News and Events

The Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center holds public meetings to inform the public of our research and to bring the community’s perspective back to the research projects. These meetings are planned and organized by the center’s Community Outreach and Translation Core.

Our last public meeting, a Community Forum featuring Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), was held on November 18, 2009, at Cavallo Point in Sausalito, CA. Additionall, we hosted BCERC’s 6th annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting, November 19-20, 2009, also held at Cavallo Point.

In addition to our public meetings, the COTC, in conjunction with the CYGNET project team, organizes Tea Talks for the girls and their parents participating in the CYGNET study. These Tea Talks provide the girls with an opportunity to meet other girls in the study and allow the parents to ask questions of the researchers. For information on the next scheduled Tea Talk, please contact the CYGNET study staff at (510) 891-3884.

	Past Tea Talks	Location
Oct 2009	One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Safe Seafood Consumption. Gayle Windham, PhD	Aquarium of the Bay, San Francisco, CA
April 2009	Best of Me – Performance by the Kaiser Educational Theater Program	Oakland, CA
Oct 2008	Positive Parenting in Middle Childhood. Julianna Deardorff, PhD and Louise Greenspan, MD	Exploratorium, San Francisco
April 2008	Keeping Physically Active Throughout Life. Barbara Sternfeld, PhD	Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley
Oct 2007	Speaking to Your Daughter About Puberty: It’s Never Too Early to Talk. Louise Greenspan, MD	Bay-Delta Model Museum, Sausalito
March 2007	Measuring Environmental Exposures and Research on Their Health Effects. Gayle Windham, PhD	Hall of Health Museum, Berkeley
Nov 2006	Introduction to the Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC). Janice Barlow, RN History of the CYGNET Study. Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD	UCSF Laurel Heights Campus
June 2006	History of the CYGNET Study and Its Impact on Girls’ Health. Larry Kushi, ScD	Kaiser Permanente, San Rafael Terra Linda Campus
March 2006	History of the CYGNET Study and Its Impact on Girls’ Health. Larry Kushi, ScD	Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Oakland

Stem Cell conference – BABCERC investigator Dr. Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff participated in a stem cell conference organized by Zero Breast Cancer and Dominican University of San Rafael. Video presentations and program information are available at www.dominican.edu/stemcellconference.