5th International REAC/TS Symposium: The Medical Basis for Radiation Accident Preparedness

Schedule (tentative)

Monday, September 26, 2011

Time	Title	Speaker
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Early Registration/Check-in

Tuesday, September 27, 2011— Symposium Begins

Time	Title	Speaker
7:00 AM	Registration Desk Opens
8:00 AM – 8:05 AM	Housekeeping/Safety	Doran M. Christensen DO Associate Director Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (ORISE) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
8:05 AM – 8:20 AM	Welcome & Overview	Chair: Albert L. Wiley, BNE, MD, PhD LCDR, USNR (Retired) Medical/Technical Director Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (ORISE) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
8:20 AM – 8:45 AM	Welcome	H. Andy Page LTC, USMC (Retired) Director, Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (ORISE) President, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM	Keynote Speaker: The US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Emergency	Joseph J. Krol, Jr., Rear Admiral, US Navy (Retired) Associate Administrator for Emergency Operations National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) US Department of Energy (DOE) Washington, D.C. USA
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM	International Framework for Emergency Preparedness and Response to Radiation Emergencies: Capabilities and Gaps	Rafael Martincic, PhD Incident & Emergency Centre (IEC), Department of Nuclear Safety & Security International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna, Austria
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM	The Role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the International Framework of Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Response	Zhanat Carr, MD, PhD Scientist, Radiation Health Program Interventions for Healthy Environments Unit Health Security and Environment Cluster World Health Organzations (WHO) Geneva, Switzerland
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM	Lunch	On your own
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Session One: Advances in Diagnosis & Management of the Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)	Chair: Albert L. Wiley, BNE, MD, PhD LCDR, USNR (Retired) (USA)
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM	Session Introduction & Overview	Albert L. Wiley, BNE, MD, PhD (USA)
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM	Medical Management of the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Incident	Makoto Akashi, M.D., Ph.D. Executive Director, National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) Chiba, Japan
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM	Recommended Approach for Multi-Parameter Biodosimetry	William Blakely, PhD Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) Bethesda, Maryland USA
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM	Evidence-Based Recommendations for Radiation-Associated Injuries to the Hematopoietic & Non-Hematopoietic Organ Systems	Nickolas Dainiak, MD, FACP Chairman, Department of Medicine, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA Director, State of Connecticut Biodosimetry Laboratory Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut USA
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Break
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM	Electron Spin Resonance (EPR) Use in ARS	Alexander Romanyukha PhD Senior Health Physicist, Technical Manager U.S. Naval Dosimetry Center Bethesda, Maryland USA
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM	SAMÖ 2011 – A Major Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Exercise with Tragic Relevance	Leif Stenke, MD (Sweden) Hematology Center Karolinska, Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM	Recollections: The Accident at Three Mile Island Unit II	Harold Denton Former Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Knoxville, Tennessee USA
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM	Biodosimetry for Managing Large-Scale Radiation Events	Harold Swartz, MD, PhD Professor of Radiology and Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School Director, Dartmouth Physically Based Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation Director, EPR Center for the Study of Viable Systems Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM	Session One Closing Remarks	Albert L. Wiley, BNE, MD, PhD (USA)
5:30PM	Session Closes
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM	Social Gathering	All

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Time	Title	Speaker
7:30 AM	Registration Desk Opens
8:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Session Two: Advances in the Diagnosis & Management of Cutaneous Radiation Syndrome (CRS) & Acute Local Radiation Injuries (LRI)	Chair: Daniel Flynn, MD, COL, USAR Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Holy Family Hospital & Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts USA
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM	Session Introduction & Overview	Daniel Flynn, MD, COL, USAR (USA)
8:15 AM – 8:45 AM	Diagnosis & Management of the Cutaneous Radiation Syndrome & Local Radiation Injuries	Viktor Meineke, MD, Colonel, MC Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology Munich, Germany
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM	Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in Local Radiation Injuries-A Japanese Approach	Sadanori Akita, MD, PhD
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM	Ultrasound & Thermography for Diagnosis of Extent & Magnitude of Acute Local Radiation Injury (LRI)	Ronald E. Goans, PhD, MD, MPH Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM	Break
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM	New Emerging Concepts in the Medical Management of LRI	Marc Benderitter, MD Institut de Radioprotection et de la Surete Nucléaire (IRSN) Cedex, France
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM	Evidenced-Based Support for the Treatment of Potentially Lethal Radiation-Induced Organ-Specific and Multiple-Organ System Sequelae	Thomas MacVittie, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology Baltimore, Maryland USA
11:15 AM – 11:45 PM	Practical Medical Applications of Dose Magnitude Estimation	Stephen L. Sugarman, MS, CHP, CHCM Health Physics Project Manager Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	Questions and Answers
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM	Session Two Closing Remarks	Daniel Flynn, MD, COL, USAR (USA)
12:15 AM – 1:15 PM	Lunch	On your own
1:15 PM – 5:30 PM	Session Three: Advances in Assessment and Management of Internal Contamination	Chair: Volker List, MD Head, Medical Services Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe, Germany
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM	Session Introduction	Volker List, MD (Germany)
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM	Medical Management of a Plutonium- Contaminated Patient by the French Armed Forces Health Service Organization & Use of DTPA	Jean-Christophe Amabile, MD Medical Division French Defense Radiation Protection Service (SPRA) Cedex, France
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM	Surgical Management of a Plutonium-Contaminated Patient—Percy Military Hospital, France (2010)	Pierre Laroche, MD Vice-Director French Defense Radiation Protection Service (SPRA) Clamart, France
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Implementation of the NCRP Wound Model	Richard E. Toohey, PhD, CHP REAC/TS Senior Scientific Advisor Associate Director, Independent Environmental Assessment and Verification Programs (IEAV) Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Some Lessons Learned From Clinical Case Study Analysis of Severe Deterministic Effects of Radionuclide Internal Contamination	Albert L. Wiley, BNE, MD, PhD (USA)
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM	The Goiania Accident (Brazil, 1987, ¹³⁷Cs) – Internal Dosimetry Aspects	Luiz Bertelli, PhD Internal Dosimetrist Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Los Alamos, New Mexico USA
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Questions and Answers
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM	Closing Remarks for Session Three	Volker List, MD (Germany)
5:15 PM	Session and Day Closes

