Deirdre Imus

In 2000, Deirdre Imus, founded The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center® at Hackensack University Medical Center - one of the first hospital based programs whose specific mission is to identify, control & ultimately prevent toxic exposures in the environment that threaten our children’s health. Under Deirdre’s leadership, the Center has undertaken important research on environmental chemicals in newborn cord blood, the efficacy and safety of nontoxic treatment of head lice in children, the effects of hormone disrupting chemicals on children’s health and the Center with Rutger’s University doing the first study to explore in utero exposure to BPA substitutes and the first U.S. study to test for BPA in maternal/fetal pairs. In her quest to clean up the environment for our kids, Deirdre developed the award-winning Greening The Cleaning® program and product line that replaces the hazardous ingredients commonly found in cleaning agents with environmentally-responsible, less toxic products wherever possible. The program and products are used throughout the country in schools, healthcare facilities, and businesses. We also help build one of the first green hospital buildings of its scale and size in the country. A great example is the ingenuous recycled cotton denim used as insulation. Deirdre is also the founder of imusenvironmentalhealth.org a resource for healthy living. For 20 years Deirdre Co-Founded/Co-Directed with her late husband Don Imus the Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer, a working cattle ranch for kids with cancer. imus.com She has multiple books on the New York Times bestseller list. Her books include “Green This Series: Greening Your Cleaning, Growing Up Green and The Essential Green You, The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys. Deirdre has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her impact as a leader in the field of environmental health and for raising awareness about childhood chronic illnesses as an environmentalist and children’s health advocate.