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Zeta
Background
 Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foreword
Zeta
NEF Purpose
Conference
Conference
Mission
Conference
Objectives
Research
Plans
Conference
Agenda
Conference
Summary
Workshop
I Summary
Workshop II Summary
 Workshop III Summary
What's Next?
Photographs
Human
Genome News article
Presenters
Dr.
Aristides A. Patrinos
Dr.
John Quackenbush
Dr.
Georgia M. Dunston
Dr. Mary
Kay Pelias
Dr.
Fatimah Jackson
Dr. Christopher
Adams
Dr. Rosalind
P. Hale
Dr.
Margaret C. Werner-Washburne
Rev. Dr.
Deborah P. Wolfe
Dr. Jeroo
S. Kotval
Betty
K. Mansfield
Issie
L. Shelton Jenkins, Esq.
Phyllis
Griffin Epps, Esq.
Dr.
Kathryn T. Malvern
Contact Information
Board of Managers
Presenters
National
Educational Foundation
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Conference
Program
Friday July 7, 2000
| 9:30-10:00 a.m. |
Registration |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Welcome and Greetings
Dr. Kathryn T. Malvern, Conference Project Director
Foundation Board of Managers, Moorestown, New Jersey
Dr. Barbara West Carpenter, International President,
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Baker, Louisiana
Marie Tomasso, District Director, Philadelphia District,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker: The Human Genome Project
Dr. Aristides A. Patrinos, Associate Director, Biological
and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, Maryland
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Genes and Genomes: Decoding the Book of Life
Dr. John Quackenbush, Associate Investigator, The Institute
for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland
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| 11:30 a.m. |
The Benefits of Genetic Research in Improving Health and Health
Care
Dr. Karen Nelson, Investigator, The Institute for Genomic
Research, Rockville, Maryland; Moderator
Dr. Georgia Dunston, Microbiology Department,
Howard University Medical School, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Robert F. Murray, Howard University Medical School,
Department of Genetics, Washington, D.C.
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| 12:30 a.m. |
Lunch On Your Own |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Genetic Problems in Clinical Practice and Biomedical Research
Dr. Mary Kay Pelias, Biometry and Genetics Department,
Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana
Scientific and Folk Ideas About Heredity
Dr. Fatimah Jackson, Department of Anthropology, University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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| 2:45 p.m. |
Private Industry and its Role in the Biological Revolution
Dr. Chris Adams, Chief Executive Officer, Mosiac Technologies,
Waltham, Massachusetts |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
Workshop I
Genetic Screening, Genetic Testing, and Genetic Counseling: Issues
of Importance to Minority Communities
Dr. Eunice S. Thomas, 19th International President.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Washington, D.C.
Facilitator
Panelists:
Deborah L. Eunpu, Director, Genetic Counseling Program,
Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania
Zora Kramer Brown, Chairwoman, Breast Cancer Resource
Committee, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mortimer Poncz, Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
Division of Hemotology, Childrens' Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
March of Dimes Representative
Workshop II
Expanding the Pool of Minority Scientists; Genomics and its Challenge
in the Education of Minorities
Dr. Rosalind P. Hale, Chair, Department of Education,
Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Foundation Board of Managers
Facilitator
Panelists:
Dr. Margaret Werner-Washburne, University of New Mexico,
Biology Department, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Reverend Dr. Deborah P. Wolfe, Past Education Chief,
United States Congress, Professor Emerita, Queens College, C.U.N.Y.,
President New Jersey Baptist Convention, 14th International President,
Foundation Board of Managers, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Cranford,
New Jersey
Dr. Jeroo S. Kotval, University of Albany, State University
of New York, School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management,
Rensselaer, New York
Workshop III
Minorities in the Scientific Workforce; Career Development
Valerie Hollingsworth-Davis, Atlantic Regional Director,
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Brooklyn, New York
Facilitator
Panelists:
Dr. Karen Nelson, Investigator, The Institute for Geomic
Research Rockville, Maryland
Dr. Lashawn R. Drew, Acting Director, NIH Academy, National
Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
Betty Mansfield, Human Genome News, Oak Ridge Laboratory,
U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Dr. Lloyd Townsend, Aventis Pharmaceutical, Bridgewater,
New Jersey Karen Graham, Manager, University Relations and Recruiting,
BD Company, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Jamaal Murphy, Student, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
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Saturday, July 8, 2000
| 8:30-9:00 a.m. |
Registration |
| 9:00 a.m. |
The Human Genome Project: A Recap, Video: The Human Genome Project
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| 9:30 a.m. |
Workshop Summaries and Reporting
Workshop I
Genetic Screening, Testing, Counseling
Workshop II
Genomics and its Challenge in the Education of Minorities
Workshop III
Minorities in the Scientific Workforce; Career Opportunities
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| 10:00 a.m. |
The Human Genome Project: Ethical, Legal, and Scoial Implications
for the Minority Communities
Issie L. Shelton Jenkins, Esq., The Shelton Group, Sykesville,
Maryland, Chair, Foundation Board
Moderator
Panelists:
Phyllis Epps, Esq., Health, Law, and Policy Institute,
Houston, Texas
Dr. Jenifer Smith, Unit Chief, DNA Analysis Unit I, FBI
Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Jeroo S. Kotval, School of Public Health, Department
of Health Policy and Management, University of Albany, Rensselaer, New
York
Dr. Pamela Sankar, Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| 12:00 Noon |
Group Session
Open Dialogue:
MINORITIES AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT: WHAT
NEXT?
Discussion and recommendations for greater minority involvement and
awareness
Dr. Kathryn T. Malvern
Conference Project Director
Moderator
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| 12:30-2:00 p.m. |
Complimentary Wrap-Up -Luncheon
Speaker
The Honorable Leanna Washington
Pennsylvania State Representative
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