2010 Assembly Dinner in New Orleans
March 2010
To: All Members of the Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation Assembly
AII Meeting: Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, Grand Ballroom A First (Street) Level 4:30-6:30 PM
AII Dinner: Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel - Versailles Ballroom Third Level 7:00-10:00 PM Dinner includes a presentation by Dr. William J. Martin titled: “A Hurricane, Asthma and Global Health”
A registration form can be found on the AII Assembly webpage at: http://www.thoracic.org/assemblies/aii/news/resources/2010-aii-dinner-form.doc. Please register soon as seating is limited and reservations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration Forms received after we are fully booked will be put on a waiting list. You will be notified if you are put on the waiting list and will be notified if space becomes available. The cost for the dinner is $20 per person and we hope that senior AII members will consider hosting their younger colleagues.
On behalf of the American Thoracic Society Assembly on Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation (AII), we would like to invite you to attend our seventh annual membership dinner on Monday, May 17th during the 2010 ATS International Conference in New Orleans, LA. The AII Assembly Membership Meeting will take place directly before the dinner (4:30 to 6:30 pm in Grand Ballroom A First (Street) Level). Immediately following, a buffet-style dinner will take place in the Versailles Ballroom Third Level (7:00-10:00 PM). The programming for the evening will consist of AII Trainee Travel Awards presentation and the featured lecturer, William J. Martin, MD who will be giving a talk titled “A Hurricane, Asthma and Global Health.”
William J. Martin II, M.D. joined the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as Associate Director, NIEHS and Director, Office of Translational Research, in March 2006 with a special interest in developing new approaches in the application of research discoveries to benefit vulnerable populations in the developing world.
Dr. Martin received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1974, and completed his pulmonary and critical care training at Mayo Clinic in 1979. Following completion of his research training in the Pulmonary Branch at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, he joined the staff of Mayo Clinic as a clinician-investigator in 1981. While on faculty at Indiana University, Dr. Martin served as a Health Policy Fellow for Sen. Edward Kennedy, United States Senate, Labor and Human Resources Committee in 1995-1996.
He also served as the Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Indiana University for twelve years before becoming the Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University's School of Medicine. Dr. Martin recently served as the Dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is a past president of the American Thoracic Society. He served as a volunteer physician for Project Hope on the US Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, following Hurricane Katrina in September 2005. He was a member of the US delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen in 2009.
As a clinician investigator, he has authored more than 130 research and clinical papers, and was a NIH-funded scientist for 24 years. Dr. Martin has been an invited speaker for nearly 200 events, including testifying before the World Health Organization and U.S. Congress.
Dr. Martin is focused on improving the health of people in the developing world by reducing exposure of particularly women and children to indoor smoke from burning of biomass fuels, a condition which affects 2.5 billion people on the planet. In this capacity, Dr. Martin serves as the NIH representative on the CDC Indo-US Joint Working Group and the EPA Partnership for Clean Indoor Air.
The total cost for the evening’s activities is only $20 per person. The ticket price has been substantially subsidized through the generosity of Merck who has provided us with a generous educational grant. We would like you to strongly encourage senior AII members to invite junior colleagues to join them at the dinner (and consider paying their admission).
This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce young members and trainees to AII, to connect with old friends and to set up new interactions and collaborations.
Please register for yourself and your guest(s). A registration form is available at: http://www.thoracic.org/assemblies/aii/news/resources/2010-aii-dinner-form.doc. Pre-registration is required if you are attending the dinner.
We hope you will join us for this enjoyable and informative evening.
Jonathan Parsons, MD, MSc
AII Membership Committee Chair
