PROBLEM: There is a gap in education for health professionals and communities about the effects of the environment on childhood cancers.
SOLUTION: Mark Miller, MD, MPH, Project Lead of PEHSU’s Childhood Cancer and the Environment project, along with Nikki Woods, DO, PEHSU Champion, led a full day training for health care providers from Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City in March 2025.
IMPACT: The training is the first phase of the development of a consultative service on childhood cancer and the environment at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, so that clinicians can protect their child cancer patients’ health, by taking environmental health histories. This phase of the project is an expansion of a similar successful effort by Dr. Miller and team at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital (BCM/TCH), where environmental health histories are underway, led by Omar Shakeel, MD, a pediatric oncologist and head of the survivorship clinic.