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Shanna H. Swan, PhD, is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. An award-winning scientist, her work examines the impact of environmental exposures, including chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenol A, on men's and women's reproductive health and the neurodevelopment of children. For more than twenty years, Dr. Swan and her colleagues have been studying the dramatic decline in sperm count around the world and the impact of environmental chemicals and pharmaceuticals on reproductive tract development and neurodevelopment. Her July 2017 paper "Temporal Trends in Sperm Count: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis" ranked #26 among all referenced scientific papers published in 2017 worldwide. Dr. Swan has published more than two hundred scientific papers and myriad book chapters and has been featured in extensive media coverage around the world. Her appearances include ABC News, NBC Nightly News, 60 Minutes, CBS News, PBS, the BBC, PRI, and NPR, as well as in leading magazines and newspapers, ranging from the Washington Post to Bloomberg News to New Scientist. You can find her at shannaswan.com.

Isabelle is the National Women's Health Network's (NWHN) Senior Policy Manager, where she is responsible for developing and leading their women's health and consumer safety policy efforts, with a particular focus on historically marginalized communities.

Isabelle actively lobbies, at the grassroots and federal level, on women's health and cosmetics policy and has provided expert testimony before Congress and the Food and Drug Administration. Her advocacy has been recognized by Democracy Now!, PBS NewsHour, Good Morning America, NBC News and a host of other publications and networks.

Over the course of her career, Isabelle has held clerkships with government, labor unions, and nonprofit organizations including, AFL-CIO, National Education Association, National Lawyers Employment Association (as a Peggy Browning Fellow), and Congress. Prior to NWHN, Isabelle served as a law clerk for the Senate HELP Committee, and as an Associate Staff Counsel at the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Isabelle earned a J.D. with distinction in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Howard University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and is currently an LL.M. candidate in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law. She also serves as a Board Member for Women's Voices for the Earth.

Mikhail Kogan, MD, ABOIM is a leader in the newly established field of Integrative Geriatrics. He is the editor of "Integrative Geriatric Medicine" Oxford University Press textbook. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Integrative Medicine. Dr Misha Kogan currently serves as medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine, associate director of the Geriatric and Integrative Medicine Fellowships at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr Kogan has been early adopter of DC Medical Cannabis program and has been instrumental in DC Rx Medical Cannabis education program. Dr Kogan is a frequent speaker at a variety of international conferences and has multiple media appearances related to medical cannabis. At present Dr Kogan is conducting pilot research program on assessing non psychoactive forms of cannabis such as CBD and CBDa for neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases.

http://www.gwdocs.com/physicians/mikhail-kogan

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http://www.shanaweber.com/

Weber comes from a long line of artistic and intellectually curious people with a great love for nature and the outdoors. Her interests range from music and climate change research, to teaching, sustainability, community-building and broadcasting. She currently serves as Director of the Office of Sustainability at Princeton University where she has implemented cross-disciplinary sustainable demonstration systems since 2006.

Dr. Weber's past research areas include the intersection of climate change impacts with land use history, and population biology of culturally-significant wetland vegetation. Current interests revolve around fieldwork studying the American pika, and collaborative applied sustainability research across academic institutions.

Dr. Weber received her BS in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and MSES and Ph.D. In Environmental Science from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington.

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https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Age-Chemists-Millions-Relationship/dp/022669724X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1606601474&refinements=p_27%3AFrank+A.+von+Hippel&s=books&sr=1-1

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-history-podcast/id1325288920

https://frankvonhippel.github.io

Frank A. von Hippel is a professor of ecotoxicology at Northern Arizona University. Frank was born and raised in Alaska, received his A.B. in biology at Dartmouth College in 1989, and his Ph.D. in integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. He taught for Columbia University (1996-1999) and the University of Alaska Anchorage (2000-2016) before moving to Arizona in 2016. Frank has taught ecology field courses in over twenty countries, and conducted research in the Americas, Africa and Australia. Frank's research has been widely covered in the press, including The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, the BBC, and many other media outlets. Frank is the author of The Chemical Age (University of Chicago Press, 2020), he hosts the Science History Podcast, and he loves to write about science for both technical and general audiences.

