Time-schedule of talks and events at MEDICHEM 2016
(revised September 26, 2016)
Pre-conference reception:
August 31, 2016; venue Novartis Campus from 18:00 h (ST) to 22:00h
Day 1: September 1, 2016
08:30 h Opening of Meeting
Welcome address by the president of MEDICHEM:
Dr. W. Murray Coombs
Health Director
The Dow Chemical Company
South-Africa
Welcome address by Science Industries Switzerland
Dr. Beat Moser, CEO
Science-Industries
Switzerland
Welcome Address
Welcome address by the City of Basel:
The Honorable Dr. Lukas Engelberger
Regierungsrat
City of Basel
Welcome Address
Morning, Sept 1, 2016: Chairpersons of the session:
Dr. Andreas Flückiger: Chief Occupational Health Officer, Roche, Basel/Switzerland
Dr. Maren Beth-Hübner: Past Secretary General MEDICHEM, Competence Center of Hazardous Substances and Biological Agents at Work, BG RCI (German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry), Heidelberg/Germany
Title of session: Setting the limit: influence or recent developments on workplace health risk assessments.
| Time | Topic |
| 09:15 | The role of expert judgement and conceptual approaches in setting OELs by the German MAK Commission
Prof. Dr. Andrea Hartwig President of the MAK-Commission (Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area) Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute of Applied Biosciences, Department of Food Sciences and Toxicology Karlsruhe/Germany Presentation |
| 09:50 | Occupational Exposure Limits and REACH: Similarities and Differences of DNELs with OEL setting done e.g. by MAK
Dr. Gisela Stropp Chairperson of the subcommittee on "Hazard Risk Assessment" of the German Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (AGS-UAIII) Head, Product Stewardship Industrial Chemicals & Operations Wuppertal/Germany Due to legal reasons, the presentation is not available for publication. Please address any inquiries to the presenter directly: gisela.stropp@bayer.com |
| 10:25 | BREAK |
| 10:40 | OELs for Carcinogens with thresholds: What is new in Switzerland?
Dr. Michael Koller Secretary of the Swiss MAK-Kommission/Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA) Lucerne/Switzerland Presentation |
| 11:05 | OELs and Sensation: Irritation or Odor as basis for an OEL; do's and don't's
Dr. rer. nat. Kirsten Sucker Dipl.Psych. Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of Ruhr University Bochum (IPA) Bochum/Germany Presentation |
| 11:40 | How can Occupational Toxicology support Quality: OEL and Permitted Daily Exposure of Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Ester Lovsin-Barle, ERT Head Center of Excellence Health Hazard Assessment Novartis NBS Basel/Switzerland Presentation |
| 12:15 | LUNCH |
Afternoon Day 1, Sept 1, 2016: Chairpersons of sessions A/B:
PD Dr. Georg Bauer: Head, Department Public & Organizational Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zurich, Zurich/Switzerland
Dr. Martin Riegger: Occupational physician BASF Switzerland, Kaisten/Switzerland
Title of session A: Psycho social factors at work: risks and potential interventions
| Time | Topic |
| 14:00 | Risk Assessment and Work-Life-Balance – two of a pair?
