:: X2009 CONFERENCE ::

X2009 Sixth International Conference on Innovations in Exposure Assessment August 17 – 20, 2009 • Boston, MA
	Conference Program Program Keynote Speaker Highlighted Keynote Themes Session Highlights Highlighted Keynote Theme 1: Exposure Biology Keynote Speaker: S. M. Rappaport, PhD (University of. California, Berkeley, USA) Health professionals have long been interested in the connections between exposures to hazardous chemicals and the levels of these substances, their products, and the damage they cause inside the body. Exposure biology is a term that has recently been used to encompass these connections between the external and internal worlds as well as the joint effects resulting from environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors. This session will discuss the concepts of exposure biology and will highlight recent applications of exposure biology that address the relevance of methods for assessing chemical exposures. Highlighted Keynote Theme 2: Determinants of Exposure Keynote Speaker: Hans Kromhout, PhD (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Highlighted Keynote Theme 3: Biomechanical Exposures Keynote Speaker: Jack Dennerlein, SM, PhD (Harvard University, USA) Highlighted Keynote Theme 4: Occupational Exposure Assessment Strategies Keynote Speaker: Chair, Martha Waters, PhD, MPH, CIH, CDC NIOSH In times of constrained resources, how can sampling strategies be optimized to identify unacceptable exposures at the lowest cost? Can these strategies be improved to balance the power and costs of the survey? Can valid decisions to prevent overexposures be made based upon small sample sizes? The X2009 Keynote Theme #4 (Occupational Exposure Assessment Strategies) will address these questions. Chaired by Martha Waters, Ph.D., the lead NIOSH researcher in the revision of the NIOSH Sampling Strategy Manual, this session will provide the forum for discussion on comprehensive EA strategies with four presenters discussing criteria, strengths, limitations, knowledge gaps, applicability, and validation issues. Invited Presenters Perry Logan (3M) will present Professional judgment in exposure assessment: standardizing, quantifying, and calibrating John Cherrie (Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh) will describe Bayesian approaches to occupational exposure assessment: when data are sparse Pia Markkanen (University of Massachusetts – Lowell) will describe Methods for qualitative measures informing quantitative measures in occupational health, with a case study Ema Rodrigues (Harvard School of Public Health) will discuss the Interaction of work factors with exposure data in occupational studies For more information, please contact us at • CCPE Dept. A • 677 Huntington Avenue • Boston, Massachusetts 02115 • USA • phone: 617-384-8692 • fax: 617-384-8690 • email: contedu@hsph.harvard.edu • web: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe