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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