NCRP

PAC 4: Radiation Protection in Medicine

PAC 4 Publications


PAC Meeting, March 26, 2023
L to R: Mahadevappa Mahesh, David C. Spelic, Donald P. Frush, Jennifer G. Elee, Shiao Y. Woo, J. Anthony Seibert, Mark J. Rivard, Julie E.K. Timins, Wayne D. Newhauser, Stephen Balter, Rebecca Milman, Linda A. Kroger, Lawrence T. Dauer [Co-Chair], Michael T. Milano, & Donald L. Miller [Vice President]


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DONALD L. MILLER

is the Chief Medical Officer for the Office of Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He earned a BA from Yale University and an MD from New York University, and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in interventional radiology at New York University Medical Center. He is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology and Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Prior to joining FDA, he practiced interventional radiology for three decades at the National Institutes of Health and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Miller was elected to NCRP in 2006. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Chair of Program Area Committee 4 (Radiation Protection in Medicine). He is an author of NCRP Reports Nos. 168, 172, 177, 180, 184, and 185, and Statements Nos. 11 and 13. He served on the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Committee 3 (Protection in Medicine) as a member from 2010 to 2013, and as Vice-Chair from 2013 to 2017. He is an author of ICRP Publications 117, 120, 135, and 139. He was Vice-Chair for the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration’s Federal Guidance Report No. 14, is a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and is a member of the World Health Organization’s Core Group of Experts on radiation protection of patients and staff.

Dr. Miller was Professor of Radiology at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland from 1993 to 2012. He has served as Associate Editor of Radiology and the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology and is an author of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 40 book chapters and reports. He is a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and the American College of Radiology (ACR), and an Honorary Member of both the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the International Organization for Medical Physics. He chaired SIR’s Safety and Health Committee from 1999 to 2011 and the ACR Guidelines Interventional Committee from 2008 to 2012. His research interests have centered on radiation protection in medicine.

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Rebecca Milman

is an Imaging Medical Physicist and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Marsh is a graduate of the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston, Texas, and completed her imaging residency at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Medical Physics.

Dr. Marsh participates in a wide range of volunteer activities with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the American Board of Radiology. Currently, she provides clinical services for x-ray-based imaging modalities and has a specific interest in promoting sensibility in the practice of clinical medical physics. Her primary professional goal is to help provide healthcare professionals and patients with accurate and consistent information about radiation risk from diagnostic imaging procedures.

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Kimberly E. Applegate

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has served on NCRP meeting programs, Report No. 170, and currently serves as a member of Scientific Committee (SC) 4-12 Risk Management Stratification of Equipment and Training for Fluoroscopy and SC 4-13 on patient protective shielding in imaging. Dr. Applegate is a retired professor of radiology and pediatrics from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Dr. Applegate’s policy and research work in radiation protection, including over 200 publications, has contributed to an improved understanding of the structure, process and outcomes of how pediatric imaging is practiced, including the volume of ionizing imaging in children, the variation in radiation dose in pediatric and adult imaging, and their quality improvement. She has worked collaboratively around the world to educate and improve practice.

Dr. Applegate is an elected member of the Main Commission of the International Commission for Radiological Protection as the chair of Committee 3, focusing on radiation protection in medicine, serving on a number of task groups that address guidance on the use of medical imaging procedures and radiation therapies. She joined, from its start, the Steering Committee for the Image Gently Alliance to improve safe and effective imaging care of children worldwide. Kimberly has received awards that include the American Association for Physicists in Medicine’s Honorary Membership and the American Association for Women in Radiology’s Marie Sklowdoska Curie Award for her unique roles in leadership and outstanding contributions to the advancement of women in the radiology professions.

