USTUR Scientific Advisory Committee
2007 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting
History of the Scientific Advisory Committee
| Robert G. Thomas - Chair |
THOMAS, Robert G., PhD Scientific Member 1996-2004 Robert G. Thomas spent WWII in the US Navy as an Electronics Technician. He received an undergraduate degree in Physics from The St. Lawrence University in 1949 and a PhD degree from the University of Rochester in Radiation Biology and Biophysics in 1955. He has over 50 Senior Authored, open literature publications and many more as joint author. The subject matter of these has spanned a range of topics from the development of nuclear detection techniques to the biological effects of radioactive materials in experimental animals, including the human. He received honors from the Secretaries of State and Energy for his direction of field work in post-Chernobyl Eastern European countries. His service on National and International Committees is a matter of record in many fields dealing with the Nuclear Age. Thomas has served on many Civic Boards of Directors and Committees including a range from Sheltered Workshops for handicapped individuals to being Chief Umpire for Little League Baseball. In managerial circles he has been called a "Tough Monkey". |
| Robert Bistline - Scientific Member |
BISTLINE, Robert, PhD Scientific Member 3/14/2007 - 9/30/2010 Robert W. Bistline received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Radiation Biology in 1973, his M.S. in Radiological Sciences from the University of Washington in 1970, Graduate studies in Radiation Biophysics and Atomic Physics at the University of Kansas, and his B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences from Westmar College in 1959. He taught and coached in high schools in Kansas and taught and served as Admissions Director at Westmar College prior to entering the fields of research and Health Physics at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant in 1966. Dr. Bistline did research and development of lung counting of transuranics elements, conducted radiation worker cytogenetic studies, conducted radiation health effects studies and epidemiologic studies of radiation workers, served as one of 3 prosectors assisting in approximately 120 autopsies of workers for the U.S. Transuranium Registry, established a former worker recall call medical surveillance program that is now used by the Department of Energy, and was one of the pioneers in the DOE Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program. He has more than 50 scientific publications and has given several hundred presentations. Dr. Bistline was appointed to an Excepted Service position by the Secretary of Energy in 1994 and joined the staff of the Rocky Flats Field Office of the Department of Energy in 1995 where he served until retirement in 2005 as a Program Manager of the Internal Dosimetry Program, Occupational Medicine Program, Radiation Protection Program, and the Beryllium Worker Protection Program at Rocky Flats. He supported the DOE Headquarters on numerous technical committees, workshops, and the development of program guidance. Dr. Bistline has served on the Department of Energy Central Beryllium Institutional Review Board since its beginning. Upon retirement he has been consulting for the National Institute of Health, the Department of Energy, and as a technical advisor for the President's Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health that provides oversite of the NIOSH OCAS dose reconstruction project for the government's Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. He has received numerous awards that include the Department of Energy's Pride Award. |
| Herman Gibb - Scientific Member |
GIBB, Herman, PhD Scientific Member 3/1/2007 - 9/30/2010 |
| William Hayes - Radiochemistry |
HAYES, William, Radiochemistry Representative 10/24/2006 - 9/30/2009 |
| Dennis Mahlum - Scientific Member |
MAHLUM, Dennis, PhD Scientific Member 1/23/2001 - 6/30/2007 Dr. Dennis Mahlum received his B.S. in Chemistry from Whitworth College, Spokane Washington in 1955, his M.S. in Agricultural Chemistry from University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho in 1958, and his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin in 1962. Dr. Mahlum was employed at Pacific Northwest Laboratory (formerly operated by General Electric) from 1961-1994, with the exception of two leaves of absence from Battelle: First, he took a temporary assignment from 1975 through 1976 as Radiation Biologist, Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research, Energy Research and Development Administration, Germantown, MD. He also served on a 2-year assignment from 1991 through 1992 at the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Board on Radiation Effects Research, Washington, DC, where he was coordinator and study director for projects concerning ionizing and nonionizing radiation. Dr. Mahlum was Chairman of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements Scientific Committee 67 on Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields. He also served on the editorial board of the journal Toxicology and was a member of the American Institute of Nutrition, the Radiation Research Society, the Society of Toxicology, the Bioelectromagnetics Society and Sigma Xi. Since his retirement from Battelle in April 1994, he has been consulting with MACTEC at Richland, WA concerning export control information (ECI) and unclassified nuclear information (UCNI) contained in documents requested by litigants in a lawsuit between so-called "downwinders" and the U.S. Department of Energy's contractors at the Hanford site. |
| Kathryn Meier - University/Ethics |
MEIER, Kathryn, PhD Ethics Representative 3/1/2005 - 6/30/2007 Kathryn Elaine Meier received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. Currently, she is a professor for the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy at Washington State University where she is a member of the Center for Reproductive Biology and the Cancer Prevention and Research Center as well. Kathryn presently serves on two editorial boards; American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology) and Molecular Pharmacology, and serves on two National Committees; Executive Committee, ASPET Division of Molecular Summer Research, and Conference Committee, FASEB (APS representative). Dr. Meier provides manuscript reviews for approximately 20 different scientific journals, has served on seventeen different review boards, and has authored more than 100 manuscripts and abstracts. She has received many distinguished awards and honors during her career including the MUSC Teaching Excellence Award, Educator-Mentor category in 2001. |
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