News Release

February 22, 2007


Boise State Hosts March 16 Workshop on Environmentally Responsible Health Care

Health Care Without Harm, a consortium of local health care organizations, will present a free workshop for health care workers from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, March 16, in the Student Union Hatch Ballroom on the Boise State University campus. Free parking is available in the Student Union Visitor Lot.

Registrations are now being accepted at http://nursing.boisestate.edu (see “news” section). The workshop is part of the Idaho Environmental Health Association annual conference. Deadline to register is March 14.

Keynote speaker Barbara Sattler will address “Environmental exposure in our home, work, school and communities.” Sattler is an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and founding director of the Environmental Health Center, a multi-disciplinary center engaged in training, education, research and policy.

Other topics addressed during the workshop include:
• Recognizing environmental exposures
• Better living through chemicals … or is it?
• Special vulnerabilities of children, the fetus and pregnant women taking environmental risks
• Toxicology, pharmacology and the nature of chemical policies
• Biomonitoring for environmental pollutants in the human body
• The application of environmental health science to nursing practice

This free workshop is funded by a grant from Health Care Without Harm: The Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Health Care. It is presented in partnership with Boise State’s departments of Nursing and Community & Environmental Health, the Idaho Public Health Association and the Idaho Environmental Health Association.

To learn more, contact Nancy Otterness at (208) 426-1652, nottern@boisestate.edu, or Patt Elison-Bowers at (208) 426-4119, pelison@boisestate.edu.

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Contacts: Nancy Otterness, Department of Nursing, (208) 426-1652, nottern@boisestate.edu; Patt Elison-Bowers, Department of Community and Environmental Health, (208) 426-4119, pelison@boisestate.edu, 
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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