28th Annual International Symposium

on

Man and His Environment

 

Focus for the 2010 Conference

 

“The Chemical Mechanisms Leading to EMF Sensitivity”

 

 

Faculty and Presentation Information, Disclaimer and Disclosure

 

 

 

Nancy A. Didriksen, Ph.D.

Private Practice

Richardson, TX

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Private Practice, in health Psychology/Behavior medicine and neuropsychology-evaluation and treatment.

Current Faculty Appointments:

Adjunct professor Psychology, University of North Texas

Medical School/ University Attended

University of North Texas

Internship:

Northeast Community Hospital, Bedford, TX

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Assessment of Environmentally Ill Patients for Disability”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1. Determine how and when to refer patients for psychological/neuropsychological evaluation to extend documentation for disability issues.

 

2. Know the different requirements/levels of documentation for Social Security Disability v. private disability.

 

3. Know the psychological/neuropsychological conditions considered disabling by the Social Security Administration and private disability companies.

 

 

 

Magda Havas, Ph.D.

 

 

 

Environmental & Resource Studies

Trent University

Peterborough, ON Canada

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Teach and do research on the health and environmental effects of chemical contaminants and electromagnetic pollution

Current Faculty Appointments:

Associate Professor, Trent University

Medical School/ University Attended

B.Sc. and Ph.D. at University of Toronto (Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Botany)

Internship:

Post Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University

Other Information:

  1. Public Health SOS:  the shadow side of the wireless revolution.  Co-authored with Camilla Rees. 
  2. see articles and videos at ww.magdahavas.com

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Dirty Electricity:  the Missing Link.”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

1. Recognize that in addition to the potentially harmful effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) and microwave frequency (MW) radiation, there is another range called intermediate frequencies (IF) that are biologically active and ubiquitous.

 

            2. Learn how to measure and remediate these intermediate frequencies.

 

3. Understand that dirty electricity affects diabetes, people with multiple sclerosis and has been associated with the symptoms of electrohypersensitivity (EHS) in home, work and school settings.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Empirical Evidence for Electrohypersensitivity ”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Recognize the symptoms of electrohypersenstivity.

 

2. Realize that radio frequency radiation at low levels emitted by equipment commonly found in the home or office can affect the blood and the autonomic nervous system of those who are sensitive to this radiation resulting in irregular or rapid heart rate and rouleaux formation of the blood.

 

            3. Use heart rate variability and live blood analysis to assess their patients for electrohypersensitivity.

 

 

 

 

 

Kaye H. Kilburn, M.D.

Consultant

Pasadena, CA

 

Training:

 

 

 

Current Job Description:

Consultant, President of Neuro-test, Inc.

 

Consultant, President of Neuro-test, Inc.

Current Faculty Appointments:

USC retired 2006

 

 

Medical School:

University of Utah 1954

 

 

Internship:

Western Reserve Hospitals – Cleveland

 

 

Residency:

University of Utah: Medicine and pathology, Duke: cardiopulmonary, London: cardiology

 

 

Board Certifications:

Am Board Internal Medicine, Am Board Preventive Medicine, occupational Health

 

 

Other Information:

“Chemical Brain Injury,” NY: John Wiley 1998; “Mold and Mycotoxins,” editor Washington DC: Heldref 2004; “Endangered Brains” Princeton Scientific Press 2004, “Mold and Mycotoxins:  Toward Healthy Homes,” Toxicology and Industrial Health, Oct/Nov 2009, Vol. 25

 

 

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Is There Electro-Chemical Sensitivity?  Evidence Pro and Con”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Understand the role of electricity in cell and organ function from DNA to depression.

 

            2. Be able to recognize sources and properties of electromagnetic fields (EMF) that may be harmful.

 

            3. How to correlate symptoms and impairments with electromagnetic fields.

 

            4. Understand the overlaps of EMF and chemical sensitivity.

 

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Does An Electron Shunt Revive Neurons?”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. See the uniting role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in inflammation

 

2. Understand the concept of redox therapy and the evidence that it relieves various central nervous system dysfunctions.

 

            3. Appreciate the strategy of fusing avoidance of ROS and provision of electron shunts

 

 

 

 

Colin H. Little, M.D.

