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International
Conference on
Asthma Impacts of Air Pollution
April 26-27, 2007
Disneyland® Hotel
Anaheim, California, USA
The
South Coast Air Quality Management District and its co-sponsors invite you to
attend the Asthma Is a Small World, International Conference on the Asthma
Impacts of Air Pollution, which will be held Thursday - Friday, April 26 - 27,
2007, in Anaheim, California, USA.
Internationally recognized scientists, physicians, public
health professionals, political and policy individuals from countries around the
world are invited to participate to address accelerating policy and
technology solutions to improve the conditions of the air that we breathe, and
reduce the alarming increase in the incidence of asthma. (Return
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The conference will feature sessions on the Health Effects
of Air Pollution; Heath Tracking and Management Guidelines; Legislative and
Policy Approaches; and Current Concepts in Asthma and Respiratory Diseases. The
general conference program will begin Thursday morning with a keynote
presentation on the Asthma and Air Pollution problems.
Other conference highlights include esteemed researchers,
scientists, community-organization leaders and policy makers exploring the
health effects of traffic emissions, pollution exposure and the development of
asthma, impacts of goods movement to respiratory illness, socioeconomic
influences on respiratory disease, a global initiative for asthma, and the
global warming connection. You will also hear inspiring stories from asthma
sufferers who have achieved success in the face of adversity.
Conference Agenda
To attend the conference, please complete the
registration
form:
Conference Registration Form
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INTERNATIONAL ASTHMA CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Exhibit Center
A major component of the international asthma conference is the Exhibit
Center where companies and organizations will showcase their efforts in
combating asthma and air pollution. Alternative fuel vehicles will also be
featured. To reserve an exhibit booth, please complete the exhibitor form:
Conference
Exhibitor Form
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Hotel Reservations
Rooms have been blocked for attendees at the conference site, the
Disneyland® Hotel in Anaheim, California, USA. Reservations must be made directly by
each attendee. You must mention that you will be attending the conference to get
the special room rate of $179 per night (single, double occupancy), or $194 for triple occupancy
and $209 for quadruple occupancy, plus a $10-per day resort fee. Contact the
hotel at: 714-520-5005, Fax: 714-520-6011, or email:
di.travel.group.reservation.sales@disney.com.
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Conference Locale
The Asthma Is a Small World Conference will be held at the Disneyland® Hotel
located in the heart of the Disneyland® Resort in Anaheim, California, USA. The
resort features the original Disneyland® Park, and its other amusement park
called Disney’s California Adventure® Park and an entertainment district known
as Downtown Disney® with unique shops, restaurants and a movie theater.
Conference attendees can also purchase specially priced tickets on-line, in
advance, to attend the Disneyland® Resort Theme Parks. Please
visit: www.conventionplus.com/DLR.
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Ground Transportation
A number of taxicab, shuttle, and bus companies provide transportation
services from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the LA/Ontario
International Airport, and the John Wayne Airport (in Orange County), to the
Disneyland® Hotel and Resort. Additional information on these services for Los
Angeles and Ontario is available at:
www.lawa.org/lax/welcomeLAX.cfm, and for Orange County at:
www.ocair.com.
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Currency Exchange
Foreign currency may be exchanged for U.S. dollars at: The front desks at
the Hotels of the Disneyland® Resort; City Hall in Disneyland®
Park; the Guest Relations Lobby just inside the Disney's California
Adventure®
Park Main Entrance; or the Guest Relations Window located to the left of the
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Conference Speakers
Keynote Speakers
 The
Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor
of the State of
California
World-famous bodybuilder and actor Arnold
Schwarzenegger is California’s 38th Governor. Governor Schwarzenegger is the
first governor in decades to make major investments in improving California’s
aging infrastructure through his Strategic Growth Plan, helping to reduce
congestion and clean the air. He established the Hydrogen Highway and Million
Solar Roofs Plan, continuing his leadership in creating a greener environment.
 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Olympic Gold Medalist, Author, Entrepreneur and
Asthma Sufferer
Jackie Joyner-Kersee is considered one of the
greatest athletes of all time. Sports Illustrated for Women voted Jackie Female
Athlete of the 20th Century and ESPN named her one of the 50 Greatest
Athletes. The author of two books, A Woman’s Place is Everywhere
and her autobiography, A Kind of Grace, Jackie is continuously
working to involve more corporations, sponsors and community groups in advancing
the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation’s programs and initiatives worldwide.
