Outreach, Meetings, and Workshops

Publications and Press Coverage:

Shrinking personal monitoring devices, Environmental Science and Technology, January 2008

Genes, Environment and Health Initiative Press Release, September, 2007

Environmental Biology and Human Disease, Science, May, 2007

Personalized Exposure Assessment: Promising Approaches for Human Environmental Health Research, Environmental Health Perspectives, July, 2005

Upcoming Presentations and Symposia:

“Innovative Approaches to Improve the Assessment of Dietary Practices in Clinical and Epidemiological Research”: American Society for Nutrition Program at Experimental Biology 2010, Anaheim, CA, April 2010

“Using technology to improve dietary assessment methods”: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2009

Previous Presentations and Symposia:

“Novel Exposure-Monitoring Technologies in Cohort & Consortia Research:  Opportunities with the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative Exposure Biology Program”: Cohorts and Consortia: From Biotechnology to Populations, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2009

“Genes, Environment and Health Initiative: Technological Innovations in Dietary Assessment”: International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA), Lisbon, Portugal, June 17-20, 2009

“New Technology to Assess Physical Activity: The NIH Genes and the Environment Initiative”: American College of Sports Medicine 56thAnnual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 27-30, 2009

“Transforming Science: Cyberinfrastructure in Cancer Prevention and Control”: Society of Behavioral Medicine 30th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 22-25, 2009

“NIH Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative: Biomarkers and Biosensors for Detecting Response to Environmental Stress”: Society of Toxicology 48thAnnual Meeting and ToxExpo, Baltimore, MD, March 15-19, 2009

“Sensor Technologies for Improved Exposure Assessment”: Pittcon Conference and Expo 2009, Chicago, IL, March 8-13, 2009

“NIH Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative: Tools for Enhancing Exposure Assessment”: International Society for Environmental Epidemiology/International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEE/ISEA) Joint Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA, October 15, 2008

Presentation by Kevin Patrick.National Nutrient Databank Conference.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  May 12-14, 2008.  Presentations by Phyllis Stumbo/Rick Weiss, Carol Boushey, McNutt/Amy Subar

2nd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health. Amsterdam, Netherlands.  April 13-16, 2008.  Presentation by Patty Freedson

Recent Advances and Controversies in the Measurement of Energy Metabolism. Denver, Colorado.  February 5-7, 2008.   Presentation by Patty Freedson.

Keynote Lecture at the Nanotechnology in Environmental Protection and Pollution Conference, by David Balshaw, Ft. Lauderdale, FL December, 2007

Keynote presentation and Roundtable Discussion at the IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications Conference on Novel Technologies and Applications of Biomarkers, Bethesda, MD, November, 2007

Symposium on Emerging Sensor Technologies for Monitoring Personal Exposures and Early Biological Responses: Toxic Air Pollutants as a Model System at International Society for Exposure Analysis Annual Meeting, Durham, NC, October, 2007

Keynote Lecture at NATO Advanced Studies Institute: Sensors for Environment, Health and Security, by David Balshaw, Vichy, France, September, 2007

Upcoming Workshops:

“GEI Exposure Biology Program 3nd Annual Grantees Meeting”, Bethesda, MD, January 26-27, 2010

 “Demonstrations of Emerging Methods for Comprehensive Measurement of Personal Exposure Including Diet, Physical Activity, Stress and Biological Response in the NIH Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative”: International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 1-5, 2009

“Workshop: Assessing Dietary Intake”: The European Nutrigenomics Organisation: Linking Genomics, Nutrition, and Health Research, NuGOweek 2009, Montecatini Terme, Italy, August 31 – September 3, 2009

“Translation Workshop: Integrating into Practice New Tools to Measure Exposure to Psychosocial Stress and Addictive Substances”: Rockville, MD, August 10, 2009

Previous Workshops:

“Objective Measurement of Physical Activity Conference: Best Practices and Future Directions”: Bethesda, MD, July 20-21, 2009

“7th International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM 7)”: Washington, DC, June 5-7, 2009; Pre-Conference Workshops: June 4, 2009

“Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health: Network on Exposure to Psychosocial Stress and Addictive Substances”: Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2009

“3-G Workshop”: San Diego, CA, February 20-22, 2009

“Preparing for the Digital Age of Dietary Assessment”: Beltsville, MD, January 16, 2009

GEI Exposure Biology Program 2nd Annual Grantees Meeting”, Bethesda, MD, January 13-15, 2009

“Exposure Biology: Integrating New Tools into Population Studies”: International Society for Environmental Epidemiology/International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEE/ISEA), Pasadena, CA, October 12, 2008

“Measures of Psychosocial Stress Workshop 2”, Washington, DC, August 12-13, 2008

Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative: Translating Whole Genome Association Data into Clinical Practice”, Bethesda, MD, March 10-11, 2008

GEI Exposure Biology Program Annual Grantees Meeting”, Bethesda, MD, January 24-25, 2008

“Measures of Psychosocial Stress Workshop 1”, Bethesda, MD, January 23, 2008

Application Information Meeting
October 20, 2006
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Research Triangle Park, NC

NIH Exposure Biology Workshop – Executive Summary
May 16–17, 2006
NIEHS and NHGRI
Greensboro, NC

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