Conference Agenda
Day 1, Tuesday, October 29, 2013
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome by Co-Chairs
Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
Dean T. Howell, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
Theodore P. Ray, ExxonMobil Corporation, Houston
8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Genetic, Genomic and DNA Evidence: Guzman v. Exxon Mobil Corporation - A Case Study
Theodore P. Ray, ExxonMobil Corporation, Houston
Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
Dean T. Howell, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Genetic, Genomic and DNA Evidence: What Substances and What Cancers Can Be the Subject of RNA-Sequencing
Moderator:
Theodore P. Ray, ExxonMobil Corporation, Houston
Speakers:
Len van Zyl, Ph.D., CEO and CSO, ArrayXpress,
Inc., Raleigh, NC
John B. Sullivan, M.D., MBA, Medical Toxicology & Environmental Health, President Health Effects Group, Tucson, AZ
David G. Hoel, Ph.D., Exponent Inc., Alexandria, VA
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Genetic, Genomic and DNA Evidence: Why It Is Useful for Both Plaintiff and Defendant and the Applicability of Epidemiology
Steve C. Gold, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Clinic, Rutgers School of Law, Newark, NJ
Mary S. Johnson, Johnson Gray McNamara LLC, Mandeville, LA
David G. Hoel, Ph.D., Exponent Inc., Alexandria, VA
James Christopher Dean, Dean Law Firm, Houston
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Genetic, Genomic and DNA Evidence: How Do You Get It Admitted?
Mary S. Johnson, Johnson Gray McNamara LLC, Mandeville, LA
E. Paige Sensenbrenner, Adams and Reese, LLP, New Orleans
Dean T. Howell, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Genetic, Genomic and DNA Evidence: How Do You Use It At Trial?
Eugene J. Brown Jr., Sedgwick LLP, San Francisco
Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
James Christopher Dean, Dean Law Firm, Houston
Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Genetic, Genomic and DNA Evidence: Legal and Medical Ethical Considerations
April A. Carr, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, Knoxville, TN
John B. Sullivan, M.D., MBA, Medical Toxicology & Environmental Health, President Health Effects Group, Tucson, AZ
D. Mark Jackson, Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum LLP, San Francisco