Melbourne, Victoria

Australia

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Physician & Allergist, Researcher

Medical School/ University Attended

Melbourne University

Internship:

Western General Hospital

Residency:

Queen Victoria Hospital

Board Certifications:

M B  B S  MRCP(UK)  FRACP  FACA

Other Information:

Clin Vaccine Immunol 2006 Vol 13:467-74,  Exp Biol Med 2002 Vol 227:438-444,  Current Trends in Immunology 2000 Vol 3:131-144, A sensitive ELISA to measure antigen-specific kappa and lambda immunoglobulin free light chains in human serum(Submitted for publication)

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Light Chains in Allergy and Sensitivity Disorders”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Understand the basic immunobiology of light chains.

 

            2. Be familiar with the role of light chains in allergy and other immune disorders.

 

            3. Understand the significance of assays measuring antigen-specific light chains in non-IgE allergies.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Are Immune Processes Implicated in Chemical Sensitivity?”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

  1. Understand current views of mechanisms underlying chemical sensitivity.

 

            2. Understand immune responses to low molecular weight chemicals and assays to measure them.

 

            3. Appreciate how immune and psychological processes may interact in chemical sensitivity.

 

 

 

Andrew A. Marino, Ph.D., J.D.

 

LSU Health Sciences Center, Dept. of Orthonopaedic Surgery Shreveport, LA

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, LSUHSC-S

Current Faculty Appointments:

Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, LSUHSC-S

Medical School/ University Attended

Syracuse University: Ph.D., 1968; J.D., 1974

Other Information:

Approximately 150 publications dealing with EMF sensitivity. Web site: http://www.andrewamarino.com

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Cellular Basis of EMF Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Name and describe the process by which the body detects EMFs

 

            2. List the anatomic areas where the detecting cell may be located

 

            3. Discuss possible processes for linking EMF detection and clinical symptoms

 

 

 

Stephanie McCarter, M.D.

Environmental Health Center-Dallas

Dallas, TX

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Part time internal medicine/environmental medicine

Medical School:

I.U. School of Medicine

Internship:

I.U. School of Medicine

Residency:

I.U. School of Medicine

Board Certifications:

Internal Medicine

Other Information:

“Building Considerations for Low EMF”

 

SPEECH TITLE: “EMF Sensitivity Field: How to Treat”

 

 

 

 

William J. Meggs, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Chief of Toxicology, Professor of Emergency Medicine

Current Faculty Appointments:

Professor, Brody School of Medicine

Medical School/ University Attended

University of Miami, Miami, Florida

Internship:

Rochester General Hospital

Residency:

Rochester General Hospital, Fellowships at NIH & NYU

Board Certifications:

Medical Toxicology, Allergy and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine

Other Information:

Author of “The Inflammation Cure”, over 50 research publications, Co-editor of “Health and Safety in Farming, Forestry, & Fisheries”; Co-author of “Biomarkers of Immunotoxicology”

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “The Brain as a Target Organ for Allergic and Irritant Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. To know the data associating cerebral reactions with allergen and chemical exposures.

 

            2. To know the types of reactions that occur with allergen and irritant exposures.

 

            3. To understand possible mechanisms for the brain as a target organ for allergens and chemical irritants.

 

            4. To know techniques for monitoring the brain as a target organ for reactions.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Psychiatric Polypharmacy: Is More Better?”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. To know the major classes of psychotropic medications, their actions, and indications.

 

            2. To know the drug interactions and contraindications of psychotropic medications.

 

            3. To know the status and dangers of polypharmacy in the treatment of behavioral disorders.

 

 

 

Samuel Milham MD, MPH

 

 

 

Olympia, WA

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Retired

Current Faculty Appointments:

U of Washington School of Public Health, Mt. Sinai Medical School

Medical School

Albany Medical College, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Internship:

USPHS Hospital Boston (Brighton Marine)

Residency:

New York State Health Dept

Board Certifications:

Public Health

Other Information:

Type Milham s in pub med

Disclosure Statement:

 

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Electrification Caused the Diseases of Civilization”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Understand that EMF causes most modern disease

 

            2. Advise patients on exposure mitigation

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Increased Cancer in School Teachers Caused by 'Dirty Electricity'”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Know what dirty electricity is

 

            2. Advise patients on exposure mitigation

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Lisa Nagy, M.D.

 

Vineyard Haven, MA

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

President – The Preventive and Environmental Health Alliance Inc. and Founder  of Comprehensive Medical Care of Martha’s Vineyard

Medical School:

Cornell Medical College

Internship:

Surgery: Catholic Medical Center, Queens, New York

Residency:

Emergency Medicine: Metropolitan Hospital, NY, NY

Board Certifications:

Emergency Medicine thru 2006

Other Information:

Board Eligible Environmental Medicine

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Clinical Presentation and Management of Electrical Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Recognize mild to severe symptoms of Electrical Sensitivity.