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Time	Title	Speaker
7:30 AM	Registration Desk Opens
8:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Session Four: Radiation Incidents of Interest	Chair: Marina Vázquez, MD Radiopathology Network Nuclear Regulatory Authority Buenos Aires, Argentina
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM	Session Introduction	Marina Vázquez, MD (Argentina)
8:15 AM – 8:45 AM	Lessons from the Goiania Brazil Accident: Then and Now	Nelson Valverde, MD JLVF Consultants for Hospital & Health Management, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Consultant for the Eletronuclear Medical Assistance Foundation - FEAM, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM	The Use of Biological Indicators in the Evaluation of Radiation Injury in Selected Cases: Dakar (Senegal, 2006) & Fleurus (Belgium, 2006)	Jean-Marc Bertho, PhD Institut de Radioprotection et de la Surete Nucléaire (IRSN) Cedex, France
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM	Lessons from the Accident in Tokai-Mura (1999): Managing the Psychosocial Impact	Kazuo Neriishi, MD Yachiyo Hospital and Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) Hiroshima City Yatiyo, Japan
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM	Break
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM	Lessons from the Accident at Hanford Washington USA (²⁴¹Am, 1976)	Eugene Carbaugh, MS, CHP Staff Scientist and Internal Dosimetry Manager Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington USA
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM	Lessons from the Accident at Yanango Peru (1999) (¹⁹²Ir)	Luis Barriga, MD, FRCR Grupo Oncomedica Instituto Oncologico de Lima SA Centro de Radioterapia de Lima SA Centro Oncologico Los Olivos SAC Prevencer SAC Lima, Peru
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM	Questions and Answers
11:30 PM – 11:45 PM	Closing Remarks for Session Four	Marina Vázquez, MD (Argentina)
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM	Lunch	On your own
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Session Five: Other Topics of Interest	Chair: Doran M. Christensen, DO Associate Director Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS), U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (ORISE) Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM	Session Introduction: Other Considerations for Emergency Response & Management of the Consequences of a Radiological/Nuclear Incident	Doran M. Christensen, DO (USA)
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM	Cytogenetic Biodosimetry—A Role for the Internet in Radiation Biodosimetry	Gordon K. Livingston, PhD Technical Director Cytogenetics Biodosimetry Laboratory Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Oak Ridge, Tennessee
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM	After the Crisis: What Next? - Preparing for Long-Term Follow-up of an Exposed Population	Steven L. Simon PhD Radiation Epidemiology Branch National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, Maryland USA
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM	Polonium-210 Contamination in London (2006) - the Public Health Response.	Dr. Jill Meara FFPH Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards Health Protection Agency Oxon, United Kingdom
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Break
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM	Screening for Radioactive Contamination and Health Monitoring of the Large Population Who Do Not Need Hospitalization	Armin Ansari, PhD, CHP Physical Scientist, Health Physicist Radiation Studies Branch (RSB), EHHE National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, Georgia USA
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM	An Overview of Antioxidants & Radiation injury	Carol J. Iddins MD REAC/TS Staff Physician Oak Ridge Tennessee USA
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Questions and Answers
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM	Closing Remarks for Session Five	Doran M. Christensen, DO (USA)
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM	Closing Remarks (Symposium)	Albert L. Wiley, BNE, MD, PhD (USA)
5:00 PM	Symposium Adjourns