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"Mold-Related Health Effects: Clinical, Remediation Worker Protection, and Biomedical Research Issues"

June 28-29, 2004
Washington Court Hotel
Washington, D.C.

The following partners are pleased to announce a meeting on the health effects of indoor mold exposure: the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (SOEH); the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS); the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC); Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Urban Public Health Program of Hunter College, CUNY; and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) - School of Public Health.

The purpose of this cross-disciplinary meeting is to bring together experts in clinical science, worker protection and education, and basic research to further efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions related to exposure to indoor mold. The goals will be to improve clinical practice and case management, more effectively protect and train remediation workers, and recommend future research directions that will lead to an evidence-based understanding of the health effects related to exposure to indoor mold.

The meeting will benefit those professionals involved in occupational and environmental health, including occupational physicians, industrial hygienists, worker safety and health trainers, biological and environmental health scientists who are conducting research in this area, as well as those who are involved in making public health policy, including those at federal, state, and local governmental agencies.

Those who attend may choose between two tracks for the breakout sessions:

1) one for occupational health and safety practitioners interested in protecting remediation workers from harm; and

2) one for both clinicians interested in improving clinical practice and case management, and environmental health research scientists interested in mold-related health effects.

More information about the meeting, including registration information, can be found at <http://www.soeh.org/> . Registration for the two-day meeting is $175 if you register before May 31, 2004.


J. Patrick Mastin, PhD
Chief, Cellular, Organs, and Systems Toxicology Branch
Division of Extramural Research and Training, NIEHS
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Phone (919) 541-3289
Fax: (919) 541-5064
<mastin@niehs.nih.gov>