November 2005 Study Assembly Meeting
November 28–29, 2005
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC

Meeting Agenda

Plenary Session Report

Plenary Session Presentations

• National Children's Study Overview and Focus of the Meeting (Scheidt)
• Vanguard Center for Duplin County, North Carolina (Entwisle)
• Vanguard Center for Queens, New York (Landrigan)
• Vanguard Center for Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Durkin)
• Vanguard Center for Salt Lake County, Utah (Clark)
• Vanguard Center for Brookings County, South Dakota and Lincoln/ Pipestone/Yellow Medicine Counties, Minnesota (Specker)
• Coordinating Center (Maffeo)
• Overview and Highlights of Pilot Studies and Workshops (Branum)
• Update on Protocol Development for the National Children's Study (Brenner)
• North Carolina Herald Study (Mendola)
• Integrating Social, Biomedical, and Environmental Factors in One Comprehensive Study (Rauh)
• Combining a Probability-Based Sampling Strategy with a Center-Based Approach (Savitz)
• Moving Forward with Implementation: NIEHS - Children's Environmental Health Research Complimentary to the National Children's Study (Collman)

Final Participant List

Breakout Session Reports

• Exposures: Biological and Psychosocial
• Exposures: Chemical and Physical
• Outcomes: Pregnancy Outcomes, Growth, and Physical Development
• Community Engagement: Recruitment and Retention
• IT Issues and Data Collection
• International Collaboration
• Outcomes: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Posters

• Poster 1: The Influence of Stress on Developmental Outcomes in the National Children's Study
• Poster 2: Social Determinants of Health in the National Children's Study
• Poster 3: Collection and Use of Genetic Information in the National Children's Study
• Poster 4: Measures of Maternal and Fetal Infection and Inflammation in the National Children's Study
• Poster 5: Assessment of Growth and Body Composition: Findings From a National Children's Study Workshop
• Poster 6: Ascertaining Birth Defects: Findings From a National Children's Study Workshop
• Poster 7: Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in the National Children's Study
• Poster 8: Lessons Learned for the Study of Childhood Asthma for the National Children's Study
• Poster 9: Integration of National Children's Study Hypotheses with Proposed Exposure Measures
• Poster 10: Quality Management Plan for the National Children's Study
• Poster 11: Identification of Existing Exposure Measurement Methods for Individual-Level Environmental Measures
• Poster 12: Identification of Existing Exposure Measures and Databases
• Poster 13: Development of Statistical Sampling Strategies and Optimal Design Considerations for National Children's Study Exposure Assessments
• Poster 14: Exposure Assessment Methods Development Pilots for the National Children's Study
• Poster 15: Information from Field Studies for Exposure Assessment in the National Children's Study
• Poster 16: Community Engagement and Methods for Conducting Longitudinal Birth Cohort Studies: Lessons Learned from the NIEHS/EPA Children's Centers
• Poster 17: Use of Focus Groups to Identify Recruitment and Retention Issues for the National Children's Study
• Poster 18: Developing Biomarkers for the National Children's Study
• Poster 19: Measuring and Coding Exposures to Medicines and Herbal Products: Implications for the National Children's Study
• Poster 20: International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium
• Poster 21: Long Term Cohort Studies on Children's Health and the Environment in Developing Countries
• Poster 22: The National Children's Study Information Management System (IMS)
• Poster 23: Development of a Strategy for Preconception Recruitment: From Concept to Study Plan
• Poster 24: Pilot Study: Feasibility of Primary Care Sites Performing Subject Observation and Data Collection for the National Children's Study
• Poster 25: Reliability and Validity of Injury Reporting for the National Children's Study

Poster Abstracts