The Role of Inflammation in Toxicity
National Capital Area Chapter
Society of Toxicology
Spring Symposium
May 23, 2007
Lister Hill
Auditorium
National
Library of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
8:30 a.m. Registration
and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening
Remarks
Suzanne Fitzpatrick PhD
President, NCAC-SOT
Gary Burin PhD
Vice-President and Program Chair
9:10 a.m. Overview of the Inflammatory Process
Patricia Latham MD
Department of Pathology
The George Washington University Medical School
Washington DC
10:00 a.m. Alcoholism and Liver Inflammation
Vishnudutt Purohit PhD
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
10:50 a.m. Break
11:10 a.m. Chronic Inflammation and
Cancer: Free Radicals, Cytokines and MicroRNAs
Curtis Harris MD
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
12:00 Lunch (Box lunch and beverage included in registration fee)
Student
Poster Presentation
1:45 p.m. The Role of Inflammation in the Safety Evaluation of Medical Device Materials
Ronald Brown
Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland
2:20 p.m. Pulmonary Inflammatory Responses in Rats Related to Particle Exposures: Role of Surface Reactivity and Particle-types
David Warheit PhD
DuPont Haskell Laboratories
Newark, Delaware
3:10 p.m. Application of the Neuroimmunoendocrine Model to Evaluate the Role of Inflammation in Systemic Toxicity
Larry Garthoff PhD
Food and Drug Administration
Laurel, Maryland
4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Gary Burin PhD
Vice- President, NCAC-SOT and Program Chair