May 22, 2006 Final Programme and Abstract Book Available! The Final Programme and Abstract Book for the conference have been printed. Download the Final Programme. Download the Abstract Book here. May 8, 2006 Speaker Profile Added! We are happy to introduce ecotoxicologist Gisela Holm from the Swedish phamaceutical industry, who will give a speech about environmental classification of pharmaceuticals. Read Dr. Holm's profile . April 28, 2006 New Exhibitor! We welcome NCC Construction, a major building entrepreneur on the Swedish market, to exhibit their Concept House at CleanMed Europe. April 26, 2006 Poster Exhibition information available! Practical information about the poster exhibition, including a schedule and contact information, is now available. Click here to view poster information A new Speaker Profile is also available: Dr. Magnus Svartengren, who is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Dr. Svartengren will speak about local environmental measures that can improve people's health. View Magnus Svartengren's Speaker Profile. April 24, 2006 New Signatory and Speaker Profile! We are proud to introduce a new Signatory: the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, which aims to help defending the environment on a local and global level and to improve the quality of people's life. A new Speaker Profile is also available: Dr. Magnus Svartengren, who is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Dr. Svartengren will speak about local environmental measures that can improve people's health. View Magnus Svartengren's Speaker Profile. April 12, 2006 Speaker Profile Added! We have the honour to present another Speaker: Raymond J. Cole, Professor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and an international green building authority. View Dr. Cole's Speaker Profile April 6, 2006 New Exhibitor! We welcome CMB Maschinenbau, an Austrian company developing waste disposal solutions, to exhibit at CleanMed Europe. April 4, 2006 Speaker Profile Added! We are proud to introduce Dr. Tord Kjellström, the global expert in environmental public health who will be a key-note speaker on the second day of the conference. Dr. Read about Dr. Kjellström's profile April 3, 2006 Programme Updated The List of Speakers has been updated. Click here to view the list of speakers. March 29, 2006 New Contributor! The Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate, KemI, has decided to support CleanMed Europe. KEMI is a national supervisory authority in the fields of chemicals. March 28, 2006 Speaker Profile Added! We are happy to present the profile of Dr. John Peterson Myers, our main key-note speaker the first day of the conference. Read about Dr. Myers March 24, 2006 Two New Exhibitors! Two European companies in the medical waste management branch, Italian Newster and French T. E. M., have signed up as exhibitors. March 20, 2006 New Exhibitor! We welcome B. Braun Medical to exhibit infusion solutions and accessories at CleanMed Europe. March 16, 2006 Speaker Profile Added! We have the honour to introduce another key-note speaker. Read about Prof. Klaus Kümmerer Click here March 6, 2006 New Speaker and new Exhibitor! Speaker Anna Vesterberg has confirmed participation at CleanMed Europe. She will talk about how to make an Environmental Management System work in a large hospital, and especially the importance of the support from the top level management. We would also like to welcome AnalyCen Nordic, which will exhibit analysis and consulting services within environment and pharmaceuticals. February 23, 2006 New Exhibitor! We welcome Tekniska Verken i Linköpingas exhibitors. It will exhibit ultra-purification of water and treatment of sludge water. February 22, 2006 Information in Swedish Basic information in Swedish and a Swedish agenda is now available. Klicka här för information på svenska. February 17, 2006 Programme Updated/New Exhibitor The List of Speakers has been updated with the speakers Dorthe Bechmann, Dr. Thorbjörn Andersson, Dr. James Clark, Lennart Bjurström, Dr. Tommy Eylis, and Dr. David Taylor. We also welcome a new Exhibitor: the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which will exhibit its waste water management and other environmental work. February 15, 2006 Speaker Profile added! We are proud to present the first Speaker Profile on the website. Read about our key-note speaker Alan AtKisson here. February 8, 2006 New Exhibitors! We are happy to introduce two new exhibitors: Stockholm Vatten, the water company of the city of Stockholm, and Region Skåne, who is responsible for healthcare in the southernmost region of Sweden. February 6, 2006 New Exhibitor! We welcome the Daniels Corporation, providers of safer sharps management products, as Exhibitors at CleanMed Europe 2006. February 1, 2006 Speakers More and more speakers are confirming their participation in CleanMed Europe. Among the ones who recently signed up are Prof. James Clark, Prof. Bruno Klausbruckner, and Thomas Bergmark. James Clark is Professor at the Clean Technology Centre at the University of York, UK, which is a world leading research and education centre that aims to promote the development and implementation of sustainable chemistry. Prof. Clark's speech will cover green metrics and the chemical complexity of articles as well as life cycle assessments (LCA) and how healthcare industries can promote the greening of chemistry. Bruno Klausbruckner is Professor at the Environmental Department of the Vienna Hospital Association. He has been in charge for a step-by-step implementation of an environmental management system (EMS) in 17 hospitals, and he will speak about what results and experiences have been made. Thomas Bergmark is manager of social and environmental affairs at the IKEA group. He works worldwide with improving IKEA's social and environmental performance. Mr. Bergmark will give a speech named "To Make it Happen in Reality", about how IKEA works with verification, and how