Speakers:

Manish Arora, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Speaker Bio: 

Dr. Arora is an exposure biologist and environmental epidemiologist with training in advanced analytical chemistry methods. He was awarded an Australian government scholarship to study the uptake of environmental metal toxicants and its impact on human health. He was later accepted as postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is current a Professor and Vice Chairman of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, as well as Division Chief of Environmental Health, and Director of the Laboratory for Exposomic Innovation and Precision Environmental Medicine.

Dr. Arora has developed sophisticated laboratory methods to measure chemical signatures in teeth and hair as markers of environmental chemical exposures, with a focus on reconstructing early life exposure history.

Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1 to 2pm