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June 11, 2013 Advisory Panel Meeting Agenda
Time
Agenda Item
Presenters
Description/expected outcome
1:00
Welcome & Introductions
Patricia
McGovern,
Chair
Panel members & audience are invited
to introduce themselves
1:05
Legislative Update &
Summary
Aggie Leitheiser
Information item. Panel members are
invited to ask questions.
1:15
Progress and next steps:
newborn mercury
biomonitoring
Jean Johnson
Information item. Jean will review
progress to date. Panel members are
invited to ask questions.
1:20
Pregnancy & Newborns
Exposure Study
Jessica Nelson
Discussion item: Jessica Nelson will
discuss the data from the cord: newborn
blood spot comparison, and the results
of cord blood analyses for mercury, lead
and cadmium.
1:30
Discussion
1:45
Recruitment and Consent
Protocols for Pregnant
Women & their Newborns
2:15
Discussion
2:35
Refreshments
Questions to the panel:
• What implications do these results
have for ongoing biomonitoring of
newborns?
• What additional information is
needed?
Jean Johnson,
Ruby Nguyen,
Pat McGovern
The speakers will review protocols used
in the National Children’s Study (NCS)
and The Infant Development &
Environment Study (TIDES).
Questions for the panel:
• What can MDH learn from the NCS
and TIDES study protocols?
• Can a clinic-based protocol address
issues of participation bias for
surveillance purposes?
• Are results likely to be
generalizable?
• Are minorities likely to be
represented?
2:45
Biomonitoring Updates
• PFC community
meeting
• Biomonitoring
Summit Planning
• NCS collaboration
• Riverside Birth Study
collaboration
• Fond du La (GLRI)
• Sawtooth Clinic Study
Jean Johnson
Jessica Nelson
Jim Kelly
Information item. Panel members are
invited to ask questions and comments
on updates in the meeting materials.
2:50
PFC Biomonitoring: Goals
for an Expanded Sample
Jessica Nelson
Discussion item. Panel members will be
asked to consider several possible goals
for an expanded sample in the East
Metro.
2:55
Discussion
3:15
New Tracking Content:
Arsenic in Private Wells
3:30
Discussion
Questions to the panel:
• Do panel members have a
recommendation as to the stated
goal of the expanded sample?
• Should children or other special
groups be targeted?
Ed Schneider,
Chuck Stroebel
Discussion item. Panel members are
invited to ask questions and to comment
on the data presented.
Question to the panel:
•
3:45
Tracking Updates
• New tracking
webpages
• New data on MN
Public Health Data
Access
• New projects with
CDC partners
Chuck Stroebel
3:50
New business
Pat McGovern
3:55
Audience questions
Pat McGovern
4:00
Motion to adjourn
Pat McGovern
Do panel members have suggestions
for improving the display and
interpretation of private wells data?
Information item. Panel members are
invited to ask questions and comments
on these materials.
The chair will invite a motion to adjourn