Confirmed Speakers
 The Honorable Barbara
Boxer, United States Senate
Via Video - “Federal Legislation and the Future of Air Quality”
A forceful advocate for families, children,
consumers, the environment, and her State of California, Barbara Boxer became a
United States Senator in January 1993 after 10 years of service in the House of
Representatives. A national leader on environmental protection, Senator Boxer is
the first woman to Chair the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public
Works (EPW). On the Committee, she advocates forcefully for clean air and water,
with a particular focus on the fight against global warming.
 The Honorable Fabian
Núñez,
Speaker of the California State Assembly
"Impacts of AB 32: Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006"
Speaker Fabian Núñez (D- 46th District) was
elected to the California State Assembly in 2002 and sworn in as the State's 66th
Speaker on February 9, 2004. The Speaker worked to pass first-in-the-nation
legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from California industries.
Other Confirmed Speakers
 Matiana Ramirez Aguilar,
M.D., MSc, DSc,
Doctora de Ciencias -
Comisión de Evidencia y Manejo de Riesgos (COFEPRIS), México
Dr. Aguilar is the Executive
Director of Risk Management at The Federal Commission for Sanitary Risk
Protection (COFEPRIS), Ministry of Health (Secretaria de Salud), México.
 Professor Gillian M.
Ainslie, MBChB, FRCP, Head, Respiratory Clinic, University of Cape Town
& Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; President, South African
Thoracic Society
Professor Gillian Ainslie is a specialist
physician and pulmonologist in the Department of Medicine,
Groote
Schuur
Hospital and the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in Cape Town, South
Africa. She is currently Head of the Respiratory Clinic at
Groote
Schuur
Hospital.
 Dr. Isabella
Annesi-Maesano, Director, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory
Diseases (EPAR) Department, INSERM and Paris 6 University / Head, Occupation and
Epidemiology Assembly of the European Respiratory Society, France
Dr. Isabella Annesi-Maesano is currently
Director of the Department of Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases.
As head of the department, she has conducted several epidemiological surveys:
French ISAAC, EDEN Birth Cohort Study,
Health Effects of School Environment Study (HESE) of
DG-SANCO, Perception of Polluted Air and Respiratory Health (PEPA) Study in the
frame of the W.H.O.’s Housing and health survey.
 Ralph Delfino,
M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Ralph Delfino is an Associate Professor in
Epidemiology at the University of California, Irvine,
School
of Medicine. His epidemiologic studies focus on the effects of
well-characterized air pollution exposures on respiratory and cardiovascular
outcomes in susceptible populations.
 David Diaz-Sanchez, Ph.D., University of
California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Dr. David Diaz-Sanchez is an Associate
Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University
of California, Los Angeles. His main area of focus has been on how air pollution
can both induce and exacerbate allergies and asthma. His work has used diesel
exhaust particles and environmental tobacco smoke as model particulate
pollutants.
 Rocio Alatorre Eden-Wynter, M. en C., Comisionada de Evidencia y Manejo de Riesgos
(COFEPRIS), México
Dr. Eden-Wynter is the
Commissioner of Risk Assessment and Risk Management at The Federal Commission
for Sanitary Risk Protection (COFEPRIS), at the Ministry of Health.
 Peyton A. Eggleston,
M.D., Professor of
Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Eggleston is Professor of Pediatrics in
the School of Medicine and of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of
Public Health. His research interest has been in the area of the contribution
of IgE-mediated inflammation to chronic asthma and the characterization of home
environmental allergens and their relation to acute and chronic airway disease.
 Paul English,
Ph.D., MPH, California Department of Health Services
Paul English is Branch Scientific Advisor for
the Environmental Health Investigations Branch at the California Department of
Health Services (CDHS). His epidemiological research has been focused on
spatial epidemiology, environmental health issues at the U.S./Mexico border, and
environmental links to adverse reproductive outcomes and asthma; in particular,
exposures to traffic pollution.
 The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Chair,
Science and Technology Sub-Committee, House of Lords, Parliament, United Kingdom
The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff is a palliative medicine
physician, working in Velindre oncology centre in Cardiff. In 2001, she was
appointed as an Independent (Crossbench) Member of the House of Lords; where she
chairs the Select Committee on Science and Technology current enquiry into
allergy.
 Erwin W. Gelfand,
M.D., Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical and Research
Center, Denver, Colorado
Erwin W. Gelfand, M.D. is Chairman of
the Department of Pediatrics at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center
in Denver. His clinical interests include the treatment of immunodeficiency
diseases. His research interests include signal transduction in lymphocytes and
mast cells, a murine model of asthma and immunodeficiency diseases.
