44th Annual Scientific Meeting

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hess Building Davis Auditorium

1470 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

April 19, 2024

Use of Wearables and Sensors for Exposomic, Occupational and Environmental Health Research

Organized by:

  New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center

  NIEHS New York Training Center in Emerging Technologies in Industrial Hygiene 

  Mount Sinai Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics 

  Conduits: Mount Sinai Health System Translational Science Hub 

  Mount Sinai Center for Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS)

8:30 AM            Registration, Coffee, Poster Sessions

9:00 AM            Welcome

9:10 AM            Looking to the Future of Environmental Health Sciences

                         Dr. Richard Woychik, NIEHS

9:30 AM           NIOSH Sensor Initiative

                         Dr. Emanuele Cauda – NIOSH

10:00 AM          International Perspectives and Efforts

                         Dr. Miranda Loh – Institute of Medicine, UK

10:30 AM          Ethics on the Use of Wearables Devices

                         Dr. Karel Van Damme, Belgium

11:00 AM          Break

11:30 AM          Evaluation of TVOCs in Nail Salon Workers

                         Dr. Brian Pavilonis, CUNY SPH

12:00 PM          Use of Low-cost aerosol monitors in the Workplace

                         Dr. Sinan Sousan, East Carolina University

12:30 PM          Applied Use of Wearable Sensors in Exposomic and Occupational and 

                         Environmental Health Studies

                         Dr. Homero Harari, Mount Sinai

1:00 PM            Lunch

2:00 PM            Ergonomic Assessment using Wearable Devices

                         Dr. Jonathan Dropkin, Mount Sinai

2:30 PM           exposoME app and Geospatial Analysis

                         Dr. Itai Kloog, Mount Sinai

3:00 PM           Environmental Monitoring Utilizing Low-cost sensors

                          Dr. Misti Levy Zamora, University of Connecticut

3:30 PM            Break

3:45 PM            Perspectives from Workers and Community Stakeholders

                         Moderated discussion:     Arturo Archila, USW and Labor Institute

                         TBD - Adhikaar Miranda Loh, IOM, UK

5:00 PM            Conclusions and Adjournments

Agenda is subject to change.