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Meeting Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Meeting Time: 2:00pm -- 4:00pm
Location: Antioch University, Seattle; 2326 Sixth Avenue, Seattle; http://www.antiochsea.edu/contact/index.html

The meeting will include a special presentation: The World Health Organization's Just-released Cell Phone Study: Case For Precaution? Cindy Sage, coordinator of the national Collaborative on Health and the Environment working group on electromagnetic fields, will be presenting. Cindy gave a fascinating presentation on issues related to children's exposure to cell phone radiation at our Northwest Children's Environmental Health Forum in October 2009.
 
INTERPHONE, coordinated by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, is a series of studies on cell phone usage and brain tumors in humans. Begun in 2000 and conducted in 13 countries (not the US). It was finally released May 18, 2010.

Read the press release   

With response headlines ranging from "Heavy mobile users risk cancer" to "No proof of mobile phone cancer link", you would not be alone in wondering what the study means.  Our speaker will help us sort through the media hype, understand the science in the study and encourage us to answer questions: What is the right response by our government and our health agencies? What should we do next?
 
Those who cannot attend in person and/or who want to reduce their carbon footprint may contact CHE-WA for a telephone number to call.

Entrance is free and open to the public. Those who cannot attend in person, and/or who want to reduce their carbon footprint, may contact us for a telephone number to call-in to the meeting by phone. We hope to see/hear you there!

Featured speakers will include:

Cindy Sage, MA is the owner of Sage Associates, an environmental consulting firm in Santa Barbara, CA.  She is a Research Fellow, Department of Oncology, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden, 2008 - 2010. She is a founding member of the BioInitiative Working Group and co-editor of the BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF).   She is the co-facilitator for the national Collaborative on Health and the Environment's working group on electromagnetic fields. Since 1982, her work on electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation has provided decision-makers and the public with information and analysis on the science, public health, and environmental policy issues relevant to EMF impacts. She holds degrees in biology and geology from the University of California, and was a founding faculty member of the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara (1973-1981). She served as a member of the Board of Registration for Professional Engineers in California (1977-1981). She is a full member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society. Her publications have appeared in Pathophysiology, Bioelectromagnetics, Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, Reviews on Environmental Health, California Continuing Education of the Bar Land Use and Environment Forum, Real Estate Law Journal, San Francisco Medicine and the German journal Environment Medicine Society. She has made professional presentations on EMF or performed technical work in more than 25 countries and 30 states in the US.