Currently, the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA) offers a 3-year pediatric environmental health fellowship training program, and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital offers the general pediatric research fellowship with a strong emphasis on pediatric environmental health.
A graduate of the Green Corps environmental organizing fellowship and Yale University, he has held senior positions in the national environmental movement and is a veteran of many election campaigns.
For this fellowship, environmental medicine is the area of medicine concerned with the development and application of knowledge directed at the etiology, diagnosis, pathophysiologic progression, treatment, and prevention of adverse effects from exposure to toxic agents.
These early ideas were reinforced and given an intellectual framework much later, in 1986, when she was chosen to be part of the Loeb Fellowship in environmental design at Harvard University.
Those feelings are especially potent because Mr. Snyder is not sure what he wants to do with the rest of his life, whether he wants to change fields or take a fellowship in environmental medicine.
Each fellow is expected to participate in supervised clinical activities in environmental pediatrics during the fellowship.
"Emergency responders have not been adequately studied," says Gina Solomon, codirector of the occupational and environmental medicine residency and fellowship program at the University of California, San Francisco, and a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Kinzig's scientific career also seems to be benefiting from the Washington experience: She was awarded the prestigious Aldo Leopold Leadership fellowship for communicating environmental science more effectively to policy-makers, and she is helping to organize an interdisciplinary National Science Foundation (NSF) meeting.
And the Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research has established the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, which includes fellowships for graduate environmental study.
Nonetheless, in the early 2000s, physicians in the United States who were interested in careers in pediatric environmental health could find no formal fellowship training programs.
The Ecological Society of America ESAA) has launched a fellowship program to train experienced environmental scientists in the delicate art of conveying a bottom line to the media and to policy-makers.
