Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations Near Nuclear Facilities Phase 1 (2012) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Staff
Pages 331-342
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 331... ...
He has served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and is or has been a member of a number of distinguished scientific boards and advisory committees including the Grass Foundation; the Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn" in Naples, Italy; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan; and the Morgridge Institute for Research. He has also served as a consultant to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Science and Human Values.
|
From page 332... ...
/Atomic Energy Commission for over 36 years, he retired in 1999 as the Director of the Environmental Science Division of the DOE Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML) in New York City and is presently a private consultant conducting various dose reconstructions in cooperation with scientists at the National Cancer Institute and Vanderbilt University.
|
From page 333... ...
He joined the National Cancer Institute in 1984, where, first as an expert and then as a senior radiation physicist, he has been involved mainly in the estimation of radiation doses resulting from radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and from the Chernobyl accident. He was head of the Radiation Dosimetry Unit of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch until his retirement at the end of 2010.
|
From page 334... ...
He is also a member and chair of the Nonproliferation and International Security Division Review Committee at Los Alamos. Other national and international associations and professional society affiliations include the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the American Physical Society, the Health Physics Society, the NCRP, the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards, and the Institute of Physics.
|
From page 335... ...
From 2000 through 2007, he was team leader for internal dosimetry at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, assessing radiation doses for workers who were exposed to radionuclides associated with the nuclear weapons industry. In 2007, he returned to LRRI as director of the Center for Countermeasures Against Radiation, where he is evaluating the efficacy of chemical compounds designed to decorporate radionuclides as well as drugs designed to ameliorate the effects of acute radiation syndrome from large external radiation doses.
|
From page 336... ...
Before joining the Clark University faculty he taught at the University of Connecticut and Michigan State University. He has written widely on issues connected with risk analysis, risk communication, global environmental change, risk and ethics, and environmental policy.
|
From page 337... ...
in experimental pathology from the University of Maryland. Mousseau, Timothy Timothy Mousseau, Ph.D., received his doctoral degree in 1988 from McGill University and completed a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship in population biology at the University of California, Davis, before joining the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina in 1991.
|
From page 338... ...
She has been recognized for her achievements by the Association of Community Cancer Centers (2001) , the Distinguished Service Award for Scientific Leadership from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)
|
From page 339... ...
developing a multilevel variance components model for the dosimetry used in the Colorado Plateau uranium miners cohort for the purpose of better understanding dose and dose rate effects in those data, (3) characterizing study power and sample size issues in epidemiologic studies in which a complex dosimetry system is used to estimate radiation dose.
|
From page 340... ...
Examples include tests of spatial clustering of disease cases, for example around a hazardous waste site; small area estimation; hierarchical models with spatially structured random effects; and spatial point process models. Recent applications include spatiotemporal mapping of disease rates, statistical methods for assessing environmental justice, the analysis of spatial trends in Lyme disease incidence and reporting, spatial modelling of the spread of raccoon rabies, and point process analysis of sea turtle nesting locations in Florida.
|
From page 341... ...
This project involves identifying differences in molecular responses of normal tissues to the effects of ionizing radiation. The hope is to identify genes that can be used to distinguish people who are more or less likely to have particular late effects following radiation exposure.
|
From page 342... ...
Prior to her current appointment, Rania was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, where she conducted research on biomarker development for early cancer detection using case-control epidemiologic study designs. She focused primarily on prostate, breast, and liver cancers and trying to identify those individuals who are at high risk of developing malignancies.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.