 Paul Knepprath,
Vice President, Government Relations, American Lung Association of
California
Paul Knepprath is the Vice President of
Government Relations for the American Lung Association of California where he
manages the organization’s statewide public policy program. He has organized
local communities to pass numerous tobacco control ordinances and has been a
leader in protecting California’s smoke-free workplaces law against attacks by
the tobacco industry.
 Dr.
Levana Kordova-Biezuner, Scientific Director, National Air Monitoring
Network, Air Quality Division, Ministry of Environmental Protection, State of
Israel
Dr. Kordova–Biezuner has served as the
Scientific Director of the Israeli Air Monitoring Network in the Air Quality
Division of the Ministry of Environmental Protection since 2001. She provides
consultation services to the Environmental Protection Ministry on air pollution
and meteorology, with a focus on Air Dispersion Models for research and
licensing purposes.
 Lata Kumar,
M.D.,
Professor and former Chair, Department of Pediatrics and
head of Pediatric Allergy Immunology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Dr. Kumar is a Senior World Health
Organization (W.H.O.) Fellowship in Respiratory Diseases including Asthma
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and Environment
Research Laboratory – New Orleans. She served as the President of Indian
College of Allergy, Asthma and Applied Immunology 2002 to 2004.
 Nino Künzli,
M.D., Ph.D., ICREA Research Professor, Institut Municipal d’Investigació Mèdica,
Barcelona, Spain
Nino Künzli is a Research
Professor of the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) at
the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Institut
Municipal d’Investigació Mèdica (IMIM) in Barcelona, Spain. His research focus
is environmental epidemiology with an emphasis on air pollution epidemiology,
including exposure and risk assessment.
 Sow-Hsong
Kuo,
M.D., Professor
Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, National
Taiwan University
Dr. Kuo is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, College of Medicine at the National Taiwan University. He is also an
adjunct attending physician, internal medicine and laboratory medicine, NTUH
consultant physician, Department of Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital.
 Anne Kelsey Lamb,
MPH, Director, Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) Initiative /
Statewide Coordinator of Community Action to Fight Asthma (CAFA)
Anne Kelsey Lamb, MPH, is the Director of the
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) Initiative, a project of the
Public Health Institute. As Director of RAMP, Anne leads efforts to reduce the
burden of asthma in the Bay Area and also coordinates a statewide initiative,
Community Action to Fight Asthma.
 Albert Garcia
Lus, Ministry of
Environmental Affairs,
Government of Catalonia
Mr. Lus has worked at the Air
Pollution Control Service of the Ministry of Environment and Housing of the
Government of Catalonia, where he has been the acting manager of the industrial
air emissions control service.
 Wayne
Nastri,Administrator, U.S. EPA's Pacific
Southwest Region
Wayne Nastri, Regional Administrator for U.S. EPA Region 9, has led the Region
in meeting the west's environmental challenges, especially in improving air
quality and protecting scarce water resources throughout the arid west.
 Elisa Nicholas,
M.D., MSPH, Chief Executive Officer, The Children’s Clinic, Serving Children and
Their Families and Project Director, Long Beach Alliance for Children with
Asthma
A dedicated pediatrician, innovative public
health practitioner, and astute health administrator, Dr. Elisa Nicholas has
devoted her career to caring and advocating for underserved children and
families.
Patricia G. Porter,
RN, MPH CHES, Program Director, Best Practices in Childhood Asthma (BPCA),
California Asthma Public Health Initiative, California Department of Health
Services
Patricia Porter is the Associate Director of
the Integrating Medicine and Public Health (IMAP) Program and a full partner in
its leadership. She is also the Program Director for IMAP’s Best Practices in
Childhood Asthma (BPCA) Program.
 Katherine Pruitt,
Assistant Vice President, Program Services, American Lung Association
Katherine Pruitt is
the Assistant Vice President for Program Services with the American Lung
Association National Headquarters in Washington D.C.
 Jonah Ramirez,
11-year old Asthma Ambassador, American Lung Association of California
Jonah, now 11, is a clean air
champ! Jonah has received numerous awards and achievements in the area of our
environment and air quality, including a Clean Air Recognition Award in 2005
from the American Lung Association and the Prestigious Clean Air Award in
2006 from the AQMD.
 Michael Schatz,
M.D., M.S., Chief, Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San
Diego, California / Past President, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology
Dr. Schatz has been a Staff Allergist at
Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in San Diego since 1977, where he currently
serves as Chief of the Allergy Department. His main current research interests
are patient-centered asthma outcomes, risk stratification for asthma population
management, the burden of rhinitis, and the interrelationships of asthma and
pregnancy.
