SEMINAR 1:

Date/ Time: Jan. 14, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Opening Remarks: Arnauld Nicogossian, M.D., M.S., Associate Administrator, Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, NASA HQ

Title: "Surgeon General's Global Health Priority"

Speaker: Honorable David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Applications, NASA HQ

SEMINAR 2:

Date/ Time: Jan. 28, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Concept of Disease Emergence"

Speaker: David M. Morens, M.D., Medical Epidemiologist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD

Title: "Surveillance Systems for Infectious and Occupational/ Environmental Diseases"

Speakers: R. Wesley Farr, M.D., FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, and Director of International Health Program, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

John E. Parker, M.D., FACP, FCCP, professor of Medicine and Community Medicine, Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, West Virginia University

SEMINAR 3:

Date/ Time: Feb. 11, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Emerging Infectious Disease in the United States"

Speaker: James M. Hughes, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General, Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA

Title: "Emerging Non-Infectious Diseases in the United States"

Speaker: Diane L. Rowley, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Director for Science, National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta GA

SEMINAR 4:

Date/ Time: Feb. 25, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Emerging Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases in Russia"

Speaker: TBA, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia

Title: "Emerging Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases in France"

Speaker: TBA, Institute of Telemedicine, Toulouse, France

SEMINAR 5:

Date/ Time: March 10, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Emerging Diseases in Tropical Countries"

Speaker: Larry W. Laughlin, M.D., Ph.D., CAPT. MC., USN, Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

Title: "Hepatitis B Virus and Prevention of Primary Cancer of the Liver"

Speaker: Barush S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., director of Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA

SEMINAR 6:

Date/ Time: March 24, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Remote Sensing Technology Applications for Diseases Identification"

Speaker: Bryon L. Wood, Earth Sciences Remote Sensing Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA

SEMINAR 7:

Date/ Time: April 7, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Strategic Control and Prevention Plans"

Speaker: Stephen Corber, M.D., Director, Division of Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, Washington, DC

Title: "Strategic Control and Prevention Plans -- U.S. Perspectives"

Speaker: David V. McQueen, Sc.D., Associate Director for Global Health Promotion, National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, GA

SEMINAR 8:

Date/ Time: April 21, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Remote Sensing Technology Applications for Disease Identification" (cont'd)

Speaker: Compton Tucker, Ph.D., Senior Earth Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, M.D. Lt.Col. Kenneth Linthicum, Ph.D., Global Emerging Infections Surveillance, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, M.D.

Title: "Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Application of Information Technology"

Speaker: Daniel Sahm, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, MRL, Herndon, VA

SEMINAR 9:

Date/ Time: May 5, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Bioterrorism"

Speaker: Richard S. Roman, Emergency Response Coordinator, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, G.A.

Title: "Nursing Care and Emerging Diseases"

Speaker: Judith F. English, R.N., M.S.N., C.I.C., Infection Control Branch, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, M.D.

SEMINAR 10:

Date/ Time: May 19, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Travel Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases"

Speaker: Richard S. Williams, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., Director, Office of Health Affairs, Office of Life and Microgravity Science and Applications, NASA HQ, Washington, DC

Title: "NASA Prevention and Control Programs for Emerging Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases"

Speaker: William Barry, M.D., M.P.H., Manager, Agency Occupational Health Program, Kennedy Space Center, NASA

SEMINAR 11:

Date/ Time: June 2, 2000 -- (Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Title: "Research on Infectious Diseases and Space Flight"

Speaker: David Dawson, M.D., Medical Science Division, Johnson Space Center, NASA

Title: "Coping with Global Emerging/Reemerging Diseases in the New Millennium 2010"

Speaker: Arnauld Nicogossian, M.D., M.S., Associate Administrator, Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, NASA HQ, Washington, DC