Institute of Medicine
Division of Population Health and Public Health Practice
First Meeting
The Committee on Asbestos:  Selected Health Effects

July 26, 2005
Keck Building, Room 203
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC

PUBLIC AGENDA

  9:30 A.M.      Opening remarks; Discussion of agenda for open session
                      Jonathan Samet, Committee Chair

  9:35 A.M.      Charge to the committee                       
                      Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine

10:00 A.M.      Mineralogical Properties of Asbestos Influencing Its Toxicity
                      Jeffrey Post, Smithsonian Institution 

 10:45 A.M.      Extra-pulmonary Exposure to Asbestos
                       Ronald Dodson, ERI

11:30 A.M.      Mechanisms of Fiber-Induced Toxicity
                      Agnes Kane, Brown University

12:15 P.M.      Open microphone

12:30 P.M.      Adjourn open session