In this episode Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, talks about environmental issues in global pediatric health. David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak with Sarah Pitts, MD, FAAP, about whether pediatric subspeciality fellows are ready for unsupervised work after two years of training.
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Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP
Guest
Dr. Philip Landrigan is a pediatrician and epidemiologist, board-certified in the specialties of pediatrics, general preventative medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. He is a professor at Boston College, where he directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Global Observatory on Planetary Health. Dr. Landrigan’s research has examined global environmental threats to health. Since 2019, he has chaired the Monaco Commission on Human Health and Ocean Pollution. From 2021-2023, he chaired the Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, which found that plastics harm human health at every stage of the plastic life cycle and that these harms fall disproportionately upon the poor, minorities and the marginalized. This Commission formulated recommendations to guide drafting of the UN Global Plastics Treaty.
Sarah Pitts, MD, FAAP
Guest
Dr. Sarah Pitts is an attending in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, the Program Director for the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship, and the Program Director for the HRSA/MCHB funded Boston Leadership Education in Adolescent Health program. She is one of two adolescent medicine representatives on the steering committee for APPD SPIN and is a member of the ABP Education and Training Committee.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
The interviewees have no conflicts of interest to disclose
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"Steadfast" by Blue Dot Sessions at www.sessions.blue
Theme music composed by Matthew Simonson at Foundsound.media
*The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.