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Below is the 2009 Conference agenda
IEHA 59th Annual Fall Educational Conference Agenda
Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza Conference Center, Merrillville, Indiana (Central Standard Time)
September 27 – September 30th, 2009
Sunday – September 27th, 2009
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm IOWPA Certification Review and Exam – (Uptown)
1:00 pm – 5:30 pm REHS Exam – (State)
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm ServSafe Exam – (Roxy)
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm CP-FS Exam – (Regal)
2:00 pm Golf Outing – (Turkey Creek Golf Course, Merrillville, IN)
Lunch Starts at 12:30 pm
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Executive Board meeting and early registration – (East
Lobby II)
IEHA 59th Annual Fall Educational Conference Agenda
Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza Conference Center, Merrillville, Indiana (Central Standard Time)
September 27 – September 30th, 2009
Monday – September 28th, 2009
6:30 am – 8:00 am Breakfast Buffet use ticket (Star Café)
8:00 am – 10:30 am Class
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Class
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Past President’s Luncheon (Celebrity East/Center Ball
Room)
1:30 pm – 3:20 pm Class
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm Class
6:30 am – 8:15 am Breakfast Buffet use ticket (Star Café)
8:15 am – 9:00 am Registration (South Lobby II)
9:00 am – 9:10 am Opening Ceremonies and Welcome Address (Grand
Metropolitan Room)
Mark Mattox – 2009 IEHA President
9:10 am – 9:50 am The Next Generation of Emergency Preparedness: What
Environmentalists Need to Know (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Judy Monroe, MD, Indiana State Health Commissioner –
Indiana State Department of Health
9:50 am – 10:30 am E Atlas & WIMBY (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Public Health GIS Applications
Ryan Eckdale-Dudley, GISP, GIS Coordinator – Symbiont Inc.
John Hulewicz – Elkhart County Health Department
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:45 am – 11:00 am Exhibitor Introductions (Grand Metropolitan Room)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Business Meeting (Grand Metropolitan Room)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Past President’s Luncheon (Celebrity East/Center Ball
Room)
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions:
Food Protection, General Environmental Health Services, Wastewater Management, Terrorism & All Hazards Preparedness, and Local Health Department Managers Association.
FOOD PROTECTION (Fox/Majestic/Orpheum Rooms)
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm The Status on Indiana’s Farmers’ Markets
Dr. Jennifer Dennis, Ph.D. – Purdue University
2:00 pm – 2:25 pm HEA 1309 and Farmers’ Markets – What’s the Connection
Scott Gilliam – Indiana State Department of Health
2:25 pm – 2:55 pm Raw Milk Cheese Processing and Investigation
Craig Chivers – Lagrange County Health Department
Alfredo Garcia – Lagrange County Health Department
2:55 pm – 3:20 pm Cheese Processing with Raw Milk
Tom Ford – Board of Animal Health
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm Smoking/Aging/Meat and Poultry Inspection
Dr. James Scott – Board of Animal Health
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Grants for Small Businesses to Update Refrigeration
Mark Beckman – USDA
WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT (Paradise/Palace Rooms)
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm Septic System Design. Fundamentals and Essentials
Stuart Meade – Meade Septic Design
2:25 pm – 3:20 pm How IOWPA Can Help Your Onsite Program
Dick Blazer – IOWPA President
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm Never Pump Your Septic Tank
Mark Hacker – Hacker Plumbing & Drilling Inc.
GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (Regal/Roxy Rooms)
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm GIS Panel Discussion
Joan Keene – Marion County Health Department
Ryan Eckdale-Dudley – GISP, GIS Coordinator, Symbiont Inc.
