Society for Occupational and Environmental Health
An International Society
 
SOEH 2002 Conference:
    "Pesticide Exposure and Health"

• Anne Lindsay, Office of Pesticide Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA     #120
• Rosemary Sokas, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA     #121
• Carol Rubin, CDC, National,Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA     #122
• Chris DeRosa, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, Georgia, USA     #123
• Luiz Galvao, Environmental Health Program, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA, presented by Samuel Henao     #124
• Terri Damstra, International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland    #125    

• Safe: Serving America's Farmworkers Everywhere, A Model for Community�Involvement and Safety � Jacqueline DeCarlo, Association of�Farmworker Opportunity Programs, Arlington, VA     #80
• Need for a Coherent Pesticide Policy in India � Tushar Kant Joshi, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Lok Nayak Hospital , New Delhi, India     #36
• Pesticide Exports from US Ports, 1997�2000 � Carl Smith, VP, Foundation for Advancement in Science and Education, Los Angeles, CA     #100

• Pesticide Poisonings Among Farmworkers in Washington State: An Analysis of Five Years of Pesticide Surveillance Data � Barbara Morrissey, MS, Lynden Baum, MS, Pesticide and Surveillance Section, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA,presented by Judy Bardin     #72
• Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury Surveillance: A How-to-Guide for State-Based Programs�Margot Barnett, MS, Strategic Options Consulting, Inc., Portland, OR; Geoffrey M. Calvert, MD, MPH, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Cincinnati, OH     #49
• Farmworker Exposure to Pesticides:�What Two Case Investigations Reveal�Jennifer Sievert, Texas Department of Health, Austin, TX     #58

• Pesticide Exposure & Children: A Call for New Pediatric Diagnosis � Irma Makalinao     #95
• Developments in Exposure and Risk Assessment: Job Exposure Matrices (JEM) in the NHANES III Pesticide Epidemiology (PEPI) Study � Ruth H. Allen, Carol Christensen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC; Patricia Stewart, Joe Coble, Mary Ward, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD     #105�

• Use of Time-Motion Video Analysis to Establish Dermal Transfer Coefficients for Residential Microenvironments� Curtis C. Dary, US EPA, Human Exposure Research Branch, Las Vegas, NV; Michael J. Dellarco, U.S. EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington DC; Christopher G. Saint, US EPA, National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance, Washington, DC     �#38
• Early Childhood Determinants of Organochlorine Concentrations in School-Aged Children� Wilfried Karmaus, E. Paul DeKoning, Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Hermann Kruse,Institute of Toxicology, Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany;Jutta Witten, Ministry of Social Welfare Hesse, Department of Health, Wiesbaden, Germany; Nadia Osius, Institute for Medical Sociology, University Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany    �#61
• Childhood Growth and Exposure to Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethene and Polychlorinated Biphenyls� Wilfried Karmaus, Scott Asakevich, Alka Indurkhya, Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Jutta Witten, Ministry of Social Welfare Hesse, Department of Health, Wiesbaden, Germany; Hermann Kruse,Institute of Toxicology, Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany    �#62

• Risk of Low Birth Weight in Polish Women Engaged in Farming Who ReportedPesticide Exposure in Pregnancy � Wojciech Hanke, Sobala Wojciech, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Makowiec-Dabrowska Teresa, Department of Work Physiology, Dabrowski Slawomir, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; District Hospital    #85
• Reproductive History of Men Occupationally Exposed to DDT in Their Youth: Relationship with Current Serum DDE Concentration � Pierluigi Cocco, Domenica Fadda, Antonio Ibba, Maria Giuseppina Tocco, Costantino Flore, Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Italy    #66
• Pesticide Usage and Health Consequences for Women in Developing Countries:�Out of Sight, Out of Mind � Leslie London, Hanna Andrea Rother, Donna Mergler, Sylvie de Grosbois, Sophie Kisting, Ineke Wesseling, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, and Industrial Health Research Group, University of Cape Town, South Africa; CINBIOSE, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; IRET, National University, Costa Rica    #77

• Report on the Symposium:�Contaminated Cultural Collections - Preservation, Access and Use � Judith J. Bischoff, PhD, National Park Service, Department of Conservation, Harpers Ferry, WV    #89
• Pesticides from the Past: Repatriation of Indian Cultural Museum Staff and Tribal Members at Risk � David F. Goldsmith, George Washington University, Washington, DC    ��������#86
• Pesticide Use in Museum Ethnographic Collections and International Efforts to Address the Issues Related to Pesticide Residues � Catharine Hawks, Conservator, Falls Church, VA    #90