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Balter

Stephen Balter

is a Clinical Professor of Radiology and Medicine at Columbia University. He earned an MS in Radiological Physics and a PhD in Experimental Physics. He is certified in Radiological Physics by the American Board of Radiology and licensed by New York State in Diagnostic Imaging, Radiation Therapy Physics, and Medical Health Physics. He is a past President of the Radiological and Medical Physics Society of New York, past Vice President of the Radiological Society of North America, a member of the Standards and Safety Committees of the Society for Interventional Radiology, and a member of editorial and review boards of several scientific journals. He received the Marvin M.D. Williams award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in 2017. He is a fellow of AAPM, the American College of Medical Physics, the American College of Radiology, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and the Society of Interventional Radiology. He currently serves on International Electrotechnical Commission working groups responsible for safety and performance standards for projection and interventional radiology. He has been a member of NCRP Council for more than a decade. He chaired scientific committees that produced NCRP Report No. 168, Radiation Dose Management for Fluoroscopically-Guided Interventional Medical Procedures and NCRP Statement No. 11, Outline of Administrative Policies for Quality Assurance and Peer Review of Tissue Reactions Associated with Fluoroscopically-Guided Interventions (2014). He has over 100 refereed publications in the areas of radiological imaging, radiological health, and related topics.

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Edward I. Bluth

graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with special distinction in History. He earned his medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, completed his internship at the Medical College of Virginia, and his residency in diagnostic radiology at the Hospital of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in diagnostic radiology and has been on the staff since 1977 and is Chair Emeritus of the Department of Radiology.

In the past, he was a member of the Board of Governors and Board of Directors of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation and its predecessors. Dr. Bluth is also Professor of Radiology at the Ochsner Clinical School of the University of Queensland School of Medicine. He is very active in numerous medical societies. He presently serves on the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology as Chairman of the Commission on Human Resources. He is a member of the American College of Radiology Delegation to the American Medical Association. He currently serves as Team Leader of the CC 2 medicine writing team of the NCRP. He has been President of the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists and served on the Boards of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound. Additionally, he has served as Co -Chair of the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare sponsored by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Bluth is an active researcher and has published over 225 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. His present interests are Doppler ultrasound applications in transplants and HR issues related to the radiology workforce. He is author of 11 textbooks and serves on several editorial boards. He speaks both nationally and internationally on ultrasound, quality improvement, and the radiology workforce.

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Dr. Lawrence Dauer

LAWRENCE T. DAUER

is an Attending Physicist in the Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and serves at their Corporate Radiation Safety Officer. He serves as a member of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He is a former Board member and current Council member of NCRP and is the Scientific Director of the Million Person Study. He has served as Chair or Co-Chair on several NCRP scientific committees associated with radiation protection of workers, patients, and members of the public. He served 7 y on the International Commission on Radiological Protection Committee 3, Radiation Protection in Medicine.

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ANDREW J. EINSTEIN

is a cardiologist and cardiac imager at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is a tenured professor of medicine, with appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Radiology, and serves as Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT), and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Director of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship. Born and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Einstein received an AB in mathematics from Princeton University and attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he received an MD as well as a PhD in the Department of Biomathematical Sciences. He also received an MS in patient-oriented research/biostatistics from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. After internship and residency in internal medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, he completed cardiology fellowship training at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Einstein’s clinical activities are centered on cardiovascular positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computerized tomography, CT, and MRI, and he serves as an attending clinical cardiologist caring for patients with a range of cardiovascular diseases including coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and arrhythmias. His research, which uses each of these imaging modalities, focuses on improving the use of imaging in cardiovascular medicine, with particular interests and funded projects in radiological protection, amyloidosis, COVID-19, machine learning, and device development. It is funded by multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and industry. Dr. Einstein is the author or coauthor of over 300 papers and abstracts, in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Lancet. This work has been influential in affecting clinical practice, and has been widely reported in the popular media and cited over 15,000 times in the scientific literature. For it, Dr. Einstein received the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2022 Hermann Blumgart Award, the American College of Cardiology's Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award, and the Lewis Katz Cardiovascular Research Prize for a Young Investigator. Dr. Einstein is a Council Member of NCRP, chair of the Academic Cardiology Section of the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the boards of directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. He serves as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee for the Medical Use of Isotopes, on the editorial boards of Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, and served as a voting member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee, on several NIH study sections, and as a co-author of the International Commission on Radiological Protection Publication 120 on radiological protection in cardiology. Dr. Einstein has served as a mentor to over 40 trainees at stages ranging from high school to junior faculty.

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Jennifer G. Elee

has been an Environmental Scientist with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for over 20 y. She conducts state inspections of radioactive material licensees, mammography facilities, and x ray registrants. Ms. Elee participates in nuclear power plant exercises and provides support for all radiological emergency response. She provides training for state inspectors and radiologic technologists as needed. Ms. Elee has also been an active member in the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors for many years and is currently serving on the Board of Directors as a Member-at-Large and is over the Healing Arts Council.

