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Environmental carcinogens are focus of Vernberg Lecture
September 23, 2014
Dr. Paolo Boffetta of the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine will speak at the Oct. 16 program of the Winona B. Vernberg Distinguished Lecture Series.
Environmental carcinogens will be the focus of the fall program of the Winona B. Vernberg Distinguished Lecture Series, scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, October 16, at the University of South Carolina’s Russell House Theater, located on Greene Street.
Cancer epidemiologist Dr. Paolo Boffetta, who joined the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2010, will be the featured speaker for the lecture, titled “Environmental Carcinogens: What are the Risks?”
Boffetta is Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Associate Director for Population Sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute, and the Bluhdorn Professor of International Community Medicine. An adjunct professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boffetta has worked at Columbia University, the American Cancer Society, the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and the German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg, Germany).
The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by USC’s Arnold School of Public Health and ENVIRON, which works with clients around the world to help resolve their most demanding environmental and human health issues.
Dr. Kenneth Mundt, the Health Sciences Global Practice Area Leader and Director of Applied Epidemiology for ENVIRON, also will speak. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the application of epidemiological concepts and methods to a wide range of occupational, environmental and consumer product related health challenges.
The Vernberg Lecture is named for the late Dr. Winona Vernberg, the first dean of USC's Arnold School of Public Health. Since its inception, the Vernberg Lecture has been one of the Arnold School’s signature programs and has brought world-renowned speakers to campus to discuss topics on public health, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, tobacco policy, strokes and aphasia and air pollution.
On Wednesday, October 15, the Arnold School will host a reception at 5 p.m. in the Public Health Research Center and will feature a scientific poster session by students on environmental research.
For more information, contact Karen Petit at 777-5037 or email, kpetit@mailbox.sc.edu.
