Source: RISK newsletter,
Second Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
The program committee for the joint 1996 annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA), to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 8-11, will meet on June 21 to review abstracts submitted for presentation. The chair of the committee is Rae Zimmerman, SRA’s president-elect and chair of its Annual Meeting Committee.
The program committee is comprised of representatives from various groups within SRA and ISEA. For SRA, these include the Society’s specialty groups, the SRA Council and Executive Committee, and several relatively new members of the Society. In general, the committee members live near Washington, D.C., or will be in the area on June 21.
SRA specialty group representatives or members include Scott R. Baker, EA Engineering, Science, and Technology Inc., for dose response; Robert J. Fares, Environmental Standards Inc., for ecological risk assessment; Thomas E. McKone, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, for exposure assessment; Stanley H. Levinson, Framatome Technologies, for engineering; Richard C. Rich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, for risk communication; Barbara Petersen, Technical Assessment Systems, for food safety risk assessment; and Michael Gerrard, Arnold & Porter, and Paul A. Locke, Environmental Law Institute, for risk science and law.
Current or former SRA councilors and officers serving on the committee include Donald G. Barnes, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board; Annie M. Jarabek, U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment; Gail Charnley, Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management; Yacov Y. Haimes, University of Virginia; and James D. Wilson, Center for Risk Management, Resources for the Future. Also serving are Robin Cantor of the National Science Foundation’s Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program and Larisa Rudenko of Environ Corporation. Other SRA members are also filling key positions for the meeting. In particular, James L. Regens of Tulane University Medical Center is coordinating abstract submissions that emphasize New Orleans and other Louisiana areas.
ISEA representatives include McKone, a councilor of both SRA
and ISEA and ISEA’s technical program committee chair for
the 1996 joint meeting, and Petersen. Other ISEA or SRA/ISEA
representatives are Alan H. Stern, New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, and Mark P. van Veen, National
Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection,
Netherlands.