Committees & Participants

The Role of Environmental Agents in Cardiovascular Disease

August 6 and 7, 2002, Durham, NC

Organizing Committee

• Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (University of Louisville)
• Wayne Cascio, M.D. (UNC)
• Robert Devlin, Ph.D. (US EPA)
• John Godleski, M.D. (Harvard University)
• Stacey Katz, M.S. (US EPA)
• Patrick Mastin, Ph.D. (NIEHS)
• Murray Mittleman, M.D. (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

Keynote Speakers

• Roberto Bolli (University of Louisville)
• Paul Gilman (US EPA)
• Ken Ramos (Texas A&M University)
• Mark Utell (University of Rochester)

Breakout Session Participants

Session 1 - Cardiovascular Epidemiology: Risk Factors from Environmental and Occupational Exposure

• Arden Pope - moderator (Brigham Young University)
• Robert Goldberg (University of Massachusetts)
• Kim Gray (NIEHS)
• Russell Luepker (University of Minnesota)
• David Siscovick (University of Washington)
• Joel Schwartz (Harvard University)

Session 2 - Particulate Air Pollution and Myocardial Infarction

• Robert Kloner - moderator (Good Samaritan Hospital, University of Southern California)
• Robert Devlin - moderator (US EPA)
• Philip Adamson (University of Oklahoma)
• Doug Dockery (Harvard University)
• Murray Mittleman (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
• Mark Utell (University of Rochester)

Session 3 - Environmental Agents and Vascular Disease

• Ken Ramos - moderator (Texas A&M University)
• Eser Tolunay - moderator (NHLBI)
• Paul Boor (University of Texas Medical Branch)
• Mark Frampton (University of Rochester)
• Emily Wilson (Texas A&M)
• David Gutterman (Med. College of Wisconsin)

Session 4 - Environmental Modulation of Myocardial Dysfunction

• Wayne Cascio - moderator (University of North Carolina)
• Aruni Bhatnagar - moderator (University of Louisville)
• Penelope Boyden (Columbia University)
• Robert Lux (University of Utah)
• Richard Verrier (Harvard University)
• Wojciech Zareba (University of Rochester)

Session 5 - Cardiovascular Oxidative Stress, Environmental Pollutants

• Dan Costa - moderator (US EPA)
• Elizabeth Murphy - moderator (NIEHS)
• Paige Anderson (Duke University)
• Scott Ballinger (University of Texas Medical Branch)
• Kevin Driscoll (Proctor and Gamble)
• John Godleski (Harvard University)
• James Kang (University of Louisville)

Session 6 - Environmental Toxicity and Cardiovascular Development

• Seigo Izuma - moderator (Children's Hospital, Boston)
• Mary Walker - moderator (University of New Mexico)
• Richard Di Giulio (Duke University)
• Stephen Fisher (Case Western Reserve University)
• Roger Markwald (Medical University of South Carolina)

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