Electromagnetic Phenomena and Health, A Continuing Controversy?
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Adrian.
There is an opportunity to book one of the limited places available at
the Institute of Physics workshop on Wednesday 10^th September; this is
a small meeting with only 40 places available on first come first served
basis. Confirmation needs to be in by Friday, please see details below.
The cost includes lunch £85.00 non-members, £65.00 IoP members and
£35.00 student rate. Please see agenda and contact details below.
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Eileen O’Connor
Trustee – EM Radiation Research Trust
www.radiationresearch.org <http://www.radiationresearch.org/>
**Electromagnetic Phenomena and Health - A Continuing Controversy?**
**10 September 2008**
*Institute** of Physics, London*
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The following speakers are confirmed:
**Dr. Michael Repacholi - Keynote speaker** //-//**/ "Science and
Precaution"./**
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Previously Radiation Specialist in Occupational and Environmental Health
and the Protection of the Human Environment for WHO, coordinator of WHO
EMF Project (1996-2006), Inaugural Chairman of the International
Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), Member of the
International Radiation Protection Association's (IRPA) International
Non-Ionizing Radiation Committee since 1978 and Chairman of that
Committee from 1988—1992.
**Professor Paolo Vecchia -** **/"Methodological Approach to
Science-Based Standards"/**
Head of the Non Ionizing Radiation Section of the Physics Laboratory of
ISS, President of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA),
ICNIRP member since May 2000, and Past President of the Italian
Radiation Protection Association (AIRP).
He is responsible for advice to health and environmental authorities on
any health problem related to NIR. In the field of basic research, he
has been involved mainly in studies on possible effects of
electromagnetic fields on the immune system as well as in theoretical
dosimetry. He is also collaborating on epidemiological studies relative
to both low- and high-frequency fields.
**Professor Yury Grigoriev - "**/*/Electromagnetic Fields and
Population: EMF standards and Estimation of Risk/*/**"**
Chairman of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Protection, Director of the Centre for Bioelectromagnetic
Compatibility,Chief Researcher at the Laboratory of Radiobiology and
Hygiene for Non-lonizing Radiation, Deputy Director and Chief Scientific
Researcher for the Russian Institute of Biophysics, Deputy Director of
the Institute of Medico-Biologico Problems, a member of the National
Commission on Ionising Radiation Protection.
Professor Grigoriev is additionally a member of the International
Advisory Committee of the WHO on their International Program EMF and
Health.
**Professor David O. Carpenter - **/*/"Human Health Effects of EMFs: The
Costs of Doing Nothing."/*/
Institute for Health and the Environment, the University at Albany,
State University of New York, Rensselaer, NY. Co-editor of the 2007
"Bioinitiative Report" and the two 1994 volumes entitled "Biological
Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields", He was the Executive Secretary
of the New York State Powerlines Project in the 1980s.
His previous positions include serving as Chairman of the Neurobiology
Department at the US Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute,
Director of the Wadsworth Laboratories of the New York State Department
of Health and Dean of the School of Public Health of the University at
Albany. Dr. Carpenter is a public health physician and has over 300
publications on issues relating to human health effects resulting from
various environmental exposures. He serves on numerous national and
international committees and editorial boards.
**Professor Olle Johansson -**/*/ "Health Effects of Modern-Life
Electromagnetic Fields: A Neuroscientist’s Views"./*/
Professor at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden;
Assoc. Professor, and Head of the Experimental Dermatology Unit at the
Karolinska Institute's Department of Neuroscience.
Research interest: EMF radiation and health effects. He has published
over 500 original articles, reviews, book chapters, and conference
reports within the field of basic and applied neuroscience.
**Professor Henry Lai** **- **/*/"Therapeutic Applications of EMF"?/*/
Professor Henry Lai, from the University of Washington.
Area of research: biological effects of nonionizing radiation from
extremely-low-frequency to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and the
use of electromagnetic fields for the treatment of various diseases,
such as malaria and cancer.
**Keith Scott Jamieson **- //"*Building Health: The Need for
Electromagnetic Hygiene?" *//
Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.
Presentation of research undertaken at Imperial, and with Dr. Paul
Holdstock, of Holdstock Technical Services, Manchester, U.K., examining
examples of possible benefits, and pitfalls to avoid, when seeking to
employ the 'precautionary principle' and 'ALARA' regimes to create
'healthier' electromagnetic environments indoors in home, office and
healthcare facilities, and why there is often a need to proceed with
caution when seeking to design such environments.
**Dr. John Swanson - **/*/"SAGE: an example of best practice?" /*/
Scientific advisor to the UK National Grid, and advisor on electric and
magnetic fields for the Electricity Association and stakeholder of SAGE
(Stakeholder Advisory Group ELF EMF).
**Professor Emeritus Michael J. O'Carroll -** /*/"Ways forward in public
scientific controversies"/*/
University of Sunderland, Chairperson of REVOLT and SAGE stakeholder.
**_Chairperson for morning session: Professor Derek Clements-Croome _**
Director of Intelligent Buildings Research Group at the University of
Reading; Chairman of: Natural Ventilation Group and Intelligent
Buildings Group for CIBSE. Vice-President of CIBSE from May 2007 and
Board Member for British Council of Offices. Visiting Professor at
several universities: Honorary President of Intelligent Buildings
Congress at Cracow University, 2001 and 2002, 2004, 2006. UK Ambassador
and Chairman at Clima 2000, 7th World Congress, Naples in September 2001.
Research interests include intelligent buildings; design of workplaces;
and environmental design for human needs; and environmental issues for
the construction industry. He has published over 200 papers and is
author of several books including 'Creating the Productive Workplace';
'Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings'; and 'Intelligent
Buildings'.
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