Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats

Meetings and Training

Future Meetings

• 55th Annual Radiation Research Society Meeting—October 3 - 7, 2009, Savannah, GA
• Third European IRPA Congress—June 14 - 18, 2010, Helsinki, Finland (abstract submission deadline September 15, 2009)
  

Past Meetings

• Late Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiological Divide—May 4-6, 2009, Washington, DC
• 10th International Conference on the Health Effects of Incorporated Radionuclides (HEIR) —May 10 - 14, 2009, Santa Fe, NM
• International Conference on Radiation Biology and Translational Research in Radiation Oncology—November 10 - 12, 2008, Jaiput, India
• 7th LOWRAD International Conference "The Effects of Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation in Biological Systems: New Perspectives on Human Exposure", Lisbon, Portugal
• 7th Annual Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium: Radiation as a Cause of Cardiovascular Disease—December 3, 2008, National Academies, Washington, DC. Agenda
• Public Workshop (FDA/NIAID): Animal Models for the Treatment of Acute Radiation Syndrome—September 17 – 18, 2008, Gaithersburg, MD
• Joint Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiation Research Society (RRS)—September 21 – 25, 2008, Boston, MA
• The 21st International L. H. Gray Conference: The Radiobiology / Radiation Protection Interface—June 4 – 6, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 10th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to DNA—June 8 – 12, 2008, Fukushima, Japan
• Partial-Body Radiation Diagnostic Biomarkers and Medical Management of Radiation Injury Workshop—March 5 – 6, 2008, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), Bethesda, MD
• Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—December 17, 2007, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (sponsored by Columbia University CMCR)
• NCRP 2007 Annual Meeting: Advances in Radiation Protection in Medicine—April 16 – 17, 2007, Arlington, VA
• Radiation Epidemiology Course—Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)—May 14 – 17, 2007, Bethesda, MD
• Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—2-Day Training Course—June 15, 2007, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
• 13th International Congress of Radiation Research (ICRR)—July 7 – 11, 2007, San Francisco, CA
• International Conference on Normal Tissue Radiation Effects (CONTRE)—July 12 – 14, 2007, Las Vegas, NV
• Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) Educational Seminar—Medical and Organizational Challenges Resulting From a Radiological or Nuclear Emergency—September 25, 2007, Bethesda, MD
• NASA Radiation Biomarker Workshop—September 27 – 28, 2007, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
• 38th Annual Environmental Mutagen Society Meeting—Mutational and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Susceptibility and Risks for Genetic Diseases—October 20 – 24, 2007, Atlanta, GA
• American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) 49th Annual Meeting—October 28 – November 1, 2007, Los Angeles, CA

• Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—Lecture Series. Center for High-Throughput Minimally Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Terrorism and Disaster—What Clinicians Need to Know: Radiation Attack: Rush University Medical Center and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) faculty authored a case series to provide continuing medical education for terrorism preparedness and other public health emergencies. The series of 14 case studies was developed to provide opportunities for health professionals to problem-solve issues related to terrorism or other public health emergencies.

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