Ramazzini Days 2017

Conference check-in
Hotel Touring

Welcome dinner
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring

Scientific Session I: Environmental Epidemiology
Chair: Pietro Comba, Italy
Sala delle Vedute, Palazzo dei Pio

• Health effects of air pollution: a summary of recent findings
  Francesco Forastiere, Italy download
• Environmental health in contaminated sites: recent findings and clues for international cooperation
  Pietro Comba, Italy download
• Drinking water contaminants and health effects: the example of exposure to lithium
  Florencia Harari, Ecuador (Sweden) download
• Brain impacts of airborne pollutants, new evidence from human and animal studies
  Roberto Lucchini, Italy (USA) download
• First 1000 days project for early prevention of non- communicable diseases
  Sergio Pecorelli, Italy download
• Pollution: the largest neglected risk factor for non-communicable disease
  Philip Landrigan, USA download

Coffee

Scientific Session II: Ongoing Experimental Studies at The Ramazzini Institute
Co-Chairs: Linda Birnbaum, USA and Fiorella Belpoggi, Italy
Sala delle Vedute, Palazzo dei Pio

• Adverse effects of glyphosate and Roundup administered at human equivalent doses to Sprague-Dawley rats
  Simona Panzacchi, Italy
• Effects on the microbiome of glyphosate and Roundup administered at human equivalent doses in Sprague-Dawley rats
  Fabiana Manservisi, Italy
• Aneuploidy: a common early evidence–based biomarker for carcinogens and reproductive toxicants
  Daniele Mandrioli, Italy and Melissa Perry, USA
• First Results from the Ramazzini Institute carcinogenesis studies of cell phone radiofrequency radiation in Sprague Dawley rats
  Fiorella Belpoggi, Italy and Linda Birnbaum, USA

Lunch
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring

Scientific Session III: Cancer Disparities, Occupational and Environmental Risks and Prevention Strategies
Chair: Melissa McDiarmid, USA
Discussant: Kurt Straif, France download
Sala delle Vedute, Palazzo dei Pio

Keynote Address
Connecting the dots: the global fight against cancer and role of carcinogens in the developing world
HRH Princess Dina Mired, Jordan download
President-elect Union for International Cancer Control

• Cancer excess as a marker of disparity: the case of occupational and environmental cancer
  Melissa McDiarmid, USA download
• CT screening for lung cancer: an unprecedented opportunity to reduce occupational cancer mortality
  Steven Markowitz, USA
• Low dose chest CT in asbestos-exposed workers
  Laura Welch, USA download
• Cancer excesses in Ramazzini Institute clinical cohort
  Angela Guaragna, Italy download
• The role of general practitioners in contrasting cancer care disparities
  Pier Giorgio Natali, Italy (Mediterranean Task force for Cancer Control dedicated to Massimo Crespi) download

Free time

Aperitivo
Breakfast Room, Hotel Touring

Dinner
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring

Council of Fellows
Town Hall of Carpi

Lunch
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring

Scientific Session IV: Work of the Fellows

Oral Presentations Part I

The preventable burden of work-related ill-health
Pierluigi Cocco, Italy download

Scientific integrity in journal publication practice for occupational and environmental health
Leslie London, South Africa download

Italian pool of asbestos workers cohorts: mortality trends of asbestos-related neoplasms
Corrado Magnani, Italy download

Ovarian cancer due to asbestos as a new occupational disease in Germany
Dennis Nowak, Germany download

Attended Poster Session

Mixed dust pneumoconiosis - not a rare disorder
Xaver Baur, Germany

Diagnosis, monitoring and prevention of exposure related non-communicable diseases: DIMOPEX project follow up
Lygia Therese Budnik, Germany and Ludwine Casteleyn, Belgium download

Exploring transcriptome and endocrine effects of glyphosate-based herbicides in early life
Jia Chen, USA

Description of morbidity and occupational risks among tanneries and factories workers in an urban slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Martins Dada, The Netherlands download

The relationship between PON1 genetic polymorphisms and the neuropsychological performance in schoolchildren
Yoram Finkelstein, Israel download

Asbestos disease in Sri Lanka
Arthur L. Frank, USA

Prevention of fatal occupational injuries in Sweden
Bengt Järvholm, Sweden download

Metal deposition in bones: understanding the metals related environmental exposures through human skeletal system deposition; constructing a surrogate measure for exposure
Ismail Nabeel, USA, Matteo Paganelli, Italy and Roberto Lucchini, Italy (USA) download

G-LO-C-AL ONE Health dimensions of aflatoxin-fumonisins impacts
Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Mexico (USA) download

Methods to assess cadmium intake in biomonitoring surveys
Marco Vinceti, Italy download

Inorganic selenium exposure in drinking water and cancer incidence: a natural experiment
Marco Vinceti, Italy download

Oral Presentations Part II

2,3,7,8-TCDD Body burden and health impacts in patients 50 years after the intoxication
Daniela Pelclova, Czech Republic download

Violence at the workplace and mental strain in Ecuadorian workers
Katja Radon, Germany download

Update from IARC
Kurt Straif, France download

Gulf War illness etiologies and mechanisms: implications for patients with non-military occupational illnesses
Roberta White, USA download

Free time

Ramazzini Award and Ramazzini Lecture
Sala delle Vedute, Palazzo dei Pio

The 2017 Ramazzini Award will be conferred upon Karel Van Damme (Belgium) for his efforts to improve the ethical basis for screening and monitoring practices in occupational medicine and for his advocacy and efforts to improve occupational safety and health protections in Belgium and internationally.

Ramazzini Lecture
Every worker is irreplaceable: a human rights approach to occupational health

Direct departure for social dinner
Ristorante Narciso

Scientific Session V: Science, health regulatory institutional capacity, and policies: a Collegium Ramazzini Forum
Sala delle Vedute, Palazzo dei Pio
Co-chairs: Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Mexico (USA) and Karel VanDamme, Belgium

Coffee

Advocacy Planning and Collegium Ramazzini Standing Committee Meetings
Sala delle Vedute, Palazzo dei Pio

Farewell Lunch
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring