Jerome A. Paulson, MD, FAAP

Pediatric Environmental Health

The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) form a respected network of experts in children's environmental health. The PEHSU were created to ensure that children and communities have access to, usually at no cost, special medical knowledge and resources for children faced with a health risk due to a natural or human-made environmental hazard. Dr. Jerome Paulson, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences joins the show.

Jerome A. Paulson, MD is associate professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and Associate Professor of Prevention & Community Health and Research Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at the GW School of Public Health & Health Services. He is the Medical Director for National & Global Affairs of the Children’s Health Advocacy Institute at the Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Paulson is one of the co-directors of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, one of ten pediatric environmental health specialty units in the US. He serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee for the US Environmental Protection Agency. In October 2004 he was a Dozor Visiting Professor at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. He lectured there and throughout Israel on children’s environmental health. He was a recipient of a Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians from the Open Society Institute and worked with the Children’s Environmental Health Network, and has also served as a special assistant to the director of the National Center on Environmental Health of the CDC working on children’s environmental health issues. He has developed several new courses for the GW School of Public Health about Children’s Health and the Environment. He is the editor of the October, 2001 and the February and April 2007 editions of Pediatric Clinics of North America on children’s environmental health. He has served on numerous boards and committees related to children’s environmental health.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

7 / 8 / 2009