ABSA Orlando

Oct. 18-24, 2012

Bonnet Creek Resort
Orlando, FL

PRECONFERENCE COURSES

Conference Program

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

7:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration

7:00 - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:05 am Welcome
Master of Ceremonies


Session XII: Third Concurrent—Regulatory Aspects

Moderator: Darlene Ward, RBP, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

8:05 am Applying the Recent Supreme Court Decision of NASA vs. Nelson to the National Institutes of Health Biosurety Program
Casey Skvorc, PhD, JD, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC

8:25 am Transitional Operations: Guiding Owners Through Start-up Operations & Regulatory Compliance
Debra Sharpe, MPH, CCHO, RBP, Working Buildings, LLC, Atlanta, GA

8:45 am A Case Study for Post Approval Monitoring—Reporting an Untoward Event
Robert Hashimoto, CBSP, University of California, Berkeley, CA

9:05 am Maximizing Grant Funds for Facilities: Achieving Regulatory Compliance Without Sacrificing Programmatic Needs Benjamin Elliott, Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Architecture, Atlanta, GA

9:25 am Q&A

Session XII: Third Concurrent—Roundtable—Waste Disposal (Point/Counterpoint)

Moderator: Richie Fink, CBSP, Pfizer, Andover, MA

8:05 am Tissue Digesters and Effluent Decontamination Systems—New Designs/Old Applications?
Ed Krisiunas, MPH, WNWN International, Inc., Burlington, CT

8:25 am Title: TBA
Jack Keene, DrPH, RBP, CBSP, Global Biohazard Technologies, Inc., Midlothian, VA

8:45 am The Regulatory Perspective on Infectious Waste Treatment Technologies
Alison Dabney, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA

9:05 am Q&A



9:45 - 10:20 am Coffee Break


Session XIII: Knudsen Award & Lecture

10:20 - 11:10 am Moderator: Judy LaDuc, RBP, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
TBA

11:10 am - 1:00 pm Honor Awards and Special Recognition Luncheon
Presenter: Karen B. Byers, MS, RBP, CBSP, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Arnold G. Wedum Distinguished Achievement Award
Everett J. Hanel, Jr. Award Presentation
John H. Richardson Special Recognition Award
International and National Poster Awards
Recognition of Certified Biosafety Professionals and Registered Biosafety Professionals
Krista Murray, RBP, CBSP, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Paul Meechan, PhD, RBP, CBSP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA


Session XIV: Roundtable—Animal Biosafety

Moderator: Kelly Flint, RBP, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD

1:00 - 1:20 pm Working Safely with Animals in Containment
Timothy D. Mandrell, DVM, DACLAM, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

1:20 - 1:40 pm Biosafety Officer's Experiences and Perspective—Biosafety Challenges in Animal Research: Risk Assessment, Training and SOPs
Benjamin Fontes, MPH, CBSP, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1:40 - 2:00 pm Biocontainment Equipment, Animal Handling, & Decontamination
Michael Sidelsky, Sr., Allentown, Inc., Allentown, NJ

2:00 - 2:20 pm Prion Work in Laboratory Rodents
Frank Warren, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2:20 - 2:40 pm Q&A


2:40 - 3:10 pm Coffee Break


Session XV: Roundtable—International Biosafety

Moderator: Janet Peterson, RBP, CBSP, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

3:10 - 3:30 pm Definition of Biosecurity in Other Countries
AMEXBio—Edgar Sevilla-Reyes, PhD, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico, D.F., Mexico or Alberto Zurita Gomez, Sr., Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

3:30 - 3:50 pm Outreach to Research and Biosafety Communities
Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation—James Welch, Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation, Kingsport, TN

3:50 - 4:10 pm Worldwide Building of Biosafety Associations—IFBA and the New IFBA Webmap and Communication Network
International Federation of Biosafety Associations—Brad Goble, TDV Global, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

4:10 - 4:30 pm What is Needed to Advance Biosafety/Biosecurity Internationally
Pakistan BioSafety Association—Erum Khan, MBBS, FCPS, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

4:30 - 4:50 pm Q&A


Close of Conference




Thursday, November 3, 2011

8:00 - 5:30pm ABSA Affiliate and Biosafety Association Workshop


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