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Donald P. Frush

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is the John Strohbehn Professor of Radiology, and an Associate Faculty Member, Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Frush earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California Davis, MD from Duke University School of Medicine, was a pediatric resident at University of California San Francisco, completed a radiology residency at Duke Medical Center, and a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati. Professional roles included more than 25 y on the Duke Medical Center faculty, with a subsequent nearly 2 y appointment as a Professor of Radiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He returned to Duke in 2020. Dr. Frush’s research interests are predominantly involved with pediatric body computed tomography (CT), including technology assessment, techniques for pediatric CT examinations, assessment of image quality, radiation dosimetry, and radiation protection and risk communication in medical imaging. Other areas of investigation include CT applications in children and patient safety in radiology.

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JOEL E. GRAY

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is Professor Emeritus, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and President of DIQUAD, LLC (Dental Image Quality and Dose), a firm that evaluates dental image quality and dose through the mail. Dr. Gray received his BS in Photographic Science and Instrumentation in 1970, an MS in Optical Sciences in 1974, and a PhD in Radiological Sciences from the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto in 1977.

He served as a Diagnostic Medical Physicist at Mayo Clinic Rochester for 20 y, helped develop and obtain U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Lorad's (now Hologic) first digital mammography system, and assisted in the development of the microStar patient dosimetry system using optically stimulated dosimetry material while at Landauer, Inc. After leaving Landauer, Dr. Gray founded DIQUAD and continues to operate that business today.

Dr. Gray published the first two books on quality control in medical imaging in 1976 under contract to FDA while in graduate school. Dr. Gray is the primary author of the first quality control text (Quality Control in Diagnostic Imaging—A Quality Control Cookbook) which is in use worldwide and has been translated into Chinese.

His primary areas of interest include image quality in medical and dental imaging, and optimization of image quality and radiation dose. He serves as a consultant to healthcare organizations and industry. Dr. Gray has served on many national and international advisory committees, including the International Commission Radiological Protection (Committee 3, Radiation Protection in Medicine) and is active in projects with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization. He has co-authored eight publications for the IAEA including educational programs and taught courses for the IAEA in several countries. He has over 170 publications in refereed journals and numerous book chapters, and presented lectures and refresher courses in the United States and overseas. He has visited over 40 countries for both business and pleasure.

Dr. Gray was responsible for starting the first Medical Physics Residency Program at Mayo Clinic in 1990. He has mentored masters and doctoral students, and Medical Physics residents.

He was elected to NCRP in 1986 and has served on numerous committees producing NCRP Report No. 99, Quality Assurance for Diagnostic Imaging; Report No. 147, Structural Shielding Design for Medical Imaging Facilities; and Report No. 160, Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the Population of the United States. He has served as a Technical Consultant for NCRP Commentary No. 20, Radiation Protection and Measurement Issues Related to Cargo Scanning with Accelerator-Produced High-Energy X Rays; NCRP Report No. 172, Reference Levels and Achievable Doses in Medical and Dental Imaging: Recommendations for the United States; and NCRP Report 177, Radiation Protection in Dentistry and Oral & Maxillofacial Imaging. After serving 18 y on the Council he was named a Distinguished Emeritus Member in 2005.

Dr. Gray is a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the American College of Medical Physics. In 2010 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Upstate New York Association of Medical Physicists and in 2011 the Edith Quimby Lifetime Achievement Award from the AAPM.

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Linda A. Kroger

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is Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine and previously served as the Radiation Safety Officer for the UC Davis Health System. Ms. Kroger received her undergraduate degree and her Master’s Degree from Rutgers University. Prior to UC Davis, Ms. Kroger worked for private industry in biopharmacology research and drug development. She transitioned to cancer research when she joined UC Davis in 1988. From 1988 through 2000, her research focused on the development of new radiopharmaceuticals for both diagnostic imaging and treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and breast cancer. As Radiation Safety Officer, she focused on regulatory compliance, quality assurance issues as well as education of medical students, residents and fellows with the overall goal of improving workplace radiation safety. Ms. Kroger oversees the nonclinical aspects of nuclear medicine training for the radiology residency program at UC Davis. Ms. Kroger has authored or co-author more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented at numerous scientific conferences. She has served in a number of roles in both the local chapter as well as the national Health Physics Society and been an active participant on NCRP committees since 2005.

