Conference Agenda
Day 1, Thursday, December 09, 2010
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome By Co-Chairs
Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
James M. Riley Jr., Coats, Rose, Yale, Ryman & Lee, Houston
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Recent IARC Evaluation of Benzene and other Agents Focusing on Blood-Related Cancers
- View the Full Study Here.
Dave A. Eastmond, Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California, Riverside, CA
Thomas H. Hart III, The Law Offices of Thomas H. Hart III, St. Croix, V.I.
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Benzene and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Robert Scott, Abrams Scott & Bickley, LLP, Houston
Sherilyn Gross, L.N., Ph.D., Senior Health Scientist, ChemRisk, LLC, Boulder, CO
J. Keith Hyde, Provost Umphrey, Houston
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Litigation of Benzene-Related Lymphoid Cancer Cases: Recent Settlements and Verdicts
Frederick J. Ufkes, Hinshaw & Culbertson, San Francisco
Keith Patton, Shrader & Associates, Houston
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
To be Provided by HarrisMartin Publishing
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Benzene’s Effects on Lymphocytes: Lymphocytosis and Lymphocytopenia
Dale Drysdale, CIH, Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc., Houston
Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D., Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc., Houston
Lawrence P. Riff, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Los Angeles
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Benzene and Multiple Myeloma
David A. Galbraith, M.D., ChemRisk, San Francisco
Lynn Luker, Lynn Luker & Associates, LLC, New Orleans
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Benzene and Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
Nachman Brautbar, M.D., University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Chromosome-Wide Aneuploidy Study (CWAS) in Workers Exposed to an Established Leukemogen, Benzene
Luoping Zhang, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA
Day 2, Friday, December 10, 2010
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Benzene and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Gregory P. Sarna, M.D., FACP, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Vlaanderen 2010 Meta-Analysis of Benzene and Lymphoid Cancers
- View the full Vlaanderen study Here.
Wesley A. Weathers, Weathers, Riley & Sheppeard, LLP, Topeka, KS
Douglas L. Weed, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., DLW Consulting Services, LLC, El Prado, NM