Agenda

Introductory Remarks
Walter Mugdan, US EPA, Director, Division of Environmental Planning & Protection

Welcome
Alan Steinberg, Region 2 Administrator, US EPA
George Gray, Ph.D., US EPA Science Advisor
and Assistant Administrator for Office of Research and Development

Health Effects of PM and the Elderly
Dr. Joel Schwartz, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA;
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Both speakers - Issues in Setting a New Fine PM Standard

Panel: Specific Health Problems
Update on Autism
Dr. George Lambert, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and
Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/U.S. EPA Center for Childhood Neurotoxicology and Exposure Assessment, and
Director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey

Neurodevelopmental Effects of PCBs and Methylmercury
Dr. Richard Seegal, Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Human Toxicology and Molecular Epidemiology, and
Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences and Environmental Health Sciences, Albany, NY