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Conference announcement
International Conference on Radiation and Health
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Nov 3-7, 1996 inclusive
Dear Colleagues:
We take pleasure in inviting you to the International
Conference on Radiation and Health which will take place in
Israel in November 3-7, 1996.
The idea for this came about as a result of the immigration to
Israel of about 600,000 persons from the former Soviet Union
during 1991-95. Of this number, about 120,000 came from the
Ukraine, Belarus and Russia from areas that were contaminated
with varying levels of radioisotopes. This group in Israel is
one of the largest outside the CIS from these areas and
certainly is the most assessable, as well as being positively
motivated for clinical assessments. Study results from this
group are now being obtained.
In order best to associate these findings with other research
on health and radiation, this conference has been planned with
the objective of bringing together groups whose work relates to
the effects of radiation on populations and to discuss the
application of relevant advances in molecular and cellular
biology, oncology, genetics, nuclear medicine, epidemiology,
psychosociology and health physics.
Conference scope: The effects of 'low dose exposure' to
population groups has been a matter of concern for many years.
Although considerable work has been carried out on the effects
of catastrophic ionizing radiation effects (such as at
Hiroshima), the effects of extended exposures of populations to
acute and chronic low dose radiation (ionizing and
non-ionizing), is hard to assess and to predict. The risk
caused by radiation may be less than that caused by the many
other bio-medical insults and pollutants now in the
environment. However, the effects of radiations on biologically
significant molecules such as DNA, on the whole organism and
indeed on populations may serve as a model for the evaluation
of other environmental effectors.
Subject areas pertaining to the effects of radiation (both
ionizing and non-ionizing) on people will include studies in
health physics, biological indicators of exposure, molecular
radiation biology and carcinogenesis, metabolism of
radioisotopes at cell, tissue and whole body levels, ongoing
Chernobyl related studies, dose reconstruction, monitoring
programs for evaluating population impact of importance in
assessing intervention, epidemiological evaluation of long term
effects (carcinogenic, genetic and non-neoplastic), risk
assessment and psychosocial aspects including counseling and
evaluation of radiation related post-traumatic stress disorders.
We look forward to meeting you in Israel in 1996.
Michael R. Quastel MD PhD John R. Goldsmith MD MPH
Co-chairman Co-chairman
maay100@bgumail.bgu.ac.il gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Papers in any of the following areas will be welcomed:
1. Physics and health physics: Radioisotope methodology,
whole body counting, ground contamination, ESR, population
dosimetry modeling, low level isotope measurements.
2. Molecular biology: Determination of DNA effects and
alterations of genome, oncogene expression, methodologies,
storage of tissues for possible future technologies.
3. Biological indicators of exposure: Cytogenetics, chromosome
painting, clastogenic factors, micronuclei, Glycophorin A,
HPRT, indices of oxygen radical toxicity, etc.
4. Long term effects:
a) Carcinogenic: Early indicators, leukemia, thyroid ,
detection, other.
b) Genetic: Mutation detection and incidence, methodologies,
role in carcinogenic effects.
c) Non-malignant: Hypertension, asthma, autoimmune, thyroid
functional changes, other.
5. Nuclear Medicine and Biology: Metabolism of radioisotopes at cell,
tissue and whole body level, detection in vivo.
6. Epidemiology: Evaluating population impact and assuring in
ongoing operations that health problems are looked for in a
monitoring program which can lead to effective intervention.
Interaction of radiation and other environmental agents,
industrial and work-place exposures.
7. Psychosocial: Counseling, post stress syndromes, evaluation
of impact, referral methodologies for prevention of stigmatization.
8. Risk assessment: Due to radioisotopes of different kinds,
non-ionizing radiations, population subgroups at higher risk than
most of the population epidemiological and experimental data for
extrapolation, as used to support regulations.
9. Long term assessment and follow-up: Direction of future studies,
methodology for optimal follow-up data collection. Cooperation
and collaboration between working groups.
Venue: The conference will be held in Beer Sheva, Capital of
the Negev, at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Climate: November is a pleasant month in Israel with the hot
summer over and the rainy season not yet arrived. Temperature
ranges between 22-26 C (72-80 F) during the day, dropping to
13-18 C (54-64 F) at night.
Access to Israel: It is Israel's policy to allow entry to all
participants of international events, irrespective of their
country's formal relationship with Israel.
Social program: An interesting program of social events
including receptions and outings, etc, is planned with a
special program for accompanying persons and children.
Time-table: The first call for papers will be mailed in the
fall of 1995.
To be placed on the mailing list: Please send the following
information by fax or mail to the Secretariat,
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RADIATION AND HEALTH
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