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From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Bruce Jarnot <jarnotb@api.org> Friday, June 24,20054:53 PM (GMT) benzconsort-tc@listserve.api.org gary krieger <gkrieger@newfields.com>; Lorraine Twerdok <Twerdokl@api.org>; Clegg, Patsy M SCC-CHSE-PC <patsy.c1egg@shell.com> BHRC-TC... FYI: Fudan Questions EA Workshop BHRC Technical Committee Relayed as FYI from Gary Krieger, re: SHS Exposure Assessment. .. -----Orig inal Message----From: Youxin LIANG [mailto:yxliang@shmu.edu.cn] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11 :01 PM To: Tom Armstrong Cc: Richard.lrons@UCHSC.edu; Fu Hua; a.r.schnatter@exxonmobiLcom; tom Armstrong; yimei.x.zhou@exxonmobiLcom; xbye@shmu.edu.cn; ottoWong@aoLcom; ottowongemail@hotmaiLcom; gary krieger Subject: Re: Worksjhop Questions Re: updating Dear Tom, all dear colleagues: Thank you very much for taking time in considering of our proposed "Workshop on EA". For the proposed Workshop on EA, we have proposed that Tom taking a lead and incorporating with other researchers' joint-efforts from both US and China sides. Following are some of my additional thoughts that triggered by Tom and Rob's mails, and the telephone conversation with Tom and Yimei last night. Rationale and purpose. The workshop is aimed at bringing people with both the 'renewed' strategy and methodology of EA based on our case situation which is recognized as: 1) small crude Bn exposure rate (7-8% of the totalled -4000 subjects investigated); 2) insufficient and inconsistent historical exposure database that might frustrate a reliable quantitative EA; 3) diverse and widespread industries involved that have been tremendously changing in working conditions, production processes, and materials used with the economic reform approaches performed and the economy growth. Of these, might have gone beyond our original thoughts and designed philosophy of EA (Tom might not fully agree with my judgement !?); and explain why we need such a workshop. Proposed topics. As for the main topics of the exposure assessment process, that need to be covered in the workshop, should be further discussed with Tom, Rob, Xibiao, Yimei and approved by Drs. Richard Irons and Hua Fu. To my knowledge, 1) the "sector analysis" that Tom and Yimei have proposed; 2) the construction of occupation and job/task exposure matrix even if the quantitative data are not really available in our case; and 3) the use of occupation and industry classification and the unification of coding system, as well as other practical guidelines, might be of worthwhile for the consideration. Participant and duration. EA team workers from Fudan (e.g., Yang, Jin, Liang, Xibiao, Fang, Huang, Ni, xiao Fu, xiao Chen, He, Zhu; xiao Wu-from Dept OH) and the municipal IPHS (Zhu Jun and SR Zhu ) would be the basic SH ELL-MCCLU RG-054060 participants of the workshop. I believe most of these people have been trained in OH and IH during their university career training, and in Tom courses previously offered, however: 1) how to approach the basic knowledge and theory into a realistic practice based on our case examples might still need a "gap bridging" and drilling process; 2) there are some newly recruited team workers, say, xiao Chen, xiao Fu, etc, to whom an initial training might even be needed; and 3) some parts of our original strategic approaches might need to be updated and modified, that should be considered as a refresh and progressive event, and in no means of offensive to anybody, agree? The proposed duration of the workshop will be 1-2 days depending on how many topics and scopes that you do agree to be necessarily covered. Personally, I would prefer to have a 2 day-course which includes the theoretical lectures and the practice. Dates. To me, either early July (being proposed at the Conference Call), the eve of the summer vacation, may be too hasty; or early September, the beginning of the new semester, everyone will be full of energy as being relaxing from a 50-day long vacation. The above-mentioned issues are mostly questioned by Tom. I am not sure whether my answers are really relevant. Looking forward to you all comments. Best regards, Youxin At 18:48 2005-6-17, you wrote: >Dear Prof. Liang, > >We are willing to work on this with all of you. Can you provide a list of >the main topics of the exposure assessment process that need to be covered >in such a workshop? Who would attend? What range of knowledge of our >process for exposure assessment might they already have via on the job >Iearning and from our past seminars and workshops? What duration do you >have in mind for the workshop? 