• Advocacy and Education Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Pesticide Exposure of Farmworkers � Shelley Davis, Virginia Ruiz, Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc., Washington, DC    #48
• Influence of Selected National and International Agenciesand Organizations on Global Pesticide Health and Safety Developments�Andrew Watterson, Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland    #11
• Policy for a Sustainable Use of Pesticides in the European Union:�Current Issues and Future Directions� Marco Maroni, Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee on Plants of the General Directorate Health, Consumer Protection of the European Commission, presented by Sara Visentin    #79

• Importance of Pesticide Exposure In Farmworker Health � David Goldsmith    #152
• Farmworker Pesticide Exposure Perceptions and Beliefs: Using Cultural Knowledge to Improve Safety Education � Thomas A. Arcury, S. A. Quandt, P. Rao, G. B. Russell, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC    #18
• Paraquat: A Persisting Threat in Developing Countries � Catharina Wesseling, Clemens Ruepert, Catalina Le�n, Patricia Monge, Timo Partanen, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, Berna van Wendel de Joode, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, Universidad de Utrecht, The Netherlands, TNO Chemistry, The Netherlands, Hern�n Hermosillo, Foro Ema�s, Costa Rica
    #99

• Larry Beasley, Duda Farms, Florida, USA (Large scale farming)    #126
• Martin Wilks, Toxicologist, Syngenta AC, Basel, Germany (Pesticide manufacturer)    #127
• Herb Needleman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (Research community)    #128
• Ed Zuroweste, Migrant Health Clinic, State College, Pennsylvania (Health care provider)    #129

• WHO Panel on Epidemiology of Pesticide Poisoning: Harmonized Collectionof Data on Human Pesticide Exposures    #101
• Historical background and lessons learned from phase 1 studies, where do we stand? � Marco Maroni, Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee on Plants of the General Directorate Health, Consumer Protection of the European Commission,presented by Sara Visentin    #130
• Presentation of country experiences in case data collection, analysis, reporting, documentation for database establishment on pesticide poisoning - D. Kanungo and Lynn Panganiban�    #131 Part 1  #131 Part 2  #131 Part 3
• Core protocol for the new community study and prospects in the future - Steve Corbett    #132
• Implementation strategy reflecting public health systems, project development and way forward � Dinko Kello    #133

• Role of Exposure to Organophosphate Insecticides in Aetiology of SuicideAmongst Farm Workers in South Africa � Leslie London, Motlagomang Maruping, Alan Flisher, Vicky Major, Shafiek Hassan, Donna Mergler, Sylvie de Grosbois, Maryse Bouchard, Hans Kromhout, Ineke Wesseling, Departments of Public Health and Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Public Health, Peninsula Technicon, South Africa; CINBIOSE, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; EOH Group, University of Utrecht, Netherlands; IRET, National University, Costa Rica    #76
• Association Between Hormone Like Pesticide Exposure and Hormone Dependent Organ Cancers Among Farmers in 24 States � Surasak Buranatrevedh, Division of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Thailand Alfred Bartolucci, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, Deodutta Roy, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL    #25
• Integrative Assessment of Multiple Pesticide Exposures in Farming as Risk Factors for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Men � A. J. De Roos, S. H. Zahm, K. P. Cantor, D. D. Weisenburger, F. F. Holmes, L. F. Burmeister, A. Blair    #17

• Human Exposure to Pesticides via Drinking Water - The Missing Link � David J. Wangsness, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, Atlanta, GA    #34
• Using Watershed Characteristics to Estimate Pesticide Concentrations in U.S.������Streams � Charles G. Crawford, Steven J. Larson, Robert J. Gilliom, US Geological������Survey, National Water-Quality Assessment Program    #47
• Comparison of Potential Dermal Exposure to Endosulfan in Carnation Greenhouses Using Patch and Whole Body Methods � P. Delgado, F. Nocete, J. Viguera,Inst. Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo, Sevilla, Spain, C.R. Glass, Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom    #67

• The DDT Metabolite DDE Appears to be a Reproductive Toxin in Humans � Matthew P. Longnecker, Mark A. Klebanoff, Haibo Zhou, John W. Brock, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA    #12
• Effects of Currently Used Pesticides in Assays for Estrogenicity, Androgenicity and Aromatase Activity in Vitro � Helle Raun Andersen, Thomas H�j Rasmussen,Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark, Anne Marie Vinggaard, Institute of Food Safety and Toxicology, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, S�borg, Denmark, Irene Marianne Gjermandsen, Eva Cecilie Bonefeld-J�rgensen, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark    #109
• Human Reproductive Toxicity of Pesticides:�Male Reproductive Hormones and Thyroid Function � Garry V.F., Harkins M.E., Erickson L., Holland S., Long L., B. Burroughs, University of Minnesota Medical School, Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN    #84

• Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure in Children of Migrant Farmworkers and Tree Fruit Growers � Rachelle Mann-Gaytan, William Lambert, Juan Muniz, Michael Lasarev, Caren Ebbert, Linda McCauley, Oregon Child Development Coalition, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon State University    #13
• Main Aspects of Occupational Pesticide Exposure in Yugoslavia � Bogoljub Perunicic, The Centre for Occupational Diseases and Toxicology, Institute of Occupational and Radiological Health, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Veljko Todorovic, National Poison Control Centre, Medical Military Academy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia    #51
• Urinary Alkyl Phosphate Biomonitoring Data:�A Validation for Cumulative Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides � Charles Yarborough, BASF Corp., Princeton, NJ; Bill Chen, Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, IN; John Ross, infoscientific.com, Inc., Carmichael, CA; Robert E. Hawk, Gowan Company, Yuma, AZ; Amechi Chukwudebe, Syngenta Crop Protection, Greensboro, NC; Angelina Duggan, American Crop Protection Association, Washington, DC    #9

• Urinalysis of Atrazine Exposure in Farm Pesticide Applications � Melissa J. Perry, David C. Christiani, Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health, John Mathew, David Degenhardt, James Tortorelli, John Strauss, William C. Sonzogni, Wisconsin Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Madison    �#50
• Pesticide Exposure of Ethnic Minority Among Farmers in North Thailand - Peter Kunstadter, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Tippawan Prapamontol, Chiang Mai University    #44
• Environmental Health Perceptions Among Clinicians and Administrators Caring�for Migrants � Amy K. Liebman, Susan Harper, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin , TX��#32

• Pesticide Safety Regulations: Farmworker Perspectives�� Rupali Das, California Department of Health Services, Oakland, CA, Ximena Vergara,Patrice Sutton, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA    #69
• Contact Dermatitis by Pesticides Among Banana Plantation Workers in Panama � Dr. Homero Penagos G., MD; Social Security Bureau of Panama, Occupational Dermatology Service, David Chiriqui    #88
• Exploratory Study of Agricultural Pesticide Poisonings in Rural Gujarat, India:�Surveillance, Worker Practices and Environmental Levels � Preethi Lakshmi Rao, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH; Linda McCauley, Juan F. Muniz, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR; Sidhyartha Mukherjee, Prakash Nayak, Pramukh Swami Medical College, Karamsad, Gujarat, India; Scott Clark, Carol Rice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Niraj Shah, Global Safety Systems, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India; Swati Shah, Institute of Science and Technology for Advanced Studies and Research (ISTAR), Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India    #56

• Evaluating Determinants of Exposure to Pesticides: Quantitative Application in Epidemiologic Studies � C. Samanic, O. C. Elci, T. Stewart, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, J. Prince, Formerly of the National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD    #35
• Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Chlorpyrifos in the U.S. EPA Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Test House Following Crack and Crevice Type Applications � Daniel M. Stout II, Daniel A. Vallero,US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC; Mark A. Mason, US EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC    #39
• Cholinesterase Basal Levels in Non-Exposed to Pesticides Workers, in Santafe De Bogota, Colombia � Marta Luz Bernal Camacho, MD, Occupational Health Consultant, Teacher of Occupational Health at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogot�, Colombia, Occupational Health researcher at National Institute for Cancer, Bogot�, Colombia; Daniel Giraldo Duque, MD, Occupational Health Consultant Physician and head of Occupational Health, Sila Limitada, Bogot�, Colombia, Teacher of Occupational Health at Consejo Colombiano de Seguridad Technical School, Bogot�, Colombia    #8

• Hazard Communication for Pesticide Safety in Developing Countries - When is the Message Adequate? � Hanna Andrea Rother, Leslie London, Motlagomang Maruping, Shirley Miller, Aqiel Dalvie, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Cape Town, South Africa, presented by Leslie London    #75
• Field Worker Protection Initiative � Kathleen A. Thuner, County of San Diego, Department of Agriculture, Weights & Measures, San Diego, CA    #27
• Pesticide Health Policy and Practice: A Review of the Role of Environmental Health Officers in South Africa � Hanna-Andrea Rother, Tracey Prinsloo, Leslie London, Occupational and Environmental Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Cape Town, South Africa, presented by Leslie London    #40

