University of Colorado Denver

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Health Physics Lectures:

Dan Strom

Dan Strom holds a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a certified health physicist. He has experience in medical and academic radiation safety operations, occupational radiation epidemiology, and graduate teaching in health physics. Since joining the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1991, he has provided technical support and assistance in health physics and risk analysis to a variety of clients. Dan is a Fellow of the Health Physics Society, serves as an HPS Director, and Council Member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.

Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation Lecture- Available soon on the MAP ERC online learning site!

Ionizing Radiation Slides.pdf

Uncertainty, Variability, Bias, Error, and Blunder Lecture-Available soon on the MAP ERC online learning site!

Blunder Slides.pdf

Bob Meyer: The Case for Clean, Plentiful Power

Dr. Meyer has more than 33 years of experience in the field of radiation protection and measurements. After serving as a U.S. Navy Officer, Dr. Meyer began his professional career as a research staff member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1976. At ORNL he published extensively on the modeling of human health risk associated with environmental releases of radioactive materials. On the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project beginning in 1983, he developed and managed worker protection and environmental monitoring programs covering more than 2000 workers at 22 U.S. tailings sites. He has performed environmental risk assessments for Federal weapons facilities, and, as Vice President for Chem-Nuclear Systems, directed the radioactive waste disposal site selection and design project for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the USEPA's Science Advisory Board Radiation Advisory Committee, the National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management, a National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements committee member, and has consulted and published in Vienna for the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is co-editor of the 900-page graduate-level textbook, “Radiological Assessment -- A Textbook on Environmental Dose Analysis." He currently directs the radiation protection and measurements group for Tetra Tech, in Fort Collins Colorado.

Luiz Bertelli: The Radiological Accident in Goiania

Dr. Luiz Bertelli, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will speak on the 1987 Goiania, Brazil radiation incident involving high-dose exposures, injuries, and deaths from an abandoned medical Cs-137 radiation treatment source.  Most of us have never experienced a severe radiation incident involving acute, high-level exposures and large populations of potentially exposed persons and the worried well.  Dr. Bertelli’s talk will stimulate thought and discussion regarding prevention of, planning for, and response to such an incident.  It will serve as a valuable and sobering reminder of the importance of the service we provide as radiation protection professionals.

Dr. Romberger: In Situ Recovery Uranium Mining

Dr. Romberger has over 40 years of national and international experience in teaching, research, and consulting at the university level and in the corporate setting. He has demonstrated knowledge in a wide range of hydrothermal mineral deposits including, but not limited to uranium, precious metals, and copper. His main approach is to use aqueous geochemistry in the development of genetic and exploration models for a wide range of deposit types, including high and low temperature uranium, and epithermal deposits, particularly those associated with porphyry systems. He also is well versed in sedimentary rock-hosted gold deposits.

Dr. Romberger has taught geochemistry and mineral deposits at Michigan State University and The University of Wisconsin, as well as The Colorado School of Mines. He has served as a consultant to a wide range of companies, including Newmont Gold AREVA and CAMECO, the latter two the largest nuclear power and world uranium producers, respectively. His greatest impact has been through in-house workshops and short courses on the application of geochemical models to exploration. His strength has been in the area of information transfer, where his objective is to impart useful, but sometimes complex, geochemical approaches to practicing exploration geologists, that give them a broader set of tools to help in understand the processes responsible for the formation of hydrothermal mineral deposits. He has also been involved with deposit-level field studies, including petrographic work on ores and alteration assemblages, and has served as an expert consultant for cases under litigation.

Dr. Romberger received his Bachelors and Doctorate degrees in Geochemistry in 1962 and 1968 respectively, from Penn State University. He presently holds the title of Emeritus Professor of Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, and continues to consult and lecture world-wide, including Canada, Australia, Portugal, and Ireland as well as in the United States.

Available on the MAP ERC online learning site! 

Dr. Lee Newman: Nukes to Nucleus: Beryllium

Dr. Newman is the founding Director of the NIOSH-funded Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center. Dr. Newman is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and a Professor of Epidemiology in the Colorado School of Public Health. He is also Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the Division of Pulmonary Science and Critical Care Medicine, in the School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver.  In the Colorado School of Public Health, he teaches Environmental and Occupational Toxicology as well as the Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Newman’s clinical practice has focused on patients with occupational and environmental lung disorders and providing consultation to industry, labor, community and governmental organizations. Dr. Newman conducts laboratory and epidemiologic research that integrates basic, translational and epidemiologic investigative approaches in the field of occupational and environmental respiratory disease.

