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Home Clinical Services Pediatric Environmental Health Center
The Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Children's Hospital Boston offers multidisciplinary evaluation and management of children with known or suspected exposure to environmental toxins. Staffed by pediatricians, medical toxicologists, nurses and resource specialists, the center provides medical management for illnesses or intoxications resulting from heavy metals, indoor air pollutants, outdoor pollutants, and adolescent occupational exposures. Specifically, the Pediatric Environmental Health Center coordinates the care of children and adolescents exposed to a wide range of poisons, including:
  • Lead
  • Arsenic
  • Mercury
  • Metals and Minerals
  • Sick Building Syndrome
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
  • Pesticides
  • Volatile Organic Compounds
  • Air Pollutants
  • Waterborne Contaminants
  • Toxic Waste Sites
  • Agricultural Pollutants
  • Paints and Stripping Chemicals
  • Solvents and Degreasers
As a designated Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics) the Pediatric Environmental Health Center provides the comprehensive, coordinated services for children exposed to environmental toxins. Services provided include:
  • Patient Evaluation: Complete history and physical exam
  • Laboratory Testing: Testing for toxic exposures
  • Environmental Assessments: Assistance with arranging for environmental assessments as well as with interpreting results of such assessments
  • Treatment provided by experienced pediatric environmental medicine toxicologists
  • Prevention: Guidance and practical advice for reducing and eliminating exposures
  • Telephone and/or written consultations to treating primary care providers
  • 24 hour telephone access: 1-888-Child14
The center is open for clinical visits Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

To speak with a toxicologist prior to referral, please call:
617-355-8177 (daytime)
888-244-5314 (evening)

For appointments please call our Clinic Coordinator:

Suzanne Giroux 617-355- 8177

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