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1529 Environment, Stress and Brain Body Relationships: Presentation by Calderón-Garcidueñas
Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The University of Montana
Dr Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas received her MD from the National University of Mexico in Mexico City and her PhD in Toxicology from the University of North Carolina. Her pathology and neuropathology training were done at the University of Toronto, Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts at Worcester. She also has a BA in English Literature and a Masters in Comparative Literature reflecting her second love: literature. Upon completion of her PhD she went on to do a postdoctoral training in Environmental Pathology also at UNC. She currently holds an Associate Professorship position at the University of Montana, and she continuous her research pediatric agenda at the National Institute of Pediatrics in Mexico City. Her main interest focus on the chronic health effects of air pollution on pediatric healthy populations and the brain neuroinflammatory effects have been at the core of her work in the last 5 years. Exposure to air pollutants should be considered a risk factor for Alzheimer and Parkinson’s diseases and children develop brain structural abnormalities and cognitive deficits if exposed to significant concentrations of urban pollution.
