8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Paul G. Rogers, J.D.

Roundtable Chair

Partner, Hogan & Hartson

8:40 a.m.

Workshop Overview

Lynn Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.

Roundtable Vice Chair

Professor

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

8:55 a.m.

Environmental Concerns and Policies During Disasters

Stephen Johnson

Administrator

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9:15 a.m.

Hurricane Katrina: Challenges and Needs for Health in New Orleans

Kevin Stephens, M.D., J.D.

Director of Health

New Orleans Health Department

9:25 a.m.

Overview of Hurricane Katrina: Challenges for the Community

Jimmy Guidry, M.D.

State Health Officer and Medical Director

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Moderator:

Georges Benjamin, M.D., FACP, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

10:15 a.m.

Short- and Long-Term Environmental Health Concerns in the Gulf Coast Region

Howard Frumkin, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.

Director

National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:35 a.m.

Protecting the Workers During Cleanup and Rebuilding

Max Kiefer, M.S.

Assistant Director

Emergency Response and Preparedness

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:55 a.m.

Cleanup, Exposure Guidelines, and Environmental Policy During Disasters: Lessons Taken from the Aftermath of the WTC

Paul Lioy, Ph.D.

Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine

Associate Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine

Rutgers University

11:15 a.m.

Panel Discussion with Speakers from the Session

What are the ongoing needs and priorities based on the current assessments?

How is this information being coordinated across agencies?

How is input from the private sector and community groups being engaged?

What strategies need to be implemented as information continues to evolve?

Where can coordination be improved?

Moderator:

Donald Mattison, M.D., Senior Advisor to the Directors of the National Institute of Child and Human Development and Center for Research for Mothers and Children, National Institutes of Health

1:00 p.m.

Rapid Assessment for Identification, Management, and Prevention of Environmentally Related Disease

Kellogg Schwab, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

1:25 p.m.

Medical Surveillance

David C. Goff, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

1:45 p.m.

Research and Coordination Through a Local Academic-Public-Private Network

John McLachlan, Ph.D.

Celia Scott and Albert J. Weatherhead III Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Pharmacology, and Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research

Tulane and Xavier Universities

2:05 p.m.

Rural Health Networks: Interfacing Medicine and the Community

Sandral Hullett, M.D., M.P.H.

CEO and Medical Director

Jefferson Health System

2:25 p.m.

Ensuring Public Health in the Right of Return

2:35 p.m.

Panel Discussion with Speakers from the Session

What are the health priorities (for monitoring, prevention)?

For the scientific community, where can additional research strategies help inform our current state of knowledge?

How can we make the scientific process during disaster recovery more transparent?

How can the scientific community better coordinate across agencies and groups?

How can what we discussed here today help to inform our preparation for future assessment and monitoring?

2:50 p.m.

Audience Discussion

Moderator:

Samuel Wilson, M.D., Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

3:35 p.m.

Environmental Health Exposures: Missing Linkages and Research Needs

Thomas Burke, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Professor

Codirector, Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

4:05 p.m.

Susceptible Populations: Who, What, Why—Implications for Evidence-Based Science and Public Health Practice

4:25 p.m.

What Are the Environmental and Biological Assessment Tools That We Have or Need to Develop to Provide Accurate Information

Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Michigan

4:45 p.m.

What Are the Social and Ethical Issues for Implementing Wide-Scale Monitoring?

Dianne Quigley

Syracuse University

5:05 p.m.

Panel Discussion with Speakers from the Session

What are the priorities for improving our scientific knowledge of exposure monitoring?

What are the challenges for developing these tools?

What are short-term and long-term strategies for developing and implementing these research tools in practice?

What are the challenges facing the scientific community as technologies move forward to give more accurate, personal exposure information?

How can we overcome these challenges?

5:45 p.m.

A Vision for the Future: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast

Lynn Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.

Roundtable Vice Chair

Professor

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health