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EDWIN M. LEIDHOLDT, JR.

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is currently the Director of the National Health Physics Program, Veterans Health Administration (VHA), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). His areas of interest include technical quality assurance and radiation dose management in medical imaging. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Radiology in Medical Nuclear Physics and Diagnostic Radiological Physics and is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. He received a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, a Master of Applied Mathematics, a Master of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering, and a BS in Nuclear Engineering, all from the University of Virginia. He has served as a Radiation Safety Officer at two VA medical centers, as technical director of nuclear medicine at one, as the Radiation Safety Program Manager for the former VHA Western Region, and as Program Manager for the VHA National Health Physics Program. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of California, Davis. He is a co-author of several scientific papers and abstracts, one textbook chapter, and one textbook, in its third edition. He has been a Council member since 2006. He served on the scientific committee that wrote NCRP Report No. 165, Responding to a Radiological or Nuclear Terrorism Incident: A Guide for Decision Makers, and on the committee that prepared NCRP Statement No. 11. Dr. Leidholdt served as a surface line officer in the U.S. Navy from 1971 until 1975.

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Alan G. Lurie

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Alan G. Lurie is professor and chair of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences and chair of the Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Department of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences, at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. He has John Dempsey Hospital appointments in the Departments of Dentistry and Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutics. He has been a full-time member of the dental school faculty since 1973, during which time he has done R0-1 research on radiation carcinogenesis, administered predoctoral and graduate educational programs, performed clinical research, and performed imaging care on patients in both dental and medical radiology settings.

He is past president and a current member of the School of Dental Medicine Council, co-founder of the University of Connecticut Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Clinic, and a member of numerous dental school and institutional committees. He is also an active member of his specialty nationally, having served as Councilor for Public Policy and Scientific Affairs of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, and Past President of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Dr. Lurie has more than 100 publications in the refereed literature, and numerous presentations to local, state, national and international organizations.

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MAHADEVAPPA MAHESH

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is the Professor of Radiology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He is also the Chief Physicist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is also the Professor of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Mahesh obtained his PhD in Medical Physics from Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Dr. Mahesh is board certified from the American Board of Radiology in diagnostic radiological physics and is a member of the Radiation Control Advisory Board for the State of Maryland. His research interests are in medical imaging, particularly in areas of multiple-row detector computed tomography (MDCT), interventional fluoroscopy, and digital mammography. As chief physicist, he oversees the quality assurance program for the diagnostic radiology that includes maintaining compliance with regard to state and federal regulations and ensuring safe use of radiation to patients. He often provides counsels to patients concerned over their radiation exposure from diagnostic x-ray examinations.

Dr. Mahesh is the editor of the Physics Columns (Technology Talk and Medical Physics Consult) for the Journal of American College of Radiology (JACR) since 2007. He is also the Associate Editor of JACR, Deputy Editor for Academic Radiology, Editorial Board Member for RadioGraphics and Radiology journals. He is the Treasurer for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and board member of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). He is a fellow of the AAPM (2007), ACR (2009), American College of Medical Physics (2011), and SCCT (2011).

Dr. Mahesh has been invited to be the United Nations-International Atomic Energy Agency (UN-IAEA) expert to participate in IAEA activities. Dr. Mahesh is the author of the textbook titled MDCT Physics: The Basics – Technology, Image Quality and Radiation Dose. He publishes and lectures extensively here in the United States and internationally in the area of MDCT technology, radiation doses in medical imaging, and other medical physics areas.

Dr. Mahesh is on the NCRP Council and was a member of NCRP Scientific Committee (SC) 6-2 that published NCRP Report No. 160, Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the United States Population. He is the co-chair of NCRP SC 4-9 on Medical Exposure of the U.S. population.

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FRED A. METTLER, JR.

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is currently Professor Emeritus and Clinical Professor at the Department of Radiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He was chairman of the department for 18 y from 1994 to 2003. He is currently in the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Service at the New Mexico Federal Regional Medical Center.

He graduated with a BA in Mathematics from Columbia University and in 1970 he received his MD from Thomas Jefferson University. He performed a rotating internship at the University of Chicago and subsequently completed a Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received an MS in Public Health from Harvard University in 1975. He is a fellow of both the American College of Radiology and the American College of Nuclear Physicians. He is board certified in both radiology and nuclear medicine.

