ASBESTOS: DIALOGUE FOR THE FUTURE
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
08:00 – 17:15
Faculty Club: (Ballroom)
3450 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E5
| Morning Session (The Science) Co-Chairs: Professor Eduardo Franco & Maedeh Khayyat Kholghi | |
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| 8:00 - 8:30 | Arrival and Registration Student Representative(s) |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome and Introduction to the Conference Dr. David Eidelman |
| 8:45 - 9:15 | Mineralogically, What is Asbestos and How Does it Form? (abstract) Dr. Anthony Williams-Jones (bio) |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Unfortunate Legacy of Asbestos Use at McGill (abstract) Professor Jim Nicell (bio) |
| 9: 45 - 10:15 | Overview of Asbestos-Related Lung Disease (abstract) Dr. Neil Colman (bio) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | BREAK |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Assessing the Burden of Asbestos-related Disease in Canada (abstract) Dr. Paul Demers (bio) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Worldwide pandemic of asbestos-related diseases (abstract) Dr. Leslie Stayner (bio) |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | LUNCH |
| Afternoon Session (Policy) Co-Chairs: Dr. Pierre Ernst & Joey Shea | |
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| 1:30 – 2:30 | The past is prologue; Universities in Service to Corporations:The McGill-QAMA Asbestos Example (abstract) Dr. David Egilman (bio) A Failure of Ethics by McGill University (abstract) Kathleen Ruff (bio) Chair: Dr. Fernand Turcotte (bio) |
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Corporate Sponsored Research at McGill: A scholar’s perspective (abstract) Professor Jaye Ellis (bio) |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | BREAK |
| 3:45 – 5:00 | Panel Discussion:University Research Collaboration with the For-profit Sector. Addressing the Tensions Created When University Research is Privately Funded. (abstract) |
| 5:00 – 5:15 | Closing Remarks Afternoon Session Co-Chairs (as above) |
