Rome Italy

SCHEDULE - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
E-05 Infant Infections and Inflammatory Markers in Relation to in utero Arsenic Exposure in a U.S.
Pregnancy
Shohreh Farzan
Prenatal POPs exposures and their relation to infants’ response to vaccines in China: Methodologic
challenges and solutions
Parveen Bhatti
07:30 - 08:30 E.12 Building your network: how to connect and make it count Studio 3
Session Chairs: Kateryna Fuks
Panelists:
Yi Wang, Ying Zhang, Tong Zhu, Kristie Ebi
08:30 - 10:15 PLENARY SESSION Sala Sinopoli
Methodological Challenges in Environmental Epidemiology
Session Chairs: Roberta Pirastu, Robert Devlin
Causal inference in environmental epidemiology
Joel Schwartz, Harvard University, USA
PL-07
PL-08
OMICs and Environmental Health; Delineation of exposure to disease
Roel Vermeulen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Taking Sides in the Courtroom: The Epidemiologist as Expert and Advocate
Shira Kramer, Epidemiology International, Inc. USA
10:15 - 10:45 Morning Break Foyer
10:15 - 10:45 CONNECTION CORNER Foyer
Jordi Sunyer, CREAL/ISGlobal
Bonnie Joubert, NIEHS, Extramural Epidemiology Program
Claudia Thompson, Branch Chief for Susceptibility and Population Health
10:45 - 12:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS
10:45 - 12:15 S.12 Health effects of ozone exposure: recent evidence, new pathways of research Sala Sinopoli
and future concerns
Session Chairs: Klea Katsouyanni and Annette Peters
S-055 Concentration-response functions for ozone in health impact assessment- time-series evidence
systematic review and subsequent expert committee recommendations
Heather Walton,* Sujin Kang, Richard Atkinson, Inga Mills, Ross Anderson
S-056 Long-term exposure to ambient ozone and mortality: a quantitative systematic review and metaanalysis
of evidence from cohort studies
Richard Atkinson,* Barbara Butland, Sani Dimitroulopoulou, Mat Heal, John Stedman, Nicola Carslaw,
Deborah Jarvis, Claire Heaviside, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Heather Walton, H Ross Anderson
S-057 Effects of exposure to ozone on children’s respiratory health
Evangelia Samoli,* Anna Karakatsani, Sophia Rodopoulou, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Despoina
Papakosta, Georgios Grivas, John Douros, Klea Katsouyanni
S-058 The impact of climate change on tropospheric ozone and subsequent human health
Michelle Bell*
S-059 Future approaches for studying health effects of ozone
Annette Peters*
10:45 - 12:15 O.30 Early life exposures and DNA methylation markers Sala Petrassi
Session Chairs: Lorenzo Richiardi and Elaine Fuertes
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O-168 450K genome-wide DNA methylation study in human placenta identifies novel loci associated with
maternal tobacco smoking: implications for birth weight
Eva Morales,* Nadia Vilahur, Lucas A Salas, Valeria Motta, Mariana F Fernandez, Mario Murcia, Sabrina
Llop, Adonina Tardón, Guillermo Fernandez-Tardon, Loreto Santa-Marina, Mara Gallastegui, Valentina
Bollati, Xavier Estivill, Nicolás Olea, Jordi Sunyer, Mariona Bustamante
PL → Plenary Speaker Eth→Ethics Discussant O→Oral Contributed Paper S → Symposia P→Poster