RISK newsletter:
1995 SRA Annual Meeting Sessions Planned
Source: The Society for Risk
Analysis' RISK newsletter,
Second Quarter 1995
The Society's 1995 Annual Meeting Committee, chaired by
President-elect John D. Graham, will meet on July 7 with the SRA
Secretariat in McLean, Virginia, to plan the program for SRA's
upcoming annual meeting, which will be sponsored both by the
parent SRA and the Japan Section
of SRA.
Committee members include SRA Councilors David E. Burmaster
of Alceon Corporation, Gail Charnley of the National Commission
on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Yacov Y. Haimes of
University of Virginia, and Tohru Morioka of Osaka University.
Other members are Scott Baker of EA Engineering, Science, and
Technology Inc.; Ann Bostrom of Georgia Institute of Technology;
Kenny S. Crump of the K. S. Crump Group of ICF Kaiser
International; Michael Dourson of Toxicology Excellence for Risk
Assessment; John S. Evans of Harvard School of Public Health;
Robert Fares of Versar Inc.; John G. Keller of Apex Environmental
Inc.; Lester B. Lave of Carnegie Mellon University; Stanley
Levinson of B & W Nuclear Technologies; SRA Treasurer Paul S.
Price of ChemRisk, a division of McLaren/Hart; Resha Putzrath of
Georgetown Risk Group; and Larisa Rudenko of Environ Corporation.
The committee will arrange the papers, symposia, and posters
into sessions and schedule workshops. Authors will receive
notification concerning their papers by early fall. Preliminary
programs will be mailed in September, and the deadline for
registration will be in mid-November.
Included in the program will be five sessions organized by
the SRA Japan Section under the leadership of its Executive
Committee for the Joint Meeting in Hawaii, chaired by Eiji
Yokoyama, former dean of the National Institute of Public Health.
The committee members are the Japan Section's vice president
Hirotada Hirose of Tokyo Women's Christian University, its
president Saburo Ikeda of Tsukuba University, SRA Councilor Tohru
Morioka of Osaka University, Taketoshi Taniguchi of Central
Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, and Iwao Uchiyama
of the National Institute of Public Health Japan.
The Society will consider proposals for workshops to be held
December 3 after the June 16 deadline. It also is accepting
entries for an exhibition of risk-related products and services
and a book exhibit at the meeting. For more information, contact
Lori Strong, SRA Secretariat, telephone (703) 790-1745, e-mail
sraburkmgt@aol.com.
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