Monday, April 20
7:30 - 8:30am | Registration |
8:30 | Opening Remarks |
Lynn Anderson, Covance Laboratories - ILAR Roundtable Co-Chair | |
Lida Anestidou, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Director, ILAR Roundtable | |
9:00 | Overview of Performance Standards for the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals |
Patricia Turner, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada Planning Committee Co-Chair | |
10:00 | Coffee Break |
10:20 | Development, Implementation and Assessment of Performance Standards: Regulatory Perspectives |
Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at the National Institutes of Health - Susan Brust Silk - ILAR Roundtable | |
Member | |
United States Department of Agriculture - Carol Clarke - ILAR Roundtable Member | |
Canadian Council on Animal Care - Gilly Griffin Perspective from Europe/UK - Judy MacArthur Clark, UK Home Office, Animals in Science Regulation Unit | |
11:40 | Question & Answer Session - Speakers’ Roundtable |
Patricia Turner, Susan Silk, Carol Clarke, Gilly Griffin, Judy MacArthur Clark | |
12:00 - 1:00pm | Lunch (will not be provided. A cafeteria is located on the third floor of the NAS Keck Center.) |
1:00 | Development, Implementation and Assessment of Performance Standards: End-User Perspectives I |
U.S. Academic - Neil Lipman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center / Weill Cornell Medical College | |
Industry (biotechnology/pharmaceuticals) - Mary Ann Vasbinder, GlaxoSmithKline - Planning Committee | |
Member | |
Wildlife - John Bryan II, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine | |
2:30 | Coffee Break |
2:45 | Development, Implementation and Assessment of Performance Standards: End-User Perspectives II |
Agricultural - Bart Carter, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | |
Public Interest - Kenneth Litwak, Animal Welfare Institute | |
AAALAC International - John Bradfield | |
4:15 | Summary of the Afternoon Session |
Paul Locke, Johns Hopkins University - Liaison to ILAR Council | |
4:45 | Q&A Session: Speaker’s Roundtable |
Neil Lipman, Mary Ann Vasbinder, John Bryan II, Bart Carter, Kenneth Litwak, John Bradfield, Paul Locke | |
5:15 | Day 1 Wrap-up and Planning for Day 2 |
David Kurtz, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – Planning Committee Co-Chair |
Tuesday, April 21
8:30am | Registration |
8:45 | Welcome and Focus of the Day |
Patricia Turner | |
9:00 | Detailed Steps in the Development and Implementation of Performance Standards |
Guy Mulder, Charles River Laboratories - Planning Committee Member | |
10:00 | Introduction to Breakout Sessions |
Donna Matthews Jarrell, Massachusetts General Hospital – Planning Committee Member | |
10:15 | Coffee Break |
10:30 | Breakout Sessions |
Group 1: Personnel Training in Animal Handling and Procedures (red stickers) | |
Keck 100 | |
Facilitators: Mary Ann Vasbinder and David Anderson | |
Group 2: Workplace Safety (blue stickers) | |
Keck 104 | |
Facilitators: Donna Matthews Jarrell and David Kurtz | |
Group 3: Scientific Flexibility in Animal Use Protocols (Study Drift) (yellow stickers) | |
Keck 106 | |
Facilitators: Andrew Grady and Patricia Turner | |
Group 4: Perioperative Surgical Management (green stickers) | |
Keck 201 | |
Facilitators: Guy Mulder and Randall Nelson | |
12:00 | Lunch (will not be provided. There is a cafeteria located on the third floor of the NAS Keck Center.) |
1:00 | Presentations of Performance Standards |
2:00 | Presentations of Process in Developing Performance Standards |
3:00 | Coffee Break |
3:15 | Compare and contrast the performance standard development process by the different groups |
Facilitator: Mary Ann Vasbinder | |
3:45 | Sharing of Acceptable Performance Standards |
Steven Niemi, Harvard University – ILAR Roundtable Co-Chair | |
4:30 | Workshop Summary and Meeting Closing |
David Kurtz and Lynn Anderson |