The April CCTST Grand Rounds, held in conjunction with 2018 UC Neuroscience Research Day on April 17, 2018, featured speaker Craig Newschaffer, PhD, A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University. Dr. Newschaffer presented: “Environmental Exposures and Autism Risk: Narrowing the Knowledge Gaps”. The presentation took place from 11:30am-12:30pm in MSB 5051.
Autism spectrum disorders are highly heritable and, consequently, there has been much focus on the genetic underpinnings of autism over the past two decades at the dawn of the “genomics” era. However, it is also likely that there are environmental aspects to autism’s etiology as well. Discovering and confirming environmental risk factors is quite challenging. This presentation will review why we are not further along in revealing environmental autism risk factors and will present some of the more novel approaches that have been launched to address these challenges.
Target Audience: Target audience: physicians, healthcare practitioners, researchers, community health advocates.
UC Neuroscience Research Day also included a poster session which began at 8:30 am in the CARE/Crawley atrium. Awards were presented at 12:30 p.m. in 5051 MSB following the lecture. Dr. Newschaffer also presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds on A Public Health Science Approach to Autism at 8:00 a.m. in Cincinnati Children’s Sabin Auditorium.
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