4th ADAO Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference

Advance to Prevent, Detect, and Treat Asbestos-related Diseases and Trauma 

Detroit, Michigan

March 28 – 30, 2008

 

Session I: Introduction

Linda Reinstein, ADAO Executive Director and Co-founder: Welcome

John C. Ruckdeschel, MD, president and CEO, Karmanos Cancer Institute: Welcome

Richard Lemen, PhD, MSPH Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS (Ret.) ADAO Science Advisory Board Co-Chair: Opening Address: History of Asbestos Disease and Preventing Exposure – Prevention Is the Best Cure!

 

Session II: Diagnosis and Treatment

Chair: Michael Harbut, MD, MPH, FCCP

Michael R. Harbut, MD, MPH, FCCP Co-Director, National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers Karmanos Cancer Institute: Non-malignant Asbestos-Related Disease

John C. Ruckdeschel, MD, president and CEO, Karmanos Cancer Institute: Malignant Asbestos-Caused Cancer

Rebecca J.W. Cline, PhD, Senior Scientist, Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Associate Professor of Camily Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University
Psycho-Social Impact of ARD

Linda Reinstein, ADAO Executive Director and Co-Founder: Patient Advocacy and Matrix of Care

Warren Teel, MD, Consultant Physician Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers, Sarnia-Lambton: Pleural Plaques eh? A Canadian Experience Dealing with Asbestos-exposed Workers

Patients Q&A

ADAO Award Presentation

Terry Lynch, Int’l Vice President, Political & Legislative Director/Health Hazard Administrator, Insulators Union: Mesothelioma and the Asbestos Workers: Father, Spouse, Contemporary and Daughter. A Short Story of their Exposure and Disease

 

Session III: North American Action on Asbestos

Chair: Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD

Jim Brophy, PhD Executive Director, Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers, Sarnia: Asbestos Disease in Sarnia Ontario: A Case Study Into a Canadian Blue-Collar Community Living a Preventable Cancer Tragedy

Brad Black, MD, Medical Director, Center for Asbestos Related Disease: CARD Clinic & Community Action in Libby

Aubrey Miller, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Officer & Toxicologist, Environmental Protection Agency: EPA (NOA and Superfund Sites)

Paul Zygielbaum, ADAO Project Manager and Mesothelioma Patient: ADAO Product Testing Report

John Thayer, Former U.S. Capitol Tunnel Worker Supervisor: 2008 Updated: Asbestos Under the Steps of the U.S. Capitol

 

Session IV: Global Contamination and Advocacy

Chair: Laurie Kazan-Allen

Lyle Hargrove, Director of CAW Health and Safety Training Fund and Sari Sairanen, CAW National Health & Safety Director: Case Study: The Canadian Autoworkers’ Asbestos Campaign

Barry Castleman, ScD, Environmental Consultant: U.S. Developments: Legal/Judicial

Dr. Bishakha Ghose, Head, Department of Community Medicine BGC Trust Medical College Chandanaish Chittagong, Bangladesh: Asbestos in Shipbreaking: A Deadly Reality in Bangladesh

Robert Jones, Environmental Researcher – Rhodes University: Trail of Tears: South African Communities at Risk from Environmental Exposures

Laurie Kazan-Allen, International Ban Secretariat: Global Panorama 2008

General Conference Q&A

Concluding Session

Jordan Zevon, ADAO National Spokesperson and Musician

Linda Reinstein, Dr. John C. Ruckdeschel, Dr. Michael Harbut, and Laurie Kazan-Allen

2008 Honorees and Keynote Speaker