Day One: A Global Approach to Legionella
Chairmen: John Lindeman (Chairman WMSoc) and Geoff Walker (GE Infrastructure)

Discovery of Legionella - the early years:
Professor CLR Bartlett, Visiting Professor, University College London, Visiting Professor, London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Legionellosis - what have we learnt from 30 years of outbreaks?
Dr John V. Lee, Unit Head, Water & Environmental Microbiology Reference Unit, Health Protection Agency

Risk Reduction Process: a ‘global’ review of common practice employed for reducing the risk of
legionellosis:
Howard Barnes, Global Research Director, Nalco

Epidemiological investigations of LD outbreaks in Spain:
Dr Carmen Navarro,Chief of Epidemiology, Department of Health, Murcia, Spain

Investigating an outbreak in France - and the legislative response:
Michèle Merchat, Climespace, Paris

Legionella prevention in the Netherlands:
Wilfred Reinhold, Senior Judical Policy Officer on drinking water at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning
and the Environment, den Haag

Health care premises - managing and engineering issues:
Chief Executive Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust and Rob Speight , Director of Engineering

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