2008 ADAO Asbestos Awareness Conference Agenda: “Where Knowledge and Action Unite” Agenda
4th Annual ADAO International Asbestos Awareness Conference
“Where Knowledge and Action Unite”
March 28 – 30, 2008
Session I | Introduction |
8:30-8:40 | Welcome |
Linda Reinstein, ADAO Executive Director and Co-founder | |
8:40-8:50 | Welcome |
John C. Ruckdeschel, MD, president and CEO, Karmanos Cancer Institute | |
8:50-9:10 | Opening Address: History of Asbestos Disease and Preventing Exposure – Prevention Is the Best Cure! |
Richard Lemen, PhD, MSPH Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS (Ret.) ADAO Science Advisory Board Co-Chair | |
Session II | Diagnosis and Treatment |
Chair: Michael Harbut, MD, MPH, FCCP | |
Asbestos-Related Disease | |
9:10-9:30 | Non-malignant Asbestos-Related Disease |
Michael R. Harbut, MD, MPH, FCCP Co-Director, National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers Karmanos Cancer Institute | |
9:30-9:50 | Malignant Asbestos-Caused Cancer |
John C. Ruckdeschel, MD, president and CEO, Karmanos Cancer Institute | |
9:50-10:10 | Psycho-Social Impact of ARD |
Rebecca J.W. Cline, PhD, Senior Scientist, Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Associate Professor of Camily Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University | |
10:10-10:30 | Patient Advocacy and Matrix of Care |
Linda Reinstein, ADAO Executive Director and Co-Founder | |
10:30-10:50 | Pleural Plaques eh? A Canadian Experience Dealing with Asbestos-exposed Workers |
Warren Teel, MD, Consultant Physician Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers, Sarnia-Lambton | |
11:10-11:40 | Patients Q&A |
11:40-12:10 | ADAO Award Presentation |
12:10-12:30 | “Mesothelioma and the Asbestos Workers: Father, Spouse, Contemporary and Daughter. A Short Story of their Exposure and Disease” |
Terry Lynch, Int’l Vice President, Political & Legislative Director/Health Hazard Administrator, Insulators Union | |
Session III | North American Action on Asbestos |
Chair: Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD | |
1:30-1:50 | Asbestos Disease in Sarnia Ontario: A Case Study Into a Canadian Blue-Collar CommunityLiving a Preventable Cancer Tragedy |
Jim Brophy, PhD Executive Director, Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers, Sarnia | |
1:50-2:10 | CARD Clinic & Community Action in Libby |
Brad Black, MD, Medical Director, Center for Asbestos Related Disease | |
2:10-2:30 | EPA (NOA and Superfund Sites) |
Aubrey Miller, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Officer & Toxicologist, Environmental Protection Agency | |
2:30-2:40 | ADAO Product Testing Report |
Paul Zygielbaum, ADAO Project Manager and Mesothelioma Patient | |
2:40-2:50 | 2008 Updated: Asbestos Under the Steps of the U.S. Capitol |
John Thayer, Former U.S. Captiol Tunnel Worker Supervisor | |
Session IV | Global Contamination and Advocacy |
Chair: Laurie Kazan-Allen | |
3:15-3:30 | Case Study: The Canadian Autoworkers’ Asbestos Campaign |
Lyle Hargrove, Director of CAW Health and Safety Training Fund and Sari Sairanen, CAW National Health & Safety Director | |
3:30-3:45 | U.S. Developments: Legal/Judicial |
Barry Castleman, ScD, Environmental Consultant | |
3:45-4:00 | Asbestos in Shipbreaking: A Deadly Reality in Bangladesh |
Dr. Bishakha Ghose, Head, Department of Community Medicine BGC Trust Medical College Chandanaish Chittagong, Bangladesh | |
4:00–4:15 | Trail of Tears: South African Communities at Risk from Environmental Exposures |
Robert Jones, Environmental Researcher – Rhodes University | |
4:15-4:30 | Global Panorama 2008 |
Laurie Kazan-Allen, International Ban Secretariat | |
4:30-5:00 | General Conference Q&A |
Concluding Session | |
5:00-5:20 | Jordan Zevon, ADAO National Spokesperson and Musician |
5:20-5:30 | Linda Reinstein, Dr. John C. Ruckdeschel, Dr. Michael Harbut and Laurie Kazan-Allen |