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Cottrell Memorial Lecture Tony McMichael is Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. His research interests have encompassed the causes of occupational diseases, studies of diet and cancer, and various topics in environmental epidemiology. He has been an advisor to WHO, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Bank (Environment Division). During 1990-1992 he chaired the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO). In 1993 he published "Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species" (Cambridge University Press). Since 1994 he has convened the second and third formal reviews by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the potential health impacts of climate change. He is a member of WHO's newly-established Advisory Committee on Globalisation and Health, a Council member of the newly-formed World Health Policy Forum, co-editor of the newly-launched journal "Global Change and Human Health", and author of "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures" (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
David Henderson-Smart is Professor of Perinatal Medicine at the University of Sydney and Director of the NSW Perinatal Services Network and the Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research. He has represented paediatrics as a member or head of numerous committees for the NSW Department of Health and the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is a past president of the Australian Perinatal Society and the Paediatric Research Society of Australia. He has published widely and his internationally recognised research ranges from laboratory to population-based studies. He is best known for his work in: regulation of breathing in the newborn; cardio-respiratory function during perinatal development; development of standardised methods for neurological assessment of preterm infants; auditory brainstem potentials and brain dysfunction in infants; and sensory processing in the infant brain. David is active in the Cochrane Collaboration and has been involved in a number of systematic reviews in the area of perinatal care. [ TOP ]
Kenneth P. Johnson is Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, and Chief of the Rehabilitation Service of University of Maryland Hospital. In 2000, the American Neurological Association and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society awarded him the John Jay Dystel Award for Excellence in multiple sclerosis research. He is on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the International Medical Advisory Board of the International Federation of MS Societies, and is the Chair of the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis. [ TOP ]
Dr. Moyer is Associate Professor of Community and General Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, with adjunct appointments at the University of Texas School of Public Health and Baylor College of Medicine. She is Associate Director, Center for Population Health and Evidence Based Medicine at the Health Science Center; and Director of General Pediatrics at the Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital. She has particular interest in teaching clinical epidemiology and studying the use of diagnostic tests in clinical care. She is a member of the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group, which produced the JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series, and is on the International Advisory Board for the Cochrane Child Health Field. Dr. Moyer is Editor in Chief of Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health, Current Problems in Pediatrics, and is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Pediatrics and AAP Journal Club. [ TOP ]
Professor George Patton is Director of the Centre for Adolescent Health in Melbourne. He is a psychiatric epidemiologist with a principal focus on common behavioural and psychiatric disorders in young people. Since returning to Australia from the UK in 1991, he has played a central role in the establishment of the Centre's research program. This ranges from large-scale descriptive epidemiology to early intervention in clinical setting, trials of health promotion in school and community settings and most recently population health genetics. [ TOP ]
Gerold Stucki,
MD, MS is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physical After his clinical
training in PM&R and Rheumatology in Switzerland from 1985-1992 His research
interests are in the development of concepts to optimise outcomes
for Currently, he
is leading an international effort supported by the WHO to develop [ TOP ]
Professor Vainio is currently Chief of the Unit of Chemoprevention, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). He was Professor of Environmental Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1998-2000. Harri was Director of the Department of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, 1975-1996. While holding this position, he took leave without pay from 1983-1987 and 1989-1994 in order to work at the IARC, where he was Chief of the Unit of Carcinogen Identification and Evaluation, 1983-1994. Professor Vainio has published some 400 scientific papers, of which about 300 are original works. The topics include studies of metabolism of xenobiotics, biomonitoring in occupational and environmental health, molecular epidemiology and studies of polymorphisms of carcinogen activating and inactivating genes. His works also include genotoxicological studies of solvents (such as styrene) and asbestos. Recently his interest has expanded to the field of disease prevention, especially chemoprevention of cancer. [ TOP ]
Dr. Gerber is currently Chief, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. She directs the Foot and Ankle Clinic at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University. Dr. Gerber was a pioneer in establishing the sub-specialty of rehabilitative rheumatology. She has researched the developing of functional outcome measures and applying biomechanical measures to better understand dynamics of gait and compensations for impairments. She developed a program to promote functional independence in children with osteogenesis imperfecta, through techniques to facilitate upright activity. She has recommended early arm mobilization for women undergoing axillary dissection, early mobilization for young adults undergoing amputation and limb sparing procedures, and protected mobility for those with weakness and bony metastatic disease. Lynn has authored more than 100 peer reviewed manuscripts and written chapters in the standard textbooks of PM&R, Oncology, Rheumatology and Foot and Ankle Disorders. [ TOP ] |
