UA SRP Researchers Present at NIEHS Arsenic Workshop and Webinar
March 27, 2014
University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP) researchers and trainees gave four presentations at the “Health Effects and Mitigation of Arsenic: Current Research Efforts and Future Directions” workshop held March 3-4, 2014 in Research Triangle Park, NC. The workshop was hosted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and was designed to highlight research on the health impacts of low-dose arsenic exposure through a series of presentations and panel discussions. UA SRP Training Core Fellow Eric Ditzel described the impacts of low-dose arsenic on susceptibility to cardiometabolic and liver disease. Dr. Miranda Loh, of the UA SRP and UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH), spoke on her work understanding pathways of exposure to arsenic near a legacy mining/smelting site. Drs. Margaret Kurzius-Spencer and Mary Kay O’Rourke, UA MEZCOPH, spoke about dietary arsenic and biomarkers for arsenic exposure. Finally, UA SRP Director Dr. Raina Maier described the role of phytostabilization of mining wastes as a method to limit arsenic exposures.
Inclement weather caused some of the meeting to be cancelled, and the panel discussions were reprised as in four webinar discussions in May-June, 2014. Click here to read a full report of the workshop and listen to recordings of the webinars.