 

            2. Make simple suggestions for patients to cope with the problem.

 

            3. Determine the potential etiology of ES in order to ameliorate the condition.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “The Role of Cations, Membrane Potentials and the Brain Stem In Electrical Sensitivity – what treatment lies ahead.”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Think about possible future treatment modalities for Electrical Sensitivity.

 

            2. Discuss the literature concerning cations and ES as well as psychiatric disease.

 

            3. Advise patients with mold exposure (and others) on early treatment in order to avoid developing electrical sensitivity.

 

 

 

James L. Oschman, Ph.D.

Nature's Own Research Association

Dover, NH

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Author and presenter of lectures and workshops on energy medicine internationally

University Attended:

University of Pittsburgh

Current faculty Appointments:

Akamai University; Energy Medicine University

Other Information:

Energy Medicine: the scientific basis, Churchill Livingstone/Harcourt Brace, Edinburgh, 2000.

Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance, Butterworth Heinemann, Edinburgh, 2003

About 30 papers in leading scientific journals, and about an equal number in complementary medicine journals.

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “EMF Sensitivity: Biophysical Aspects”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

  1. List three aspects of cell and tissue chemistry that impart EMF sensitivity.

 

  1. List three aspects of cell membrane chemistry that impact EMF sensitivity.

 

  1. List three molecular constituents of cells and tissues that act as antennas.      

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “EMF Sensitivity: The Quantum Perspective”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

  1. List 3 quantum aspects of cell and tissue chemistry that impact EMF sensitivity.

 

  1. List 3 quantum phenomena that contribute to EMF sensitivity.

 

  1. List 3 properties of electromagnetic fields that interact with cells and tissues.

 

 

 

 

Ron Overberg, Ph.D., C.C.N., R.D.

Environmental Health Center – Dallas

Dallas, TX

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Nutritionist at Environmental Health Center - Dallas and Nutriwellness in Dallas

University Attended

University of Texas, Dallas,  Texas

Internship:

Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas

Board Certifications:

Certified Clinical Nutritionist

Other Information:

Registered Dietitian, licensed in Texas

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Nutrition Considerations for Patients with EMF Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Evaluate the Mineral status in Patients with EMF Sensitivity

 

            2. Determine the Fatty acid status in Patients with EMF Sensitivity

 

            3. Assess the energy intake in Patients with EMF Sensitivity 

 

 

 

Martin Pall, Ph.D.

Washington State University

Portland, OR

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Itinerant scientist and general trouble maker

Medical School/ University Attended

B.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Caltech

Internship:

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University and Research Director, the Tenth Paradigm Research Group

Other Information:

Explaining “Unexplained Illnesses”: Disease Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Fibromyalgia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gulf War Syndrome and Others, Harrington Park Press, 2007.  Pall ML, 2009  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity:  Toxicological Questions and Mechanisms.  Chapter XX in General and Applied Toxicology, 3rd Edition, Bryan Ballantyne, Timothy C. Marrs, Tore Syversen, Eds.  John Wiley & Sons, London.

Other information and relevant citations on the author’s web site:  thetenthparadigm.org

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Multiple Chemical Sensitivity:  Toxicology and Chronic Mechanism”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

         1. Outline how various classes of chemicals implicated in chemical sensitivity all produce increases in NMDA activity.

2. Outline how excessive NMDA activity can initiate the NO/ONOO- cycle and the interaction of this cycle with such other mechanisms as neural sensitization and neurogenic inflammation can explain the properties of multiple chemical sensitivity.

3. Outline how the primary local nature of the NO/ONOO- cycle explains the stunning variation is symptoms seen in different MCS patients.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Therapy and Relation to EMF Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1.  Outline how various nutritional agents and sauna therapy can act to down-regulate the NO/ONOO- cycle and therefore

produce improvements in people suffering from MCS.

2.  Understand that four types of evidence that support the view that EMF sensitivity is also a NO/ONOO- cycle disease: 
a.) There is a high comorbidity with MCS.

b.) Clinical observations by Dr. Rea and others suggest that treatments that can lower the NO/ONOO- cycle and are effective in the   treatment of chemical sensitivity patients are effective in producing clinical improvement in patients suffering from EMF sensitivity.
c.) EMF fields are reported to raise most of the various parts of the NO/ONOO- cycle.
d.) There are plausible targets of EMF fields that may be expected to stimulate the NO/ONOO-cycle.


