Program & Speakers
Pre-Conference Workshops (25th- 26th May 2010)
Day 1, 25th May 2010
Time
Topic
Speakers
9am - 5pm
Workshop 1
Making a Containment Laboratory Sustainable - Existing and new
Theodore J. Traum
World BioHaztec Corporation
9am - 5pm
Workshop 2
Effective Risk Assessment For the Development of Biosafety
Management Program
Barbara Johnson
Biosafety Biosecurity International
Maureen Ellis
MCE Consulting
Day 2, 26th May 2010
Time
Topic
Speakers
9am - 5pm
Workshop 3
Safety Audit - Techniques and Checklist
Barbara Johnson
Biosafety Biosecurity International
Maureen Ellis
MCE Consulting
9am - 12 noon
Workshop 4
Disinfection and Decontamination
David Lam
Singapore General Hospital
2pm - 5pm
Workshop 5
Developing National Biosafety Policy and Legislation
Janet Beardall
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agncy of Canada
Conference (27th- 28th May 2010)
Day 1, 27th May 2010
Time
Topic
Speaker
AM
OPENING
9.00 - 9.10
Welcoming address - KOBSA president
Prof Chan-Wha Kim
Korea University
9.10 - 9.20
Welcome - A-PBA president
Chua Teck Mean
Temasek Life Science Laboratories"
9.20 - 9.35
Key note speech - Guest of Honor
9.35 - 9.55
WHO - International Health Regulation(IHR). Implementation & Implications on Legislation
Nicoletta Previsani /
Christopher Oxen
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (WHO)"
9.55 - 10.15
FAO/OIE - Emerging & Re-emerging Zoonotic Diseases, Challenges & Strategy
Pawin Padungtod
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
10.15 - 10.30
Break
National Regulations & Legislations in the Asia-Pacific
10.30 - 10.50
Korea
Won Keun Seong
Division of Biosafety Evaluation and Control, Kcdc
10.50 - 11.10
Singapore
Dr. Ling Ai Ee
Singapore General Hospital
11.10 - 11.30
China
Prof Wu Guizhen
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
11.30 - 11.50
Philippine
Edith S. Tria
Philippines Biosafety and Biosecurity Association
11.50 - 12.10
Thailand/Pakistan
Suda Louisirirotchanakul
Mahidol University
12.10 - 1.10
Lunch
PM
Advancing Biocontainment Technology - Impact on Biosafety & Biosecurity
1.10 - 1.30
Emerging Trends in Containment Facility Design
T. H. Chang
HOK
1.30 -1.50
Technology in Animal Biosafety - Past, present and future
Robert A. Heckert
Robert Heckert Consulting Llc
1.50 - 2.10
BSL4 Mobile Autopsy Facility : Deployment and movement exercise - Case study
Peter Chong
Acre Engineering Pte Ltd
2.10 - 2.30
Biocontainment Technologies - Building BSL-3 lab, challenges in developing countries
Ash Randev Ardesco
Design Management Inc.
2.30 - 2.50
National Academics of Science and Trans-Federal Task Force Recommendations for Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity
Barbara Johnson
Biosafety Biosecurity International
2.50 - 3.00
Break
Enhancing Biosafety & Biosecurity - International & Regional Partnership & Collaboration
3.00 - 3.20
IFBA - An Emerging Global Biosafety Community
Maureen Ellis
MCE Consulting
3.20 - 3.40
Asia-Pacific Biosafety Community - Next step forward
Chua Teck Mean
Temasek Life Science Laboratories
3.40 - 4.00
WHO Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Response Network
Brad Goble
International Centre for Infectious Diseases
4.00 - 4.20
Canada - Asia Regional Emerging Infectious Diseases Project (CAREID)
Janet Beardall
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agncy of Canada
4.20 - 4.30
Adjourn to A-PBA AGM
4.30 - 6.30
A-PBA AGM
6.30
End of day 1
Day 2, 28th May 2010
Time
Topic
Speaker
AM
Biorisk Management & Accreditation
9:00 - 9:20
Water, Batteries and Ice - An outsider's view of BioRisk training
Jim Welch
Elizabeth R Griffin Research Foundation
9.20 - 9.40
CEN CWA 15793 Biorisk Quality Improvement Management -Development of Guidance Document
Stefan Wagener
Public Health Agency of Canada
9.40 - 10:00
Internal Auditing and Inspection Programs: A different approach
Patty Ollinger
Emory University
10:00 - 10.20
Biological Weapon Convention (BWC) - Turning International Obligation into Effective National Action
Piers D Millett
Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit
10.20 - 10.40
Break
Biosecurity & Dual Use Research
10.40 - 11.00
Global Biosafety and Biosecurity Challenges - Options for nations with limited resources
J.Craig Reed
Inspirion Biosciences
11.00 - 11.20
Global Issues and Responses to the Dilemma of Dual Use Research of Concern in the Lifesciences
Murray L Cohen
Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Foundation Ltd
11.20 - 11.40
Securing Biological Materials and Fostering Responsibility
Maureen Ellis
MCE Consulting
11.40 - 12.00
Biosecurity & Bioterrorisim Preparedness and Response - NSAR/CDC select agent registration
Stuart Blacksell
Mahidol-Oxford tropical Medicine Research Unit
12.00 - 1.00
Lunch
PM
Applied Biosafety
1.20 - 1.40
Designing Biocontainment Facility - Form follows function vs function follow form
James Sandy Ellis
Merrick Canada ULC
1.40 - 2.00
Biosafety Consideration in Synthetic Biology
Dana Perkins
CDC Korea
2.00 - 2.20
Lessons Learned in Laboratory Acquired Infections: Clinical (diagnostic) vs Research
Karen B. Byers
Dana-Farer Cancer Institute
2.20 - 2.40
An Innovative Way of Removal and Decon HEPA Filter From a Containment Facility
David Lam
Singapore General Hospital
2.40 - 3.00
Engineering for Biosafety
Theodore J. Traum
World BioHaztec Corporation
3.20 - 3.40
Effluent Treatment System for Containment Facility - Options & considerations
Joseph H. Wilson
Bio-response Solutions Inc
3.00 - 3.20
Break
Applied Biosafety (continuation) & Open paper
3.20 - 3.40
Biorisk Assessment Processes and Models - Advantages and Limits to Modeling Biorisks Using a Quantitative Process
Jennifer Gaudioso
Sandia National Laboratories
3.40 - 4.00
BSL3 Labs: Theory and Practice
Marcel Fiocchi
FioTech (Thailand) Co. Ltd
Open Paper
4.00 - 4.20
Laboratory preparedness for outbreak of highly contagious diseases. Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Eampokalap B
Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, Department of Disease Control
4.20 - 4.40
Biosafety & Biosecurity: the International Vaccine Institute Experience. Seoul, Republic of Korea
Soh Jin Lee
International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
4.40 - 5.00
A New Approach to Effluent Decontamination. Steris
Neo Aik Ann
Steris Corporation
5.00 - 5.20
Effective management strategies for animal biosafety programmes, National Universoty of Singapore
Kin San, Song & Scott Jeffrey Patlovich
National University of Singapore
5.20 - 5.30
Closing
5.30
End of day 2
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