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Our Rochester Office of the Western NY Lead Poisoning Resource Center provides services to 9 counties, and the Buffalo Office covers 8 counties. The NYS Department of Health renewed our contract along with the other Regional Lead Resources Centers for an additional five years.

Our second newsletter is here! Lead for Healthcare Providers - Fall 2016
A grant from the Wilson Community Foundation allowed the WNY Lead Poisoning Resource Center to offer a blood testing at Rochester Head Start centers for young children attending Head Start and their siblings. The testing events occurred at eight Head Start centers in Rochester from mid-Sept to mid-Nov. UR Medicine Labs sent phlebotomists for the testing events. Six of the Head Start centers are operated by Action for a Better Community, one by Ibero-American Action League, and one by Volunteers of America.

We participated in the 10 year anniversary of the City of Rochester's Lead Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Ordinance! Read the story in the Democrat and Chronicle.

MedPage Friday Feedback quotes both Dr. Schaffer and Dr. Cory-Slechta
WXXI AM 1370 Connections with Evan Dawson featured Dr. Schaffer and other members of the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning on the topic: Flint, Rochester, and the Lead Problem.

The Lead Storyboard visited all eight Wayne County Head Start locations to help educate families about lead poisoning prevention.

Lena the Lion gave out coloring books for Lead Poisoning Prevention Week at AC-6 and Golisano Children's Hospital's trick or treat for children in the hospital.

Lead Storyboard at Baby Cafe Grand Opening on Aug 7th, Doemann Library, Bath NY and Wayne County Fair, Palmyra NY, August 10-15.

Thanks to all who participated in our May 15th conference: Collaboration to Overcome Lead Poisoning - The 2015 Upstate NY Lead Conference! Access video and downloadable materials.
Jennifer Becker presented at the Finger Lakes Area Immunization Conference on May 20th; Lead An Ongoing Threat to Children's Health.

Online registration is open for our upcoming conference on May 15th: Collaboration to Overcome Lead Poisoning - The 2015 Upstate NY Lead Conference. This is made possible by a grant from the Wilson Community Pediatrics Fund

On March 4th, Dr. Schaffer presented at the NYS Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Council meeting in Albany. The Council is mandated by Section 1370-b of the NYS Laws of 1992. Its purpose is to review current childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts on the part of the New York State Department of Health and discuss future strategies to reduce or eliminate the risk of lead hazard exposure. View a video of the meeting
At this meeting New York State also released the following statewide data:

Childhood Blood Lead Testing and Incidence of Blood Lead Levels of 10 mcg/dL or Greater by Zip Code: Beginning 2003
Childhood Blood Lead Testing and Incidence of Blood Lead Levels of 10 mcg/dL ir Greater by County Map 2012
New York State Community Health Indicator Reports - Child and Adolescent Health Indicators
- Percentage of children more in 2009 with a lead screening by 9 months
- Percentage of children more in 2009 with a lead screening aged 10-17 months
- Percentage of children more in 2009 with a lead screening aged 18-35 months
- Percentage of children more in 2009 with at least two lead screenings by 36 months
- Incidence of confirmed high blood lead level (10 micrograms or higher per deciliter) - rate per 1,000 tested children aged <72 months

Dan Telvock of Buffalo's Investigative Post interviews Dr. Schaffer in this three-part series on lead paint contamination in Buffalo (see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)

Facebook page launched! Like us for updates on lead’s health effects and how to prevent exposure.

Time Warner Cable News and WXXI radio interviewed Dr. Schaffer about a recently published research article: Blood Lead Concentrations and Children’s Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Cohort Study. Jianghong Liu, PhD et al. JAMA Pediatr.

Dr. Schaffer, Dr. Byron Kennedy, and Elizabeth McDade speak about 2013 Monroe County Blood Lead Levels
WXXI’s Need to Know Rochester features lead poisoning including interviews with Dr. Stanley Schaffer, Director of the WNY Lead Poisoning Resource Center and Deborah Solomon, Assistant Principal at RCSD School #10. (at 0:50-11:10 on the video)

Through successful collaborations involving the Monroe County Department of Public Health, the City of Rochester, Rochester’s Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, the WNY Lead Poisoning Resource Center, our local insurers, and a host of other community organizations, Monroe County children’s average blood lead levels have fallen much faster over the last decade than have the average blood lead levels for NY State children and US children as a whole. See this article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Monroe County Blood Lead Testing Data 2001-2013
Childhood Lead Toxicity Update - presentation to Seneca County HHS In-service by Dr. James Campbell

The Pediatric Grand Rounds presentation “Lead Poisoning in 2013 – It Ain’t What It Used to Be” is available for CME credit to doctors and nurses who register.
Dr. Schaffer’s presentation at Finger Lakes Coalition to Stop Lead Poisoning Conference, October 2012 “Lead Poisoning: Where are We Now? Where are We Going?”