Final Program - Society for Risk Analysis

SYMPOSIA DESCRIPTIONSDisclaimer: All presentations represent the views of the authors, and not the organizations that support their research. Please apply the standard disclaimerthat any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations in abstracts, posters, and presentations at the meeting are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views of any other organization or agency. Meeting attendees and authors should be aware that this disclaimer is intended toapply to all abstracts contained in this document. Authors who wish to emphasize this disclaimer should do so in their presentation or poster. In an effortto make the abstracts as concise as possible and easy for meeting participants to read, the abstracts have been formatted such that they exclude referencesto papers, affiliations, and/or funding sources. Authors who wish to provide attendees with this information should do so in their presentation or poster.MONDAYM2-C Symposium: Tox 21/NexGen Dose ResponseThe National Research Council (NRC) report, “Toxicity Testing in the 21stCentury: A Vision and a Strategy,” provides a step-wise process that includeschemical characterization, toxicity testing, and dose-response and extrapolationmodeling, with consideration of population-based and human exposuredata at each step, along with consideration of what data are needed for decision-making.Another NRC report, “Science and Decisions: Advancing RiskAssessment,” cited a need for “a better match of the level of detail needed ina risk assessment to the questions that should be addressed.” The Tox21 programis a collaborative effort between the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)/NationalToxicology Program (NTP), National Human Genome Research Institute(NHGRI)/NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC), and the Foodand Drug Administration. Tox21 is designed to develop, validate and translateinnovative chemical testing methods that characterize toxicity pathways. In aparallel effort to leverage the availability of these new technologies and toimplement the second NRC report, the EPA embarked on a program entitled“Advancing the Next Generation of Risk Assessment (NexGen),” which is acollaborative effort with the NIEHS/NTP, the Centers for Disease Controland the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, NHGRI, the Departmentof Defense, and the State of California’s Environmental ProtectionAgency. The Dose Response Specialty Group teleseminars for 2011 coveredtopics on a central theme in talks by Weihsueh Chiu (EPA), Barbara Wetmore(Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences), Richard Judson (EPA). In this symposium,the teleseminars are summarized by rapporteurs on those talks, alongwith additional overview presentations on the two major projects (Tox21 andNexGen), and concluding with a panel discussion.40M2-D Symposium: Risks of Transportation DisruptionsThis symposium focuses on the risks of transportation disruptions. Disruptionsin the transportation network may cause significant delays in transportingcommodities, lead to lost business, and possibly endanger lives. Thissymposium includes talks examining several aspects of the risks of transportationdisruptions. One presentation examines the risks of transporting dangerousgoods, including the difficulties of transporting hazardous materialsand some of the safety risks if a disruption causes hazardous materials to bereleased. Another presentation focuses on port security and examines methodsto evaluate and improve port security. A third presentation explores theinterdependent consequences of a multimodal transportation handling facilitysuch as an inland waterway port, and how the resiliency of the facility impactsthose consequences. The final presentation also analyzes the impact oftransportation disruptions on companies and how companies can mitigate therisks of these disruptions. These presentations will include discussions of theimportance of transportation infrastructure, economic analysis of disruptions,decision making to mitigate risks, and security and safety risks. Presenters areaffiliated with the University of Southern California, Transport Canada, andthe University of Oklahoma.M2-H Symposium: Progress and Challenges in RA and RM at DHS:Culture and MethodologyIn the “Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Actof 2007,” Congress required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)to conduct a Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) with the objectiveof outlining the strategic framework for Homeland Security. The firstQHSR, published in 2010, states that “homeland security is about effectivelymanaging risks to the Nation’s security.” DHS has made steady progress in riskmanagement since it was formed in 2003, and this symposium will highlight