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August 1, 2008 |
EI
abstract entitled 'A Persistent Worldwide
Environmental Hazard: Former Manufactured Gas
Plant (FMGP) Sites. Association of an FMGP Site with
Childhood
Neuroblastoma' is accepted for oral presentation at
the 20th
Annual
Conference of the International Society for
Environmental Epidemiology, to be held
October 12-16, 2008 in
Pasadena,
California.
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June 25, 2008
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EI scientific staff attend
41st Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)
Meeting in
Chicago, IL and present poster entitled 'Excess
Cancer Risk Among a Population Exposed to Environmental
Carcinogens.'
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June 1, 2008
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EI
partners with
Booz Allen Hamilton to provide CDC’s National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to
examine the relationship between older adult falls and
Activities of Daily Living, physical activity,
pre-existing medical conditions, housing factors, and
medication use.
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May 5, 2008
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EI
hires Suzanne Eastham as the
Director for
Federal Government Programs. Ms. Eastham comes
to EI with more than ten years of
public
health experience working with large, Federal
contractors. She will focus on ensuring client
satisfaction and
operational excellence within EI.
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PAST
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August 23, 2007 |
EI
and Booz Allen Hamilton awarded contract at the Centers
For Disease Control
(CDC) to provide
scientific and research support services to the National
Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
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EI manuscript entitled,
"The Role of Epidemiology in the Law: A Toxic Tort
Litigation Case" has been accepted for publication in
Law, Probability and Risk. Dr. Shira Kramer
and Dr. April Zambelli-Weiner are authors on this paper,
along with Dr. Francesca Dominici, Professor of
Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS TO
THIS ARTICLE
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August 2-4, 2007 |
EI exhibited at the South
Carolina Trial Lawyer's Association (SCTLA) annual
convention in Hilton Head Island, SC. |
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July 14-18, 2007 |
EI was a Silver Sponsor for the American
Association for Justice (AAJ) Annual Convention in
Chicago including the Section
Connection on July 17th.
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June 8, 2007 |
EI abstract entitled,
"Elevated Rates of Neuroblastoma Associated with
Exposure to Coal Tar from a Former Manufactured Gas
Plant (MGP) Site" has been selected for presentation as
a poster at the 2007 meeting of the American College of
Epidemiology (ACE), which will be held September 15-18,
2007, in Ft. Lauderdale , Florida.
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April 17, 2007 |
EI abstract entitled, "Elevated Incidence
of Neuroblastoma in a Community Exposed to Carcinogens
from a Munitions Factory" is accepted for presentation
at the 40th Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research
(SER) Meeting, to be held June 19-22, 2007 in Boston,
Massachusetts.
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April 1, 2007 |
EI abstract entitled "Association
between hazardous waste from a munitions factory and
neuroblastoma" is accepted
for presentation at
the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society for
Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) in
Boston, Massachusetts to be held on June 18-19, 2007. |
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