WORLD INFORMATION TRANSFER’S 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL PARTNERS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
- APRI 23 & 24, 2008, UN HEADQUARTERS,
- NEW YORK
- on the twin themes:
- CHORNOBYL UPDATE & YOUTH ACTION
- Co-Sponsored by the Government of Ukraine
- with the support of UNDP, WHO, NGLS, Stakeholder Forum
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Conference Program
- April 24, 2008
- 10:00 to 11:30 AM - Chornobyl Nuclear Accident: the Past and the Present
- Opening Remarks: Dr. Christine K. Durbak, Chair
- Daniel Igor Branovan, MD
- Welcoming Remarks:
- Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine
- Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Belarus
- Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation
- Consul General of Ukraine
- Consul General of Belarus
- Consul General of Russian Federation
- 10:30 to 11:45
- Prof. Vladimir Maltsev
- Prof. Mykola Tronko, Trends in thyroid cancer among Chornobyl survivors in Ukraine
- Dr. Daniel Igor Branovan, Medical consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear accident:From Kiev and Minsk to Brooklyn and Boston
- 11:45 to 1:00 PM – Treatment of the Thyroid Cancer after Chornobyl
- Prof. Gregory Rodoman, Advances in thyroid cancer treatment in Russian Federation.
- Prof. Rocco Bellantone, Advances in minimally-invasive thyroid surgery.
- Prof. Gregory Randolph, Advances in prevention of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury during thyroid cancer surgery.
- Michael Pitman, MD, Hoarseness after thyroid surgery: patients? expectations and treatment.
- Panel Discussion Facilitators: Dr. Branovan, Dr. Shiglik
- LUNCHEON (by Invitation only)
- 1:00 to 3:00 PM- Project Chornobyl, Launching the effort to treat the community at risk
- Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein
- Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny
- NY State Senator Martin Golden
- Assemblyman Cymbrowitz
- Project Chornobyl Awards
- Presentation, World Congress of Russian-speaking Jewry
- Afternoon Session
- Part I: 3:00 to 4:15 PM- Psychological Consequences of the Chornobyl Nuclear Accident
- Prof. Elena Malysheva Psychological consequences of Chornobyl in Russia.
- RoseMarie Perez-Foster Ph.D. Psychological consequences of Chornobyl among USA immigrants.
- Larissa Remennick, Ph.D. Psycho-social implications of past radiation exposure: Immigrants fromChornobyl-affected area in Israel.
- Panel Discussion Facilitator: J. Geliebter
- Part II: 4:30 to 5:30 PM- Socio-economic costs of Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
- Michael Tuttle, MD Socio-economic costs of thyroid diagnosis and treatment
- Stephen Raab, MD The economic and social costs of false positive testing: fine needle aspirationВ in diagnosis of thyroid cancer.
- Guo-Pei Yu, MD, PhD
- Daniel Igor Branovan, MD Cost-effectiveness of subsidy for new thyroid cancer diagnostic modalities.
- Panel Discussion Facilitator: Dr. Schantz
- Part III: 5:45 to 6:00 PM
- Closing Remarks:H.E. Yuriy Sergeyev, Permantn Representative of Ukraine
- Dr. Daniel Igor Branovan, Chair, NYEE Chornobyl Project
- Dr. Christine K. Durbak, Chair, World Information Transfer