Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (2017)
Chapter: Appendix B: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B
Workshop Agenda
May 1, 2015
Keck Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC
| 10:00 a.m. | Welcome | Notes on the Conduct of the Open Session | Introduction of Participants |
| David Savitz, Ph.D. | |
| Committee Chair | |
10:15 a.m. | Ambient Air Monitoring at Deployment Locations in the Middle East |
| John E. Kolivosky, PE | |
| Lead, Deployment Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance, Army Institute of Public Health | |
10:45 a.m. | Balad Air Base Burn Pit Study Observations (Boots on the Ground) |
| Maj Charlie Toth, USAF, PE | |
| Defense Fellow—Office of Senator Patty Murray, U.S. Senate | |
11:15 a.m. | Retrospective Geospacial Modeling of PM10 Exposures from Open Burning at Joint Base Balad, Iraq |
| John Rinker, CIH | |
| Industrial Hygienist, Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic | |
11:45 a.m. | General Discussion of Open Burn Pit Emissions Data and Modeling Issues |
| David Savitz, Ph.D. | |
| Moderator | |
12:00 p.m. | Lunch Break—Keck Center Atrium |
1:00 p.m. | Lessons Learned from Other Registries and the Millennium Cohort Study |
| Gary Gackstetter, D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D. | |
| Associate Professor, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | |
Tomoko I. Hooper, M.D., M.P.H. | |
| Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | |
1:40 p.m. | Analysis of VA Burn Pits Registry: Testimony at Workshop |
| Anthony M. Szema, M.D. | |
| Adjunct Professor, Department of Technology & Society, College of Engineering & Applied Science, Stony Brook University; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University [via teleconference] | |
2:20 p.m. | Break |
2:30 p.m. | Roundtable—Comments and Perspectives on the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry |
| Adrian Atizado, Disabled American Veterans [via teleconference] | |
| Thomas Berger, Ph.D., Vietnam Veterans of America | |
| Carlos Fuentes, Veterans of Foreign Wars | |
| Daniel Sullivan, The Thomas Joseph Sergeant Sullivan Center | |
| CPT (Ret.) Le Roy Torres, U.S. Army Reserve, Veteran, U.S. Army-Iraq War Campaign and Founder, BURNPITS 360° [via Web conference] | |
| Rosie Torres, BURNPITS 360° | |
| Rick Weidman, Vietnam Veterans of America | |
4:00 p.m. | General Discussion of Issues Raised in the Workshop |
| David Savitz, Ph.D. | |
| Moderator | |
4:30 p.m. | Workshop Adjourns |
