The National Institutes of Health, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) is continuing to sponsor workshops on implementing the Public Health Service Policy on Animal Welfare Education. Each of the workshops will focus on a specific theme.
The workshops are open to institutional administrators, members of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, laboratory animal veterinarians, investigators and other institutional staff who have responsibility for high-quality management of sound institutional animal care and use programs. Ample opportunities will be provided to exchange ideas and interests through question and answer sessions and informal discussions.
For further information concerning future NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Education Workshops, please contact: Agnes Richardson, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), RKL1, Suite 1050, MSC 7982, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-7982 phone: 301-594-2506, Fax: 301-402-2803, WWW: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/workshop.htm
NOTE: for Express or Hand Delivered Mail, Use Zip Code 20817
The next workshop will be held September 21-22, 2000, in Charleston, South Carolina and is being sponsored by the Medical University of South Carolina and Benedict College (Columbia).
The topic will be “IACUC Issues in Field Biology.”
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
Phone: (301) 504-6212
FAX: (301) 504-7125
E-mail: awic@nal.usda.gov
