At the Second International Public Conference on Vaccination to be held September 8-10, 2000 at the Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport), scientists and physicians from leading universities, hospitals and organizations in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain will challenge the quality and quantity of scientific research on vaccine adverse events and will question the actions of pharmaceutical companies marketing vaccines and federal health agencies making vaccine policy. The conference is being sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center, a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1982.

Prominent pediatric neurologists, microbiologists, molecular and cell biologists, epidemiologists, gastroenterologists, immunologists, and pediatricians will present new research into the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death and the relationship of vaccines to chronic illness such as:

• Learning disabilities
• ADHD
• Autism
• Mental retardation
• Epilepsy
• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Diabetes

Clinicians will discuss innovative therapies to treat the vaccine injured and legal experts will discuss vaccine licensing and safety standards, product liability, conflict of interest and informed consent issues concerning vaccines for DPT, MMR, hepatitis B, HIB, polio, Lyme disease, pneumococcal disease, and anthrax.

Among the 30 speakers presenting at the three-day conference are:

• Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine

• Ronald Kennedy, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma

• John Menkes, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Pediatrics, UCLA

• Mary Megson, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia

• Candace Pert, Ph.D., Research Professor, Georgetown University

• Ronald Schell, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin

• Vijendra Singh, Ph.D., Research Professor of Immunology, Utah State University

• Walter Spitzer, M.D., M.P.H., Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal

• Andrew Wakefield, M.D., Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London

Congressman Dan Burton, Chairman of the House Government Reform Committee will be the dinner speaker on Saturday night. On Friday night, a special benefit dinner to launch the Children's Fund for Hope and Healing will raise funds for scientific research into the causes and cures for vaccine-induced neuroimmune dysfunction. For a complete agenda and to register on-line, go to http://www.909shot.com.

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