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