Photos Courtesy of James Gathany, CDC;  Frederick Murphy, CDC; Cynthia Goldsmith, CDC

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Do you have questions about how to provide appropriate medical support for the unique occupational risks faced by laboratory workers? Join colleagues from around the country for this highly interactive conference.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Occupational medicine, infectious disease, and emergency physicians
• Physician assistants and nurse practitioners
• Occupational health nurses
• Veterinarians
• Biosafety professionals

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

June 10, 2012 (Preconference Classes)

• Preconference Course: Occupational Health Issues in Biological Laboratories
• Preconference Course: Basic Microbiology/ Infectious Disease

June 11, 2012

• Panel: Dealing With Biological and Chemical Exposure Risks
• The Science of Viral Vectors: What We Do and Don’t Know
• Occupational Health Considerations for Working with Viral Vectors in Research Laboratories
• Mock IBCs: Viral Vectors in Animals and Vaccinia Virus
• Occupational Health Risks of Nanotechnology

June 12, 2012

• AALAC’s New Occupational Health Requirements
• Dealing with Animal Allergies
• “Hot”  Topics and Issues of Particular Interest
• Employment Law Issues and Biological Exposures
• Employment Law Case Studies

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Karen Byers, MS, RBP, CBSP, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Elizabeth Gilman Duane, MS, RBP, CBSP, Pfizer Environmental Health & Safety
• Michael J. Ellenbecker, ScD, CIH, Professor, Department of Work Environment and Director, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Gary Fujimoto, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
• T. Warner Hudson, MD, FACOEM, FAAFP Medical Director, Occupational Health Facility, UCLA Health System
• Gregg Kasting, MD, Director of Occupational Health, Amgen
• Carolyn S. Langer, MD, JD, MPH,  Medical Director of Medical Management and Quality, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
• Christian E. Newcomer, VMD, DACLAM, Executive Director, AAALAC International
• Robert Siegel, MD, Associate Professor, Stanford University Medical School
• Gregg M. Stave, MD, JD, MPH, Consultant
• Thomas H. Winters, MD, FACOEM, Chief Medical Officer and President, OEHN
• Lois Zitzow, MS, DVM, DACLAM, Clinical Veterinarian, Animal Resources Center, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago

Continuing education for this activity is pending.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.