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08:00	Registration
09:00	Welcome address by Kurt Oddekalv, Norges Miljøvernforbund (Norway) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
09.05	Welcome address by Anders Smith, The Norwegian Directorate of Health (Norway) Video from the conference
09.10	Introductory remarks by Eileen O’Connor, UK Radiation Research Trust (UK) Video from the conference
09.15	Session One - EMF effects on biological processes - part I   Chair: Devra Davis, founder of The Environmental Health Trust, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
09:20	Electromagnetic Fields and Health. Olle Johansson, Professor, The Royal Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, The Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Sweden)
09:45	Possible Mechanisms of EMF Bioeffects. Henry Lai, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle (USA) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
10:10	Intensity is not the only fundamental EMF measure: The Importance of Modulation for Production of Low Intensity Biological Effects. Carl F Blackman, PhD, former President of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, Raleigh (USA) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
10:35	EMF-DNA Interactions in the Cellular Stress Response. Martin Blank, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York (USA) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
11:00	Refreshment break
11:20	Session Two - EMF effects on biological processes - part II   Chair: Alex Swinkels, National Platform on Radiation Risk (Netherlands)
11:25	Evidence of Genotoxic Effects in Isolated Mammalian Cells after Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMF). Franz Adlkofer, Professor, Executive Director and Member of the Board of the Verum-Foundation, Munich (Germany) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
11:50	Effects of EMF on Memory Function. Lukas H Margaritis, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Athens (Greece) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
12:15	Discussion and questions
12:45	Lunch
13:30	Session Three – New biologically-based standards – the way forward to set exposure standards which protect public health   Chair: Eileen O’Connor, UK Radiation Research Trust (UK)
13:35	Precaution and Prevention in Protection against Occupational and Community Exposures to EMF. Elihu D Richter, Professor, Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hebrew University- Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem (Israel) Pdf file presentation download
14:00	SAR Simulations in the Head of Adults and Children: A Review and urgent Developments. lvaro Augusto Almeida de Salles, PhD, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Porto Alegre (Brazil) Video from the conference - Pdf file presentation download
14:25	EMF-related Committees. Dr. Fredrik Söderqvist, Mobile Phones and the risk for brain tumor (Sweden)
14:50	Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health: Existing Standards can not guarantee the Population's Safety. Yury Grigoriev, Professor, Dr of Med Sci, Chairman of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, Moscow (Russian Federation), and Anton Merkulov, Biol. Sc, Testing Laboratory, Centre for Electromagnetic Safety, Moscow (Russian Federation) Pdf file presentation download
15.15	Discussion and questions
15.45	Summing up by Cindy Sage, MA, Sage Associates, Santa Barbara (USA) Video from the conference
16:00	Close of conference
Program Committee Sissel Halmøy, Norges Miljøvernforbund (Norway) Olle Johansson, Karolinska Institute (Sweden) Thomas J Middelthon, Norges Miljøvernforbund (Norway) Eileen O’Connor, UK Radiation Research Trust (UK)

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Norges Miljøvernforbund (NMF)

Postal address: P.O. Box 593, 5806 Bergen, Norway

Visiting address: Ludeboden, Skuteviksboder 24, 5035 Sandviken

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