2025 Annual Conference Highlights

Here are highlights from our Annual Conference on April 9th-11th, 2025 at the Edith Macy Conference Center in Briarcliff Manor, NY.

Thank you to all who joined us!

Welcome & Introductions Maida Galvez & Perry Sheffield
Perry Sheffield
Buffalo Center
Rochester Center
Syracuse Center
Albany Center
Hudson Valley Center
NYC Center
Long Island Center
Coordinators
Summer Academy - Long Island
Summer Academy - Hudson Valley
Scholar Poster Symposium - Lorraine Thibodeau, MD
Scholar Poster Symposium - Rebekah Prasad, FNP, MsPH
Scholar Poster Symposium - Christina Padgett, DO, MHS, FAAP
Scholar Poster Symposium - Zachary Messer, MPH
Scholar Poster Symposium - Olivia Malvasi, MPH
Scholar Poster Symposium - Valdehi Jokhakar, LCSW, MPH
Scholar Poster Symposium - Kelly Galoway, MPH
Scholar Poster Symposium - Emma Chang, MPH, BSN, RN and Hannah Thompson, MD, MPH
Scholars Group Graduation
Mood Boards
Trivia Game!
Group

The goals of the conference were to:

Strengthen relationships and collaborations among NYSCHECK centers.
Demonstrate successes in building the NYS pediatric environmental health (EH) workforce and family services delivered.
Share strategies and actions for 2025-27 to sustain our core work areas in EH screening and prevention, medical education, and community partnerships.
Highlight opportunities for statewide partnerships.

Administrative: Michael Ejiogu and Cassandra Bernardi

Advisors and Facilitators: Perry Sheffield, Maida Galvez, Deborah Nagin and Ellen Tohn

Photography: Stephen De Waal Malefyt