Monday, September 25

8:30 – 8:40 am

Welcome and Introduction
Dale Sandler, Ph.D., ACE President

8:40 – 8:50 am

Welcome to Atlanta
Dixie E. Snider, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., CDC, Meeting Host

8:50 – 9:00 am

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Sandra Melnick, Dr.P.H., National Cancer Institute

9:00 – 9:45 am

Keynote Address: Bioterrorism, Infectious Disease and Epidemiology
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., Chairman and CEO, ican, INC.

9:45 – 10:00 am

Coffee Break

Symposium I – Infection and Protection: Current Challenges to Epidemiology and Public Health
Moderator: James M. Hughes, M.D., CDC

Infectious Causes of Chronic Disease
Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

West Nile Virus in New York City
Denis Nash, Ph.D., M.P.H., CDC/NYC Department of Health

Encephalitis: Nipah Virus in Malaysia and Singapore
Clarence J. Peters, M.D., CDC

Childhood and Adult Immunization Policy Issues
Samuel L. Katz, M.D., Duke University School of Medicine

12:00 – 2:00 pm

Lunch Roundtable Workshop: Objectivity, Conflict of Interest and Epidemiology
(By reservations only. Must pre-register for this workshop.)

Moderators:
Rosanne McTyre, Ph.D., The Weinberg Group, Inc.
Patricia Hartge, Sc.D., National Cancer Institute
Informal Roundtable discussions led by Fellows of the College.

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Symposium II – Epidemiologists Look at Society: Social Class, Race, Gender, Inequality and Disease
Moderator: Eugenia E. Calle, Ph.D., American Cancer Society

The Measurement of Social Class and Race in Epidemiologic Studies: New Directions
Lisa Berkman, Ph.D., Harvard University School of Public Health

The Epidemiology of Domestic Violence
Lemyra Debruyn, Ph.D., CDC

Upstream and Downstream Approaches to Inequality in Health: The Example of Cardiovascular Disease
George A. Kaplan, Ph.D., University of Michigan School of Public Health

Health and Income Inequality
Ichiro Kawachi, Ph.D., Harvard University School of Public Health

4:00 – 5:00 pm

Business Meeting
For ACE Members

5:00 – 7:00 pm

Poster Session and Reception
Chairs:
Marlene Goldman, Sc.D., New England Research Institutes
Betsy Foxman, Ph.D., University of Michigan School of Public Health
Prizes will be awarded for the best student poster, the best risk assessment poster, and the best general poster.

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Continuing Poster Viewing

Dinner on your own

Tuesday, September 26

7:30 – 9:00 am

Breakfast Roundtables
Chair: Maureen C. Hatch, Ph.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Scientific Publication: The Ongoing Revolution
Martha S. Linet, M.D., National Cancer Institute; ACE Publications Committee
Richard Rothenberg, M.D., Emory University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Epidemiology

Current Ethical Challenges in Epidemiology
Douglas L. Weed, M.D., Ph.D., National Cancer Institute; ACE Committee on Ethics and Standards of Practice

Medical Record Privacy: New Laws and Practices
Robert A. Hiatt, M.D., Ph.D., National Cancer Institute; ACE Policy Committee

Diversity in Epidemiology: Finding Ways to Improve
Members, ACE Minority Affairs Committee

Response Rates: Should We Worry?
Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., University of Missouri at Columbia

The Ethics of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Elizabeth A. Bancroft, M.D., S.M., CDC/L.A. County Department of Health Services

Women’s Health
Maureen C. Hatch, Ph.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Marlene B. Goldman, Sc.D., New England Research Institutes

Can Intragroup Comparisons Be Used To Test Causal Models Of Diversity?
Carol J. Rowland Hogue, Ph.D., M.P.H., Emory University School of Public Health

9:00 – 9:15 am

Break

9:15 – 11:15 am

Symposium III – Pestilence and Molecular Epidemiology: New Tools for Understanding Agent-Host Interactions
Moderator: Dixie E. Snider, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., CDC

Genetic Determinants in HIV Infection
Richard A. Kaslow, M.D., M.P.H., University of Alabama at Birmingham

Molecular Aspects of EBV and Lymphoma
Richard F. Ambinder, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Host Genes and TB Infection
Janet M. McNicholl, M.D., CDC

Host Genes and Malaria
Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Ph.D., Division of Parasitic Diseases, CDC

11:15 – 11:30 am

Break

11:30 – 12:00 noon

2000 Student Prize Paper
TBA

12:00 – 2:00 pm

Banquet Lunch and Poster Prize Awards
Lilienfeld Award Address by Jacob A. Brody, M.D.

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Plenary Debate – Motion: Epidemiologists Should/Should Not Always Put Their Data in a Public Archive
Moderator: Gina D. Etheredge, Ph.D., Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Debaters:
Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S., Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Christine A. Bachrach, Ph.D., National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Manning Feinleib, M.D., Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Paul M. Fischer, M.D., Center for Primary Care

4:00 pm

Adjourn