Dr. Jason James is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist who has been in private practice in the Miami area since 2003. He is the immediate past Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is currently the Vice President of the Medical Staff at Baptist Hospital. Dr. James completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania and attended medical school at the University of Miami. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he was recognized for his outstanding teaching skills.

Dr. James has a special interest in postpartum depression and was named the 2010 ACOG Issue of the Year Research Award Recipient for postpartum depression research. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer for MomsWell, a maternal health platform that supports the clinical decision-making providers need to identify, educate, and support patients with maternal mental health complications, like postpartum depression. For at-risk patients, MomsWell provides a lifeline as they navigate towards recovery providing access to care through tailored digital referrals, brief care coordination, and ongoing support.

Apart from his practice of medicine, Dr. James is a national speaker and well-regarded expert and key opinion leader on various topics, including the prevention of elective early-term deliveries, umbilical cord blood banking, postpartum depression, and contraceptive technology. He is the symposium director of the annual Sanford Cole Memorial Ob/Gyn Symposium in Miami, Florida. Dr. James is fluent in English and Spanish and is welcoming new patients. He enjoys spending his free time traveling around the world with his wife, Lisa, and three children. You can follow Dr. James on Twitter at @drjasonjames or learn more at https://about.me/drjjames.

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Vapor intrusion: https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/vapor-intrusion/ Vapor Intrusion Archive Page (digital images of news articles thru 2008 discussing sites VI problems): https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/vapor-intrusion/vapor-intrusion-digital-project/ Radon Page: https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/indoor-air/radon/ Dry Cleaner Page: https://www.environmental-law.net/key-practice-areas/environmental-due-diligence/dry-cleaners-and-commercial-real-estate/ List of contaminated NY Dry Cleaner Sites: https://www.environmental-law.net/key-practice-areas/ny-superfund-program/ny-contaminated-dry-cleaner-database/ Bible and the Environment: https://www.environmental-law.net/resources/the-bible-and-the-environment/ EPA Cleanups in my Community-Interactive Map for all federal remedial sites): https://ofmpub.epa.gov/apex/cimc/f?p=cimc:map::::71 EPA Superfund Sites Where You Live: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live EPA Lead Paint Page: https://www.epa.gov/lead EPA Drinking Water Page: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water

Lawrence P. Schnapf is an environmental attorney based in New York City and New Jersey with over 30 years of national environmental transactional experience and is the principal of Schnapf LLC. https://www.environmental-law.net

With this background and his geology training, Larry is uniquely qualified to handle the legal and technical issues commonly encountered with environmental issues.

Larry primarily concentrates on environmental risks associated with corporate, real estate and brownfield transactions; commercial financing including asset-based lending, syndicated loans, mezzanine loans and distressed debt; bankruptcy, workouts and corporate restructuring. He has extensive experience with brownfield redevelopment and financing, including representing affordable housing developers and assisting local development corporations or not-for-profit organizations with their brownfield planning programs. Larry also counsels clients on environmental, represents clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and private cost recovery actions. He has also served as liaison counsel for PRP steering committees.

He has also written numerous articles on environmental law, is the general editor/contributing author of "Environmental Issues in Business Transactions" published by the Business Law Section of the ABA and is also the author of "Managing Environmental Liability in Transactions and Brownfield Redevelopment" published by JurisLaw Publishing. He is also contributing author for several chapters of "Brownfield Practice and Law: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Properties" published by Matthew Bender and the Matthew Bender "Environmental Law Practice Guide".

Larry is the Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), co-chair of the NYSBA brownfield task force and served as the co-chair of the NYSBA Hazardous Site Remediation Committee from 1995 until January 2015 he became an officer of the NYSBA Environmental Law Section. Larry is also on the advisory board of the New York City Brownfield Partnership and served as the chair of the Brownfield Field Task Force of the Environmental Business Association of New York (EBA/NYS) from 2002 until EBA/NYS became inactive in 2009.