verification has been a useful tool for improving performance. January 24, 2006 New Signatory! The Vienna Hospital Association (KAV), one of the biggest public health services in Europe, has signed up as Signatory. January 9, 2006 New Signatory! We welcome the Swedish Doctors for the Environment, an NGO for medical professionals devoted to promoting a sustainable development. January 3, 2006 Speaker! Professor Thorbjörn Laike will give a lecture "The constructed environment's influence on wellbeing" on 29 May. Laike is associated professor in Environmental Psychology and works with research and education at the School of Architecture, Lund Institute of Technology at Lund University. December 22, 2005 Jönköping County Council We are happy to announce that Jönköpings Läns Landsting (Jönköping County Council) will support CleanMed financially as a sponsor. December 19, 2005 Speakers! Michael Mc Keon will give a lecture on Clinical Waste; an Irish example of alternative technology to incineration in the treatment of medical waste and the nurse training for waste minimisation - waste segregation - a return of the incineration threat in Ireland. Dr. Staffan Castensson will give a lecture on Pharmaceutical Waste: Management Situation in Europe. Dr. Carstensson works for the National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacies and has for over 3 years been involved in different tasks related to the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals. December 9, 2005 Speakers! Viveca Reimers will give a lecture on "Value-Adding of Green Procurement". Viveca is coordinator of Green Procurement at the Region of Västra Götland. Olaf Bruun Jörgensen will hold the lecture "Hospitals - Monitored Results and Lessons Learned from Five Energy Conscious European Hospitals and Health Care Buildings". Olaf is technical coordinator for an EU project on energy conscious hospitals. December 6, 2005 Bernt Wistrand, Environmental Engineer at the public Stockholm Water Company, will give a lecture about how the Stockholm Water Company managed within six years to remove almost 280 kg of mercury from the city's sewer system, and decrease the levels of mercury in the sludge from the waste water by 55 per cent. November 30, 2005 New Exhibitors! We are happy to announce that the National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacies (Apoteket) and Sweden Recycling has signed up to exhibit at the congress. November 30, 2005 Programme The completed version of the programme is available. Click here. November 25, 2005 Speaker! Anders Nilson, Environmental Manager at the company group Bengt Dahlgren AB, will hold a lecture on "System Analysis and Procurement with a Life Cycle Perspective". Mr. Nilson is responsible for Energy, Environment and R&D at Bengt Dahlgren AB, which is a Consulting Company in HVAC. The company's head quarter is situated in Gothenburg with subsidiary companies in Stockholm, Malmö and Linköping. They are working with all sorts of complex buildings in Sweden and abroad. November 15, 2005 New Signatory! International Council of Nurses, ICN, has signed up a signatory for the congress. The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses' associations (NNAs), representing nurses in more than 128 countries. The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions represent the governmental, professional and employer related interests of Sweden's 290 local authorities, 18 county councils and two regions. November 14, 2005 The Second Annoncement of CleanMed Europe 2006, including a preliminary programme and a registration form, is now available for download here November 8, 2005 Speaker We are happy to present Anders Wijkman, Member of the European Parliament, as a speaker during the opening session of the conference. Mr. Wijkman sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food safety, and was recently appointed MEP of the Year, for showing that the struggle for efficient energy use is compatible with growth and development. Mr. Wijkman’s former positions include Assistant Secretary General at the UN and Policy Director at UNDP, as well as Secretary-General of the Swedish Red Cross. He has also been a member of several government task forces on issues related to environment, sustainable development, energy, and foreign aid. November 1, 2005 New Exhibitors Freudenberg Building Systems and The Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry has sign up as exhibitors!. October 28, 2005 Signatories Two new organisations have sign up as signatories - IGNES and BUND Gutesiegel. October 20, 2005 Swedish Environment Protection Agency We are happy to announce that Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environment Protection Agency) will support CleanMed financially with a contribution of 100 000 skr. Speaker Professor Tord Kjellström will give a lecture on Pollution and Health: a Global Perspective during the conference. Professor Kjellström has 35 years of experience as an academic and international official in Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Epidemiology. He has published more than 300 reports on health effects of toxic metal, air pollution and climate change. September 20, 2005 Swedish Environmental Minister We are happy to announce that the Swedish Environmental Minister Lena Sommestad will come and open the congress. We see this as a recognition of the importance and relevance of the environmental issues in the health care sector. New Exhibitors We would like to welcome Stena Miljö and Showa Denko Europe who will join the congress as exhibitors. September 5, 2005 Exhibitors Two exhibitors have already signed up for the conference - the ISO 14001 certified pharmaceutical company Recip and the consultants for sustainable development Kemi & Miljö. Sponsors Region Skåne has decided to support the conference as a sponsor and The Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences is our first signatory.     © Copyright CleanMed Europe 2006