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Keynote speakers
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Prof. Iain Thornton
(Former SEGH Chair, Lifetime achievement award recipient), Imperial
College and Imperial College Consultants London, UK
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Title: APPLIED
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH
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(Download
Prof. Thornton's abstract here)
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- Prof. Thornton, PhD,
DSc, DIC is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Geochemistry and was until
2002 Director of the Environmental Geochemistry Research Group, Imperial
College, London. He has over forty years of research experience in
environmental geochemistry and geochemical mapping, the chemistry and
behaviour of trace elements and metals in soils and waters, and the effects
of metal exposure on plant, animal and human health. He has also undertaken
research into urban geochemistry in the UK, Hong Kong and Gibraltar. He is
the editor of the standard text Applied Environmental Geochemistry, and has
published widely, as author and co-author of over 200 papers in refereed
scientific journals, on sources and pathways of metals in the environment
and their impacts. He is an elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of
Science and Letters. He was President of the Society for Environmental
Geochemistry and Health from 1985 to 1987 and is a life member of the
Executive Board. He was the first recipient of the J. Julian Chisholm Jr.
MD. Award for outstanding contributions in the field of geochemistry and
environmental health education. In 2003 he was made an honorary member of
the International Society for the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements.
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Prof. Shu Tao (SETAC
Asia/Pacific Chair), Peking University, China
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Title:
EMISSION, FATE AND
RESPIRATION EXPOSURE RISK OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN CHINA
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(Download
Prof. Tao's abstract here)
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Prof. Tao
joined the faculty at Peking University in 1984. He is now Cheung Kong
Professor and vice dean of the College of Environmental Sciences of Peking
University. He is also director of The Laboratory for Earth Surface
Processes (LESP), a key laboratory under Chinese Ministry of Education. He
chairs the subcommittee of Environmental & Chemical Geography, Chinese
Geography Association. He also serves as the president of SETAC
Asia/Pacific and is on the editorial boards of several international
journals. Currently, his research is focused on bioavailability of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides,
fate and exposure of persistent organic pollutants. At present, he serves
as principle investigator for a number of projects including Fate and
behaviour of PAHs in northern China and Emission and outflow of PAHs from
East Asia (both are key projects of National Scientific Foundation of
China). Prof. Tao has 180 papers published in peer-reviewed international
journals. The publications cover a number of fields including
bioavailability of trace elements and persistent organic pollutants,
aquatic humic substances, fate and multimedia fate modelling of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorine pesticides.
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Dr. Olle Selinus (IMGA
founder and co-Chair), Geological Survey of
Sweden, Sweden
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Title:
THE
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL GEOLOGY - WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW
AND IN THE FUTURE?
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(Download
Dr. Selinus's abstract here)
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This speaker is sponsored by NUI Galway's Millennium Fund.
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Dr. Olle Selinus is a
Ph.D. geologist
working with the
Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU). During the 1960s and 1970s he worked in
mineral exploration and since the beginning of the 1980s
his research work has been focused on environmental geochemistry,
including research on medical geology. He has served as the organizer of
several international conferences in this field, is vice president for the
International Geological Congress in Oslo in 2008 and has published over
90 manuscripts. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for the book on “Essentials
of Medical Geology”, and as president of the International Medical Geology
Association. He has received several international awards and has been
appointed Geologist of the Year (2005) in Sweden because of Medical
Geology. He is also chairing the ”Earth and Health” team of the United
Nations initiative International Year of Planet Earth, member of the
organising committee and vice president for the 33 International
Geological Congress in Oslo in 2008, vice chairman of the National
Committee of Geology at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, chairman of
the Swedish National Committee of the International Year of Planet Earth.
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Prof. Luke Clancy
(Director General,
RIFTFS), Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society, Ireland
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Title: AIR POLLUTION
AND HEALTH IN IRELAND -OUTDOORS AND IN PUBS
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(Download
Prof. Clancy's abstract here)
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Prof. Clancy
is an academic respiratory physician with a research interest in air
pollution, TB and asthma and currently focusing on the prevention of smoking
related diseases by advocacy and research. As Chairman of the Board of ASH
Ireland (Action on Smoking and Health) he played a significant role in the
introduction of smoke free legislation in Ireland. He is currently President
of the European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP) and Chairman of the
Tobacco Control Committee of the European Respiratory Society He is Director
General of RIFTFS which supports the development of a tobacco free society
by engaging in research in all aspects of tobacco control. He was a partner
in a number of EU funded projects such as PESCE, APHEA, Aphesis, IMCA and
ENHIS. He is the Project Coordinator for the FP7 Project PPACTE (Pricing
Policy and Tobacco Control in Europe) involving a very strong consortium of
international experts.
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