Below are the presentations that are available for Friday, 25 October 2002.
		Plenary Panel Creating environmentally sustainable health care systems Elaine Bauer, MA, MT, SI VP of Strategy Development - Catholic Health East   "The Catholic Health East experience - a systemic approach" Keith L. Callahan, MBA, MHA VP of Supply Chain Management - Catholic Healthcare West "Operational implementations of environmentally sound practices" Please contact Keith L. Callahan if you would like more information regarding his presentation. Vice President, Supply Chain Management and e-commerce Catholic Healthcare West 3033 North 3rd Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85013 Tel: 602-307-2530 Fax: 602-798-0108   Email: kcallaha@chw.edu Åke Wennmalm, MD, PhD Environmental Director - Stockholm County Council   "Beyond PVC - towards sustainable health care in Stockholm, Sweden"
		Concurrent Panel 1 Safer needle devices: preventing exposure to bloodborne pathogens Gina Pugliese   "Selection and evaluation of sharps injury prevention devices"   Handout (pdf) June M. Fisher, MD Director - TDICT Project, Trauma Foundation   "Evaluation and selection of safer sharps devices" Pam Gill, RN HIV/HBV Prevention - Iredell Memorial Hospital   "Preventing exposures to bloodborne pathogens" Concurrent Panel 2 Building green: incorporating health + sustainability in your capital project Carol Antle and Kathy Gerwig, HEM, CPEA Director of Environmental, Health & Safety - Kaiser Permanente   "Getting your organization on board" Concurrent Panel 3 Solving disposal problems through purchasing Catherine Galligan, MS Clearinghouse Manager, Sustainable Hospitals Project - UMass Lowell   "Reducing waste volume and toxicity through purchasing" Janet Brown Medical Waste Manager - Beth Israel   "Today's material - tomorrow's garbage: how to introduce the front door to the back door" Valerie O'Grady Director of Support Operations - Hospital for Sick Children   "How to successfully partner with your hospitals purchasing department" Concurrent Panel 4 Ethical and regulatory implications of purchasing decisions Jamie Harvie, PE Project Director - Institute for Sustainable Futures   Mercury regulation: implications for purchasing decisions" Sanford J. Lewis, JD Attorney   "Legal and regulatory issues in product procurement"
		Concurrent Panel 1 Problems with PVC/DEHP medical products and policy solutions Ted Schettler, MD, MPH Science Director - Science and Environmental Health Network   "PVC medical products: the science, the concerns" Robin Walker, MB, ChB, FRCP(C), FAAP Chief of Neonatology - Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario   "The report of the Health Canada Expert Advisory Panel on DEHP in medical devices" Michael Belliveau Director - Environmental Health Strategy Center   "Reducing PVC though a statewide hospital pollution prevention agreement" Concurrent Panel 2 Safer methods for disinfection, sterilization, and cleaning in hospitals David J. Crimmins, RN Infection Control Practitioner - Beth Israel   "Introduction to safer disinfection, sterilization and pest management" (pdf document) Jamie Tessler, MPH Research Associate - University of Massachusetts Lowell   "Glutaraldehyde in healthcare facilities: from open buckets to safer solutions" Lara Sutherland Senior Research Associate - INFORM, Inc.   "Cleaning for health" Concurrent Panel 3 Tools and resources for greening health care purchasing Laura Brannen, CHEM Co-director - Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E)   "Using H2E to promote green purchasing" Jane Maslowski, RT, MNRM, CRSP Env'l Health & Safety Mgr - Winnepeg Regional Health Authority   "Implementing green purchasing in the Canadian healthcare sector" Patrick D. Eagan, PhD, PE Program Director, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison   "Applying environmental purchasing in health care" Concurrent Panel 4 Building green: creative energy and water strategies Helen J. Kessler, AIA, MBA Executive Vice President - Sieben Energy Associates   "Energy efficiency - taking an integrated approach"
		Concurrent Panel 1 H2E: implementing a national health care environmental agenda Tom Murray, MS Chief, Prevention Analysis Branch - US Environmental Protection Agency   "H2E: Implementing a National Health Care Environmental Agenda" Concurrent Panel 2 Safer disinfection, sterilization, and pest management: case studies Janice Homer, RN New England Medical Center   "A successful IAQ case study in the NICU" Janet Brown Medical Waste Manager- Beth Israel   "Transition from CIDEX to CIDEX OPA for high level disinfection of reusable medical equipment" Linda Henson Safety Officer - San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center   "Simply integrated pest management: IPM at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center" Concurrent Panel 3 Building green: lifecycle perspective on materials selection Gail Vittori Co-Director - Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems   Greening Health Care: A Life Cycle Perspective for Sustainable Building Tom Lent Health Care Project Coordinator - Healthy Building Network   Life Cycle session Concurrent Panel 4 Moving to PVC-/DEHP-free products Kathy Gerwig, HEM, CPEA Dir. of Env'l, Health & Safety, Kaiser Permanente   "KP and PVC" Mark Rossi, MA Senior Research Associate - Health Care Without Harm   "The market is moving away from PVC" Per Rosander Issue Coordinator - Health Care Without Harm Europe   "Demand increases supply of PVC-free medical devices in Europe."