Speakers and Panelists

David Carpenter, MD is Professor, Environmental Health and Toxicology,
School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany and Principal Investigator of the Fogarty grant for "International Research and Training in Environmental and Occupational Health." [Top]

Ivan Ciznar, PhD, DSc is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. [Top]

Thomas Cook, PhD is Professor, Occupational & Environmental Health, College of Public Health University of Iowa and Principal Investigator of the Fogarty grant for "International Research and Training in Environmental and Occupational Health." [Top]

Irina Dardynskaia, MD, PhD is Research Associate Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago and Associate Director of the UIC Great Lakes Center Fogarty International Program. [Top]

Jack A. DeHovitz, MD, MPH is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn School of Public Health, Director Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). [Top]

Plamen Dimitrov, MD, MS is the Head of the Epidemiology Unit at the National Center for Hygiene, Medical Ecology, and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria. [Top]

Sonia Ftacnikova, PhD is Co-Director of the Slovak Science and Technology Support Agency, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. [Top]

Varban Ganev, MD, PhD is Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Medical Academy, Sofia and the major Bulgarian collaborator on Michigan State University's Fogarty grant for "International Research and Training in Environmental and Occupational Health." [Top]

Dr. Anca Gurzau is a faculty member of the Environmental Health Center, Romania. [Top]

Eugen Gurzau, MD, PhD is a faculty member of the Environmental Health Center, Romania. [Top]

Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH is Professor and Director of the Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Principal Investigator of the UIC Fogarty grant for "International Research and Training in Environmental and Occupational Health." [Top]

Ludmila Ivanova , MD, DSc is a Professor of Medicine at the Research Institute of Occupational Health, Moscow, Russia, and is head of the IRB Committee. [Top]

Yuriy Kundiyev, MD, PhD, DSc is an Academician, Head of the Bioethics Committee of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Occupational Health, Kyiv, Ukraine. [Top]

Dr. Olga Kubar is Professor and Head of the the Clinical Department at St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute and Chair of the Forum for Ethics Committees in the Confederation of Independent States, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Reider Lie MD, PhD is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. [Top]

Melody H. Lin, PhD is the Deputy Director of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Director of International Activities for OHRP. Dr. Lin has held previous positions as the Deputy Director of the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) at the National Institutes of Health, the Director of the Division of Human Subjects Projection at OPRR, and the Chief of the Compliance Oversight Branch for OPRR. [Top]

Louise McNutt PhD is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the State University of New York at Albany and a participating faculty member in the SUNY Fogarty grant for AIDS International Training and Research (AITRP). [Top]

Tatjana Mishatkina, PhD is a faculty member of the International Sakharov Ecological University, Minsk, Belaru. [Top]

Peter Orris, MD, MPH is Professor, Great Lakes Center for Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, SPH. Director, Occupational Health Services Institute. Chair of the Institutional Review Board, Cook County Bureau of Health Services. [Top]

Evangelos Petropoulos, MD, PhD is Director Emeritus, Institute of International Health, Professor Emeritus, Physiology, and Michigan State University. [Top]

Aron Primack, MD is Program Director, Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH), Division of International Training and Research, Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health. [Top]

Jacek Piatkiewicz, PhD is member of the Central Appeal Bioethics Committee, Ministry of Health of Poland. [Top]

Barbara Rhode, is Head of the Unit on "Ethics in Science and Research", Research Directorate-General of the European Commission in Brussels. [Top]

Natalie Tomitch, MPH, MBA is Program Officer for Russia and the New Independent States (NIS) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Division of International Relations, Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health. [Top]

Ross Upshur MD, MA in philosophy MSc, is a Research Scholar and Assistant Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Director of the Primary Care Research Unit at the Sunnybrook Campus of the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. [Top]