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Appendix C: Biographic Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biographic Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 157-164
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, is Chair of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Professor in the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Professor of Radiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She also holds a senior position within the Program of Molecular and Pharmacology Therapeutics at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
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Dauer, Ph.D., CHP, is a medical health physicist specializing in radiation protection in medicine. He holds appointments as Associate Attending Physicist in both the Department of Medical Physics and the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and he serves as the Radiation Safety Manager and Chair of its Emer gency Management Committee.
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Task Group on modeling and accounting for the imaging-guidance radiation doses to patients and serving on the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements Report Committee on Small-Field Photon Dosimetry and Applications in Radio therapy, the AAPM Therapy Physics Committee, the AAPM Calibration Laboratory Accreditation Executive Committee, and the AAPM Biological Effects Subcommittee addressing biological effects of radiation therapy.
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He has particular interest in estimating the health effects of radiation exposures and spent 3 years working at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan, as one of its program directors. His activities also include service on U.S.
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While there, he directed the USAF Radiation Assessment Team responsible for provid ing immediate and global responses to nuclear-weapon accidents, and he served as division chief of the Radiation Services Division and chief of the Dosimetry and Radioanalytical Services Branches at the Armstrong Labora tory at Brooks Air Force Base.
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Dr. Richardson has served as a visiting scientist at the World Health Orga nization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan.
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He has directed several IOM studies on military health, environmental health, and risk assessment, including ones that produced Future Uses of the DoD Joint Pathology Center Biorepository; Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services Under TRICARE; PTSD Compensation and Military Service; Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998 and Update 2000; Disposition of the Air Force Health Study; and the report series Characterizing the Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam.
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John Heinz III College and her undergraduate degree in biology with a minor in chemistry from Chatham College. Before coming to the IOM, she researched the effect of national health care reform on Ameri can Indian and Alaskan Native populations and pioneered a social-media marketng outlet to increase customer visibility and enhance communica i tion with that population.
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