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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