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IART Meeting
Minutes
Meeting Minutes
IART Steering
Committee
Nashville,
TN
3/16/2002
Attendees:ü
Il Je Yu, Korean Board of
Toxicology
Claire Chamber, EUROTOX
John Fowler, EUROTOX
Ikuo Horii, JST
Mamoru Nomura, JST
James Bus, IUTOX
Tetsuo Satoh, IUTOX
Peter McAnulty, ABT
Bob Poppenga, ABVT
Maritza Rojas Martini, ALATOX, Guest
Hitoshi Endou, Observer
The meeting was Co-Chaired by Dr. Tetsuo Satoh and
Dr. Jim Bus
AGENDA ITEM 1:ü Welcome and
Opening of the Meeting
The meeting was called to order at 1:10 PM.
AGENDA ITEM 2:ü Organizational
Matters
No other business was suggested.ü The Agenda as distributed was adopted.
AGENDA ITEM 3:ü Minutes
of the Informal IART SC Meeting (9/15/2001)
Dr. Satoh brought the Committee up to date regarding
the IART meeting in Istanbul, held in conjunction with EUROTOX, 2001.ü The Minutes from that meeting were reviewed
and approved.
AGENDA ITEM 4:ü Formulation
and Approval of By-Laws
Dr. Satoh thanked Dr. Art Craigmill on behalf of the
Committee for his efforts to formulate IART By-Laws.üü The officers will thank Art personally for
all of his efforts on behalf of the Committee.
Dr.
Bus indicated that the MOU between IART and IUTOX and IARTOs draft
By-Laws were accepted by IUTOX at its recent meeting in Brisbane.ü
Dr. Bus indicated that one of the first orders of
business of the current meeting was to elect IART officers.ü Dr. John Fowler indicated that perhaps discussion
of the draft By-Laws would be in order since there were several issues
that would be worth discussion, specifically issues related to geographic
distribution of Officers and some issues of continuity of leadership
for the Committee.ü
Dr. Bus responded that any changes to the draft By-Laws
would be unlikely to affect IUTOX approval.ü
Dr. Fowler began the discussion of the By-Laws:
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What do the Articles of Incorporation pertain to?ü
- We
should be consistent in terminology Ç -Board" vs. -Committee" and -Directors" vs. -Officers".ü
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Use -Executive
Board"
- Use -Officers"
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Should
there be some indication in the By-Laws that geographic diversity
is desirable?
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Probably
no need to spell out in the By-Laws but accept the
concept that geographic diversity is certainly a goal of the
Board and should
be considered in the election of Officers.
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ACTION:ü this should be a guideline and not incorporated
into By-Laws.
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There
are some issues of eligibility for office.ü
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We
should restrict the discussion today to the -spirit" of
the By-Laws and refine them at a later time.
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Section
2 should provide for some continuity of the Committee
leadership.ü
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Again,
we should proceed with the Election of Officers and
then work out the details of their term of office.
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Section
4 should provide for a longer time frame of 10 days.ü
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There
was general agreement that 30 days would be more appropriate.
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The
suggestion was made to change the wording to -Notice
of meeting shall be given by the secretary by first
class mailþ." to -Notice
of meeting shall be given by the secretary by electronic
mail and confirmed by regular mailþ.".
- The
Board will decide when and where to meet.
- The
wording of Section 5 is not clear.
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No
suggested changes were proposed.
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Section
6:ü no prior
mention of Past-President.ü Perhaps
this should be clarified.
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As
mentioned in the draft By-Laws, the immediate Past-President
will sit on the Executive Board
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Article
III:ü wording
refinement will probably be necessary.ü For example, the duties of the Secretary Ç Treasurer
should be spelled out in some detail.
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Dr.
Bus mentioned that specifics regarding the nature of the IUTOX-IART
Liaison are somewhat vague at this point.ü This will be important to further define.ü For
example, it will be important to define how the educational efforts
of IUTOX will be directed.ü Emphasis should be placed on developing regions
of the world since developed regions are already prepared to
provide appropriate education.
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ABT
advised that they did not have a representative identified but that
Dr. Craigmill could not continue to be the ABT representative.ü They
will advise in due course and hoped that the representative would
be invited to join the Board.
AGENDA ITEM
5:ü Election of
the Executive Board
Election
of Officers proceeded.ü Nominations were sought and -availability" of
the individuals proposed was questioned to ensure future continuity
should IART be successful. Unanimous
approval was given to the following with affiliations to MOU signatory
in brackets: Dr.
Tetsuo Satoh (JST) was elected President Dr.
John Fowler (EUROTOX and ATS) was elected V-P Dr.
