Dr. Jane Hightower to be keynote speaker at November Mining Summit

18 August 2010, NEVADA CITY – The Sierra Fund is excited to announce that Dr. Jane Hightower will be a keynote speaker at our November conference Reclaiming the Sierra:  A Gold Country Community Summit on Mining Impacts. 

Dr. Hightower is widely acknowledged as the first US physician to recognize low-level mercury poisoning in patients who regularly consume certain types of fish.   Dr. Hightower’s book, Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison, has been widely acclaimed and has brought the issue of mercury in fish to national attention.