Dr. Mettler has authored over 360 scientific publications including 20 textbooks, and holds four patents. The books are on Medical Management of Radiation Accidents, Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation and Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. He was a Scientific Vice President of NCRP and remains a member. He has chaired several committees for the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council and is a member of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies. He is also an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Dr. Mettler has been listed in "The Best Doctors in America" since 1994 as an expert in both nuclear medicine and radiation injury. He has been a certifying examiner for the American Board of Radiology for 30 y.

He was the United States Representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation 28 y. He is an Emeritus Commissioner of the International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP). He was the Health Effects Team Leader of the International Chernobyl Project. He has served as an expert on radiation effects and accidents for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Agency on Research on Cancer, and for the Costa Rican, Peruvian, Panamanian, Polish governments. He was a co-author of the NCRP and ICRP reports on radiation protection during radiological terrorism and has been a member of multiple subgroups on radiological terrorism for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is currently a health advisor to the Japanese Cabinet for the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Michael T. Milano

is a board certified radiation oncologist who practices at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He attended the University of Rochester for medical school and graduate school, and holds a PhD in biophysics. His residency training was at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Professor, Director of the Residency Program in Radiation Oncology and Director of the Stereotactic Radiotherapy Program. He has clinical expertise in the radiotherapy of thoracic malignancies as well as benign and malignant tumors of the central nervous system. Dr. Milano’s clinical research has been devoted to investigating the clinical outcomes of patients treated with newer technologies, as well as the treatment of patients with oligometastatic disease. Additional research interests include cancer survivorship, with a focus on second malignancies and late effects of cancer therapy. He has served on committees for the American Society of Radiation Oncology and American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

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Quentin T. Moore

is a scientific reviewer for the Office of Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He completed his undergraduate education at Mercy College of Northwest Ohio and Washburn University. He earned a MPh from Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo, and a PhD in Health Science from Northern Illinois University. He is certified by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists in radiography, radiation therapy, and quality management. Prior to joining FDA, he worked in academia for a decade at Mercy College of Ohio, where he was an Associate Professor and Director of Imaging Sciences.

His research focuses on radiation safety culture in medical imaging. Other areas of interest include radiation protection in radiography, and patient safety and quality improvement in medical imaging. He has served on numerous professional committees with organizations such as Image Gently, American Society of Radiologic Technologists, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and Association of Educators in Imaging and Radiologic Sciences.

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WAYNE D. NEWHAUSER

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is the Director of the Medical and Health Physics Program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, holder of the Dr. Charles M. Smith Chair in Medical Physics, and Chief of Physics at the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center. He is a board certified and licensed medical physicist with specialization in advanced-technology radiotherapies. Dr. Newhauser is an expert in proton radiation therapy, dose reconstructions, and risk estimation and reduction. His current research projects seek to improve long-term outcomes of survivors of childhood and adult cancers. He and his multidisciplinary team of collaborators are known for their early use of Monte-Carlo methods and high-performance computing in proton therapy, including neutron shielding, treatment planning, and estimation of stray radiation exposures. He received the Innovation Excellence Award in 2012 in recognition of his laboratory's research involving in-silico clinical trials to compare advanced-technology radiotherapies.

Dr. Newhauser has published more than 85 peer-reviewed journal articles, leads federal research grants, and mentors graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He has served in leadership roles in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the American Nuclear Society, and the Health Physics Society. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the journal Physics In Medicine and Biology and is a corresponding member of EURODOS. After receiving a BS in nuclear engineering and MS and PhD degrees medical physics from the University of Wisconsin, he worked at the German National Standards Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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Madan M. Rehani

received his PhD in 1976 from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, India. He worked at various faculty positions and was Professor and Head of Medical Physics at Cancer Hospital of AIIMS before he moved in 2001 to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. After his retirement from IAEA, he moved in 2015 to Boston to join Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School. He is currently Director, Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at the MGH. He is President, International Organization for Medical Physics for 2018 to 2021. He has been a member of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) for almost two decades and has authored eight Annals of ICRP, four of which as the Chair of the group. He is Senior Editor of the British Journal of Radiology, acts as Associate Editor of Medical Physics, and was Assistant Editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology for many years. He has more than 150 publications including editorials in the British Medical Journal, the International Journal of Cardiology, and has published in The Lancet.

