October 31, 2022
- MAPS Spring 2023 Functional & Translational Medicine Conference will be held March 16-18 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year’s conference will have a new look and format. The first day will include an introductory course, the MAPS foundation, and the final ACM course, MAPS in Clinical Practice. This year, MAPS will also feature an advanced course for experienced practitioners covering some of the newest innovations in integrative pediatrics. There will be two days of plenary sessions covering the topic of Chronic Infection, including Lyme disease and Lyme disease co-infections in pediatrics (both the science and practical solutions). Registration for MAPS is currently open.
- The NAST Foundation is offering a new online course that provides an introduction to ABLE accounts. This free 10-minute learning module walks participants through ABLE account benefits and shows how these accounts can empower people with disabilities to save and invest in their future.
- Family ECHO: Autism is a new virtual learning program developed for families and caregivers raising children with autism. The program connects families with an interdisciplinary panel of experts. It is designed to increase autism knowledge, build leadership skills for managing multidisciplinary teams and provide strategies that can be applied to families and their teams. In a series of 75-minute sessions, parents and caregivers will learn, engage, and build skills around four major topics: understanding and managing challenging behaviors, building support for your family, anxiety and autism, and transitioning out of pediatrics.
- Waterkeeper Alliance recently released their joint report, “Invisible, Unbreakable, Unnatural: PFAS Contamination of U.S. Surface Waters.” The report discovered that dangerous PFAS chemicals contaminate 83% of the waters the organization tested across the country. Even more disturbing, in some waterways, PFAS contamination is thousands to hundreds of thousands of times greater than EPA’s health advisory levels. Due to this horrific level of contamination, Waterkeeper Alliance urges Congress to pass the Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act of 2022 to reduce the levels of PFAS entering our waters.
