Planning Towards the BEIR VIII Report

Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board

Study in Progress: Public Meeting
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Nov. 17, 2014
Location: National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Ave NW Washington DC 20418

 

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8:15 AM
Call to Order and Welcome
Barbara McNeil, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (NRSB) vice-chair

8:20 AM
Why this Meeting and Why Now?
Martha Linet, NRSB member

8:30 AM
Lessons Learned from BEIR VII
Scott Davis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ethel Gilbert, National Cancer Institute
James Cleaver, University of California, San Francisco

9:10 AM
Questions and Discussion with Audience Participation
Moderated by John Applegate, NRSB member

9:30 AM
BREAK

9:40 AM
What’s new and What is Coming: Low-Dose Radiation Epidemiology
Roy Shore, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan
Scott Davis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ethel Gilbert, National Cancer Institute
Martha Linet, National Cancer Institute
Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, National Cancer Institute
John Boice, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
Dan Stram, University of Southern California

11:45 AM
Questions and Discussion with Audience Participation
Moderated by Martha Linet, NRSB member

12:15 PM
LUNCH

1:00 PM
What’s new and What is Coming: Low-Dose Radiation Biology
Bill Morgan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Amy Kronenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simon Bouffler, Public Health England
David Brenner, Columbia University Medical Center

2:10 PM
Questions and Discussion with Audience Participation
Moderated by Dick Vetter, NRSB member

2:40 PM
What’s new and What is Coming: Other Diseases
Mark Little, National Cancer Institute
Kiyo Mabuchi, National Cancer Institute
Roy Shore, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan

3:30 PM
Questions and Discussion with Audience Participation
Moderated by Fred Mettler, NRSB member

3:50 PM
BREAK

4:10 PM
Integrating Radiation Biology and Epidemiology in Cancer Risk Assessment
Julian Preston, Environmental Protection Agency (retired)
Christian Kaiser, Institute of Radiation Protection of the Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany

5:00 PM
Questions and Discussion with Audience Participation
Moderated by David Brenner, NRSB member