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Charter Meeting of the Cardiovascular Toxicology Specialty Section Planned for Salt Lake City
The Cardiovascular Toxicology Specialty Section (CVTSS) will hold a Charter Meeting during the 2010 Annual Society of Toxicology Meeting in Salt Lake City. The meeting will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center on Monday, March 8, from 12:00 NOON to 1:30 PM (the room number will be announced early in 2010 via our distribution list). All SOT members (full, associate, postdoc, and student members alike) are invited to attend this first reception to introduce the CVTSS.
Keynote Speakers at the Charter Meeting will be Kenneth Ramos, Past President of the Society of Toxicology, and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Louisville, and R. Dustan Sarazan, DVM, Ph.D., Global Chief Scientific Officer, Safety Pharmacology, Covance Laboratories, Inc. They will share their experiences as preeminent cardiovascular toxicologists and lead the group discussion about future challenges, as well as opportunities, the CVTSS faces.
The CVTSS will be dedicated to:
- Identification, prevention, and/or amelioration of cardiovascular toxicities.
- Development of scientific programs, position statements, focal points for technical expertise, and outreach activities.
- Graduate education/training and the recruitment of new cardiovascular scientists.
This broad-reaching commitment to the three goals above will serve not only to unite scientists from academia, government, industry, and the private sector but also to actively promote issues germane to cardiovascular toxicology while facilitating the training of the next generation of scholars in this field. At the Charter Meeting of the CVTSS, participants will develop the necessary foundation to initiate these commitments. Additional information about the CVTSS can be found at our interim Web site, or questions can be directed to Timothy R. Nurkiewicz. Interested members should submit their contact information to be added to our distribution list.
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