Meeting Agenda

Agenda: Workshop on the NIOSH Research Roadmap on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles

 

Questions for Discussion:

- Is the NIOSH Research Roadmap document consistent with the state of scientific understanding of the relevant toxicity, occupational exposures, epidemiology, and sampling/analytical methods?
- What are the future research directions needed to clarify the relationship between health effects and the physiochemical characteristics (e.g., mineralogy, morphology, dimension, surface properties) of elongated mineral particles? What changes are needed in the roadmap document to address these research directions?


7:30 – 8:00 a.m.     Breakfast (Entry to the Lecture Room)


8:00 – 8:15     Welcome

Alan Nelson, Committee Chair


8:15 – 9:30     Panel 1: Toxicology

Moderator, Thomas Hei

8:15 – 8:45     Panel Presentations

Thomas Hesterberg, Navistar

Brooke Mossman, University of Vermont

Ron Dodson, Dodson Environmental Consulting, Inc.


8:45 – 9:30     Discussion


9:30 – 10:45     Panel 2: Mineralogy

Moderator, Karin Hoal

9:30 – 10:00     Panel Presentations

James Webber, Wadsworth Center, NY State Department of Health

Geoffrey Plumlee, U.S. Geological Survey

Mickey Gunter, University of Idaho


10:00 – 10:45     Discussion


10:45 – 11:00     Break


11:00 – 12:15     Panel 3: Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment

Moderator, Patrick Breysse

11:00 – 11:30     Panel Presentations

Laura Welch, Center for Construction Research and Training

John Cherrie, Institute of Occupational Medicine

James Weeks, Johns Hopkins University


11:30 – 12:15     Discussion


12:15 – 1:00     Lunch, NAS Cafeteria


1:00 – 2:15     Panel 4: Perspectives from Federal Agencies

Moderator, Robert Gibbons

1:00 – 1:30     Panel Presentations

Mark Weslowski, MSHA

Danielle DeVoney, EPA

Dan Crane, OSHA


1:30 – 2:15     Discussion


2:15 – 3:30     Public Comment – Registered Speakers



3:30 p.m.     Adjourn Workshop

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