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Medical Geology Newsletter International Medical Geology Association MEDICAL GEOLOGY NEWSLETTER INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GEOLOGY ASSOCIATION www.medicalgeology.org Newsletter 30 January 2019 ISSN 1651‐5250 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE IN THIS ISSUE Chairman’s message Dear Friends and Colleagues: A short note from the Dr. Diego Fridman, Director, editor. Research Department, FUNCEI, Buenos Aires, Argentina , IMGA MedGe0’19 Chairman IMGA News Simulating the human gut It is a great pleasure to welcome you Activities of the IMGA to our 30th edition of the International Medical chapters Geology Association (IMGA) Newsletter. IMGA was founded in 2006 and since then, one of the IMGA Structure and main objectives of the executive committee has been to organization inform members about Medical Geology education and research international opportunities as well as various Recent publications activities worldwide through IMGA Newsletters. Now we are beginning our first period of this IMGA chairing and the EC councilors have changed by the nomination and elections process. We are actively working on the modernization of our website and have adopted measures to encourage the use of social networks for the benefit of our association. We want to welcome new members and congratulate the establishment of a new chapter in Egypt and thank you all again for your great support and contributions on behalf of IMGA. We hope to see you soon in our 8th International Conference on Medical Geology, Guiyan-Guizhou China, MEDGEO19 (August 12-15). IMGA Newsletter January 2019 Page 1 "None of us is as smart as all of us.." - Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009 NOTE FROM THE EDITOR I would like to welcome you to the first IMGA newsletter of 2019. 2018 has been a busy year for IMGA and we welcome the newly elected officers (a full listing is given at the end of the newsletter) and our new chairman Dr Diego Fridman. It is also very pleasing to see the continuing work of all of the individual chapters which can be found in the Chapter reports section. This edition of the newsletter also includes a short article on the history of the development of an ISO standard testing method for measuring the bioaccessibility of metals and metalloids in soils. Please take note of the information on the MEDGEO conference to be held in Guiyang, China in 2019. The website for the conference can be found at www.medgeo2019.com . I have given a list of 7 recent papers (2018-2019) which contain the term “medical geology” in their title or abstract [1-7]which cover topics from the use of Sulphur containing minerals in medicine to the development of risk assessment tools from metals and metalloid exposure. The author of my chosen quotation is James Eric Schmitt, MD, PHD, Physician, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This very succinct quotation reminds us that we can achieve far more by working together. This very much reflected in the IMGA philosophy and clearly illustrated by the work of our worldwide network of chapters. Finally I would like to wish all members of IMGA a prosperous and productive 2019 in all your medical geology endeavors. Mark Cave IMGA Newsletter January 2019 Page 2 CONTENTS Chairman’s Message ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Note from the Editor ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2 IMGA News..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 MEDGEO 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Article .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Simulating the human gut – the story of BS ISO 17924:2018 ............................................................................................. 6 Chapter reports ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Argentina ................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Australia ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Bolivia......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Brazil .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Bulgaria ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 China-Ireland Concord ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Denmark .................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Egypt .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Ghana ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 México ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Nigeria ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Portugal ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Russia ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Spain ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Sweden ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 UK ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Uruguay ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 USA ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 IMGA Structure and organization ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Governance Structure: ......................................................................................................................................................... 20 Councillors: ........................................................................................................................................................................... 20 General Assembly .................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Recent Medical Geology References ........................................................................................................................................... 23 IMGA Newsletter January 2019 Page 3 IMGA NEWS 1) IMGA received a fund of 2000 $ USD from the International Union of Geological Society (IUGS). This amount must be spent in programs of dissemination or research stimulation involving preparatory or secondary schools, related to the topic of Medical Geology in low income countries. The proposals of Ghana and Nigeria have been successful and will begin to be implemented this year. 2) The Proposal to host the next International Conference on Medical Geology to be held in 2021 (MedGeo'21) has been accepted. This proposal is presented by Spanish Chapter of IMGA (IMGA-Spain) in collaboration with the University
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