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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia

Institut de Medecine et de Physiologie Spatiales, (MEDES), Toulouse, France
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Continuing Education
 CME, CNE, and ACHE offered through USUHS Continuing Health Education

Certification Maintenance Points from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene
Seminar Moderator
 Catherine Angotti, RD, LD

Director, Occupational Health, Office of Chief Health and Medical Officer, NASA
Course Director
 Wing T. Chan, PhD, SM

Senior Public Health Officer, Office of Chief Health and Medical Officer, NASA


































Series 1 - Occupational Health and Safety Policy
Series 2 - Public Health Policies, ... in the United States
Series 3 - Public Health Policies, ... in Foreign Countries
Series 4 - Bioethics in the U.S. & Selected Countries
Series 5 - Health Surveillance/Maintenance ... Workplace
Series 6 - Emerging Diseases
Series 7 - Aging
Series 8 - Occupational/Environmental Health and Safety
Series 9 - Nuclear Terrorism

Session 1-3 | 4-6 | 7-9 | 10-12

• • • Session 7 • • •
Overview of Workplace Health Surveillance/Maintenance and Other Specific Issues in Germany
  • Giso Schmeisser, M.D,
    Head, Section "Company Doctors", Central Bureau of Industrial Accidental Insurance, Sankt Augustin, Germany


  • Edith Perlebach, Ph.D.,
    Head, Occupational Health Dept., Central Bureau of Industrial Accidental Insurance, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Workplace Health Surveillance/Maintenance Program at NASA,
  • William Barry, M.D.,
    M.P.H., Manager, Agency Occupational Health Program, Kennedy Space Center, NASA


  • Date: June 24, 1999 (Thursday)
  • Time: 1030-1330
• • • Session 8 • • •
Aerospace Medicine and Workplace Hazard
  1. Overview of Aerospace Medicine and Workplace Hazard
    • Richard S. Williams, M.D.,
      M.P.H., FACS, Director, Office of Health Affairs, OLMSA/NASA HQ

  2. Agency Space Medicine Program at NASA
    • Roger D. Billica, M.D.,
      Chief, Medical Operations Branch, Space and Life Sciences Directorate, Johnson Space Center, NASA
  3. Astronauts Longitudinal Study
    • Mary Wear, M.P.H., Ph.D. candidate,
      Supervisor, Epidemiology Section, Johnson Space Center, NASA


    • Date: July 6, 1999 (Tuesday)
    • Time: 930-1200
• • • Session 9 • • •
Environmental and Occupational Hazards
  1. Biological (bloodborne pathogens, TB, other pathogenic agents)
    • Deborah Wilson, Dr. P.H,
      Chief, Occupational Safety /Health Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

  2. Physical (lightning and electrical shock, stress in extreme environment, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation including laser)
    • Virgil Casini,
      Occupational Safety & Health Manager, Division of Safety Research, NIOSH, Morgantown, W. Virginia
    • Jeffrey Pfoutz,
      Laser Safety Physicist, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention, U.S. Army

  3. Chemical (hydrazine, monomethyl hydrazine, isocyanates, dimethyl ethoxysilane, epoxy resins, acrylonitrile, methylene dianiline)
    • James M. Boiano, M.S., CIH,
      Division Of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio
    • Jeffrey Pfoutz,
      Laser Safety Physicist, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention, U.S. Army


    • Date: July 23, 1999 (Friday)
    • Time: 1330-1600

Series 5

Construction workers looking over papers.

Workforce and environment are major issues. The workforce and the work environment are changing. Organization of work and work stress are major problems for the emerging workplace. In the workplace, many of the cancer research methods are inadequate. For many of the exposures, finding assessment methods that are sensitive enough to average exposures and exposures over time are very important.
 
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