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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine Division on Earth and Life Studies Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies holds a meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs and DOD National Prion Research Program
COL Ken Bertram, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
10 a.m. - DOD stakeholder meeting summary
COL Ken Bertram
10:45 a.m. - Protecting the food supply from TSEs
COL Scott Severin, Office of the Army Surgeon General
11:15 a.m. - Protecting the blood supply from TSEs
COL G. Michael Fitzpatrick, Director, Armed Services Blood Program
11:45 a.m. - Evidence for or against TSE transmission in blood
Roger Dodd, Ph.D., member, Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science
1 p.m. - Surveillance of TSEs in animals and risks to human health in the U.S
Elizabeth Williams, D.V.M., Ph.D., Consultant to the IOM committee
1:30 p.m. - Surveillance of TSEs in humans in the U.S.
Pierluigi Gambetti, M.D., Consultant to the IOM committee
2 p.m. - New detection methods for TSE in living sheep
Katherine O'Rourke, Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA
2:45 p.m. - New techniques for detecting TSE animal tonsillar tissue
3:15 p.m. - New rapid test for detecting prions in CNS tissue antemortem
Pierluigi Gambetti, M.D.
3:45 p.m. - Commercial diagnostic testing for TSEs in Europe Prionics
Alex Raeber, Prionics
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine Committee for Shortening the Time Line for New Cancer Treatments holds a meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Welcome
Joseph Newhouse, Ph.D., Chairman
Closed Session
Bias and conflict of interest discussion for new members
Roger Herdman, MD
8:45 a.m. - Open Session
Overview of clinical issues
James Armitage, MD
9:15 a.m. - Update on pediatric issues
Susan Weiner, Ph.D.
9:30 a.m. - Improving the efficiency of clinical trial design and analysis
Don Berry, Ph.D.
Carl Morris, Ph.D.
10:15 a.m. - The NCI Clinical Trials Program: patient recruitment and other issues
Dr. Armitage
11 a.m. - The NCI-sponsored cooperative groups: financing and intellectual property issues
Richard Schilsky, MD
11:30 a.m. - Cancer vaccines
Drew Pardoll, MD
Elizabeth Jaffee, MD
Johns Hopkins University
1:30 p.m. - Molecular screening and early diagnosis for cancer
David Sidransky, MD
2:15 p.m. - Surrogate endpoints and biomarkers in clinical trials
Sudhir Srivastava, Ph.D., MPH, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, NCI
Renzo Canetta, MD, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Robert Spiegel, MD, Schering Plough Institute
Richard Pazdur, MD, FDA
LOCATION: 2100 C Street, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH holds State-Of-The-Science conference themed "Symptom Management in Cancer: Pain, Depression and Fatigue."
AGENDA: Highlight:
1 p.m. -- News conference
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: Natcher Conference Center, Building 45, Bethesda, MD,
CONTACT: 301- 592-3320
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION DRUG SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE holds a meeting to discuss ways to improve the usefulness of consumer medication information (CMI) distributed with prescriptions being filled at the nation's pharmacies.
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: Holiday Inn, The Ballroom, 2 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, MD.
CONTACT: Kimberly Littleton Topper or Tom Perez, 301-827-7001
WEB ADDRESS: fda.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN presents Peter Gwillim Kreitler author of United We Stand: Flying the American Flag, will discuss his collection of World War II-era magazine covers that feature the American flag.
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: American History Museum, Carmichael Aud. Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY TOMMY THOMPSON holds a news conference announcing a youth media campaign intended to increase physical activity among children 9-13 years old.
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-690-6342
WEB ADDRESS: hhs.gov
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: NEW FREEDOM COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH holds its second meeting.
AGENDA: Highlight:
Presentation of Institute on Medicine Report, " Crossing the Quality Chasm"
Janet Corrigan, Director, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-443-8956
WEB ADDRESS: mentalhealthcommission.gov
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN salutes the 50th anniversary of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico featuring Puerto Rican historian and collector Teodoro Vidal talking about the santos, paintings, and other Puerto Rican cultural artifacts he has researched and helped to preserve for more than four decades.
DATE: July 17, 2002
LOCATION: Carmichael Auditorium, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
