Presenter: Michael Weitzman, MD
Overview:
Alternative Tobacco Products: The Second Front in the War on Tobacco
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Michael Weitzman MD is a Research Professor at the New York University School of Medicine, an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at the State University of New York Albany School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor of Global Public Health at the American University of Antigua School of Medicine. He formerly was Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Environmental Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and Professor of Global Public Health at the New York University School of Global Public Health. His entire career has been devoted to serving children and families disadvantaged by social and environmental factors as a clinician, educator, researcher, and advocate. He has held positions of leadership at 3 medical schools (Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at two (Boston University and the University of Rochester), Associate Chair at the University of Rochester and Chair of Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. He has served on the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning; the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Child Environmental Health Advisory Committee and twice on its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. He also testified in the 2005 federal racketeering case against the CEOs of the tobacco industry on behalf of the US Department of Justice. He has published more than 225 peer-reviewed research papers, an additional 100 book chapters and he has co-edited 8 textbooks on a wide range of child health problems. Dr. Weitzman has received two of the highest awards of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA), both its Research and Teaching Awards; the EPA’s first ever Child Environmental Health Advocacy Award; the Children’s Environmental Health Network’s Research Award; and the American Pediatric Society’s John Howland Award, the single most prestigious honor in American Pediatrics.
Financial Disclosures:
Michael Weitzman, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.