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1150 – 1230 :* “I’m 19 and I don’t want to be circumcised” – <br>''Peter Ball''<br>1230 – 1300 :* Circumcision and men’s health: a contradiction in terms? – <br>''Peter Baker''<br><br>1300 – 1400 :* Lunch<br><br>SESSION 3 CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS ''Chair, Richard Duncker''<br>1400 – 1430 :* The Foreskin in children – Children<br>''Pierre Mouriquand''<br>1430 – 1500 adult urology – :* Adult Urology<br>''Gordon Muir''<br>1500 - 1530 :* So They claim Claim to know Know the answerAnswer: The Problem of association Association taken as causality – Causality<br>''Ken McGrath''<br>1530 - 1600 :* Discussion<br><br>
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==Faculty==
* '''Peter Baker''' has been Chief Executive of the Men’s Health Forum (MHF) since 2001. The MHF is a charity that aims to improve the unnecessarily poor health of men and boys in England and Wales. Previously, after a 10‑year stint in local government, Peter was a writer and journalist. He was the first health editor of ''Maxim magazineMagazine'', launch editor of the malehealth.co.uk website and deputy editor of the ''Men’s Health Journal''. He describes himself as a working father – he has three young children – and lives in Brighton.
* '''[[Jim Bigelow| J. David Bigelow]]''', PhD, earned his doctorate in psychology at Claremont Graduate School, is a retired college professor (Whittier College), therapist, clergyman, and author of ''The Joy of Uncircumcising!'' Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
* '''Sandra Bussata''', PhD, is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Padua, and a member of the Padua Working Group on FGM, Padua, Italy.
* ''Georganne Chapin'', JD, is President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan, a non‑profit Medicaid managed care company in New York’s Hudson Valley. She is also founder and President of the Hudson Center for Health Equity & Quality (Hcheq), an organisation whose purpose is to contribute to policy and technology efforts toward healthcare reform. Under Hcheq, Georganne is leading the establishment of [[Intact America]], a new organisation dedicated to keeping babies whole. She has taught Bioethics as well as Medicaid and Disability Law at Pace University School of Law, from which she received her law degree. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Barnard College and a Masters in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University. She serves on a number of non‑profit Boards, including that of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC). Tarrytown, NY, USA.
* '''M. Gloria de Bernardo''', PhD, teaches Ethno‑Anthropology and Social Anthropology, Surgery and Medicine Faculty, University of Verona and University of Padova. She is the President of the Ethic Committee in “Clinical Practice, Hospital Institute of Verona, and has been a member of the Experimentation Committee, as an “Expert in Bioethic Sci‑ence,” following her experience at the San Raffaele in Milan and at Lana Foundation in Padova. She is a member of the Medical Anthropology Italian Society (SIAM). She has writ‑ten many articles for ''Etnoginecology Magazine'', as a result of her personal research and her research with the Padua Working Group on FGM. She is the author of ''The Respect of Pain and Death in the Main Confessions''. Padua, Italy.
* '''[[George C. Denniston]]''', MD (Princeton University), MPH (Harvard School of Public Health), is the founder of Doc‑tors Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.), co‑author of Doctors Re-Examine Circumcision, co‑editor, ''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy'', ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice'', ''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem'', ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society'', and ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change'', and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington, USA.
* '''Sarah Enany''', PhD, teaches drama at Cairo University. She has co‑authored and illustrated a book on feminism, and co‑authored and illustrated the UNICEF anti‑FGM manual. She has also written and drawn educational material for various Egyptian and international NGOs. She is currently working on founding Day, an NGO focusing on gender issues and genital integrity for all. Cairo, Egypt.
* '''Robert C. Johnson''' recently retired from a 24‑year career as a writer and editor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, USA, where he wrote extensively about deafness‑related research. He is co‑editor of Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability, published by Gallaudet University Press. In 2005, at the age of 60, determined to understand and overcome the root cause of difficulties with intimacy he had experienced all his adolescent and adult life, he decided to pursue an eclectic form of regressive therapy for a second time. Much to his surprise, during one session of this therapy, he began to re‑experience his neonatal circumcision, an event he believes originally occurred within hours or minutes after birth, without parental consent (a frequent occurrence in 1945), many hours before he met his parents. His paper describes his journey from that shocking discovery to his current status as an anti‑circumcision activist. Alexandria, VA.