Dr. Miriam Rexroth Department of Occupational Psychology BG RCI (German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry) Heidelberg/Germany Presentation |
| 14:35 | Addressing psychosocial factors at work: practical approaches
PD Dr. med. DrPH Georg Bauer Head, Department Public & Organizational Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zurich Zürich/Switzerland Presentation |
| 15:10 | Introduction of the stress outpatient center – a practical example for Viennese public servants
Assoc. Prof. Priv.Doz. Dr. Lukas Pezawas Univ. Klinik f. Psychiatrie u. Psychotherapie and private practice Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna Vienna/Austria Presentation |
| 15:45 | BREAK |
| 16:00 | Health and Sustainability
Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FFOM, FCBOM, DABT, QEP Consultant in Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability Occupational+Environmental Health and Medicine Presentation |
Title of Session B: Regulatory update
| Time | Topic |
| 16:35 | The interval of the occupational physicals is longer than a year: change of regulation in Switzerland
Dr. Claudia Pletscher Member Swiss MAK-Komission and Chief Medical Officer Occupational Medicine, Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA) Lucerne/Switzerland Presentation |
| 17:10 | End Day 1: Announcements |
| 17:15 | MEDICHEM General Assembly |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner: Werk 8; Dornacherstrasse 192, 4043 Basel |
Day 2: September 2, 2016
Morning:
Chairpersons of session A:
Prof. Dr. David Vernez: Director; Institute universitaire romand de Santé ou Travail, Lausanne/Switzerland
Dr. Steffen Hitzeroth: Treasurer MEDICHEM, Medical Director, Procter&Gamble, Schwalbach/Germany
Title of session A: Focus Neurotoxicity
| Time | Topic |
| 08:30 | What is known of Neurotoxicity: Epidemiology, size of issue; example manganese
Dr. Ken Mundt Principal and Health Sciences Global Practice Area Leader and Director of Applied Epidemiology at Ramboll Environment and Health Amherst, MA/USA Presentation |
| 09:05 | Neurotoxicity tests: How to interpret data
PD Dr. Florianne Tschudi-Monnet Group Leader of Research on Neuroinflammation Department Physiology, University of Lausanne Lausanne/Switzerland Presentation |
| 09:40 | Integration of Neurotoxicity data for handling pesticides
Dr. Clive Campbell Chief Medical Officer Syngenta Basel/Switzerland Presentation |
| 10:00 | BREAK |
Chairpersons of session B:
Dr. Claudia Pletscher: Member Swiss MAK-Komission and Chief Medical Officer Occupational Medicine, Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA), Lucerne/Switzerland
Dr. Martin Kuster: Head Corporate Health&Biosafety, Novartis Business Services, Basel/Switzerland
Title of session B: Sustainability: Remediation of polluted chemical sites: lessons learnt
| Time | Topic |
| 10:15 | Remediation of polluted chemical sites: size of the problem example of Basel Region
Dr. Richard Hürzeler Chief Remediation Officer, Roche Basel, Switzerland Presentation |
| 10:50 | Remediation of a small site. Lessons Learnt company perspective- Le Letten, France
Dr. Hans-Jürg Reinhart Remediation Manager BASF Schweiz AG Basel/Switzerland Presentation |
| 11:25 | Remediation of a large site: Lessons Learnt from a regulators perspective-Bonfol, Jura
Jean Parrat Industrial Hygienist at the Republic and Canton of Jura Delémont/Switzerland Presentation |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
Afternoon, Sept 2, 2016: Open Presentations
Chairpersons of session:
Dr. Dirk Pallapies: Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum/Germany
PD Dr. Robert Winker: Head Center Health and Prevetion, Sanatorium HERA, Vienna/Austria
Title of session: Open presentations
| Time | Topic |
| 13:15 | VISION ZERO – The New Global Prevention Strategy of the International Social Security Association
Dipl. Biol. Volker Neumann Institute for the Research of Hazardous Substances (IGF), BG RCI (German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry), Dortmund, Germany Presentation |
| 13:35 | The Internal and External Dose Relationship Analysis in Occupational Lead Exposure Group
Prof. Dr. Fang Jin-Bin Vice Dean Occupational Health Center Shanghai Institute of Occupational Disease for the Chemical Industry Presentation |
| 13:55 | Health Effects of Cobalt and Its Compounds on Humans
Dr. Liu Wu-zhong Associate Chief Physician Shanghai Institute of Occupational Disease for the Chemical Industry Presentation |
| 14:15 | Monitoring results of drug product exposure during reconstitution of powder for oral solution
Dipl. Ing Cordula Meier; MAS Work and Health Occupational Hygienist F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. in Basel, Switzerland Presentation |
| 14:35 | Break |
| 15:00 | OVERUSE INJURIES: Occupational and/or Genetic Hazard?
Marilize Burger, PhD Division of Exercise Science & Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa Presentation |
| 15:20 | Diphoterine®, an amphoteric, polyvalent, hypertonic eye/skin chemical splash decontamination solution: 14 years updated data
Alan H. Hall, MD Toxicology Consulting and Medical Translating Services, Azle and Springtown, Texas ; Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA Presentation |
| 15:40 | Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Neuropathy Secondary to Occupational Lead Poisoning
Wenceslao A. Kiat Jr. MD, DPSCOT, FPSCOT Head, Comprehensive Occupational Health and Environmental Safety Service St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines Presentation |
| 16:00 | Light and ultrasturctural observations in neonatal experimental animals’ organs after "in vivo" exposure to heavy metals during gestation
Professor Elpida-Niki Emmanouil-Nikoloussi, DDS PhD, MD PhD Professor of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine European University of Cyprus Presentation |
| 16:20 | Closing of Meeting President MEDICHEM: Dr. Murray Coombs |
| 17:00 | End of meeting |
