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CHE was pleased to welcome Dr. David Schwartz, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), for a conversation with the CHE Asthma Working Group about the latest findings and plans underway at NIEHS in the area of environmental lung disease, including asthma and other respiratory health issues.  Under Dr. Schwartz's leadership, the Institute is expanding its work related to clinical medicine, including environmental lung disease.  Dr. Schwartz will discuss new directions for NIEHS related to respiratory health including clinical research programs, interdisciplinary training initiatives, as well as the Institute's on-going research areas.

Prior to NIEHS, Dr. Schwartz, an internationally recognized leader in the investigation of occupational and environmental lung disease and practicing physician specializing in environmental lung disease, served at Duke University, where he held concurrent positions at the Medical Center including Vice Chair for Research and Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  Dr. Schwartz has focused his career on understanding the role that biological and genetic determinants play in the onset of diseases like asthma and other chronic pulmonary diseases that are influenced by environmental exposures.

This teleconference was moderated by Susan W. Marmagas, MPH,  CHE Director of Health Programs & Co-Coordinator of the CHE Asthma Working Group.