2003
September
Eurotox 2003—41st Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology. September 28–October 1, 2003, Florence, Italy.
For further information, contact the Eurotox 2003 website: www.eurotox2003.org or the Eurotox 2003 Organizing Secretariat at Tel.: +39-02-29006267: Fax: +39-02-29007018; E-mail: [email protected]
November
5th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries. November 10–13, 2003, Guilin, China. Congress website: www.ciccst.org.cn/5ctdc.
Draft 5Ctdc Scientific Programme
General Structure
4 symposia-4 presentations à 30 min each, total 16 speakers
5 workshops-4 presentations à 30 min each, total 20 speakers
Plenary lectures-5 presentations à 40 min, total 5 speakers
1 Toxicology information resources session (90 min)
1 Toxicology education roundtable discussion (5 presentations à 10 min+40 min discussion)
1 Poster session with parallel sub-sessions
2 Education Courses (on Monday)
Plenary Lectures
Plenary Lecture 1: Junshi Chen, Beijing, P.R. China: Challenges to developing countries after joining WTO: risk assessment of chemicals in food
Plenary Lecture 2: Vera da Costa e Silva, Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: Tobacco-induced burden of disease in developing countries
Plenary Lecture 3: Tim Meredith, Director, International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: Pesticide poisonings in developing countries-challenges and opportunities
Plenary Lecture 4: Mark Bashor, Director, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, USA: Preparedness for Massive Toxicological Emergencies in Developing Countries
Plenary Lecture 5: Irma Makalinao, National Poisons Control & Information Service, Phillipines: The protection of children's environmental health in developing countries: roles of the poison control centres
Plenary Lecture 6: Ken Olden, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA: Toxicological research challenges in developing countries (speaker not confirmed)
Symposia
Symposium 1: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water in Developing Countries
Symposium 2: Occupational Health Challenges in Developing Countries
Symposium 3: Pesticides and Health Risks in Developing Countries
Symposium 4: Contribution of Life Style Factors for Acquired Susceptibility to Environmental Disease in Developing Countries
Workshops
Workshop 1: Safety Issues in the Use of Herbals in Medicine and Foods
Workshop 2: Waterborne Diseases Versus Chlorination By-products
Workshop 3: Poison Control Services in Developing Countries
Workshop 4: Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollutants in Developing Countries
Workshop 5: Evaluation of Genetic Risks of Environmental Compounds Using Laboratory Models with Human Cells
Toxicology Information Resources Session
Philip Wexler, National Library of Medicine, Rockville, USA: TOXNET and other web-based toxicology information resources from the US National Library of Medicine
Bert Hakkinen, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, USA: Global information resources for exposure analysis
Ted Junghans, Technical Resources International, Bethesda, USA: Information resources in cancer and carcinogenesis
Toxicology Education Roundtable Discussion
Torbjörn Malmfors, Malmfors Consulting AB, Stockholm, Sweden: Teaching and learning methods in toxicology
Takemi Yoshida, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan: Toxicology education in Asia
Judith MacGregor, Toxicology Consulting Services, Rockville, USA: How should toxicologists continue their education?
A. Wallace Hayes, Harvard School of Public Health, Andover, USA: What will happen with textbooks in toxicology in the future?
