Join us for ‘Environmental Toxins and Infertility’ next Wednesday

Oct. 2, 2009

Nurses and fertility patients alike are invited to our Waltham location on Wednesday, Oct. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. to hear new information about the environmental, diet and lifestyle factors that can impact fertility.

This dinnertime lecture, which is hosted by Village Fertility Pharmacy and sponsored by RESOLVE of the Bay State and New England Nurses for Reproductive Medicine, will consist of a buffet dinner from 6 to 7 p.m. Dinner will be followed by presentations from Harvard School of Public Health’s Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH, and Jorge Chavarro, MD, ScD, at the pharmacy’s headquarters at 335 Bear Hill Road in Waltham. Nurses who attend this event will receive continuing education units (CEUs) in the form of 1.5 Contact Hours.

Chavarro is currently an instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is the co-author of The Fertility Diet: Groundbreaking Research Reveals Natural Ways to Boost Ovulation and Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant. At the event on Oct. 7, he will present new information about how diet and lifestyle decisions can affect fertility in both men and women.

Hauser is a professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and will discuss the fertility-impacting endocrine disrupting chemicals found in many everyday items. He will focus on bisphenol A (BPA), a compound used to make plastics, because it has received a lot of scientific and public scrutiny over the past year. He will also share new, unpublished, preliminary data on the association of BPA with in vitro fertilization outcomes, as well as exposure sources of BPA.

Both the dinner and the lecture are free; dinner registration is required by Oct. 5. Those who would like to attend are encouraged to RSVP immediately to Linda Romano at lromano@villagepharmacy.com or by calling (781) 810-4109, as space is limited. For information about Village Fertility Pharmacy or directions to the facility, visit www.villagefertilitypharmacy.com.