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Mark J. Rivard

is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Brown Medical School in Providence and a clinical medical physicist with internationally-recognized expertise in brachytherapy dosimetry. He has championed this treatment modality within the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the American Brachytherapy Society, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology through numerous board appointments, committee assignments, and task group chairmanships. Dr. Rivard serves on radiotherapy editorial boards in leadership roles specific to clinical medical physics, and has received substantial extramural support for his various research programs. Through these efforts, he has innovated several medical devices for advancing patient care.

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J. Anthony Seibert

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is Professor of Radiology at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. He received a PhD in Radiological Sciences from UC Irvine in 1982, specializing in quantitative digital fluoroscopic imaging. Directly thereafter, he took a faculty position at UC Davis Medical Center, pursuing digital imaging research, physics education efforts for graduate students and radiology residents, as well as quality control for medical imaging equipment in Diagnostic Radiology. He has continuing academic interests in digital mammography, computed tomography, interventional radiology, imaging informatics, and radiation dose tracking, assessment, and reporting. Former president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in 2011 and current Governor of the American Board of Radiology, Dr. Seibert has served and continues to interact with many professional committees in regards to medical imaging issues and presenting technical / educational events for the AAPM, International Atomic Energy Agency, and other professional societies. For NCRP, he is a member of Program Area Committee 4. As a co-author of The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging textbook for diagnostic physics education, Dr. Seibert continues with the development of cutting edge imaging technologies and medical physics education to improve the state of imaging science for the betterment of patient care.

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David C. Spelic

Spelic Dis a physicist with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health. On his arrival at the FDA in 1994, Dr. Spelic became involved with the Agency’s implementation of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), particularly focusing on mammography physics testing and the training of MQSA inspectors.

Presently Dr. Spelic conducts premarket reviews of diagnostic x-ray devices, and directs most technical aspects of the Nationwide Evaluation of X-Ray Trends (NEXT) program, an FDA collaboration with the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors to document trends in patient dose and image quality for selected diagnostic x-ray exams and procedures.

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STEVEN G. SUTLIEF

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is currently a medical physicist with the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Phoenix, Arizona and an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. He received his PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Washington and subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in radiation therapy medical physics at the University of Washington with research in intensity modulated radiation therapy. He has been chief medical physicist at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and an affiliate faculty member in the University of Washington School of Medicine, a professor at the University of California San Diego and a medical physicist with Landauer Medical Physics. Dr. Sutlief worked to advance radiation therapy within the VA, including agency-wide radiotherapy equipment modernization, radiotherapy device interconnectivity, consultation for the VA National Health Physics Program, participation in several investigations, and development of qualification standards for therapeutic medical physicists. He has coauthored more than 50 articles and book chapters related to therapeutic medical physics. Dr. Sutlief developed and taught the physics curriculum for the Bellevue College Medical Dosimetry program. He has served as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency and as a member of the Radiation Oncology planning group for the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. Dr. Sutlief was a Co-organizer for the AAPM Summer School on Quality and Safety in Radiation Therapy and was a faculty member for the Veterans Health Administration Biennial Conference on Radiation Oncology. He actively participates in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, where he has served on many committees and on several task group reports. He is currently an NCRP Council member.

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JULIE E.K. TIMINS

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is a Diagnostic Radiologist, board certified in General Radiology and in Nuclear Medicine. Her medical practice has been varied, including Chair of Nuclear Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Lyons, New Jersey; Staff Radiologist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and St. Peter’s Medical Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey; diagnostic imaging in an inner-city hospital in Jersey City; and Mammography and Women’s Imaging in an outpatient facility in Morristown, New Jersey. Dr. Timins is Chair of the New Jersey Commission on Radiation Protection, and sits on the New Jersey Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners. She served on the NCRP Board of Directors and has participated on several Annual Meeting Program Committees. She is past president of the Radiological Society of New Jersey and recipient of that organization’s Gold Medal Award. Dr. Timins is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and former member of the Council Steering Committee. She served as Vice-Chair for Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards of the ACR Commission on Quality and Safety. She is a recipient of the Advisory Committee Service Award of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in recognition of distinguished service on the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee. The American Association for Women Radiologists has honored Dr. Timins with the Professional Leadership Award for Mid-Career/Senior Faculty and the President’s Award. In appreciation of service as an Affiliate Member of the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, she was presented with the Board of Directors Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Radiation Protection, for participation on the H-30 Task Force and development of the White Paper on Bone Densitometry.

