2020 News & Events Archive

Study of One Million Radiation Workers & Veterans

Virtual Symposium
November 6, 2020

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Retirement

Cindy L. O’Brien: After more than 34 years with NCRP …

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Slides and videos from the 2019 NCI Radiation Epidemiology and Dosimetry Course are now available online. The course was designed for people who are interested in learning about the health effects of radiation exposure – it covers the fundamentals of radiation epidemiology, dosimetry, and risk modeling as well as topical sessions which provide an overview of the methods and key findings from studies of medical, occupational, and environmental radiation exposures.

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Low Dose Radiation Therapy (LDRT) for COVID-19: Benefits or Risks?

Report now available on the Workshop that was co-sponsored by NCRP, with the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in July 2020. Published in Radiation Research, you can obtain the Report here

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Education Videos

Interested to know what distinguishes a well-designed and reliable radiation epidemiologic study from an unreliable, and a flawed one? CDC and NCRP produced eight brief video modules called Radiation Epidemiology for Public Health Decision Making that are informative and offer continuing education credits.

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Radiation Protection in Medicine

NCRP Session, January 28, Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting

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In Memoriam

	John A. Auxier, October 7, 1925– August 27, 2020
	John B. Little, October 5, 1929 – May 24, 2020
	Michael T. Ryan, August 21, 1952 – February 22, 2020

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Council Members in the News

	[L to R]: Michael Bellamy, Caleigh Samuels, Mike Mumma, Rich Leggett, John Boice, Martin Self, Dave Girardi, Steve Blattnig, Helen Grogan, Sergei Tolmachev, Ashley Golden, Keith Eckerman, Cait Milder, Maia Avtandilashvili, Sara Howard, Joey Zhou, Betsy Ellis The 8th Million Person Study Workshop in Oak Ridge in conjunction with NCRP Scientific Committee 6-12 on Development of Models for Brain Dosimetry for Internally Deposited Radionuclides
	Council members Ed Azzam and John Boice participate at 2020 NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop – Small Steps Lead to Giant Leaps, Galveston January 27-30, 2020
	Council member, X. George Xu, received the Edith H. Quimby Award for Life Achievement in Medical Physics by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
	Lawrence Dauer, NCRP Council member and scientific coordinator of the Million Person Study (MPS), spoke at the DC-area Health Physics Society dinner on January 14, 2020. Dr. Dauer shared the most up-to-date information on the status and findings of the MPS

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Now Available

• Report No. 185, Evaluating and Communicating Radiation Risks for Studies Involving Human Subjects: Guidance for Researchers and Institutional Review Boards
• NCRP Commentary No. 29, Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) and Technologically Enhanced NORM (TENORM) from the Oil and Gas Industry

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