Programme

The 5th International Symposium on Maritime Health

at The Millennium Convention Centre

London, United Kingdom (8th - 12th May 1999)

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Saturday, 8th May 1999

12.00 - 18.30 Registration

18.30 Welcome cocktail party at Millennium Gloucester Hotel

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Sunday, 9th May 1999

08.30 - 09.30 Registration

09.30 - 09.40 Welcome address by Dr Alastair Smith

09.40 - 09.55 Address by Rt. Hon. John Prescott

09.55 - 10.10 Address by Dr Mikheev, Chief of Occupational Health, WHO, Geneva

10.10 - 10.25 Address by Bjorn Kirk Nielsen, ILO

10.25 - 10.40 Address from the IMO

10.40 - 10.55 Address by the IMHA

10.55 - 11.15 - Coffee break

11.15 - Cruise Medicine / Telemedicine

Moderators - Prof. Stig Attvall / Dr. Alastair Smith

11.15 - 11.40 - Cruise Telemedicine using high security internet transmission of electronic patient records and associated medical data

11.40 - 12.05 - Maritime medicine - A new voyage of discovery for healthcare

12.05 - 12.30 - Radio Medical - Medical Care at Sea - An International Matter

Stig Attvall / Karein Westuland

12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 - Cruise Medicine / Telemedicine (Contd.)

14.00 - 14.25 - Experience of a simple telemedicine system for remote locations

Peter Buxton

14.25 - 14.50 - Telemedicine and emergency medical support on board, offshore installations and merchant ships

IJ Armstrong

14.50 - 15.15 - The future of Icelandic telemedicine - clinical vision and technology

SA Kistinsson, JB Bjorgvinsson, T Paisson

15.15 - 15.45 - Medical assistance to seafarers on board ships without a doctor

F Amenta, A Dauri, N Rizzo

15.45 - 16.00 - Coffee break

16.00 - 17.00 - Poster Exhibition

Seafarers medical records and data collection of addictive substances use in Spain

Luisa M Canals

Prevention of seamen neurotic disturbances by Vin-Vita

LA Zvyagina

Royal Navy diving accidents

Secretory function of salivary glands and state of some inner organs in seafarers

NI Yefremenko, IG Yu

18.00 - Depart Millennium Gloucester Hotel - Dinner Cruise

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Monday, 10th May 1999

09.30 - 12.30 - Management and Training Issues

Moderator - Dr. Ulrik Kirk

09.30 - 09.55 - Internet refresher course on first-aid and health education on board

Luisa M Canals

09.55 - 10.20 - The development and implementation of a computerised medical records system for cruise ships

Theodore E Harrison

10.20 - 10.45 - Restoration of ship doctor’s institute in Ukraine

A Lobenko, L Zvyagina

10.45 - 11.15 - Coffee Break

11.15 - Management and Training Issues (Contd.)

Moderator - Dr. Ulrik Kirk

11.15 - 11.40 - Future registration of accidents and illness at sea in Iceland

SA Kristinsson, BA Mogensen

11.40 - 12.05 - Croatia: Country in transition and changes in maritime health

Nikolic N, Vukelic M

12.05 - 12.30 - Training of doctors from maritime labour exporting countries in maritime occupational health. The first WHO international training course in Gdynia 1998

S Tomazunas

12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 - 14.45 - Guest lectures

14.00 - 14.45 - Guest Lecture I - Psycho-social Problems on Board Merchant Vessels

Prof. Tony Lane (Director, Seafarers International Research Centre)

14.45 - 15.30 - Guest Lecture II - Vaccine Preventable Diseases Including Varicella Onboard Cruise Ships

Dr. Marty Cetron (CDC Atlanta)

15.30 - 15.50 - Coffee Break

15.50 - Health problems of international travel / Developing nations

Moderator - Dr. Olaf Jensen

15.50 - 16.15 - Malaria in seafarers and its prevention

S Tomazunas

16.15 - 16.40 - Health reasons for repatriation of Filipino seafarers

CF Oca, JFE Raymund

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Tuesday, 11th May 1999

09.30 - Naval and Under-sea Medicine / Protective gear

Moderator - Prof. Surg. Commodore G H G McMillan

09.30 - 09.55 - A review and audit of health screening of divers in the Royal Navy

RP Johnston

09.55 - 10.20 - Accident reporting and sickness absence in the Royal Navy

Bryan R Richards

10.20 - 10.45 - INM Alverstoke: A world centre of excellence for maritime occupational health

GHG McMillan

10.45 - 11.10 - Coffee Break

11.10 - Naval and Under-sea Medicine / Protective gear (Contd.)

11.10 - 11.35 - Prediction of immersion survival times

11.35 - 12.00 - The initial responses to immersion in cold water: reducing the hazard

MJ Tipton

12.00 - 12.25 - Development of a constant wear immersion suit for fishery protection duties

N Wagstaff, J Groom

12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch Break

14.00 - Health and health care on board

Moderator - Dr. Christfried J Urner

14.00 - 14.25 - Medical activities and occupational health care on board Baltic sea cruise ferries

H Saarni

14.25 - 14.50 - Adverse effects of exposure to oils in engine rooms

R Nillson, R Nordlinder, BE Moen, S Ovrebo, T Tagesson

14.50 - 15.15 - Occupational influences on seafarers health and survellence of health

O Jensen, FV Laursen, O Carstensen, HL Hansen

15.15 - 15.30 - Coffee

15.30 - 2nd General Meeting of the International Maritime Health Association

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Wednesday, 12th May 1999

09.30 - Free papers (session I)

Moderator - Dr. Robert Verbist

09.30 - 09.55 - Urogenital system conditions in fishermen

AI Gozhenko, EV Korotaeva, SI Konkin

09.55 - 10.20 - Exposure to volatile hydrocarbon compounds of deck crew on Norwegian product tankers - improvements are possible

BE Moen, BE Hollund, M Berntsen, Ragnar Flo, KR Kyvik, T Riise

10.20 - 10.45 - Cancer incidence among Finnish seafarers

H Saarni, E Pukkala

10.45 - 11.15 - Coffee Break

11.15 - Free papers session I (Contd.)

11.15 - 11.40 - Law and policy regarding the re-employment and rehabilitation of disabled seafarers

BA Stanberry

11.40 - 12.05 - Reducing heat strain in the Royal Navy

R James House

12.05 - 12.25 - Risk factors for acquiring influenza A infection among group travellers to Alaska and Yukon territory, 1998

B Ulana et al.

12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch Break

14.00 - 15.40 - Free papers (session II)

Moderator - Dr. Ralph Nielsen

14.00 - 14.25 - The effect of 120m He-O₂ saturation and 150m He-O₂ excursion diving on the human immunological function

14.25 - 14.50 - State of spine in seafarers

AA Lobenko, AM Ignatiev, AN Polivoda, TE Yermolenko

14.50 - 15.15 - Tratement of duodenal ulcers in seafarers

CF Perevez, TN Shibko, SK Yu

15.15 - 15.40 - Effects of submariners cruising for 60 days

H Jiaqing, L Xiuhong, C Guogen, W Decai

15.40 - 16.00 - Closing address by Dr. Alastair Smith and Conclusion of the 5th ISMH

18.00 Depart Millennium Gloucester Hotel - Gala Dinner at Greenwich Maritime Museum