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SHIAO Y. WOO

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is Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology, Kosair Children's Hospital/Norton Healthcare Chair in Pediatric Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. After 2 y of matriculation (college equivalent under the British system), Shiao was admitted to medical school (University of Malaya) for a 5 y program and skipped a year of pre-med. At the tender age of 23, Shiao graduated from medical school after completing a year of rotatory internship and 2 y of internal medicine. Dr. Woo then traveled to the United Kingdom in 1975 to take the internal medicine board and passed. He continued training and rotations at several pediatric hospitals and gained an interest in Pediatric Oncology after meeting Dr. Lucius Sinks at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. in 1978. Dr. Woo did a Fellowship under Dr. Sinks, his first mentor, at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown. Once he passed the American Board of Pediatrics and the sub-board of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology he became an Assistant Professor at Georgetown in 1980. In 1981 he went with Dr. Sinks to be an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston.

By 1985, Dr. Woo had decided to be re-trained in radiation oncology and went to a residency program for the third time at Stanford University Medical Center. There he met his second mentor, Dr. Sarah Donaldson with whom he became lifelong friends. In 1988 he passed the American Board of Radiology (Radiation Oncology) and moved to Houston to become an Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. After only a year, Dr. Woo was elected by the residents to be the Residency Training Program Director and won a residency teaching award in 1990. In 1991, Dr. Woo lifted the Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine out of probation, became one of the earliest investigators in the country in the field of IMRT and became recognized as an expert in treating childhood cancers as well as brain tumors. In 1996, he was promoted to Professor with Tenure at the Baylor College of Medicine; in 2001 he was named an Associate Chairman in the Department of Radiology; in 2004, he was recruited by Dr. James Cox back to MD Anderson to be the Professor and Section Chief of Pediatric/CNS Radiation Oncology and the medical Director of the Proton Therapy Center. In 2010, he was recruited to be the Chairman and Professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Louisville, School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. Woo is an internationally recognized authority on the treatment of brain, spinal cord, and pediatric cancers. He is superbly trained, has obtained extensive clinical and research experience at the world-class MD Anderson Cancer Center of Houston, is widely published and serves on the Board of Directors of the Pediatric Radiation Oncology Society.

He is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric hematology-oncology, and radiation oncology. Dr. Woo's areas of clinical and research interest are tumors of the blood, bone, nervous system, and soft tissue in children and adults. He has published more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 20 book chapters.

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Pat B. Zanzonico

received a BS in Physics from Cooper Union in 1977 and a PhD in Biophysics from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 1982. He served on the faculty of the Department of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and is currently a Member and Attending Physicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Co-Head of the Center's Small-Animal Imaging Laboratories, and Chairman of its Committee on Radiation. He also serves on the Special Contributing Faculty of the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School and is an Adjunct Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University. Dr. Zanzonico is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Radiology and the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics. He is also a member of the Medical Internal Radionuclide Dosimetry Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes, and a past Consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr. Zanzonico has over 120 peer-reviewed publications and over 75 invited presentations. He is actively involved in biomedical research on radionuclide-based methods for detecting and localizing tumor hypoxia, immune effector-cell trafficking, patient-specific dosimetry for radionuclide therapies, and small-animal and molecular imaging.

Pat B. Zanzonico

Angela Shogren

is the Deputy Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Web Communications. Formerly in EPA’s Center for Radiation Information and Outreach, Ms. Shogren has spent the majority of her career collaborating on radiation risk communication and radiation data visualization projects. Ms. Shogren supported EPA's communication efforts during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and has facilitated international panels on radiation risk communication in pediatric medical imaging, with a focus on patient advocacy and effective communication methods. Ms. Shogren was a key member of the expert working group led by the World Health Organization that developed the 2016 practical reference document, Communicating Radiation Risk in Paediatric Medical Imaging: Information to Support Healthcare Discussions About Benefit and Risk.

Angela Shogren , PAC 7 Liaison

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