Hotel Vetro

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 2:00 PM Art Exhibit & Auction Opens

 3:00 PM Conference Registration

 4:00 PM Opening Greetings

 4:15 PM Plenary Panel I

Introducing the Challenge: Halting Climate Change Addressing Health and Human Rights Links

●  Introducing Climate Change Science and Wedges, Jerry Schnoor PhD

●  Introducing Human Rights Issues, Burns Weston LL.B, JSD

●  Introducing Public Health Concerns, Jim Merchant MD PhD

 5:30 PM Social Hour (Cash Bar)

 6:30 PM Dinner / Entertainment Sheraton Hotel Ballroom

 7:00 PM  Dinner Speaker:

David C. Hall MD,  PSR Board Member and  PSR Past President, The Moral  Imperative  to  Confront Global Warming:  Bringing Hope and Passion to Healing Psychic Dumbing.

 8:00 PM Concurrent Roundtables                                                           ( back to top )

Choose one:

1.  Redefining Security, Catherine Thomasson MD

2.  Introducing Student Groups’ Responses to Global Climate Change, Kirsten Beyer, Rachel Sandler,  Juliana Williams

3.  How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Film,  Maureen McCue MD PhD

4.  Faith Based Responses  to Global Warming, Mark Kresowik & Lynn Heuss

5.  Invoking the Precautionary Principle, Carolyn Raffensperger JD

6.  UNA Process on Global Warming, Katy Hansen, Kate Karacay, Douglas Taylor PhD & Jerry Schnoor PhD

 9:30 PM Adjourn for the Day

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SATURDAY, ALL DAY,  September 15

Hotel Vetro

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 8:00 AM  Registration / Continental Breakfast

 9:00 AM Opening Keynote

Michael A. McGeehin PhD MSPH, Climate Change, Myriad Threats to Health: National Center for Environmental Health  Responds.

 9:45 AM  Plenary Panel II

Linked Threats to Health and Environment: Current Energy Sources

●  Health Threats of Auto-Centered Cities, Catherine Thomasson MD

●  Ports, Trade & Transit: Health Threats to Workers, Neighborhoods, and the Global Climate,  Andrea Hricko MPH

●  Nuclear Power’s Insurmountable Risks, Arjun Makhijani PhD

11:00 AM Break. View Posters, Visit Exhibits

11:30 AM Plenary Panel III

 Collateral Damage: Overlooked Health Costs of Disasters

●  Disasters–Loss and Mental Health–Challenge, Curt H. Drennen PsyD

●  Disasters–Challenges to Maintaining Research and Care, Tyler Curiel MD MPH

●  Unstable Climate–Challenges to Global Food/Water Security, Douglas Taylor PhD

12:45 PM Lunch on the Terrace                                                           ( back to top )

 1:15 PM Luncheon Speaker:  

Michael Klare  PhD,  Blood and Oil–Further Dangers and Consequences of Dependency on Petroleum

 2:00 PM Break

 2:15 PM Concurrent Roundtables

Choose one:

1.  “Low Carbon Diet”– Food Production with Low Carbon Emissions, Rich Pirog and Denise Obrien.

2.  Consumption, Denial, and Fear, Fred Myer MA, Marc Franke,.and Carolyn Raffensperger JD

3.  Iowa’s Uniquely Unhealthy Energy Options (Coal, Bio-fuels, Nuclear), Mark Kresowik BA and Michael Carberry 

4.  Healthy Sustainable Businesses–Incorporating Environmentally Friendly Practices, Peter Barnes MA, Fred Kirschenmann PhD, Geoff Wilming, Matt Bulle

5.  Environmental Ethics, Voluntary Initiatives vs. Legal Imperatives to Heal Our Planet, Burns Weston LL.B, JSD and Andy Jameton PhD

6.  War, Global Warming, Public Health, and Opportunity Costs, Victor Sidel MD and William Hartung

 3:15 PM Break

 3:30 PM Plenary Panel IV

  Global Warming, Health and Human Rights Links

●  The Arctic Bellwether–Impact of Energy Extraction, & Use on Health and Human Rights of World’s Indigenous, Marginalized & Poorest, Donald Goldberg JD

●  Healthcare of Poor, Minorities, Marginalized Before, During, After Katrina, Ravi Vadlamudi MD

 4:30 PM Plenary Panel V                                                                         ( back to top )

  Halting and Reversing Global Warming: Affordable, Attainable, Sustainable Solutions

●  Sovereignty versus Planet Earth: Why International Law has not Effectively Addressed Global
Climate Change, Jonathan Carlson JD

●  Confronting Coal, Bruce Nilles JD

 6:00 PM Reception Fund Raiser, Art Show/Auction, Local Entertainment

 8:00 PM Concurrent Workshops

Choose one:

1.  Concerned Scientists, Health Care Providers, Arjun Makhijani PhD and Catherine Thomasson MD

2.  Student Groups--Student PSR, AMSA, Engineers for a Sustainable World, Sierra Club,  Global Health Club, UI Environmental Coalition

3.  Concerned Business Leaders, Peter Barnes MA, Fred Kirschenmann PhD, Geoff Wilming, Matt Bulle

4.  Faith Based/Religious Leaders, Ben & Sarah Webb, others

5.  Law Makers, Rights Based, Andy  Jameton RN PhD, Carolyn Raffensperger JD, and Ed Fallon BA

6.  Indigenous Peoples, Minorities, Labor, Ravi Vadlamudi MD MPH, and Dan Holub JD