[ensu] Fwd: Thu Feb 27 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health seminar
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- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:30:04 -0500 (EST)
--- Mona El-Haddad <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
From: "Mona El-Haddad" <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Thu Feb 27 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health
> seminar
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:11:19 -0500
>
> Institute for Environmental Studies
> and Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit
> ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES
> **************************************************
>
> THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
> Room 113, Koffler Inst. for Pharmacy Management, 569
> Spadina Ave.
> (**west door at Spadina Ave is locked; please use
> east door**)
>
> GAIL EYSSEN
> Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences,
> University of Toronto
>
> "ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY:
> AN APPROACH TO RESEARCH FROM ENVIRONMENT TO
> PHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS"
> (abstract and upcoming seminars below)
>
> For a map, updates, and abstracts,
> please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/e&h-spring.html
>
> No registration required; all are welcome.
> **************************************************
> ABSTRACT:
> The term "environmental sensitivity" spans a number
> of clinical entities
> referred to as (Idiopathic) Environmental Illness or
> Multiple Chemical
> Sensitivity. The condition has been variously
> described as: disabling
> multi-organ symptoms triggered by multiple incidents
> and a
> toxicant-induced loss of tolerance to chemicals, a
> somatization
> disorder, an irrational fear of chemicals, or panic
> attacks paired with
> non-noxious stimuli. Some challenges focus on a
> search for a workable
> definition for research, a search for risk factors,
> and an examination
> of physiologic mechanisms. The seminar will include
> a discussion of
> efforts by Dr. Eyssen's research group to address
> some of these
> challenges and a discussion of recent advancements
> in the area.
>
>
> UPCOMING SEMINARS
>
> THU MARCH 6 2003
> MARK RAIZENNE, Science Manager, Air Health Effects
> Division, Safe
> Environments Programme at Health Canada; Director of
> the Health and
> Environment Initiative of Health Canada and the
> Canadian Institute of
> Health Research.
> "Air pollution and children's health"
>
> THU MARCH 27 2003
> PAT HARPER, Scientist, Research Institute, The
> Hospital for Sick
> Children, Toronto; Assistant Professor, Department
> of Pharmacology and
> Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of
> Toronto
> Title to be determined.
>
>
> For more information, please contact:
> Mona El-Haddad, 416-978-6526, m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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