These individual observations make a weak case for a NO/ONOO- cycle etiology for EMF sensitivity, but the combination of them makes a substantially stronger case.

 

 

 

Kalpana Patel, M.D.

 

Allergy and Environmental Health Center - Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Director/President of Allergy and Environmental Health Center Buffalo

Current Faculty Appointments:

Assistant Professor of pediatrics Suny Buffalo

Medical School/ University Attended

B.J. Medical School

Internship:

Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio TX

Residency:

Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio TX

Board Certifications:

American Board of Pediatrics, American Board of Environmental Medicine

Other Information:

Comprehensive approach to Treating Autism and ADHD. Pre Pilot Study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, October 2007. 2) Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Preventing and Treating Autism and ADHD Review

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Adverse Health Effects Of  Low Level Ionizing Radiation”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1.      Describe  Ionizing Radiation- Radioactivity

 

2.      Discuss relevant Scientific Literature on Americium and Cesium.

 

3.      Discuss Multi system non cancer adverse health effects from radiation exposure to Americium and Cesium

 

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Case Study Report of 20 Workers in Nuclear Facility”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1.      Understand Multi system adverse health effects from radiation exposure to Americium and Cesium in Cohort of 16 patients exposed to low level exposure

2.      Similarity in the clinical and Lab findings  with that  Chemical sensitivity

 

3.      Understand Total Load Effect of Low level Radiation Exposure

 

 

 

Dr. Gilberto de Paula

 

Alergia-Immunologia

N.S. Das Gracas

Manaus-Brazil

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Medical Director of Clinic of Allergy Nutrition and Environmental Medicine In Manaus

Current Faculty Appointments:

President of First of Meeting of Environmental Medicine In Brazil, Researcher of Historic Museum of Amazon, Director of Environmental medicine of Pierre Gehano-ENT-Institute of Amazon

Medical School:

College of Health science-University of Amazon

Internship:

Getulio Vargas Hospital-University of State of Amazon

Residency:

Air Force Hospital 7th COMAR of Amazon

Board Certifications:

Homeopathy and Clinical Nutrition by Federal Board Certification In Brazil

Other Information:

The Practice of Environmental Medicine in I International Meeting of Environmental Medicine in Brazil-September 2009 Annals, The scope of Environmental medicine in I International Meeting of Environmental medicine in Brazil-September 2009 Annals

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Mold As The First Step To Develop Chemical Sensitivity: Observation In a City of Amazon Rain Forest"

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Recognize that sensitization of Mold is a open gate to other multiple sensitivities.

 

2. Consider VOC a typical metabolic product from mold one the most important link  in developing of chemical sensitivities

 

            3. Consider the sensitization of molds from digestive system and its association with late food allergy.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: " Can Intracellular Calcium/Magnesium Imbalance be Associated to EHS Phenomenon?"

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. To analyse the possibility of cells to act as electric receptors.

 

   2. To recognise how the cells would act as channels of radio “frequency windows" and how they would change with accordance to their state of health or disease/s.

 

3. To recognise the mechanism by which weak electromagnetic fields could act as "first messenger" activating ionic channels such as calcium++ and to start enzymatic cascade of specific events within cells, and also their relationship with the nutritional status.

 

 

 

William J. Rea, M.D.

Environmental Health Center – Dallas

Dallas, TX

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

President of the Environmental Health Center – Dallas, President American Environmental Health Foundation

Current Faculty Appointments:

 

Medical School/ University Attended

Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

Internship:

Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX

Residency:

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School; Parkland Memorial Hospital, Baylor, Veteran’s Hospital, Children’s Medical Center

Board Certifications:

American Board of Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery, American Board of Environmental Medicine

Other Information:

Author of “Chemical Sensitivity I-IV”, “Optimum Environments for Optimum Health”

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Chemicals As A Triggering Agent of Electromagnetic Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

 1.    Know that chemical exposure can trigger EMF.

 

            2.   Know that membrane damage will tend toward EMF.

 

            3.   Know that EMF can further cause membrane damage.     


SPEECH TITLE 2: “Treatment of Electromagnetic Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

 1.    Understand that avoidant EMF is significant in treatment.

 

            2.   Understand how to avoid EMF.

 

            3.   Understand how nutrition affects EMF.

 

 

 

Kou Sakabe, M.D., Ph.D.

