To get an idea of the exceptional speakers you’ll see this year, view last year’s 2010 Asbestos Awareness Conference Video Presentation “Asbestos is a Proven Carcinogen” by James Webber, PhD.
James S. Webber, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center, and an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health of the State University of New York at Albany. He is Chair of ASTM Committee D22, which writes consensus standards for asbestos analysis, and is Secretary of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO, where international asbestos methods are developed. He has served as the leader of two EPA peer review panels and is a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board Asbestos Panel. His research has focused on detection of asbestos in unconventional environments as indicators of asbestos contamination in time and space. He is author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed papers on asbestos.