Dr. Bill Field, posting on behalf of Elaine Ron and Peter Jacob
Dear colleagues,
Preparations are close to final for the May 4-6, 2009 conference on “Late Health Effects of Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiologic Divide” to be held at Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, D.C.
A multi-disciplinary group of 36 speakers from the fields of radiobiology, dosimetry, epidemiology and statistics will discuss topics that range from radiation-related cellular and genetic effects, radiation sensitive subgroups, late health effects of radiation treatment, cancer and non-cancer diseases in relation to occupational and environmental radiation exposure, and radiation risk and the public.
There will be more than 100 posters covering a diversity of issues including effects of radiation quality, mechanistic modeling, non-targeted effects, genomic instability, biodosimetry, dose reconstruction, dose uncertainties, atomic bomb survivors, medical radiation and germline mutations, thyroid cancer in French Polynesia and Chernobyl, lung cancer and radiation/smoking interactions, radiation and cognitive disorders, radiation doses to interventional medical practitioners, and many other interesting topics.
The exciting program culminates in a roundtable discussion on “New Directions in Radiation Research” from the perspective of experts in radiation oncology, epidemiology, molecular biology and genetics.
Co-sponsors include the National Cancer Institute, Georgetown University Medical Center, the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Please visit our conference site for full details. The full program is also attached to this blog post.
Registration Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 9:00 P.M. EST
We hope to see you in two weeks!
United States