Bob Poppenga (ABVT) was elected Secretary Ç Treasurer The
desirability of additional members on the Executive Board was then
discussed.ü This
is an issue that can be addressed at a later time under Article
II, Section 8.ü Terms
of office were discussed.ü Suggested terms were 1 year for Dr. Satoh;
a minimum of a two-year commitment by Dr. Fowler.ü It
was suggested that the Secretary Ç Treasurer term should
be 3 years. ACTION:ü (subsequently Ç on
basis that the minimum periods nominated above did not allow
sufficient continuity) Dr. Satoh was elected President (for 2 years,
then 2 further
years as Past President); Dr. Fowler intended to commit to IART
for 4 years (VP for 2 years) if possible/subject to proper election;
Dr.
Bob Poppenga intended to commit to IART for 6 years (Secretary/Treasurer
for 3 years) if possible/subject to proper election. Envisaged
that an ABT person would in time be co-opted.
AGENDA ITEM
6:ü Financial Issues
for Future Activities
Discussion
turned to financing the Committee.ü How should this be approached?ü Up
to this point, Committee meetings have been -sponsored" by
participating organizations.ü Perhaps
this can continue.ü However,
this sponsorship may be less appropriate or appealing if only
the Executive Board is meeting.
Participating
organizations could be -assessed" a
membership fee.
Dr.
Horii mentioned that the JST is willing to donate $2000 US for
future IART activities.
Would
there be resources to support the travel of representatives from
underdeveloped regions?
üIUTOX
has agreed to support one observer to IART meetings
In
general, industry support would be difficult to obtain at the present
time until the IART mission is better defined
and there is a track record of achievement.
Educational
efforts may garner industry support.
Dr.
Yu suggested that we should establish an IART website to promote
our mission and activities.ü
IUTOX
has agreed to sponsor an IART website.
Conversation
turned toward what would be appropriate IART website content.
Dr. Rojas mentioned that the website should serve
to motivate organization in developing regions.
It was mentioned that Dr. Craigmill would be an ideal
webmaster.üü Dr. Craigmill should
be contacted about website possibilities.
Cost of the website was discussed in general terms.ü This should be explored further.
Perhaps
an upfront -loan" could be provided from a
participating organization as -seed" money.
We need to decide what our niche will be.ü What will be IARTOs unique contribution to
toxicology?
Individuals should be invited
to allow their names to be listed on the site, since this was the proper
thing to do and it would negate the need to ask IART signatory organizations
to release their membership lists.
Individuals would not be
charged for being listed.
Individuals wishing to access
the lists would be charged.ü It
was suggested that a credit card charge of ~ $20 US would be appropriate.
ACTION:ü approach webmaster to establish a more detailed
plan.
- Another
unique niche might be to recognize or certify continuing education
programs.
AGENDA ITEM 7:ü International
Certification/Titles for Toxicologists of the IART Member Organizations
The member organizations of the IART have their
own title for certified toxicologists (DABT, DABVT, Fellow, ATS, DJST, EUROTOX Registry,
DKBT).
Dr. Satoh proposed two possibilities for certified
toxicologists worldwide.ü For example, Internationally Recognized Toxicologist (IRT)
or IART Certified Toxicologist were suggested.ü This
would not exclude existing titles, but serve to establish a globally
recognized title.ü All toxicologists
who are certified by the IART member organizations can use one of
their own title such as DABT or IRT or both.ü There was no strong objection on this proposal
and it was approved in principle.ü Tentatively,
the proposed title would be Internationally Recognized Toxicologist
(IRT).
AGENDA ITEM 8:ü The Latin American Situation (ALATOX)
The general discussion was brought to a close.üü Dr. Maritza Rojas gave a presentation entitled -Certification
of Toxicologists:ü The Latin
American Case"
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There
is considerable variation among LA countries in terms of what
a qualified toxicologist actually is.
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Governments
do not recognize the importance of qualified toxicologists.ü Thus, existing toxicologists lack influence
within the respective governmental agencies.
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One
idea would be for IART to support respective national societies
so that they might in turn become a resource to governments
in setting
and implementing standards.
For IUTOX, it is difficult to even identify individuals
in developing countries to provide leadership in the area of toxicology.
One of the major missions of IART is to elevate the
practice of toxicology throughout the developing world.
Dr. Il Je Yu provided Committee
members with a progress report from the Korean Board of Toxicology.ü
Dr. Bus was thanked for his excellent input throughout
the formative stages of the IART process.
The meeting was adjourned by Dr. Satoh at ~ 4 PM.
Respectively submitted,
Dr.
Robert Poppenga, Secretary Ç Treasurer
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