2014 News & Events Archive

WARP Workshop July 17, 2013 – Where are the Radiation Professionals?

• Nelson, K. (2004). “Human capital crisis report,” Health Phys. News 9, 18-19
• Pryor, K.H. (2013). “The WARP initiative,”Health Phys. News 41(9), 1-4
• Allard, D. (2013). “NCRP Meeting on WARP,” CRCPD Newsbrief, August, 16-17
• Boice, J.D, Jr. (2014). “WARP—where are the radiation professionals?,” Health Phys. News 42(4), 22

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Annual Meeting:

Health Physics News, NCRP 50th Annual Meeting Achievements of the Past 50 Years and Addressing the Needs of the Future, by R.E. Toohey >Election results from at the 50th NCRP Annual Business Meeting on March 11

March 10-11, 2014: 2014 Annual Meeting, “NCRP: Achievements of the Past 50 Years and Addressing the Needs of the Future,” Hyatt Regency Bethesda

• Presentations
• Program
• Photographs
• Special Presentations

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Council Members in the News

Steven M. Becker appointed Co-Chair of PAC 7 on Radiation Education, Risk Communication, Outreach, and Policy.

Health Physics Society Honors:

NCRP Distinguished Emeritus Member, Robert L. Brent, 2014 Distinguished Public Service Award

Council Member, Wesley E. Bolch, 2014 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award

2014 HPS Fellows[“To honor senior members of the Society who have made significant administrative, education, and/or scientific contributions to the profession of health physics.”]
NCRP President, John D. Boice, Jr. and
Council Member, Donald A. Cool

NCRP Executive Director Emeritus and Project Manager, David A. Schuaer, has taken on the role of ICRU Executive Secretary

Adela Salame-Alfie, Ph.D., was recognized with the 2014 CRCPD Gerald S. Parker Award

The 2013 recipient of the ACGIH William D. Wagner Award was President Emeritus, Thomas S. Tenforde

X. George Xu named Edward E. Hood Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

President, Dr. John D. Boice, Jr., delivered the Aubrey O. Hampton Lecture,”Cumulative Diagnostic Radiation and Cancer Risk,” at the Massachusetts General Hospital, March 21, 2014

Donald A. Cool has been elected to Main Commission of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and to Chair ICRP Committee 4

Robert L. Ullrich, Distinguished Emeritus Member, appointed as Associate Chief of Research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan

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Now Available:

• NCRP Annual Report, “2013 Year in Review“
• Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting, Radiation Dose and the Impacts on Exposed Populations [Health Phys. 106(2), 145-339]
• NCRP Report No. 174, Preconception and Prenatal Radiation Exposure: Health Effects and Protective Guidance
• NCRP Report No. 173, Investigation of Radiological Incidents