Senate Hearing: Contact your Senators

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

A very important meeting has been setup in DC with some of our

doctors along with various Senate Health Staff. Call them and urge

that their health legislative assistant attend this very important

meeting.

PLEASE DO NOT send your " mold stories " . Keep your emails short and

sweet. Please go to Congress.org to locate the contact info for

your Senator. The Senate switchboard 202-224-3121. The intent is

only for the staff of the Senators.

Sincerely,

KC

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

& the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee

Extend An Invitation To Senate Legislative Assistants

We Urge You to Join Us for a Briefing on

" The Health Effects of Mycotoxins and Mold "

Thursday, January 12th at 2:30 PM

Room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building

A panel of fungal disease experts will provide an overview of our

current understanding of the health effects of mycotoxin and mold

exposure. In addition, the panel will discuss the ways in which mold

related illnesses are currently treated, recommend areas where

increased education would benefit doctors and patients, and suggest

areas where more research is needed.

The panel will consist of:

Dr. Jane Selgrade,

EPA Office of R & D

Dr. Kolb,

EPA Office of Air and Radiation

Dr. Marinkovich,

Diagnostic & Treating Immunologist/Physicist,

Mycotic Diseases

Dr. Sherris,

Professor & Chairman of Otolaryngology at SUNY Buffalo,

Chronic Fungal Sinusitis

Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker,

Diagnostic and Treating Physician,

Biotoxin Illness

Dr. Chin Shan Yang,

President P & K Microbiology Services, Inc.

Fungal Microbiology

Sharon Noonan Kramer,

Moderator

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/10/2006 4:53:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,

carrie_j00@... writes:

Please forgive my ignorance on our government proceedings...I have only

recently become interested in learning. Is this meeting the type of thing that

would air on C-SPAN?

I received a response back from Senator Ben and he directed me to the

NIH website so that I could learn more about the dangers of indoor mold. Is

the NIH giving " canned " answers to our concerns? If so, I want to write

back to him and voice my concern.

Let me know. Thank you.

J.

Hi ,

I much as I would like it to be, I don't believe it is going to be

taped. It's good and bad. I would love to have these presentations on tape.

But

at the same time, I want these staff people to be able to speak freely - to

ask alot of questions without concerns that what they ask could reflect on

their bosses. I also have ignorance of government proceedings. So, as I

understand it, it is very rare that they would ever tape a Senate Staff

briefing.

If it is a briefing for the Senators, those are taped. I actually have no

idea what to expect. We will just see when we get there, and will do

everything we can to move the medical science forward.

Sharon

[Guest guest]

There is a pulldown on

http://www.senate.gov/ where you can find contact information for the

two Senators for your state.

(not that your Congresspeople's staffers might not want to attend

too..but this looks like a Senate event.)

I'm trying to find out if anybody will be webcasting this hearing..

If anybody else wantsb to help me look..

http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/how_to_committe_hrg.htm

Perhaps somebody on the list might know if this hearing will be

online? If so, post it!

Thank you!

[Guest guest]

Please forgive my ignorance on our government proceedings...I have only recently

become interested in learning. Is this meeting the type of thing that would air

on C-SPAN?

I received a response back from Senator Ben and he directed me to the

NIH website so that I could learn more about the dangers of indoor mold. Is the

NIH giving " canned " answers to our concerns? If so, I want to write back to him

and voice my concern.

Let me know. Thank you.

J.

tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

Dear Friends,

A very important meeting has been setup in DC with some of our

doctors along with various Senate Health Staff. Call them and urge

that their health legislative assistant attend this very important

meeting.

PLEASE DO NOT send your " mold stories " . Keep your emails short and

sweet. Please go to Congress.org to locate the contact info for

your Senator. The Senate switchboard 202-224-3121. The intent is

only for the staff of the Senators.

Sincerely,

KC

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

& the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee

Extend An Invitation To Senate Legislative Assistants

We Urge You to Join Us for a Briefing on

" The Health Effects of Mycotoxins and Mold "

Thursday, January 12th at 2:30 PM

Room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building

A panel of fungal disease experts will provide an overview of our

current understanding of the health effects of mycotoxin and mold

exposure. In addition, the panel will discuss the ways in which mold

related illnesses are currently treated, recommend areas where

increased education would benefit doctors and patients, and suggest

areas where more research is needed.

The panel will consist of:

Dr. Jane Selgrade,

EPA Office of R & D

Dr. Kolb,

EPA Office of Air and Radiation

Dr. Marinkovich,

Diagnostic & Treating Immunologist/Physicist,

Mycotic Diseases

Dr. Sherris,

Professor & Chairman of Otolaryngology at SUNY Buffalo,

Chronic Fungal Sinusitis

Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker,

Diagnostic and Treating Physician,

Biotoxin Illness

Dr. Chin Shan Yang,

President P & K Microbiology Services, Inc.

Fungal Microbiology

Sharon Noonan Kramer,

Moderator

FAIR USE NOTICE:

[Guest guest]

That makes complete sense Sharon. I look foward to hearing how it goes. I

certainly hope eyes will be opened.

J.

snk1955@... wrote:

In a message dated 1/10/2006 4:53:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,

carrie_j00@... writes:

Please forgive my ignorance on our government proceedings...I have only

recently become interested in learning. Is this meeting the type of thing that

would air on C-SPAN?

I received a response back from Senator Ben and he directed me to the

NIH website so that I could learn more about the dangers of indoor mold. Is

the NIH giving " canned " answers to our concerns? If so, I want to write

back to him and voice my concern.

Let me know. Thank you.

J.

Hi ,

I much as I would like it to be, I don't believe it is going to be

taped. It's good and bad. I would love to have these presentations on tape.

But

at the same time, I want these staff people to be able to speak freely - to

ask alot of questions without concerns that what they ask could reflect on

their bosses. I also have ignorance of government proceedings. So, as I

understand it, it is very rare that they would ever tape a Senate Staff

briefing.

If it is a briefing for the Senators, those are taped. I actually have no

idea what to expect. We will just see when we get there, and will do

everything we can to move the medical science forward.

Sharon