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13 Lug 2023 10:30

Stima dell'esposizione retrospettiva a PFOA tra i partecipati dello studio sanitario C8

Sala Riunioni B, edificio ZETA - Campus Scientifico via Torino (e Zoom)

Speaker: Hyeong Moo Shin, Baylor University, Texas

Titolo: Stima dell'esposizione retrospettiva a acido perfluoroottanoico (PFOA) tra i partecipati dello studio sanitario C8

The talk will also be available via Zoom 
https://unive.zoom.us/j/81307744303?pwd=WjFLRjFYaHVxYWJYcnAzWElOTEhmQT09
Meeting ID: 813 0774 4303
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Abstract:
In the mid-Ohio Valley in the United States (U.S.), approximately 70,000 people consumed tap water from PFOA-contaminated public water supplies located near a major U.S. fluoropolymer production facility. However, only a one-time blood serum sample was available per participant and most of the health outcomes collected in the C8 Health Project were diagnosed and reported before the collection time of serum samples in 2005-2006. Thus, to examine associations between PFOA exposure and adverse health outcomes, reconstructing year-to-year individual serum concentrations was a key to the entire project. During his upcoming seminar at University of Venice, Prof. Shin will present how he reconstructed historical air and groundwater concentrations in the study area and then reconstructed historical exposures and serum concentrations for the C8 Health Project participants.

Bio Sketch:
Dr. Hyeong-Moo Shin is an environmental health scientist with sub-specialty expertise in exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology and environmental modeling.
Since 2022, Prof. Hyeong Moo Shin has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Science at the Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Previously workerd in the periodo 2016-2022 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas, Arlington.
His major scientific contributions are related to retrospective exposure assessment of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) for use in various epidemiologic studies in the C8 Health Project. Leading exposure studies and collaborating on epidemiologic studies in this project, he published 15 peer-reviewed articles in top journals.

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Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica - Girardi Paolo, Antonio Marcomini

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