in-person
1st International Conference of Environmental Medicine
Environmental Threats To Human Health: From Genetics To Epigenetics
11 - 11 September 2024
Chieti, Italy
Event Announcement
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Welcome from
the chairs
the chairs
The Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA) and the University "Gabriele d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara are glad to present the first International Conference of Environmental Medicine addressing the impacts of environmental exposures on human health in an epigenetic perspective.
The event is organized in collaboration with the Environmental Health Research Organization (EHRO), the Spanish Society of Environmental Medicine and Climate Changes (SESMA), and the Laureate Science Alliance (LSA).
Fostering the application of precautionary principle, our aim is to promote a new vision of medicine and epidemiology focused in primary prevention of the most common diseases or conditions where the role of environmental exposures has been already investigated in medical literature.
Specific preventive actions must be adopted based on risk factors which characterize populations at the local level, also taking into account social determinants of health, as fighting against social inequalities can contribute to prevent diseases and cancers. Public policies should be focused on keeping people healthy.
Therefore, we ask our colleagues worldwide to come together and address the challenge of a new vision of medicine and epidemiology able to change the world. To accomplish this goal, epidemiological observations (which represent the “true facts”) should guide the development of consistent etiological theories for cancer, as well as for all the other conditions which are also dramatically increasing even in paediatric and younger ages, such as malformations, autoimmune and metabolic diseases (including type 1 diabetes) or neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., autism), taking into account the interactions between epigenome, lifestyle and environment. The adoption of this new perspective in medicine and epidemiology will ultimately turn into unexpected opportunities both for pharmacological and non-pharmacological primary prevention, in order to reduce the burden of the new epidemics of the XXI century.
The choice of University of Chieti as conference venue is not a case, as it is internationally recognized in the field of epigenetics.
We are waiting for you in Italy to start changing the world by starting to change the way we look at medicine.
Alessandro Miani (SIMA President)
Prisco Piscitelli (EHRO President)
Liborio Stuppia (Rector of G. D'Annunzio University)
Liborio Stuppia (Rector of G. D'Annunzio University)
Meet Our Speakers
Patronage
General information
Participants
The conference is open to the participation of all the interested people in a multi-disciplinary perspective (medical doctors, biologists, biotechnologists, psychologists, engineers, chemists etc.). For the registration, please use the REGISTRATION FORM and send it to the following email: internationalconference@simaitalia.org
Participation fee
The participation fee is 250 Euros, including conference registration, poster exhibition, lunch buffet and cocktail dinner at the event.
The participation fee must be paid before 10/09/2024 by using the following IBAN entitled to "SIMA":
Account number: 0134444
Name: INTESA SANPAOLO
Agency: 55000- MILAN (Italy)
IBAN: IT14T0306909606100000134444
SWIFT BCITITMM
Students' participation fee is 100 Euros. Participation is free for students, teachers, personnel and hospital staff of "Gabriele D'Annunzio University" as well as for students of the Italian Association of Medical Students (SISM) and International Federation of Medical Students Association (IFMSA).
Abstract Submission
Abstracts of no more than 750 words (no limits for tables and images) can be sent to the following email: internationalconference_abstracts@simaitalia.org
Abstracts should include the following sections: Objective; Methods; Results; Conclusions - All the abstracts selected by the SIMA Scientific Committee will be allowed for the Poster Exhibition section at the conference venue (the format of the posters to be printed by the authors will be communicated with their email of approval).