Pediatric Environmental Health Grand Rounds
Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026
11 a.m. – Noon MT
Presented by: Dalia Nessim, M.D., M.P.H., Dipl. ABLM, FACOEM
Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Preventive, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center
Tyler, Texas
Dr. Nessim is the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency program director at the UT Tyler Health Science Center. She joined the university’s Occupational and Environmental Health Science Department in Sept. 2014 as an assistant professor. She has since participated in resident teaching and clinical activities in the Occupational Health Clinic and Eastman Chemical Company in Longview, Texas. She was the residency associate program director from July 2016 to June 2017 and transitioned to program director in July 2017. She came from a strong background in occupational medicine after receiving her M.D. from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She worked in the field of occupational medicine in Cairo for more than 10 years before arriving to the U.S. She completed her occupational medicine residency training and M.P.H. at UT Health Houston in June 2014. Dr. Nessim is board certified in occupational and environmental medicine, and is actively engaged as a resident preceptor in the OHC, an AOEC clinic, as well as Eastman Chemical Company. She’s a course instructor in the UT Tyler Health Science Center M.P.H. program, and supervises and mentors residents and M.P.H. students in their research projects and capstone and practicum experiences. Her primary focus is building healthy work environments for rural and vulnerable populations. She serves on several UT Tyler Health Science Center councils and committees, and is a TXCOEM (ACOEM Component) delegate to ACOEM.
Presented on Webex: To register for this training session, go to:
https://ttuhscep.webex.com/webappng/sites/ttuhscep/webinar/webinarSeries/register/d2115607ea1b4872af305da86d223269
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Recognize patterns and scope of child agricultural work using current prevalence and epidemiologic data.
- Distinguish key occupational hazards and risk factors associated with child agricultural work across common agricultural settings.
- Implement practical strategies for counseling families on safe product choices and reporting suspected contamination to appropriate public health authorities.
- Accreditation: In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, which is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
- Credit Designation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso designates this activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity awards 1 nursing contact hour.