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Environmental Health Considerations from Mining in the American Southwest | February 12, 2024

Date of Presentation: February 12, 2024

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS  

Keywords: #contamination  #environment  #four corners  #metal  #mining  #southwest  #uranium  

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Credo, PhD, MS-4, seeks to explain pertinent historical mining context in the Four Corners, including uranium. Furthermore, Dr. Credo outlines basic mechanisms leading to environmental contamination from mining, identifies the large prospective cohort studies for environmentally relevant region metals, and describes introductory clinical information including manifestation, management, and potential risks, of discussed metals, and on-going research work in the Four Corners region.

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Dr. Jonathan Credo, PhD

Jonathan Credo received two undergraduate degrees from Northern Arizona University in 2014, one in Chemistry with an emphasis in Biochemistry, ACS Certified, and another in Biomedical Science. In 2015 he was accepted into medical school at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. After passing STEP 1, Jonathan decided to take a research sabbatical that transitioned into a PhD program through the CTS program at the University of Arizona in 2018.

He has been in research since 2010, with most of that time working on environmental contamination in tribal communities with a focus on water contaminants across the Navajo Nation. In addition to this work, Jonathan has conducted research at NIH in Bethesda, MD on stem cell physiology as well as research at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines utilizing amphibians as a model organism for pesticide exposure in humans. His dissertation research focuses on the impact of agrichemicals on vulnerable human populations and how they disseminate into the environment. After completing his PhD, he plans to complete his MD and focus on research related to ecotoxicology and environmental medicine in vulnerable populations.

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Date added: February 12, 2024