Biographies of Speakers

Stephanie M. Chalupka, Ed.D, A.P.R.N., B.C., C.N.S., F.A.A.O.H.N

Dr. Chalupka, a Professor of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, also holds an appointment as a Visiting Scientist in Occupational and Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a certified community health clinical specialist who served as a municipal health department director for 14 years before becoming a nurse educator. Dr. Chalupka has extensive experience training health professionals in environmental health, particularly children’s environmental health. She is the author of many peer- reviewed publications in environmental health nursing, including the Core Curriculum in Environmental Health for Nurses that was funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Chalupka has taught the Core Curriculum in 26 states, and completed an extensive evaluation of its impact on professional practice and institutional policy. Dr. Chalupka serves as a member of the American Nurses Association Task Force to revise the ANA Public Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice. She has provided public health nursing consultation to several state health departments including the Vermont Department of Health in the Environmental Health Nurse Designee Program.

Dr. Joel Tickner

An assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Dr. Tickner is also a principal investigator at the Lowell Center For Sustainable Production. His training is in toxics chemicals policy, epidemiology, risk assessment, and pollution prevention. He teaches and conducts trainings in a variety of environmental health topics including risk assessment, toxic substances policy, children’s environmental health and pollution prevention. He has over 100 publications and conference presentations on the topics of pollution prevention, risk assessment, toxic chemicals policy, and uncertainty and the precautionary principle. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, is a peer reviewer for journals and government documents and serves on the EPA’s National Pollution Prevention and Toxics Advisory Committee.

Dr. David Turcotte

Program manager at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Center for Family, Work, and Community, Dr. Turcotte has over 20 years experience in developing and organizing training and education programs for a variety of professionals. He directed a healthy homes demonstration program that trained home health care professionals and other staff on the detection and prevention of residential environmental health hazards. Dr. Turcotte conducts workshops on a variety of healthy homes issues and health hazards and serves as project evaluator for NIEHS funded initiative to address environmental and occupational hazards facing the Brazilian immigrant community. He ihas a strong research interest on the health impacts of the built environment.

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