1 day? 1.5 days? 2 days? More? > >AII of you are closer to the day to day routine and I am sure have good >ideas for what we need to cover. > >Best Regards, > >Tom > >----- Original Message ----- From: "YXLlANG" <yxliang@shmu.edu.cn> >To: <a.r.schnatter@exxonmobil.com> >Cc: "Fu Hua" <hfu@shmu.edu.cn>; <xbye@shmu.edu.cn>; <twa23@drexel.edu> >Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:46 PM >Subject: Re: updating > > Dear Rob: Thank you very much for sharing me your message. SHELL-MCCLURG-OS4061 As you may be informed, we had a Conference Call with API (Drs. Jarnot Bruce, Tsai, etc) on 2005-6-8. Prof. Fu and Xibiao are going to send you the Minute of the Call sooner. We have made a proposal for a Joint-Mini Workshop on Exposure Assessment, hopefully in early July this year wondering if Tom and you could take a lead and incorporated with the joint-efforts of researchers from both sides to make it happen and constructive success. Best regards, Youxin. At 04:11 2005-6-17, you wrote: >1. We will meet with Prof. Dongyuan Zhao from the Fudan University >Chemistry Department tomorrow. Prof. Zhao is working with other researchers >here at the ExxonMobil site. We will tell him about the Shanghai study and >our collaboration with Fudan. > >2. I do not use the email addressbelow(arschna@erenj.com) any longer. I >either use arschna@earthlink.net or a.r.schnatter @exxonmobil.com > >3. Do you think Lu Wei would be interested in knowing the facilities in >which AML or MDS cases worked in our JCML database? This would essentially >be a 'disease surveillance' part of occupational health surveillnace. In >other words, once we identify an AML or an MDS, and they complete a >questionnaire, we could forward any facility that has 'possible' benzene >exposure. This could help improve the occupational health surveillance in >Shanghai. > >Or, do you think Lu Wei is more interested in stronger methods to show >complaince with local occupational exposure standards? > >Best regards, > >Rob > >>A- .- -R-o-b-e-rt-S-c-h-n-a-tt-e-r - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >Senior Scientific Advisor >Exxon Mobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. >Room LF-246 >Route 22 East >Annadale, NJ 08801-0971 >908-730-1101 >908-730-1192(fax) >----- Forwarded by A R Schnatter/East-US/ExxonMobil on 06/16/05 03:29 PM SH ELL-MCCLU RG-054062 >----> > twa23@drexeLedu > To: Rob > Schnatter <a.r.schnatter@exxonmobiLcom> > cc: > 06/16/05 02:45 PM Subject: Fwd: > > > > > > >----- Message from Fu Hua <hfu@shmu.edu.cn> on Mon, 30 May 2005 21 :52:37 >+0800 ----> > To: "Richard.lrons" <richard.irons@uchsc.edu>, Tom Amstrong > <twa23@drexeLedu>, Robschnatter > <arschna@erenj.com> > > cc: 'Ye XiBiao' <xbye@shmu.edu.cn> > > >Dear colleagues >Today I discussed with Lu Wei with the use of IPHS database. He said that >our project could not directly use database because it is NCI database. But >if our project has new proposal of exposure assessment and collaborate with >them to improve the database, we can use it. There is an open door for USA >experts to discuss this issue. So I suggest that you discuss a proposal >then Rich or Rob discuss with Lu Wei when you visit Shanghai. > >Regards >Fu Hua >>>************************* >Fu Hua. MB, MPH, PhD >Deputy Dean and Professor >School of Public Health >Fudan University >PO Box 248 >138 Yixueyuan Road >Shanghai200032 >PR China >TeL: 86-21-54237202 >Fax: 86-21-64223464 SH ELL-MCCLU RG-054063  SH ELL-MCCLU RG-054064