The Iowa Cancer Consortium’s Cancer and the Environment Task Force is hosting a summer webinar series, “Strategies to Reduce Environmental Cancer Risk,” that highlights actions from the individual to the institutional level that can be taken to better understand and reduce environmental and occupational exposures to cancer-causing substances. 

Join us for our fourth and final presentation from Kymberly Life, DO, and Arthur Zacharjasz, ARNP-BC, from Mahaska Health’s Occupational Health Team. Their team provides comprehensive health and wellness services for employee wellness including evaluation and treatment of work-related injuries, respiratory physicals, hazardous materials examinations, and other preventative health services. We will learn more from them on how to conduct an exposure history and how this tool can help determine cumulative cancer risk and intervention strategies that reduce environmental and occupational exposures to carcinogens.  

The goal of the Iowa Cancer Consortium’s Cancer and the Environment Task Force is to connect partners with resources, knowledge, and collaboration opportunities that help them succeed in practicing cancer control work through an environmental and occupational health lens, and vice versa. Learn more about the Task Force here.

More about our speakers:  

Dr. Kymberly Life is an internist by training and enjoys working with her patients to determine the best treatment plan that fits their needs. Dr. Life is certified by the American Board of Osteopathic Internal Medicine with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Occupational & Environmental Medicine from the American Osteopathic Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Life values the importance of a healthy lifestyle and when not at work, enjoys spending time outdoors and riding her bicycle. 

Arthur Zacharjasz grew up in Illinois and worked as an intensive care unit nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Zacharjasz graduated with honors from DePaul University with a Master of Science in nursing and went on to earn his Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner license from North Park University School of Nursing. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Missouri Columbia where his research interests include rural health, social determinants of health, and health equity. In his free time, he enjoys the disc golf course at Edmundson Park, reading, and spending time with his family and wife.

Content Disclaimer: The Iowa Cancer Consortium, the state of Iowa’s comprehensive cancer coalition, is a non-partisan, non-political organization and does not use state or federal funds to engage in lobbying. The Consortium’s Cancer and the Environment Task Force’s role is to connect partners with resources, knowledge, and collaboration opportunities that help them succeed in practicing cancer control work through an environmental and occupational health lens, and vice versa. The opinions and interpretation of the information shared by speakers and attendees in this webinar series do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Iowa Cancer Consortium, its board of directors, members, or staff.