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Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee and Staff
Pages 21-24

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... in New York City and is presently a private consultant conducting various dose reconstructions in cooperation with scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Vanderbilt University.
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... William Morgan Lecturer by the Health Physics Society of the United States, and early in 2012 he was named to the National Thought Leader Advisory Council of the National Public Health Information Coalition. In September 2012, Dr.
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... His work on radiation epidemiology studies includes helping to characterize the statistical nature of errors in dose estimates for the atomic bomb survivor study; 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; and characterizing study power and sample size issues in epidemiologic studies in which a complex dosimetry system is used to estimate radiation dose. Besides the field of radiation epidemiology, his past and current research has focused on statistical issues relevant to clinical trials of treatment for pediatric cancer, nutritional epidemiology studies, and to studies of the genetics of complex diseases.
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... Dr. Tirmarche also served as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities: Phase 1.


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