John Hulewicz – Elkhart County Health Department
Jason LeMaster – Hamilton County Health Department
2:30 pm – 2:55 pm Chloramines & Air Quality at Indoor Swimming Pools
Ernest R. Blatchley III, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE – Purdue University
2:55 pm – 3:20 pm USDA Rural Development
Rochelle Owen, AICP – State Environmental Coordinator
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm Kokomo Fuel & Sustainability Program
David Galvin – City of Kokomo
TERRORISM & ALL HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS (State Room)
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm EPA Regional Services
Keith Fusinski – U.S. EPA Region 5
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm IDEM North Region Environmental Responses 2009
Rich Hackel, OSC – Emergency Response – Indiana
Department of Environmental Management
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm Wabash Environmental Technologies (WET) – Criminal
Investigation
Rick Roudebush, IDEM E7 – Office of Land Quality –
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm The Strategic National Stockpile Program & The H1N1
Countermeasure Response (Spring 2009)
Rodney Wann, RSS Deputy Manager (Receive, Stage, and
Store Site), PHPER – Indiana State Department of Health
LOCAL HEALTH DEPT. MANAGERS ASSOCIATION (Monday Only) (Armstrong Room)
1:30 pm – 3:20 pm Discussion of Various Current Issues Affecting Local
Health Departments and Strategies for Improvement (exact agenda not set at time of printing)
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm Discussion of Various Current Issues Affecting Local
Health Departments and Strategies for Improvement (exact agenda not set at time of printing)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm “Reception” (Celebrity East/Center Ballroom)
Sponsored by Dukes Earth Service/Spill Recovery of
Indiana
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm “Silent Auction & Chapter Scrapbook Review” (Celebrity
East/Center Ballroom)
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm “Awards Banquet” (Celebrity East/Center Ballroom)
IEHA 59th Annual Fall Educational Conference Agenda
Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza Conference Center, Merrillville, Indiana (Central Standard Time)
September 27 – September 30th, 2009
Tuesday – September 29th, 2009
6:30 am – 8:00 am Breakfast Buffet use ticket (Star Café)
8:00 am – 10:15 am Class
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Class
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Star Cafe)
1:30 pm – 3:20 pm Class
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm Class
HOOSIER RIVER WATCH CLASS (Grand Metropolitan Room/State Room)
6:30 am – 8:15 am Breakfast Buffet use ticket (Star Café)
8:15 am – 8:45 am Registration (South Lobby II)
8:45 am – 9:30 am Tuesday Keynote Speaker (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Tom Easterly, Commissioner – Indiana Department of Environmental Management
9:30 am – 10:15 am Class (State Room)
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Class (State Room)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Star Cafe)
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Field Exercise (Deep River)
6:30 am –8:15 am Breakfast Buffet use ticket (Star Café)
8:15 am – 8:45 am Registration (South Lobby II)
8:45 am – 9:30 am Tuesday Keynote Speaker (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Tom Easterly, Commissioner – Indiana Department of Environmental Management
9:30 am – 10:15 am 10 Essential Services of Environmental Public Health
(Grand Metropolitan Room)
Jessica Trimble, MA – Indiana State Department of Health
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:30 am – 11:15 am IDEM Enforcement Program (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Bruce Palin, Assistant Commissioner – Office of Land Quality – Indiana Department of Environmental Management
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Lead in Indiana (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Dave McCormick, Director Indiana Lead and Healthy
Homes – Indiana State Department of Health
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Star Cafe)
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Food Protection, Wastewater Management, Terrorism & All Hazards Preparedness.
FOOD PROTECTION (Fox/Majestic/Orpheum Rooms)
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Food Safety and Defense at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Kelli Whiting, EHS – Marion County Health Department
2:15 pm – 3:20 pm “Who’s Who” of Food Protection (Panel Discussion)
Board of Animal Health, State Chemists Office, Egg
Board, Weights & Measures, IDEM, FDA
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm Q & A with Panel
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Factors That Affect What is Written Down on a Retail Food
Establishment Inspection Report
Abby Johnson – Graduate Student Purdue University
WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT (Palace/Paradise Rooms)
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm Update on IOWPA certification program
Gary Steinhardt – Purdue University
2:25 pm – 3:20 pm Remote Telemetry for Advanced Onsite Wastewater
Systems & Private Treatment Plants
Bob Paulus, REHS – Paulus Consulting LLC
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm How We Got to Where We are Today
Honorable Michael Tryon – Illinois Sate Representative
TERRORISM & ALL HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS (Roxy/Regal Rooms)
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm Mass Burial Sites in Marion County
Joan Keene, GIS Coordinator – Marion County Health
Department
2:25 pm – 3:20 pm Emergency Planning – Community Right to Know Act
Ian Ewusi – Indiana Department of Homeland Security
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm Current Training Standards/Disaster Preparedness
Max Michael, Section Chief – Emergency Response – Indiana Department of Environmental Management
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Dinner – (Grand Metropolitan Room)
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Entertainment – (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Sponsored by BEST Environmental
IEHA 59th Annual Fall Educational Conference Agenda
Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza Conference Center, Merrillville, Indiana (Central Standard Time)
September 27 – September 30th, 2009
Wednesday – September 30th, 2009
HEALTHY HOMES ESSENTIALS COURSE (Uptown Room)
8:00 am – 10:05 am Exam Review
10:05 am – 10:20 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:20 am – 12:20 pm Exam
6:30 am – 8:15 am Breakfast Buffet use ticket (Star Café)
8:15 am – 8:45 am Registration (South Lobby II)
8:45 am – 9:25 am Compliance & Technical Assistance Program & Small
Business Guide (Grand Metropolitan Room)
Katherine England, Environmental Manager – Indiana Department of Environmental Management
9:25 am – 10:05 am Pharmaceuticals in Water (Grand Metropolitan
Room)
Jim Lazorchak, Chief – Molecular Indicator Research Branch – U.S. EPA Research Facility in Cincinnati, OH
10:05 am – 10:20 am Break (Ambassador/Apollo/Chicago Rooms)
10:20 am – 11:00 am Impact of Food Borne Illness on Victims and Business
(Grand Metropolitan Room)
Donna Rosenbaum, Executive Director – Safe Tables our
Priority
11:00 am – 11:40 am Limited Budgets and Unlimited Demands (Grand
Metropolitan Room)
Honorable Michael Tryon, Illinois State Representative –
Illinois State Legislator
11:40am – 12:00 pm Closing Remarks/Adjourn