Conference Agenda
Day 1, Friday, December 11, 2015
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome By Co-Chairs
Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
Dee Cohen Katz, Walsworth - WFBM, LLP, Orange, CA
8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Cosmetic Talc: The New Asbestos Disease
Brian P. Barrow, Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett, P.C., Long Beach, CA
Leah Kagan, Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett, P.C., Long Beach, CA
John D. Cosmich, Cosmich Simmons & Brown, PLLC, Jackson, MS
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Golf Clubs & Dental Implants: The New Beryllium Disease
Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
E-cigarettes: The New Addiction
• Alternative Tobacco Products
• Consumption
• Demographics
• CDC Study, American Pediatrics Recommendations and More
Maciej L. Goniewicz, Pharm.D, Ph.D., Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Studies, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Cosmetics - Beauty Addiction With Adverse Health Consequences
Paula Johnson, Ph.D., MPH, California Safe Cosmetics Program, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Flavorings: The New Obliterative Airway Disease
Kathryn Saldana, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
Michelle L. Corrigan, Stinson Leonard Street LLP, St. Louis
Scott B. Hall, Motley Rice, Mount Pleasant, SC
Charles A. Pue, M.D., Pulmonologist, OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, Columbus, OH
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Hair Straighteners: The New Leukemia
Gregory P. Sarna, M.D., FACP, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Karen M. Sullivan, Walsworth – WFBM, LLP, Orange, CA
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Diesel Exhaust on the Rails: The New Lung Cancer
Chris Madeksho, Madeksho Law Firm, PLLC, Los Angeles
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Glyphosate: The New Carcinogen
Robin L. Greenwald, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York
Christopher Dalbey, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., Los Angeles
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Carbon Nanotubes: The New Pulmonary Fibrosis
Anthony J. Monaco, Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Chicago
Jacob Persky, MPH, CIH, RHP Risk Management Inc., Chicago
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Fracking: The New Acute Exposure Death Case
Michael Kosnett, M.D., MPH, Adjunct Associate Professor, Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Denver
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Cell Phones and Brain Cancer
Kristie M. Hightower, Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South, Lake Charles, LA
John B. Isbister, Tydings & Rosenberg, Baltimore