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Project Title: Continuing Assistance to the National Institutes of Health on Preparation of Additional Risk Assessments for the Boston University NEIDL

PIN: DELS-BLS-09-01         

Major Unit:
Division on Earth and Life Studies

Sub Unit:
Board on Life Sciences

RSO:
Sharples, Fran

Subject/Focus Area:
Biology and Life Sciences


Continuing Assistance to the National Institutes of Health on Preparation of Additional Risk Assessments for the Boston University NEIDL
March 19, 2010 - March 19, 2010
NIH Campus
Building 31, 6th Floor Conference Center, Conference Room 6
Bethesda, Maryland


If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Nola Golson
Email: pgolson@nas.edu
Phone: 202.334.1669
Fax: 202.334.2752


Agenda:

NIH Blue Ribbon Panel to Advise on the Risk Assessment of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center

March 19, 2010

NIH Campus
Building 31, 6th Floor Conference Center, Conference Room 6
Bethesda, Maryland


DRAFT AGENDA - Public Session


8:30 AM — Welcome and Purpose of Today’s Meeting
Adel Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, NIH Blue Ribbon Panel
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

8:35 AM — Opening Remarks
John F. Ahearne, Ph.D., Committee Chair, National Research Council

8:40 AM — Roundtable Introduction of Blue Ribbon Panel and National Research Council Members

8:50 AM — Development of the Supplementary Risk Assessment: Recap of Past Activities and Charting the Course Forward
Adel Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D.

Amy P. Patterson, M.D., Acting Director, Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

Karen A. Holbrook, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Innovation,
Office of Research, University of South Florida

Wayne Thomann, Ph.D., Director, Occupational and Environmental Safety and Assistant Research Professor, Duke University/Duke University Medical Center, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

9:40 AM — Accident Sequence Analyses
Ken Bulmahn, Tetra Tech Risk Assessment Team

10:45 AM — Break

11:00 AM — Health Effects and Transmission Modeling
Adi Gundlapalli, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., Assistant Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine, Pathology and Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine

Damon Toth, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

12:30 PM — Break

12:45 PM — Working Lunch and Group Discussion

1:45 PM — Public Comment

2:00 PM — Adjourn


Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
John Ahearne
Ph. D. (Chair)
Thomas Armstrong
Ph.D.
CIH
Gerardo Chowell
Ph.D.
Margaret Coleman
M.S.
Gigi Kwik Gronvall
Ph.D.
Barbara Johnson
Ph.D.
Warner North
Ph.D.
Jonathan Richmond
Ph.D.
Gary Smith
Ph.D.


The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
The committee deliberated the content of the report.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:


Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: April 27, 2010



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