Paul Wright, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia: Distance teaching/learning via internet
Continuing Education Courses
2 courses based on invited lectures (in preparation)
Detailed Structure of Symposia and Workshops
Svmposium 1: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water in Developing Countries
Yajuan Xia, Institute of Endemic Diseases, Nei Mon Autonomous Region, P.R. China: Occurrence of arsenic in groundwater
Marie Vahter, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden: Toxicokinetics of arsenic in experimental animals and humans
Michael Waalkes, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, USA: Mechanisms underlying arsenic carcinogenesis
Allan H. Smith, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA: Arsenic epidemiology and drinking water standards
Symposium 2: Occupational Health Challenges in Developing Countries
Byung-Mu Lee, Division of Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Sunkyuankwan University, Suwon, Korea: Occupational health in small scale workshops
Meryl Karol, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA: Occupational allergies
You-Xin Liang, Medical School of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China: Occupational health services in China
Jorma Rantanen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland: Collaboration challenges between developing and developed countries in the field of occupational health
Symposium 3: Pesticides and Health Risks in Developing Countries
Pierre Guillet, Roll Back Malaria, Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: Malaria control-achievements, problems and strategies
P.K. Gupta, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, IVRI, Izatnagar, India: Pesticide exposure-Indian scene
Sameeh Mansour, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt: Pesticide exposure–Egyptian scene
Alan Boobis, Section on Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom: Chronic health effects from pesticide exposure
Geero Vagt, FAO, Rome, Italy: Regulative frameworks for pesticide control in developing countries
Symposium 4: Contribution of Life Style Factors for Acquired Susceptibility to Environmental Disease in Developing Countries
William Au, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA: Genetic and acquired susceptibility to environmental disease
Elaine Faustman, Institute of Risk Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, USA: Considerations of cultural and lifestyle factors in defining susceptible populations for environmental disease
James Felton, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Livermore, USA: Interaction between environmental toxicants and dietary mutagens and contaminants on development of cancer
Lynette R. Ferguson, The University of Auckland Medical School, Auckland, New Zealand: Dietary cancer and prevention using antimutagens
Workshop 1: Safety Issues in the Use of Herbals in Medicine and Foods
Shilin Hu, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, P.RChina: Safety evaluation of herbal products in China
Corrado Galli, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Italy: Safety evaluation of herbal medicines in the European Union
Robert Kroes, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands: Safety issues of plant ingredients for functional foods
Fumio Ikegami, Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan: Toxicological considerations of herbal medicines in clinical use
Workshop 2: Waterborne Diseases Versus Chlorination By-products
Nicholas J. Ashbolt, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia: Microbial contamination of drinking water and disease outcomes in developing countries
Hannu Kuomolainen, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland: Experimental cancer studies of chlorination by-products
C.Y. Yang, School of Public Health, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan: Cancer and reproductive outcomes in epidemiological studies of exposure to chlorination by-products
John C. Lipscomb, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, USA: Risk analysis of drinking water microbial contamination vs. chlorination by-products (speaker not confirmed)
Workshop 3: Poison Control Services in Developing Countries
Hans Persson, Uppsala, Sweden: Introduction
Rahmat Awang, National Poison Centre, Malaysia: What is a poison control centre and what is it conventional role?
Edith Clarke, Ministry of Health, Ghana: The experience of starting a poison control centre in Africa
Amalia Laborde, CIAT, Uruguay: New roles for poison control centres in developing countries
Yiqun Wu, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, China: The experience in China in setting up a network of poison control centres
Alan Woolf, Cambridge, USA: Conclusions and summing-up
Workshop 4: Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollutants in Developing Countries
Kirk R. Smith, Environmental Health Sciences University of California, Berkley, USA: Exposures and health outcomes from outdoor air pollutants in developing countries (speaker not confirmed)
Xinzhou He, Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China: Molecular epidemiological studies on the relationship between indoor coal burning and lung cancer in China
Uwe Heinrich, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology, Hanover, Germany: Health effects of combustion particles-animal experiments
Klea Katsouyanni, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens, Greece: Health effects of combustion particles-epidemiological studies (speaker not confirmed)
Workshop 5: Evaluation of Genetic Risks of Environmental Compounds Using Laboratory Models with Human Cells
Siegfried Knasmüller, Institute of Tumor Biology, University of Vienna, Austria: Use of human cell lines in genetic toxicology
Volker H. Mersch-Sundermann, Department of Indoor and Environmental Toxicology, University of Giessen, Germany: Human cell models for the evaluation of cogenotoxic and antigenotoxic effects of environmental compounds
Sebastian Kevekordes, Medical Institute of General Hygiene and Environmental Health, University of Goettingen, Germany:Use of primary human cells for the estimatiion of exposure to genotoxic compounds
Lu Wenqing, Department of Environmental Health Science, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China: Estimation of DNA damaging properties of complex environmental mixtures using human and mammalian cells
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