He is a past Chair of the ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is also a member of the board of BNA's Environmental Due Diligence Guide and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Larry has also served on a number of ASTM Task Groups, including Chair of the legal subcommittee for the ASTM E1527 task force for the 2013 revisions to ASTM E1527 phase 1 standard and was Co-Chair of the legal sub-committee for the ASTM Vapor Intrusion Task Group.

Larry is an adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School and a faculty member of the NYLS Center for Real Estate Studies where he teaches "Environmental Issues in Business Transactions", "Environmental Law and Policy" and a mini-course on brownfields. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Christian Studies at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church where he teaches "The Bible and the Environment."

He is listed in the New York Super Lawyers-Metro Edition (2010-2015; the Super Lawyers Business Edition (2011-15); The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers (2008-2015) as well as appearing in Chambers USA Client Guide of America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Larry has received the AV® Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible Peer Review Rating

Myles Spar, MD, MPH is a national leader in the field of Men's Health, author of the book Optimal Men's Health from Oxford University Press having co-edited Integrative Men's Health for the same publisher. He is Chief Medical Officer of Vault Health, the first national medical practice specializing in men's health. Before joining Vault in 2019, Dr. Spar was founder and CEO of Tack180, an optimal health program for men based in Los Angeles, and directed the Integrative Medicine program at the Southern California Men's Medical Group and at the Simms-Mann Health and Wellness Center at Venice Family Clinic.

He has been a clinical faculty member of the UCLA and University of Arizona Schools of Medicine and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Spar is Chair of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and has presented internationally on Integrative Men's Health and on issues relating to bringing integrative medicine to underserved communities. For this latter work, Dr. Spar was the recipient of the Bravewell Award for Leadership in Integrative Medicine in 2013.

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Dr. Laura H. Kahn is a physician and research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Her education and training span nursing, medicine, public health, and public policy. She is the author of Who's in Charge? Leadership during epidemics, bioterror attacks, and other public health crises. Originally published in 2009 by Praeger Security International, a second edition has been issued in 2020 with a new preface discussing leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. (https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Epidemics-Bioterror-Security-International-dp-144087817X/dp/144087817X/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=)

She published Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in April 2006 in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases that helped launch the One Health Initiative (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com) which seeks to improve the health of all species by increasing communication and collaboration between human, animal, and environmental/ecosystem health specialists. She writes online columns for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (https://thebulletin.org/biography/laura-h-kahn/) and has published in many peer-reviewed journals. Her second book, One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance, was published in June 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. An April 2017 book review in CDC's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases described the book as "an essential primer for anyone who chooses to grapple with this challenging but crucial public health issue." (https://www.amazon.com/One-Health-Politics-Antimicrobial-Resistance/dp/142142004X)

Princeton University awarded her course, Hogs, Bats, and Ebola: An Introduction to One Health policy, with a 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. Recently, the course has been released as a free, online Coursera course, Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics. (https://www.coursera.org/learn/onehealth) A native of California, Dr. Kahn holds a B.S. degree in Nursing from UCLA, an M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, a Master's degree in Public Health from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is a recipient of the New Jersey Chapter's Laureate Award. In 2014, she received a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Public Health Physicians, and in 2016, the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) awarded her with their highest honor for her work in One Health: the K.F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award.

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Marvin Singh, M.D is an Integrative Gastroenterologist in San Diego, California, and a Member of the Board and Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine. He is also trained and board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Singh completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System followed by fellowship training in Gastroenterology at Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines. Singh was trained by Andrew Weil, M.D., a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

Singh is currently the Director of Integrative Gastroenterology at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute at UC Irvine. He is also currently a voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSD in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health; prior to this, he has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at UCLA and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Singh is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and many other societies. He is actively involved in the American Gastroenterological Association. He is one of the editors of the textbook of Integrative Gastroenterology, 2nd edition (a Weil Series text) and has written several book chapters and articles.

He is dedicated to guiding his clients toward optimal wellness every step of the way, using the most cutting edge technologies to design highly personalized precision based protocols and help them stay on top of their health, rather than underneath disease. Towards this end, he founded Precisione Clinic, to bring the best in preventive medicine to his clients.