PFAS: Environmental Exposure Assessment, Testing and Clinical Management Guidelines

Title:            Environmental Exposure Assessment, Testing and Clinical Management Guidelines
Date:           February 15, 2023
Time:          12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Speaker:     Dr. Alex Kemper, M.D., The Ohio State University

Clinical guidance/recommendations on PFAS blood or urine testing, recommended guidance on how clinicians can advise patients on PFAS testing and health outcomes that may be associated with PFAS, as well as what to advise patients regarding standard medical or preventive care and exposure reduction will be discussed.

Dr. Kemper is the Division Chief of Primary Care Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. The focus of his research is the evaluation of preventive services delivered in the primary care setting. He currently serves as the Chair of the Evidence Review Workgroup for the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children and is the Deputy Editor of PEDIATRICS. He is a former member of the US Preventive Services Task Force and has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine planning committee on special nutritional requirements for disease states. He was a co-author for the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-up (2022) https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/guidance-on-pfas-testing-and-health-outcomes.

ECHO PFAS Series

This series is based on Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) strategies. It is an innovative tele-mentoring program designed to create virtual communities of learners by bringing together healthcare providers and subject matter experts using videoconference technology, brief lecture presentations, and case-based learning, fostering an “all learn, all teach” approach.  

Participants are engaged in the bi-directional virtual knowledge network by sharing clinical challenges and learning from experts and peers.  

During an ECHO session, participants present real (anonymized) cases to the specialists—and each other—for discussion and recommendations. Participants learn from one another, as knowledge is tested and refined through a local lens. https://hsc.unm.edu/echo/what-we-do/about-the-echo-model.html

Each participant will earn one CE for attending each session. There is no cost for participating in any of the sessions.