 

 

 

Tokai University School of Medicine

Division of Environmental ToxicologyIsehara,

Kanagawa  Japan

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Professor of Clinical and Molecular Toxicology

Current Faculty Appointments:

Professor, Tokai University School of Medicine

Medical School

Tokai University School of Medicine

Internship:

Tokai University Hospital

Residency:

Tokai University Hospital

Board Certifications:

The Japanese Society of Clinical Ecology; The Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology Physical Medicine

Other Information:

Environ. Health Prev. Med. 14(5):267-275,2009., FEBS lett. 583:1127-1131, 2009., Int.J. Hyg. Environ. Health. 211:682-689, 2008., Am.J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Physiol. 294:877-884, 2008.,   J. Pharmacol. Exp. Med. 320(2):475-484, 2007., Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Sensitization Studies in Electromagnetic Intolerant Individuals”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1.    Goal and objectives:

Establishment of diagnosis in patients with electromagnetic field sensitivity (EMFS) using objective methods.

 

            2.   Outline of talk/abstract:

                    Discuss the new concept of EMFS, with special reference to detailed criteria.

                    Brief review of the EMF challenge test and neurological examinations.

 

            3.   Conclusion of what is to be learned:

            At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to :

                    Understand the new concept of EMFS which we proposed.

                    EMF causes alterations in brain functions.

                    Understand the role of neuro-ophthalmological examinations in EMF-sensitive patients.

                    The results support the hypothesis that repeated exposure of EMF promotes EMFS.

 

 

 

Doug B. Seba, Ph.D.

Alexandria, VA

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Independent Marine Scientist

University Attended

University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida-M.S./Ph.D.

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Environmental Update 2010: EMF and Chemicals”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

     1.  Realize that the primary concept of this continuing symposia is to illuminate the direct relationship between environmental stressors (physical, chemical, biological) and adverse health effects, both acute and chronic.

 

    2.  Comprehend that for this particular symposium, phenomenon such as electromagnectic radiation and chemical stimulation combined with fate and transport mechanisms, can have major impacts on health.

 

     3.  Understand that the evolution of persistent illnesses in patients may occur at a significant time and/or distance from their environmental origins.

 

 

 

Theodore R. Simon, M.D.

North Texas Imaging Center

Dallas, TX

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Physician

Medical School

Yale University

Internship:

University of Rochester

Residency:

University of California at San Francisco, Yale University

Board Certifications:

ABNM

Other Information:

Editorial Board: Journal of Nuclear Medicine

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Functional Imaging In 2010”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

           

1. Characterize the neurotoxic pattern in brain scintigraphy.

 

            2. Understand the process involved in determining subtypes for this pattern.

 

            3. Describe the subtypes identified within the neurotoxic pattern seen in scintigraphy.

 

 

 

 

Deborah Singleton MA

 

 

 

Arasini Foundation/A Healing Place

Richardson, TX 

 

 

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Director, A Healing Place; President & Founder of Arasini Foundation

University Attended

Northern Arizona University

Other Information:

Over 25 years of experience practicing energy medicine with individuals from around the world.  Author of educational materials on “The Human Energy System” and “Conscious Healing.”  Founded Arasini  Foundation in 1985, a non-profit organization committed to educating individuals about wellness and healing.

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “The Definition of Energy Field”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Have an introductory understanding of the human energy system.

 

            2. Conceptualize the contrast between homeostasis and abnormality in energy fields.

 

            3. Understand the process of correction of an abnormal energy system through case study.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “The Definition, Perception and Treatment of Abnormal Energy Fields in Electromagnetic Field Sensitivity”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1.    Gain an understanding of how the abnormal energy fields in an EMF sensitive patient

       relate directly to the nervous system.

 

2.    Enumerate treatment modalities appropriate for EMF sensitive patients.

 

3.    Understand the process of correction of an abnormal energy system through case study.

 

 

 

 

Cyril W. Smith, Ph.D.

Ellesmere Park, Eccles

Manchester, UK

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Retired Physicist and Author

Medical School/ University Attended

Exeter University and Imperial College, London

Other Information:

Smith CW (2008) GUEST EDITORIAL: The electrical properties of high dilutions. Homeopathy 97 pp. 111-112.