Ronald L. Kathren: Toxicity of Uranium: A Brief Review with Special Reference to Man

Ronald L. Kathren is the retired Director of the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries Professor Emeritus at Washington State University and where he managed and performed research on the distribution, translocation, dosimetry and possible biological effects of the heavy elements including uranium, plutonium and americium in humans. Prior to joining WSU he worked in radiation safety at Battelle-Northwest and had a short stint as Director of Research at the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation.  His other interests include environmental radioactivity, education and training, and the historical aspects of the radiological sciences.  An avid book collector for many years, he donated his historical collection of some 3400 items, including original works by Mme Curie, Ernest Rutherford, JJ Thomson and Henry Smyth to WSU/TC, and hundreds of historic scientific instruments he collected over the years to various museums, including five loaned items now on display at the Smithsonian.  His historical interests in the radiological sciences are further underscored by a number of publications in that area, including serving as the chief editor and annotator for The Plutonium Story, Glenn Seaborg’s monumental diaries, and as a Trustee for the Smithsonian affiliated Museum of Atomic Testing in Las Vegas.  He is the author or coauthor of more than 170 scientific papers and several textbooks and a past President of both the Health Physics Society and the American Academy of Health Physics.  His scientific honors and awards include the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award and Elda Anderson Award of the Health Physics Society, the Hartman Medal of the Radiology Centennial, and the Arthur Humm Award of the National Registry of Radiation Protection Technologists.  Most recently he was named a Distinguished Graduate School of Public Health Alumni by the University of Pittsburgh. Ron is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh, and a licensed professional engineer and Diplomate of both the American Board of Health Physics and the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.  He married the former Susan Krafft in 1964, is the father of two children, and is active in community affairs, currently serving on the Boards of three charitable foundations.

Toxicity of Uranium.pdf (slides)

Renate Czarwinski: International Atomic Energy Agency more than a "watchdog"

 

Renate Czarwinski began her career in Health Physics in 1971 with the study of Experimental Physics and Radiation Protection Physics at Technical University of Dresden finalized in 1975. After an industrial mission she moved to the National Board for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection in Berlin in 1977. She graduated a postgraduate study from 1982 to 1984 and got the license as inspector for radiation protection in nuclear facilities. During the same time she was responsible for authorization and supervision of interim storage facility for spent fuel at NPP Greifswald and radiation protection in nuclear facilities. From 1990 to 1996 as a research assistant she was responsible for internal and external dose assessments as well as for assessment of radiation exposures in building and environment. She coordinated national radon campaigns and managed European radon research projects. In 1996 Ms Czarwinski was appointed as Head of Radiation Protection at Workplaces Section in the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection with responsibilities for the assessment of safety and security of radioactive sources. Ms Czarwinski was the German representative in the development of the IAEA Action Plan on Safety of Radioactive Sources and the Code of Conduct on Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources.

Since 2007 Ms Czarwinski is Head of Radiation Safety and Monitoring Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. She is responsible for the Revision of Basic Safety Standards and development/revision of other Radiation Safety Standards. Radiation protection of patients and workers, monitoring services and exposures of the public due to natural sources of radiation and emergency situations are further topics of her responsibility. 

Throughout her career Ms Czarwinski has been active in research activities related to radiation physics and in practical activities related to radiation protection. She has published over 70 papers. 

Furthermore she is active working voluntarily in national and international NGO’s.  Ms Czarwinski served on the Board of Directors of the German-Swiss Radiation Protection Association from 1991 and as the Executive Secretary between 1996 and 2003. 

Since 2004 she is Member of the Executive Council  of the International Radiation Protection Association and was elected as Vice President of IRPA in 2008.

Since 1995 Ms Czarwinski is member of the editorial committee and subeditor of journal “StrahlenschutzPRAXIS” and since 2007 she is International Editorial Advisor to the Journal of Radiological Protection.

Available on the MAP ERC online learning site!

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Henry Sokoliski: The Next Arms Race

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Next Arms Race presentation.pdf (slides) 

Dr. Doug Chambers:  SENES, ICRP Initiatives on Radon and Smoking

Dr. Douglas Chambers, Vice-President and Director of Radiation and Risk Studies at SENES. Dr Chambers has more than 35 years of experiencein the nuclear fuel cycle and is internationally recognized for his work in risk assessment, environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste management, and nuclear issues on behalf of industrial, governmental and both national and international agencies.

Dr. Chambers has been instrumental in the development of probabilistic (monte carlo based) tools for exposure pathways analysis, hazard assessment and risk analysis and has applied these tools to the assessment of many chemicals and radioactive substances. He has performed or directed numerous risk assessments, recent examples including in support of new nuclear generation at Darlington (near Toronto) and beyond design basis events at nuclear fuel processing facilities. He has directed and participated in large remedial actions and for example, was advisor to the Federal Ministry of Environment in Germany for the clean-up of former Russian/German uranium mining and processing activities in the former GDR.

Dr Chambers is a member of numerous professional societies was a founding member of the Canadian Radiation Protection Association, a member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Committee on Environmental Radiation Protection since 1977. He was a member of the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Board's (former) Advisory Committee on Radiological Protection (ACRP) in 1993 and was vice-chairman in 2001. Dr. Chambers is a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) since 1998 and has prepared two UNSCEAR Annexes (radon and non-human biota) and is currently active in the preparation of two new Annexes on tritium and uranium. He is currently a member of the USEPA’s Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC). Dr Chambers was the recipient of the 1997 W.B. Lewis award of the Canadian Nuclear Society for his achievements in environmental radioactivity. In February 2002, Dr. Chambers was the Morgan lecturer for the Health Physics mid-year symposium in Orlando.

Available on the MAP ERC online learning site!

SENES,ICRP Initiatives on Radon and Smoking.pdf (slides)