News & Updates

2024

• Check out this article, "Strategies to Help a Child Who is Fearful of Vaccines," by our Director, Dr. Sandra Jee, in Kids Out & About!

2023

Finger Lakes Lead Summit

The Finger Lakes Lead Summit brought together 46 individuals from 27 organizations in Canandaigua on Tuesday September 19, 2023 to partner for increasing protection of rural Finger Lakes families as they deal with lead exposure.

2022

January 2021

• Dr. Jee publishes article in Kids Out and About on "How to Keep Yourself Safe, Healthy, and Sane During the Pandemic"
• Summary of our FLCEHC Project ECHO to date. See our Project ECHO page for more information about this program to educate community healthcare providers and agencies about children's environmental health.

December 2020

• FLCEHC starts monthly service announcements through the Kids Out and About weekly e-newsletter
• Dr. Sandra Jee’s article “Providing trauma-informed pediatric care for underserved populations: Reflections on a teaching intervention” was published in Developmental Child Welfare

November 2020

• Sandra Jee, M.D., M.P.H. becomes Medical Director of the Finger Lakes Children's Environmental Health Center

October 2020

• FLCEHC celebrated Children's Environmental Health Day on October 8, 2020 with other NYSCHECK centers across NYS
• Sandra Jee, M.D., M.P.H. completed NYSCHECK's two year Pediatric Environmental Health Scholar program

September 2020

• Journal of Dentistry for Children published article on "The Importance of Supervising Toothbrush Usage for Young Children at Risk of Lead Toxicity" by FLCEHC Team members Sandra Jee, Rich Miller, Rogelio Perez, Stan Schaffer, Jennifer Becker

April 2020

• Dr. Sandra Jee’s commentary “Just Stand There and Listen” was published in Clinical Pediatrics

January 2020

• Sandra Jee M.D., our FLCEHC Pediatric Environmental Health Scholar, participated in a WXXI Connections panel discussion about "How to have conversations with young people about climate anxiety"

2018

• Annual report of the NYS Children’s Environmental Health Center Network
• Sandra Jee M.D., M.P.H. becomes Pediatric Environmental Health Scholar for the Finger Lakes CEHC

2017

• Beginning of NYS DOH funded 5 year grant - Children’s Environmental Health Center Network. Finger Lakes is one of 7 center across the state. Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning is added as official community partner.

2014

• NYS DOH one year grant begins - Finger Lakes Children’s Environmental Health Center
• Democrat & Chronicle Guest Essay by Ruth Lawrence and Richard K. Miller: "New Centers Could Curb Childhood Diseases"

2013

• New York State’s Children and the Environment Report from the Children’s Environmental Health Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “recommends the creation of a statewide network of Centers of Excellence in Children’s Environmental Health to be funded on a permanent and sustainable basis and coordinated through the New York State Department of Health.”

2007

• Finger Lakes Children’s Environmental Health Center is funded for the first time by NYS DOH.  Partners include the Ruth A. Lawrence Poison and Drug Information Center, the Breastfeeding and Human Lactation Study Center, and Mother to Baby UR Medicine.