 Smita Shah,
M.D., MCH, Director, Primary Health Care Education and Research Unit, Westmead
Hospital, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr.
Smita
Shah is a community physician based in Sydney, Australia, where she is the
Director of Primary Health Care Education and Research Unit at
Westmead
Hospital. Dr Shah’s research has been in development and evaluation of evidence
based health promotion programs for schools and the community.
 Wan C. Tan,
M.D., FCCP, Department of Respirology,
University of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada / Executive Committee, Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA)
Dr. Tan
is Chairperson of the Dissemination Committee and member of the Executive
Committee of the Global Initiative on Asthma (GINA) and an advisory member of
the Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Dr Wan C. Tan also
serves as a member of the advisory group to the World Lung Health committee and
the International Relations Committee of the American Thoracic Society.
 Linda
Tombras-Smith,
Ph.D., Research Division, California Air
Resources Board
Dr. Smith has been at the
California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the past 8 years. Prior to
coming to the CARB, she spent 16 years at University of California, Davis
directing a research program on the mechanisms of adaptation to environmental
stress
Barry Wallerstein,
D.Env., Executive Officer, SCAQMD
Dr. Wallerstein has served as AQMD's executive officer
since November 1998. He holds a doctorate in environmental science & engineering
from UCLA and has two decades of experience in urban planning, with emphasis on
carrying out benchmark regional policies to prevent and control air pollution
harmful to public health
 Michelle Wilhelm,
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health
Michelle Wilhelm, Ph.D. is an
Assistant Professor In Residence in the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School
of Public Health. Her primary research interests are the impacts of air
pollution exposure on fetal development and child health.
Moderators
 Diana M. Bontá,
RN, Dr, PH,
Vice President of Public Affairs,
Kaiser
Permanente, Pasadena, California
Dr. Bontá joined Kaiser Permanente in October
2004 as Vice President, Public Affairs for the Southern California Region. She
is responsible for setting the Southern California region’s policy agenda,
leadership and oversight of Public Affairs programs including support for Kaiser
Permanente’s internal communications and reputation management. Kaiser
Permanente provides health care to approximately 3 million members from
Bakersfield to San Diego.
 Oswaldo Borraez,
News Reporter, Univision 34
Oswaldo Borraez serves as a field reporter
for Univision 34’s Emmy Award winning newscast, “Noticias Univision 34”. With
extensive experience in television and radio, Borraez first joined Univision 34
in June 1995.
 Denise Dador,
ABC7 Eyewitness News, Anchor / Health Specialist
Eyewitness News Health
Specialist Denise Dador joined ABC7 “EYEWITNESS NEWS” in July 1998. She brings
a rich heritage and professional background to her "Healthy Living" features.
She has been honored by the American Heart Association, the American Cancer
Society, the March of Dimes and the Sjogren’s Foundation.
 Suzanne Rico,
CBS2 News, Co-Anchor
Suzanne Rico, co-anchor of the Emmy winning
CBS2 News from 5-7 a.m., and CBS2 News at 11 a.m., joined the CBS 2 team in
October of 2002. Before that, she traveled the world, covering the 9/11 terror
attacks in New York, the war in Afghanistan and the 2002 Salt Lake City
Olympics.
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Conference Sponsors
Clean Air Benefactor
TEVA Specialty Pharmaceuticals
Clean Air Patron
Kaiser Permanente
PhRMA
Clean Air Champion
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Supporting Organizations
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Conference Advisory Committee
Martha Arguello, Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles
Dr. John R. Balmes, University of California, San Francisco
Dustin Corcoran, California Medical Association
Maria Elena Durazo, AFL-CIO Los Angeles
Dr. Nino Kunzli, Institut Municipal d’Investigacio Medica, Barcelona, Spain
Francene Lifson, Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, California Chapter
Dr. Jean Ospital, South Coast AQMD
Dr. Craig Jones, USC Medical Center
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Call for Posters
A poster session will be available at the conference. If you are interested
in presenting a poster, please submit an abstract of the presentation to
AsthmaConference@aqmd.gov. The deadline for submissions is
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CME Credits
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential
Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) through the joint-sponsorship of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma
and Immunology (AAAAI) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The
AAAAI is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for
physicians.
Designation Statement
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology designates this
educational activity for a maximum number of 9.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
CE Designation Statement
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI) is a Provider,
approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #10704, for up
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For Additional Information
Questions should be directed to the South Coast Air Quality Management
District, 909-396-2432; or emailed to:
AsthmaConference@aqmd.gov
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