* '''[[Ron Low]]''', BS, MS, earned his BS degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MS from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and is the marketer of a leading brand of foreskin restoration devices (TLCTugger.com) and the host of the “Circumspect” podcast series. Ron has been cited in the book, ''Everything you know about Sex is Wrong'', was featured in the BBC documentary Circumcise Me?, and interviewed by ''Time '' magazine. He appears in the 2007 documentary, Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision. Chicago, Illinois.
* '''[[Paul Mason]]''' is the Commissioner for Children [CfC] for Tasmania. The CfC is an officer of Executive Government, independent of the elected government of the day, appointed to advise the Government and to increase public awareness of matters relating to the health, welfare, care, protection, and development of children. Paul is a family lawyer with 30 years experience.
* '''[[Ken McGrath]]''', VRD, Msc(Hons), LIBiol, MNZIML, Senior Lecturer in Pathology in the Faculty of Health, Auckland, University of Technology, New Zealand, has made a lifelong study of the male genitalia, which he has taught to medical students. His research interests are the innervation of the penis and fungal diseases of the skin. Auckland, NZ.
* '''Comfort Momoh''', MBE (RN, RM, FPN, BSC, MSC – London), is a FGM Consultant/Public Health Specialist with extensive experience of holistic women‑centered care management, a researcher of women’s health, and a strong campaigner for the eradication of FGM. Comfort holds a Masters degree from the University of London and she is an honorary lecturer at the same university. She established and runs the African Well Woman’s Clinic at Guy’s and St Thomas Foundation Trust, a support service for women and girls who have undergone FGM. She is the recipient of the many awards, including the first ever nurse/midwife of the year award from the Trust in 2003. She received the Florence Nightingale Scholarship/Travel Award 2007, to carry out a Comparative Research in Africa – looking at the sexual quality of women who have undergone FGM. She received MBE from the queen in recognition of her work on women’s healthcare. Comfort was awarded a doctorate degree at Middlesex University‑School of Health and Social Sciences for her contribution to public life and strong connection to the University. She also provides training, workshop, seminars, and conferences at local, national, and international levels. She is the Chairperson for the Black Women’s Health and Family supports Supports (a non‑governmental organisation working and supporting the community). She is also the vice‑president for EURONET (European Network on FGM). London, England.
* '''Pierre Mouriquand''', FRCS(Urol), is a professor of Paediatric Urology and head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery at Lyon Children’s Hospital–Claude‑Bernard University– Lyon 1. After a medical training in Lyon and London (Great Ormond Street Hospital), he became a consultant/Associate Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery in Cambridge (Addenbrooke’s Hospital) from 1991 to 1994 and a consultant/Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Urology at Great Ormond Street Hospital: Institute of Child Health from 1994 to 1998. He was appointed as a Professor of Paediatric Urology in Lyon in 1998. His main fields of expertise are the Disorders of Sex Development, antenatal diagnosis of uropathies, exstrophy /epispadias complex, neuropathic bladder and elimination disorders.
SESSION 2 PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF CIRCUMCISION ''Chair, Tony Peters''<br>
:* Physical Effects of circumcision<br>''John Warren''<br>
1600 - 1615 Tea<br><br>
SESSION 4 cIRcumcISION aND JuDaISmChairCIRCUMCISION AND JUDAISM ''Chair, Sheila Curran''<br>1615 - 1645 :* The Shadow Behind the circumcision Dialogue: how How Do We Encounter Jews?– <br>''Miriam Pollack''<br>1645 - 1800 cut:* Cut: Slicing Through the myths of circumcision – Documentary by ''Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon''<br>1800 – 1830 :* Thanks by Session chair closing <,br> :* Closing Remarks – <br>''John Warren''<br> :* Business of Evening – <br>''David Smith''<br>1900 – 1930 :* Reception/no host bar1930 - :* Gala Dinner, Keele Hall
====Saturday, 6 September 2008====