Smith CW (2008) Homeopathy - How It Works and How It Is Done. Chapters 1-7, January-July 2008  April 2009  www.hpathy.com, Smith CW (2008)  Fröhlich's Interpretation of Biology through Theoretical Physics. In: Hyland GJ and Rowlands P (Eds.) Herbert  Fröhlich FRS: A physicist ahead of his time. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 2nd edition, pp 107-154., Smith CW (2009) Can Homeopathy Ameliorate Ongoing Sickness?  The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (May 2009), Vol. 15, No. 5: 465-467

 

SPEECH TITLE 1: “Chemical Sensitivities in EMS Patients”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1. Appreciate the interaction between chemical sensitivities and electrical frequencies.

 

2. Understand the importance of frequency coherence in living systems.

 

3. Estimate the effect of chemical body-load in EMS patients.

 

SPEECH TITLE 2: “Chemical Frequency Signatures, Frequencies and Fractals”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

1. Understand the nature of chemical frequency signatures.

 

2. Understand fractality of frequencies in coherent systems

 

3. Understand how frequency fractality links effects in the chemical, technological and biological parts of the frequency spectrum.

 

 

 

Martha Stark, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Newton, MA

 

Training:

 

 

 

Current Job Description:

Teaching/lecture circuit and full-time private practice in psychiatric medicine and psychoanalysis

 

Teaching/lecture circuit and full-time Private Practice in psychiatric medicine and psychoanalysis

Current Faculty Appointments:

The Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

 

 

Medical School/ University Attended

Harvard Medical School

 

 

Residency:

Adult Psychiatry Residency – The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA; Child Psychiatry Fellowship – Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA; Psychoanalytic Training – Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Boston, MA

 

 

Board Certifications:

American Association of Psychiatric Medicine

 

 

Other Information:

Stark M (1994). Working with Resistance. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson; Stark M (1994). A Primer on Working with Resistance. Northvale, NJ Jason Aronson; Stark M (1999). Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson

 

 

 

SPEECH TITLE: “The Shocking Truth about Electrosmog”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

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Arpad Szallasi, M.D.

Monmouth Medical Center Pathology

Long Branch, NJ

 

Training:

 

Current Job Description:

Medical Director for the Transfusion Services

Current Faculty Appointments:

Monmouth Medical Center, Longbranch, NJ, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Medical School

University Medical School Debrecen Hungary

Internship:

St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO

Residency:

Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO

Board Certifications:

Anatomical & Clinical Pathology; Hematopathology

Other Information:

Over 100 papers on the roles of

 

SPEECH TITLE: “Thermo TRPs: of mice and men (or just mice?)”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Recognize temperature-sensitive transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, the so-called       

               “thermoTRPs”, as a distinct functional group within the superfamily of TRP ion channels.

 

            2. Describe the rising role of TRPA1 in airway protection and asthma.

 

            3. Understand species-related differences in the tissue distribution of thermoTRPs.

 

SPEECH TITLE: “TRPV1: Some Like It "Hot"”

 

At the end of this Presentation, the participant should be able to:

 

            1. Recognize the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 as a molecular integrator of noxious stimuli.

 

            2. Understand the pivotal role of TRPV1 in the development and maintenance of sensory     

                hyperreactivity (SHR) and chronic cough.

 

            3. Describe the contribution of TRPV1 to body temperature regulation and thermosensation.

 

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The American Environmental Health Foundation and the University of North Texas Health Science Center is not responsible for the contents of these presentations. AEHF has not altered or modified the contents of the information provided by these speakers.

 

DISCLOSURE

This year’s conference will be our twenty eight medical conferences dealing with Environmental Medicine.  Each conference focuses on specific environmental factors that affect the human body.  These conferences are designed to provide an open forum for discussion.  It is our policy to ensure a fair and independent conference.  We insist on objectivity and scientific rigor in each educational program.

 

This conference is jointly sponsored by the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.  AEHF is required to follow the rules and regulations of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

 

The information presented about clinical medicine therefore must be recognized and accepted by the profession or based on evidence that is accepted within the profession as adequate justification.  Each presentation must be free of commercial bias and any information regarding commercial products and/or services must be based on scientific methods generally accepted by the medical community.  Faculty members must comply with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support of CME.  Speakers are required to disclose any financial interest or relationship with manufacturers or products/services discussed in their presentation(s) and on their Disclosure Information Sheet. 

 

Disclosure information will be included in the Syllabus and on file with both the Foundation and the University of North Texas Health Science Center.