Workshops during the Main Congress
Workshop Session 1 - August 27th, 15.15 - 16.45
Workshop Session 2 - August 27th, 17.00 - 18.15
- Multiplying Our Effectiveness, Building Sustainable Networks: Working Successfully with Health Agencies, Non-medical NGOs on Violence Prevention Research, Education, other Programming
Room: 120
Organizer: Aiming for Prevention
Moderator: Dr. Paul Saoke, IPPNW Kenya
Short presentations and roundtable discussion with the following speakers:
Chris Bem, MD, Medact : Kidist Bartolemeos, WHO Injury Dept/Africa WHO
Robert Mtonga, MD IPPNW Zambia, Cluster Munitions Steering Committee
Andrew Winnington, MD New Zealand; Dr. Sebastian Taylor, Chief Executive, Action on Armed Violence
- The Obama Administration's Position on Nuclear Disarmament and the Response of Physicians for Social Responsibility
Room: 118
Organizer: Robert Gould, MD, President, SF-Bay Area PSR, Associate Pathologist, Kaiser Hospital, San Jose, CA.
Speakers:
Moderator and Panel Participant: Jeffrey Patterson, DO (President, PSR; Professor of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health)
Panel Participants: Edward Ifft, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; former U.S. State Department negotiator for START and CTBT, and former Deputy Director, On-Site Inspection Agency; Robert Gould, MD, President, SF-Bay Area PSR, Associate Pathologist, Kaiser Hospital, San Jose, CA.
- Global Consequences of Local Nuclear War
Room: 115
Facilitator. John Loretz, Program Director, IPPNW
Speaker: Ira Helfand, PSR-USA
- Nuclear Bomb Victims of the World
Room: 116
Organizer: Katsuyuki Takeda JPPNW / PANW and Yutaka Manabe
Speakers: Yutaka Manabe, Democratic Medical Institution; Dr Hiroshi Iwanaga, Neurologist and Chairman of World Nuclear Victims Organisation, Japan; Dr Enver Tohti, Uighur cancer surgeon in China (1985-1997) discovered the link between the high rates of cancer and the secret nuclear tests, now political refugee (UK); Kazakstan: Dr. Oleg Nikitin, MD
- Fatal Consequences of Radionuclide Contamination in Urban Environment
Room: 117
Organizer: Prof. Jürg Ulrich (em.), University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Speakers: Prof. Anatoliy Prykhodchenko, Dnieprodzerzhinsk State Technical University, Ukraine
- Media and accidents in nuclear reactors
Room: 114
Organizer: Jürg Ulrich, MD, Basel.
Speakers: Rudolf Rechsteiner, economist, ex-member of the Swiss National Council, Basel
Representitives from media: to be confirmed later
- Advancing Peace Education for Health Practitioners
Room: 103
Facilitators and speakers:
Klaus Melf (IPPNW Norway), Stephan Kolb (IPPNW Germany) and Marion Birch (Medact)
- Effect of Low Artificial Radiation on Insects
Room: 104
Organizer and speaker: Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, swiss artist
17.45 Vernissage of an exhibition of theVernissage Cornelia Honegger Artist, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
- Environmental Crisis and Danger of War - a Second Look
Room: 119
Organizer and speaker: Till Bastian, MD, has published his first investigation within a IPPNW-sponsored study in 1990 - twenty years ago. Nowadays he feels it might be time for "a second look".
Workshop Session 3 - August 28th, 10.30 - 12.00
Workshop Session 4 - August 28th, 15.15 - 16.45