Ramazzini Days
RAMAZZINI DAYS 2014
24-26 October 2014
Carpi, Italy
Schedule of Events
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2014
| 11:00-14:00 | Conference check-in |
| 15:00-17:30 | Council of Fellows Statutory Session (Fellows only) |
| 19:30 | Welcome dinner |
SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2014
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Scientific Session I: "Silica Three Hundred Years Later: Occupational Exposure, Medical Monitoring, and Regulation" |
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The purpose of this scientific session is to shine a light on silica as a persistent and dangerous threat to the health of exposed workers worldwide, a threat that was well-described by Bernadino Ramazzini three-hundred years ago in 1713 when he wrote in De Morbis Artificum of lung disease in stone-cutters, sculptors, quarrymen, and other workers caused by a dust "so fine that it penetrated the ox-bladders hanging in the workshop..." Collegium Ramazzini experts will bring us into the 21st century describing the hazards of occupational exposure to silica today. The discussion will focus on the following issues: 1) Occupational silica exposures, new and old; 2) silica as a recognized human lung carcinogen and its interaction with other lung carcinogens such as tobacco smoke; 3) the role of silica and silicosis in tuberculosis; 4) issues relevant to medical surveillance of silica-exposed workers as set forth in OSHA's proposed silica standard; 5) the role of the US Government in protecting the health of silica-exposed workers; and 6) international variability in addressing the threat to worker health posed by silicosis. |
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| 9:00-9:15 |
Session introduction |
| 9:15-9:30 |
Silica - old, new and emerging uses result in worker exposure |
| 9:30-9:45 |
Silica as a lung carcinogen |
| 9:45-10:00 |
Silica in the head of the snake. Silica, gold mining, and tuberculosis in southern Africa |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Medical surveillance for silica-related disease: the Collegium responds to OSHA's proposed rulemaking |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee |
| 10:45-11:00 |
US Government role in recognizing, reducing, and regulating silica risk: 80 years and counting |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Silicosis 300 years after Ramazzini: Eradication in some countries, increased incidence in others |
| 11:15-11:45 | Discussion |
| 11:45-12:30 | Attended Poster Session
Sustainable Work 2020 - an advocacy platform for Horizon 2020
Rapid risk assessment on factories and workers in Kamrangirchar slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2013
Implementing a total worker health program through clinical integration of health protection and health promotion; one year later
Conceptual modeling of priority exposure pathways to assess the most severe potential health effects of tannery operations in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Asbestos-induced lung cancer in Germany: is the compensation practice in accordance with the epidemiological findings?
Ethics in the applied sciences: The challenge of preventing corporate influence over public health regulation.
An advanced analytical method for measuring alkylphosphate metabolites may avoid exposure misclassification
Towards a breakthrough in scientific collaboration: a new Nobel prize for transdisciplinary Science?
Characteristics and diagnostic evaluation of silica-exposed New York City underground urban workers
Systematic review: a solution to inaction on toxic chemicals
Prevention of the toxic effects of metals contained in batteries and e-waste/Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Chronic lumbar vertebral column diseases due to overload of the spine in European countries
Markers of oxidative stress are elevated in workers exposed to iron oxide nanoparticles
Population trainings in a mining community, Armenia 2014
International collaborations to foster children’s environmental health
A model for early lung cancer detection (ELCD) in high risk occupational populations |
| 12:30-13:45 | Onsite Lunch |
Scientific Session II: "Breakthroughs and best practices in regional and global scientific collaboration" |
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| 14:00-15:30 |
Scientific Session II: "Breakthroughs and best practices in regional and global scientific collaboration" |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Session introduction |
| 14:10-14:20 |
The NIEHS and Ramazzini Institute Collaboration: Looking to the Past and Framing The Future |
| 14:20-14:30 |
An Italian-Latin American scientific network to collaborate on asbestos-disease prevention |
| 14:30-14:40 |
Small scale factory workers attending workers' clinics in Kamrangirchar, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 14:40-14:50 |
Using global partnerships to contest flawed health impact assessments. A case study on proposed coal-bed methane extraction in Scotland |
| 14:50-15:00 |
Initial site assessments in polluted communities in Armenia |
| 15:00-15:10 | Risk assessment on Taranto (Italy) integrated steel works
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| 15:10-15:40 | Discussion |
| 15:45-18:00 | Free time |
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PRESENTATION OF THE RAMAZZINI AWARD AND RAMAZZINI LECTURE |
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| 18:15-19:30 |
The 2014 Ramazzini Award will be conferred upon Benedetto Terracini (Italy) for his outstanding contributions as a pioneer of modern occupational epidemiology in Italy and throughout the world. His work has been constantly dedicated to improve workers' health through his research and advocacy on asbestos and other occupational and environmental exposures. Professor Terracini will deliver the 2014 Ramazzini Lecture entitled "Epidemiological surveillance of occupational cancer in Latin American and other recently industrialized countries". download |
| 19:45 | Direct departure for social dinner |
SUNDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2014
Scientific Session III: "Life of the Collegium and Advocacy Planning 2015" |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Proposed update to the Collegium Ramazzini statement on asbestos |
| 10:00-11:15 | Discussion of Advocacy Planning 2015 |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee |
| 11:45-12:45 | Standing Committee meetings |
| 13:00 | Conference closing |
| 13:30 | Farewell Lunch |
| 15:00 | WHO Collaborating Centers Meeting (optional) |