Medical Director, Associate Professor,
Pediatrics / General Pediatrics; Assistant Professor, Community &
Preventive Medine
Dr. Forman began his training at the University of Vermont College of
Medicine in Burlington, VT, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega
Alpha Society and received the New England Pediatric Society Prize.
He then served as Pediatric intern, resident and chief resident at Mount
Sinai Hospital where he received the Association of Attending Staff/Bella
Trachtenberg Award for House Staff Excellence. Subsequently, Dr. Forman
joined the general pediatric faculty at Mount Sinai. He served as Assistant
Pediatric Residency Program Director from 1996 to 2002. On July 1, 2002
he took over as Pediatric Residency Program Director and Vice-Chair
for Education. He currently holds the rank of Associate Professor in
the Department of Pediatrics.
For the last 6 years
Dr. Forman has worked with Dr. Philip J Landrigan, Chair of the Department
of Community and Preventive Medicine and Director of Mount Sinai’s
Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, to create a
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) at Mount Sinai.
The PEHSUs were created by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR) to provide centers of excellence in the emerging field
of pediatric environmental health across the United States. Their mission
is to provide clinical consultation and education to families, health
care professionals, public health officials, and community organizations
with concerns regarding pediatric environmental health.
Dr. Forman
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Preventive
Medicine. He has worked in a broad array of pediatric environmental
health areas focusing lately on lead poisoning in pregnant women. Along
with Nathan Graber MD, he recently helped complete a report for the
NYC Department of Health on Guidelines for the Identification and Management
of Pregnant Women with Elevated Lead Levels in New York City and is
currently a member of a CDC workgroup that is examining this issue.
Jacqueline
Moline, MD, MSc, Director, Environmental Medicine
Dr. Moline is an Associate Professor in Community and Preventive Medicine
and Internal Medicine and Vice Chair of Community and Preventive Medicine,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Moline joined the Division of Environmental
and Occupational Medicine in 1993 after completing residency training
in the Division. She graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker
School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at
Yale University/Yale New Haven Hospital. She is board certified in both
Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.
Dr. Moline directs a summer training program in environmental medicine for medical students. She is also the Director of the NY/NJ Education and Research Center. She has been directly involved in screening programs conducted at the Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine since 1991. Dr. Moline is the Principal Investigator of the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program.
Bambi
Fisher, LCSW, Project Social Worker, Outreach Worker
Bambi Fisher, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked
with various pediatric specialties at Mount Sinai for over 15 years.
She has worked extensively with program development and outreach as
well as with chronically ill children and their families. Ms. Fisher's
undergraduate degree is from Binghamton University and her M.S.W. is
from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Ms. Fisher completed Fordham
University's Postgraduate program in Child and Adolescent Therapy. She
is a member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America's NYC chapter
medical advisory board and the psychosocial team at the CCFA camp, Camp
Oasis. She has led psychosocial programs at various camps for children
with life threatening and chronic diseases.
Ms. Fisher works at Mount Sinai with several clinical program areas
focusing on children and families. Outside of Mount Sinai Hospital,
Ms. Fisher consults regularly on mental health issues affecting children
and has a private practice in Rye, NY.
Damiris
Perez, MPA, Project Coordinator
Damiris Perez, MPA, is the Program Coordinator for the Pediatric Environmental
Health Specialty Unit. She studied Human Development and Sociology at
Binghamton University and then earned a Master of Public Administration
from Rutgers University. While pursuing her studies she conducted research
and program analysis on quantitative analysis techniques and their application
to health service organizations. Ms. Perez is a member of the Institute
for Diversity in Health Management (IFD), the National Association of
Health Services Executives (NAHSE), and the Association of Hispanic
Healthcare Executives (AHHE).
Maida
Galvez, MD, Staff Physician
Dr. Galvez is a board certified Pediatrician, who completed a three
year Ambulatory Pediatric Association sponsored fellowship in Environmental
Pediatrics at Mount Sinai. She is currently an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and the Department
of Pediatrics.
She
continues to work in Mount Sinai’s Pediatric Environmental Health
Specialty Unit in addition to practicing General Pediatrics. She is
Co-Principal Investigator of an NIEHS and EPA funded research project
entitled “Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem,” a community
based participatory research project examining the environmental determinants
of childhood overweight.
Perry Sheffield, MD, Fellow in Environmental Pediatrics
Dr. Sheffield is a pediatrician currently training in the Pediatric Environmental
Health Fellowship Program established by the Ambulatory Pediatric Association at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and now funded by an NIH training grant. In 2004, she
graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia and then completed her
residency in Pediatrics in the Harriet Lane Program of Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland. While training in her current fellowship, she is completing a Master
of Public Health. In addition to caring for her general pediatric patients, she staffs
the Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.
Nita
Vangeepuram, MD, Fellow in Environmental Pediatrics
Dr. Vangeepuram is a pediatrician currently in a combination fellowship
program including the Pediatric Environmental Health Fellowship Program
established by the Ambulatory Pediatric Association at the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine and the General Academic Pediatric Fellowship sponsored
by HRSA. She graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School in 2001 and completed her residency
at Columbia Presbyterian, Children’s Hospital of New York in 2004.
While training in her current fellowship she is completing a Master
of Public Health.
Her
main research interests include childhood obesity, health disparities,
urban pediatrics, and global health. In addition to caring for patients
in Mount Sinai’s general pediatrics practice, she is involved
in resident teaching and helps staff the Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental
Health Specialty Unit.
The
Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Program is
a member of
the Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics
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