Mercury Poisoning with Dental Amalgam, the Hidden River Health Challenge
March 6, 2014
Hosted by Rob Moir
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Episode Description
Laura Henze Russell, Director of ORI’s Hidden River Health Challenge, spoke with Rob about good health, integrated care and making chronic diseases history. Two MA Bills have been filed to protect the public from undisclosed health risks of mercury dental amalgam. Laura has met with the MA Dept. of Public Health and Executive Office of Health & Human Services to discuss broader reforms to integrate dental plans into health care and make it subject to medical necessity, patient rights and data-driven outcomes. Laura has a Warrant before Sharon Town Meeting asking President Obama for a Surgeon General Report on Dental Amalgam and Mercury Health Risks. Laura is reaching out to additional organizations to work For Good Health, attending the MA Health Policy Commission, and advocating for the Women’s Health Equity Plan to include gender, genes and toxins. The FDA was just sued for failing to respond a petition to reconsider its flawed 2009 Class II ruling after 54 months.
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Rob Moir
Rob Moir is director and founder of the Ocean River Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Moir, an educator and scientist, has been a leader of citizen science and efforts to clean up Salem Sound and Boston Harbor, as founder of Salem Sound Harbor Monitors & Salem Sound 2000, later president of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, and through his appointment by the Secretary of Interior to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. He was formerly Curator of Natural History at the Peabody Essex Museum, Curator of Education at the New England Aquarium and Executive Director of the Discovery Museums in Acton, MA. Dr. Moir was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship from the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation, and the James Centorino Award for Distinguished Performance in Marine Education by the National Marine Educators Association, which he later served as president. He was Sea Education Association’s first assistant scientist to work consecutive voyages of the R.V. Westward in 1979 and 1980, an advancement officer for his alma mater, Hampshire College and serves today on the boards of his alma mater, Cambridge School of Weston, Ocean Champions, and the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters. Dr. Moir has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies and a Masters of Science and Teaching from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH and certificate of studies from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
