Particles & Cancer - Speakers





	Paul J. A. Borm, PhD. Lecturer, Life Sciences, Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences (Zuyd University); Director, Borm Life Sciences to Business BV (NL) Presentations: 1) Carbon black particles as carriers of exogenous substances: hazard assessment and risk evaluation; 2) Mechanism of lung cancer in animal studies. Paul Brandt-Rauf, M.D., ScD. Professor and Chairman of Environmental Health Sciences, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University; Editor, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Presentation: Issues in Academic Publishing Sebastian F. Büchte, PhD. Scientific Staff Member, Institute for Occupational Sciences of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Dortmund; Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Social Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne Presentation: Lung cancer mortality and carbon black exposure – A nested case control study at a German carbon black production plant David C. Christiani, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Presentation: Genetic susceptibility to lung cancer. Elena Gostjeva PhD. Assistant Professor, Biologically Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Techology, USA Presentation: Stem cells as targets of environmental agents Dr. Charles A. Gray, PhD. Vice President, Technology, Cabot Corporation, USA Presentation: Studies of the Robustness of Industrial Aciniform Aggregates - Carbon Black and Amorpous Silicas. Monika Maier, PhD. Toxicologist, Degussa AG: Aerosil & Silanes, Hanau, Germany Presentation: Does lung surfactant promote disaggregation of nanostructured titanium dioxide? Professor Leonard S. Levy, PhD. Institute of Environment and Health, Cranfield University, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, UK Presentation: Regulatory classification of particles and cancer Peter Morfeld, PhD. Institute for Occupational Sciences of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Dortmund; Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Social Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne Presentation: 1) Lung cancer mortality and carbon black exposure – Cox regression analysis of a cohort from a German carbon black production plant; 2) Lung cancer mortality and carbon black exposure – Uncertainties of SMR analyses in a cohort study at a German carbon black production plant Kenneth A. Mundt, PhD. Principal and Director of Epidemiology, ENVIRON International Corporation; Fellow, American College of Epidemiology; Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University Presentation: Cohort Mortality Study of Employees in the US Carbon Black Industry Gunter Oberdoerster, PhD. Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester, USA Presentation: Nano sized particles in the workplace and the environment: cause for concern? Arden Pope, PhD. Mary Lou Fulton Professor, Brigham Young University Presentation: Enviromenmental exposure to particulates and cancer William Thilly, ScD. Professor, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Presentation: Macro epidemiology of lung cancer Elisabete Weiderpass Vainio, M.D. Senior medical officer, Associate Professor of Medical Epidemiology; Cancer Registry of Norway, Norway; Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Presentation: Mortality among European workers in the Titanium Dioxide industry Peter A. Valberg, PhD. Principal, Health Risk Assessment, Gradient Corporation, USA Presentation: Integrating In Vivo, In Vitro, and Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Carcinogenicity of Inhaled Carbon Black David B. Warheit, PhD. Research Fellow, Dupont Haskell Laboratories for Health and Evironmental Sciences, USA Presentation: Charactarization and reclassification of TiO2 related pulmonary lesions Juergen Wellman, PhD. Research Statistician, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Muenster, Germany Presentation: Cancer mortality in German carbon black workers 1976-1998 Pascal Wild, PhD. Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité INRS département Epidémiologie en Entreprises, France Presentation: Lung cancer risk with respect to talc not containing asbestiform fibres: a review of the epidemiological evidence