• Jennifer Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC, USA (general community representative)    #134
• Mark Robson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA (small family farmer and researcher)    #135
• Bob Rosenberg, American National Pest Management Association, Washington, DC, USA (representing pest management professionals), presented by Gene Harrington    #137

• Pesticide Poisoning in California � Louise Mehler, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, CA, Patrick Romano, Steven Samuels, Marc Schenker, University of California at Davis, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine    #65
• Community-Based Approach in Monitoring the Impact of Pesticides Use in a Banana Plantation on Indigenous People � Romeo F. Quijano, Ilang-Ilang D. Quijano, Pesticide Action Network Philippines, Las Pinas City, Philippines    #83
• Developing a GIS Mapserver Application for Migrant Health Clinicians � Janet L. Heitgerd, Jillian Hopewell, C. Virginia Lee, Amy Liebman, Arie Manangan, Melissa Massaro, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin, TX    #23

• Pesticide Use Reporting:�A Tool for Research, Regulatory Agencies andCommunities � Stephan Orme, Susan E. Kegley, Pesticide Action Network, North America, San Francisco, CA, Lars Neumeister, Pesticide Action Network Germany, Hambury, Germany; Audrey Thier, Environmental Advocates, Albany, NY#63
• Pesticide Use Trends and Farm Worker Patterns in the U.S. � Susan Gabbard, Aguirre International; David Carroll, US Department of Labor (DOL), Washington, DC; Ana Maria Osorio, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington DC, Richard Mines, California Institute for Rural Studies    #91
• Impact of Training in Integrated Pest Management Among Nicaraguan Maize Farmers: Increased Net Returns and Reduced Health Risk � A. J. Hruska, PhD, M. Corriols, MD, MPH, CARE International in Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua    #30

• Evaluation of Acute Pesticide Intoxications in Belize � Rony Maza, Pan American Health Organization, Belize; Ana Maria Osorio, EPA, Washington, DC#92
• Knowledge and Practices of Pesticide Users in Chiriqui, Republic of Panama � Dra. Esquivel, Mar�a In�s, Ministry of Health, Ancon, Panama    #21

• Risk Management and Biological Monitoring of Australian Agricultural Workers � K. R. Johnstone, M. F. Capra, School of Public Health, Queensland, University of Technology; Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia    #16
• Gardening and Pesticide Use in the Slovak Republic�� Thomas Cook, Karol Hatiar, Gabriel Guli�, Katarina Hatiarova, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, The Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia    #33
• Farm Family Exposure Study � B. A. Baker, B. H. Alexander, University of Minnesota; J. S. Mandel, P. Chapman, Exponent; R. Honeycutt, HERAC; G. Jones, ABC Laboratories; J. Acquavella, Monsanto Company    #53

• Prostate Cancer Risk in the Agricultural Health Study Cohort � Michael Alavanja, Claudine Samanic, Mustafa Dosimeci, Robert Tarone, Aaron Blair,Jay Lubin,Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; Charles Lynch, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Charles Knot, Battelle Memorial Institute, RTP, NC; Dale Sandler, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, RTP, NC    #37
• An Icon-Calendar-Based Form for Assessment of Parental Occupational Pesticide Exposure to Evaluate Cancer in the Offspring � Monge, P., Wesseling, C., Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica (IRET); Engel, L., National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Keifer, M., Occupational Medicine Program, Department of Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA#55
• Chronic Liver Morbidity of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Exposure � M. M. Amr, MD, PhD, Department of Occupational Diseases and Industrial Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt    #108

• Role of Textile Materials in Pesticide Exposure and Risk Assessment Studies � Anugrah Shaw and Ruchika Abbi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD    #78
• Estimating Hazards from Use of Methyl Bromide � Jerry Blondell    #110
• Improving Current Human Dermal Risk Assessment � Howard I. Maibach, Ronald C. Wester, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA    #10

• Lynn Goldman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA    #138

• Chip Carson, University of Texas, USA(Pulmonary disease)    #140
• Ana Maria Osorio, EPA, Washington, DC, USA(Cardiac disease)    #141

• Howard Maibach, University of California at San Francisco, USA(Dermatologic disease)    #142
• Linda Frazier, University of Kansas, USA(Reproductive disease)    #143

• Claudia Miller, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA(Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)    #144
• Howard Kipen, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA(Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)    #145