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Center Chalk Talks: Nicholas Nassikas, MD
October 25, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Our monthly Center Chalk Talks series (4th Wednesdays) is a chance for members and affiliates to showcase the exciting research they are working on and solicit collaboration. This month, Nicholas Nassikas, MD, instructor in Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will present his work on: Climate, Air Pollution, and Pollen: Influence of environmental exposures on childhood respiratory health
Nick Nassikas is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focus is on climate change, air pollution, and asthma. He joined the faculty at Beth Israel in 2021 after completing his medical training at Brown University. While at Brown, he worked under the mentorship of Greg Wellenius, who is now at BU, and collaborated with researchers and scientists at the US EPA. His current mentors include Mary Rice and Diane Gold as he works in the Massachusetts-based cohort, Project Viva. He received a Harvard-NIEHS Center pilot grant this year to study climate, air pollution, and greenspace and neighborhood context in a large national cohort called Lung VITAL.
For more information, email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu.
*This event will take place on a Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict. We will return to 4th Wednesdays in 2023.