Roz Wright: Advancing Discovery in ECHO: Creating a Transdisciplinary Learning Culture Through Use of Life Course Models

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Advancing Discovery in ECHO: Creating a Transdisciplinary Learning Culture Through Use of Life Course Models

Speaker:

Rosalind (Roz) Wright, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Pediatrics

 

 

 

About the Speaker: Rosalind J Wright MD, MPH, is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Life Course Health Research in the Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine & Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York.  She is also Dean of Translational Biomedical Sciences for the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), a clinician scientist and Program Director and Principal Investigator of Conduits, the Institute for Translational Sciences for the Mount Sinai Health System (the NCATs-funded CTSA).

She is an internationally recognized clinician scientist and life course epidemiologist with transdisciplinary training in molecular biology, environmental health, social determinants, and stress mechanisms. Her background includes transdisciplinary training and expertise in environmental exposure assessment as well as genetics, epigenetics, and psychosocial stress measurement applied to environmental health studies across the life course.

Outcome Areas: Neurodevelopment; Pre-, peri, and postnatal; Airways

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 1 to 2pm

Presentation Overview:

Lessons learned from developing a transdisciplinary team science and making discoveries at the intersections of various research disciplines outside of any one individual field.