Posted on February 13, 2019
ADAO 15th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference
“Where Knowledge and Action Unite”
April 5 – 7, 2019
Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel
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The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is proud to present a weekly series “Meet the Speakers and Honorees,” which will highlight the esteemed participants of our highly anticipated 15th Annual International Asbestos Awareness & Prevention Conference! The ADAO conference, which will take place on April 5-7, 2019 in Washington, D.C., combines 30 expert opinions, victims’ stories, and new technological advancements from 10 countries across the globe into one united voice raising awareness about asbestos. ADAO is the only U.S. nonprofit that organizes annual conferences dedicated solely to preventing asbestos exposure and eliminating asbestos-caused diseases. Register here today! 
Session 2 Speakers: Dr. Eduardo Algranti, Dr.Daniela Degiovanni, Geoff and Karen Grant, and Dr. Jacqueline Moline
Session 2 Moderator: Dr. Christine Oliver
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Eduardo Algranti, MD, is a graduate in medicine from the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo (1975). After a 3-year residence period in Internal Medicine and Pulmonology at Santa Casa, São Paulo, he spent a two-year training period at the late MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit in Penarth, UK. He got his Master’s in Pulmonology from the University of Wales (1982) and his PhD in Collective Health from the Universidade de São Paulo (1991). His area of expertise is Pulmonology with a major interest in occupational respiratory diseases. He is a NIOSH Certified B Reader since 1988. Since 1984 he works as a medical researcher at the Division of Medicine, FUNDACENTRO, a public institution whose field is Health at Work, where he developed the area of Occupational Respiratory Diseases. He runs an outpatient clinic in occupational respiratory diseases s, clinical research projects, advisory and training focusing mainly on the following topics: the ILO radiological classification, exposure to silica, exposure to asbestos, work-related asthma. Eduardo was the former Director of FUNDACENTRO WHO Collaborating Centre in Occupational Health until 2017.
Daniela Degiovanni, MD, received her degree in medicine and surgery in 1977 and subsequently her specialty in Oncology. Since 1978, she has been involved in assistance to patients with mesothelioma and asbestos-related diseases in Casale Monferrato. She has worked at the Santo Spirito Hospital there. Since 2006 she has been director of the Hospice and of the program for home Palliative Care. Because of the great need in the community, Daniela founded VITAS, a voluntary association made up of doctors, nurses, psychologists and physiotherapists dedicated to home care for patients in advanced and terminal stages of diseases and their families. For these activities over the past 40 years, in 2018 she was awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella.
Geoff and Karen Grant:
Karen Grant was diagnosed with bi-lateral mesothelioma at the age of 29. She underwent an aggressive experimental surgery performed by the late Dr. David J. Sugarbaker and has been cancer free for 15 years. Although she has disabilities that she deals with on a daily basis, she doesn’t let that stop her from doing what she loves. Since 2012, Karen can rarely be found without her camera in hand. She loves to photograph anything that catches her eyes, but her interest is primarily with flowers and butterflies. Karen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Curry College. She has worked at various radio stations and at Apple, Inc. as a Mac Specialist teaching Apple software classes in retail.
Geoffrey Grant has been a caregiver for 20 years. First to his late mother and currently to his wife Karen. Geoffrey had taken his taken his knowledge of caregiving recently published a book called The Intentional Caregiver. He also provides workshops, coaching and seminars for caregivers. Geoffrey has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Curry College.
Jacqueline Moline, M.D., M.Sc. is an Occupational Medicine specialist and Professor of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention and Internal Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. She obtained her medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago. She completed residencies in Internal Medicine at Yale University and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she obtained her Master’s of Science degree. She is the former Director of the NIOSH funded New York/New Jersey Education and Research Center in Occupational Safety and Health. After 19 years on the faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, she joined Northwell Health as the founding Chairperson of the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention. Dr. Moline continues to maintain a clinical practice, focusing on patients with occupational exposures such as asbestos. Since 2001, many of Dr. Moline’s endeavors have been centered on the medical evaluation and treatment of World Trade Center (WTC) responders. While at Mount Sinai she directed the WTC health program, which she now runs at Northwell Health in Queens, NY. In 2010, Dr. Moline was the recipient of the Kehoe Award of Merit from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine for significant contributions to research in the field of occupational and environmental medicine and she has received numerous awards for her service to WTC responders.
Christine Oliver, MD, MPH, MS is President of Occupational Health Initiatives, Inc. She is an adjunct professor in the Occupational and Environmental Health Division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON. Dr. Oliver is a member of the Ontario Task Force on Environmental Health and a consultant to Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW). She was formerly an associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Division) at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Oliver’s primary specialty is occupational and environmental medicine, with an emphasis on occupational lung disease. Dr. Oliver is a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini and has done research and published in the area of occupational lung disease, with a focus on asbestos-related disease. She has lectured frequently on this topic, including more recently the determination of risk for asbestos-related lung cancer. Dr. Oliver has testified before Congress and OSHA on issues related to asbestos and other workplace exposures.
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Check back next week for the third installment of “Meet the Speakers and Honorees” featuring our 2019 conference Session 3 speakers.
In unity,
Linda