Meeting Agenda
Agenda: Information Gathering Workshop
7:30 – 8:00 Registration and Check-in
8:00 – 8:10 Welcome and Overview of Committee Process & Open Session
Catharine Ross, Chair
SESSION 1: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (ARHQ)
8:10 – 8:35 Development of AHRQ Review: Relationships of Vitamin D and Calcium Intakes to Nutrient Status Indicators and Health Outcomes (released June 2009)
Joseph Lau, Tufts University
8:35 – 9:15 Committee Discussion with Dr. Lau and Tufts University Staff
SESSION 2: Analytical Issues: Vitamin D
9:15 – 9:35 Comparison of Methods
Karen Phinney, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
9:35 – 9:50 Analytical Issues: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Clifford Johnson, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
9:50 – 10:15 Joint Discussion with Committee
10:15 – 10:30 Break
SESSION 3: Biomarkers
10:30 – 10:50 Biomarkers: General Principles for Definition and Utility as Measures of Exposure or Functional Outcome
Roberta Ness, University of Texas Health Science Center and IOM Committee on Biomarkers as Surrogate
Endpoints of Chronic Disease Risk
10:50 – 11:00 Committee Discussion with Dr. Ness
SESSION 4: Vascular Changes
11:00 – 11:15 Vascular Changes Associated with Vitamin D and Calcium
Keith Hruska, Washington University, St. Louis
11:15 – 11:35 Committee Discussion with Dr. Hruska
SESSION 5: Chronic Disease Endpoints: Observational Data versus Randomized Clinical Trials
11:35 – 11:50 Edward Giovannucci, Harvard University
11:50 – 12:05 Barry Kramer, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
12:05 – 12:30 Joint Discussion with Committee
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
SESSION 6: Perspectives on Evaluating Data for Determining Reference Values for Vitamin D and Calcium
Perspectives from 1995-96 DRI Committee
1:30 – 1:40 Stephanie Atkinson, McMaster University: Perinatal
1:40 – 1:50 Connie Weaver, Purdue University: Adolescents
1:50 – 2:00 Bess Dawson-Hughes, Tufts University: Elderly
2:00 – 2:10 Robert Heaney, Creighton University: Calcium and Calcium/Vitamin D Interactions
2:10 – 2:20 Michael Holick, Boston University: Dietary vs. Solar Sources
2:20 – 2:45 Joint Discussion with Committee
2:45 – 3:00 Break
Perspectives from Other Vitamin D and Calcium Experts
3:00 – 3:10 Bruce Hollis, Medical University of South Carolina: Assay Methodologies
3:10 – 3:20 Cedric Garland, University of California—San Diego: Cancer
3:20 – 3:30 Roger Bouillon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Immune Function
3:30 – 3:40 Reinhold Vieth, University of Toronto: Safety of Vitamin D
3:40 – 4:00 Joint Discussion with Committee
4:00 – 4:15 Break
SESSION 7: PUBLIC COMMENTS – 5 minutes each (required pre-registration)
GrassrootsHealth (Carole Baggerly)
University of California—Riverside & Vitamin D Workshop (Tony Norman)
University of California—San Diego (Edward Gorham)
Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center (William Grant)
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (Linda Linday)
Autoimmunity Research Foundation (Amy Proal)
Weill Cornell Medical College (Paul Albert)
The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Laurie Tansman)
International Diary Foods Association (Michelle Matto)
National Osteoporosis Foundation (Roberta Biegel)
National Dairy Council (Jill Nicholls)
Lallemand/American Yeast (James Kopp, Sr.)
5:00 Workshop Adjourned
This meeting is being held to gather information to help the committee conduct its study. This committee will examine the information and material obtained during this, and other public meetings, in an effort to inform its work. Although opinions may be stated and lively discussion may ensue, no conclusions are being drawn at this time; no recommendations will be made. In fact, the committee will deliberate thoroughly before writing its draft report. Moreover, once the draft report is written, it must go through a rigorous review by experts who are anonymous to the committee, and the committee then must respond to this review with appropriate revisions that adequately satisfy the Academy's Report Review committee and the chair of the NRC before it is considered an NRC report. Therefore, observers who draw conclusions about the committee's work based on today's discussions will be doing so prematurely.
Furthermore, individual committee members often engage in discussion and questioning for the specific purpose of probing an issue and sharpening an argument. The comments of any given committee member may not necessarily reflect the position he or she may actually hold on the subject under discussion, to say nothing of that person's future position as it may evolve in the course of the project. Any inference about an individual’s position regarding findings or recommendations in the final report are therefore also premature.
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