Chornobyl:
The Next Generation
A Commemorative Symposium
Conference Program
8:30 – 9:00 Registration, Coffee & Rolls
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
Susan Scrimshaw, PhD, Dean UIC SPH
The Honorable Vasyl Korzachenko, Consul General of Ukraine in
Chicago
9:15 -10:00 Keynote Address
Social,
Economic and Political Consequences of the Chornobyl Disaster
David
Marples, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
10:00 -10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 -11:15
Health Consequences in Ukraine
Ihor Masnyk, PhD, Director of the Chernobyl Research Project,
U.S. National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C.
Health Consequences in Belarus
Alexei Okeanov, MD, PhD, Vice Rector, International Sakharov
Environmental University, Minsk, Belarus
11:00 - 11:45 Panel Discussion & Q&A
Health and Social Consequences of the Chornobyl
Accident
Masnyk, Okeanov, Marples
Moderator: Irina Dardynskaia, MD, PhD, School of Public Health,
University of Illinois at Chicago
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30
The Shelter Implementation
Plan (SIP): On-Going Remediation At
The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Daria Hirniak Khan and Karim Khan, Shelter Implementation Plan,
Seattle, WA
1:30- 2:00
U.S. Foreign Policy Perspectives
and International Assistance
Andrew G. Sowder, PhD., U.S. Department of State, Washington,
DC
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 2:45
Nuclear Safety After Chornobyl
George Fowler, Ukraine officer, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, D.C.
2:45 - 3:15
The UN Chornobyl Program and the Disaster’s
Ecological Dimension
Pavlo V. Zamostyan, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,
Program Manager, UN Chornobyl Recovery and Development Program,
Kyiv, Ukraine
3:15 – 4:45
The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations
Alex Kuzma, Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund,
Kyiv, Ukraine
4:45 - 5:30 Panel Discussion & Q&A
Lessons Learned for Future Generations
Moderator: Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH, Great Lakes Centers for
Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health, University
of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
5:30 Adjournment |
