The Lebanese American University will host THE FIRST LEBANESE GERMAN CONFERENCE ON OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE, OCCUPATIONAL TRAUMA AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE on the grounds of the Lebanese American University in Byblos on May 22-23, 2000. This activity is in line with the plans of the University to establish a Medical School and the DeBakey Medical Center in the Byblos Campus.

Representatives of schools of occupational and environmental medicine in the German Universities of Heidelberg, Tuebingen and Ulm will be sharing their experience with Lebanese field specialists.

Physicians of general and family medicine, specialists in public health and preventive medicine, engineers, insurance companies, association of Lebanese industrialists and selected industries, labor federations and selected labor unions will be targetted by this event.