Biomonitoring California Workshop, March 2011
Agenda
Biomonitoring California Workshop
Understanding and Interpreting Biomonitoring Results
Elihu M. Harris State Office Building, Auditorium
1515 Clay Street, Oakland, California
March 17, 2011, 9 am to 5 pm
9:00 Welcome
George Alexeeff, Acting Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
9:10 Overview of workshop goals and introduction of morning speakers
9:25 Biomonitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Complexities in Interpreting Data
Dana Barr, Emory University
9:55 "Is It Safe?": New Ethics for Reporting Personal Exposures to Environmental Chemicals
Ruthann Rudel, Silent Spring Institute
10:25 Break
10:45 Making Sense of Human Biomonitoring Data
Tina Bahadori, American Chemistry Council
11:15 Morning questions and discussion
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Introduction of afternoon speakers
1:10 Interpreting Biomonitoring Data in a Risk Assessment Context Using Biomonitoring Equivalents
Lesa Aylward, Summit Toxicology
1:40 Importance of Pharmacokinetics and Distributional Analysis for Understanding Biomonitoring Results
Dale Hattis, Clark University
2:10 Understanding and Interpreting Biomonitoring Results in the Context of Sustainable Communities
Amy Kyle, UC Berkeley
2:40 Break
3:00 Afternoon questions and discussion
3:30 Panel discussion (all speakers) with audience participation
4:45 Wrap up
5:00 Adjourn
For questions on the workshop, contact: biomonitoring@oehha.ca.gov
