11th Annual ADAO International Asbestos Awareness Conference
“Where Knowledge and Action Unite”
April 17 – 19, 2015
Washington, D.C.
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Posted on February 23, 2015
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is proud to present a new weekly series” Meet the Speakers, Honorees, and Leadership,” highlighting one or several attendees at our highly-anticipated 11th Annual International Asbestos Awareness Conference! The ADAO Conference, which will take place on April 17-19, 2015 in Washington, DC, combines over 30 expert opinions, victims’ stories, and new technological advancements from more than 10 countries into one united voice raised for asbestos awareness. ADAO is the only U.S. nonprofit that organizes annual conferences dedicated solely to preventing exposure and eliminating asbestos-caused diseases. Register today! This week, we are featuring our amazing conference Session I Speakers: Earl Dotter, Dr. Arthur Frank, Richard Lemen, PhD, MSPH, Sandra Neuenschwander, Linda Reinstein
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arl Dotter, In 1968 Earl Dotter photographed coal miners, then the most dangerous job in America. After which, he focused on other hazardous jobs in the USA. After 30 years of documentation he created the exhibit and book, THE QUIET SICKNESS: A Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health since his appointment in 1999. In the year 2000, Dotter received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to document commercial fishing. It had become our nation’s most dangerous trade. After 9/11, he photographed the rescue recovery effort at Ground Zero. For that exhibit work he received the APHA’s, Alice Hamilton Award. More recently Dotter has followed the hazardous jobs new immigrants are performing in the USA.
Arthur Frank, MD, PhD and ADAO Science Advisory Board Co-Chair, serves as Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the Drexel University School of Public Health in Philadelphia. Trained in both occupational medicine and internal medicine, Dr. Frank has been interested in the health hazards of asbestos for more than 35 years. He has published a great deal of work on the hazards of asbestos, and clinically cared for asbestos effected patients. He has lectured internationally about the problems of asbestos, and worked in many settings looking at the diseases caused by this material.
Richard Lemen, PhD, MSPH and ADAO Science Advisory Board Co-Chair, is is a former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and also served as the Acting Director and the Deputy Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health before his retirement. He has been a practicing epidemiologist for more than forty years, and has taught graduate level courses on environmental and occupational health issues, including asbestos, at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He has also testified on behalf of asbestos victims; Dr. Lemen is a world-renowned author, speaker, and lecturer on this topic.
Sandra Neuenschwander of Ringgold, Georgia is the mother of 29-year-old Michael Bradley who lost his life to mesothelioma in April 2014. Although her grief is raw, Sandra will speak at the briefing in honor of her son, who, even when he could barely breathe, set his mind on spreading asbestos disease awareness and supporting other victims. Sandra has vowed to continue her son’s fight for a cure and an asbestos ban.
Linda Reinstein, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization Board Member, is the President/CEO and Co-Founder of Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). Reinstein became an activist when her husband, Alan, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2003. She co-founded the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization in 2004, and now serves as President and CEO. Reinstein, a highly sought-after international speaker, has frequently served as a Congressional witness and presented at the Department of Labor (OSHA), British House of Commons, United Nations Congress, American Public Health Association, and to other audiences around the world. Recognized as an expert with more than 35 years of nonprofit experience in building and sustaining grassroots organizations, Reinstein specializes in developing, implementing, and leveraging integrated social media campaigns. Focused on national and international occupational and environmental disease prevention, Reinstein’s proficiency in the powerful advocacy space of online media has greatly increased the effectiveness of ADAO’s core mission of education, advocacy, and community support actions.
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Check back next week for the fourth “Meet the Speakers, Honorees, and ADAO Leadership” blog featuring to our conference Session II Speakers – Moderator: Dr. Christine Oliver and Speakers: Arturo Aguilar, Dr. Brad Black, Dr. Robert Cameron, Prof. Dean Fennell, Dr. Raja Flores, Dra. Guadalupe Madrid, Dr. Aubrey Miller, Celeste Monforton, DrPH, Ellon Patton, Dr. Jorma Rantanen, and Dr. John Wheeler.
In Unity,
Linda
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