Parkinson’s Disease Linked To Chlorinated Solvent Exposure on Large US Marine Base
Date: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Time: 11am pacific / 2pm eastern
In this webinar we are pleased to have special guest speaker Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH, Professor in the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and author of Risk of Parkinson Disease Among Service Members at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. His presentation will discuss the link to Parkinson’s Disease resulting from chlorinated solvent exposure on a large US Marine Base. He will be joined by Ryan Miller, Director of Land Science, who will discuss leading remediation and vapor mitigation technologies to protect against TCE exposure risk.
Highlights of this free webinar:
- Brief review of Parkinson’s disease
- What is it?
- Descriptive epidemiology
- Environmental epidemiology
- TCE and Parkinson’s disease
- Occupational associations: Case reports/clusters; Twin study
- Environmental associations: Camp Lejeune: increased risk and faster progression
- Animal studies & mechanisms of toxicity
- TCE historical uses and ongoing exposures
- Leading remediation and vapor mitigation technologies to protect against TCE exposure risk
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About the Presenters:
Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH
Professor, Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH, is a Professor in the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He is also an investigator at the San Francisco VA Health Care System, where he previously ran an Environmental Medicine clinic. Sam studied neuroscience at the University of Michigan, attended medical school at the University of Texas-Houston, and trained in Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Science at UC Berkeley. He has published extensively on the epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on environmental risk factors such as pesticides, solvents, and head injury, and their interaction with genetic susceptibility factors.
Ryan Miller
Director, Land Science
Ryan Miller is the Director of the Land Science® division of REGENESIS, Inc., and is based in northern New Jersey. Ryan’s role includes providing technical support in the design and installation of TerraShield, Nitra-Seal, MonoShield and Retro-Coat vapor mitigation systems, and educating the environmental community on the advancements in vapor intrusion barrier technology, implementation, and quality control by making presentations to environmental firms, regulatory agencies, and developers. Ryan has extensive experience in the environmental consulting industry, most recently working as a New Jersey Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) focusing on brownfield redevelopment projects and specializing in vapor intrusion mitigation. Ryan earned a MBA from Montclair State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies from Siena College.
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