Past
Meetings
April 30, 2015
Ten Things I Learned as a Health Physicist
Nancy Kirner, CHP, President-Elect, Health Physics Society
February 12, 2015
Invention of the Modern X-Ray Tube by William D.
Coolidge in 1913
David Allard,
CHP, Director of Pennsylvania's Radiation Control Program
November 4, 2014
NCRP Update and Million US Radiation
Worker/Veterans Dose Reconstruction
Dr. John Boice,
President, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
Professor, Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine
First Chief, Radiation Epidemiology
Branch at NCI
October 9, 2014
Health Physics Research Projects at RPI
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Motion Capture for Calculating Radiation Dose to Astronauts
- Kris Zieb
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Geometry Modeling for Space Radiation Environment - Hui Lin
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Latest Results on Radiation Dose to CT Patients - Yiming
Gao
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Design and Application of a New Neutron Detector - Adam Weltz
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Extremely Fast Monte Carlo Methods Using GPU and MIC
Coprocessors - Tianyu Liu
December 4, 2013
Things I Don’t Know About Epidemiology
Barbara Hamrick, HPS President Elect
November 21, 2013
Medical & Public Health Issues
Associated with a Response to a Nuclear Detonation in an Urban Area
Dr. Adela Salamie-Alfie,
NYS Department of Health
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Health Physics Research Projects at RPI
Students of the Radiation
Measurements and Dosimetry Group at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation: Estimating the Risks, Understanding
Their Significance
David J. Brenner, Ph.D., D.Sc. Higgins Professor of Radiation
Biophysics; Director, Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical
Center
Note: Event Sponsored by NYSDOH Wadsworth Laboratory. NENY
HPS Chapter members invited to participate.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Nuclear Criticality Safety and the Accident at Tokai-Mura
Dr. Ronald Knief, Sandia National Laboratory
Note: Event Sponsored by ANS Student Chapter of Excelsior
College. NENY HPS Chapter members invited to participate.
Monday, November 26, 2012
New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center Radiobioassay Programs
Dr. Ilham AlMahmid,
Director of the Radiobioassay Program, Laboratory of
Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, Wadsworth Center
September 25, 2012
Health Physics Society: Update from the National President-Elect
Dr. Darrell R. Fisher, President-Elect, Health Physics Society
March 22, 2012
Overview of New York State Response to Radiological Events and a
summary of the US Domestic Public Health and Medical Response to the Fukushima
Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Dr. Adela Salame-Alfie, Acting Director of
the Division of Environmental Health Investigation in the New York State
Department of Health (DOH)
January 13, 2012
Radiological / Nuclear Incidents and Events in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania
David Allard, Director of Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection
December 15, 2011
New York State Radiological Volunteer Program
Anthony DeAngelo, HPS NENY President
November 9, 2011
Grassroots Preparedness, a Radiation Risk Scale and Marketing of Health
Physics
Dr. Armin Ansari, HPS President-Elect
May 4, 2011
USDOE-EM Separations Process Research Unit Decontamination &
Decommissioning
Jim Willison, Dave Lowe and Steven Feinberg
November 17, 2010
Pit Disassembly and Conversion Project: Radiological Design
Considerations
Kathy Pryor, HPS President-Elect
October 13, 2010
Methods to Assess Patient Organ Doses from Radiotherapy and Imaging
Procedures
Dr. X. George Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
April 28, 2010
Separations Process Research Unit Cleanup (SPRU): Techniques and
Approaches to Remove and Stabilize Residual Radioactive Materials Prior to
Demolition
Steven Feinberg, DOE Federal Project Director
Doug
Jamieson, WGI Senior Engineering Manager
Richard
Hazard, WGI SPRU Radiological Controls Manager
March 2, 2010
Current Trends and Advances
in Medical Radiation Technology
Brian M. Methe'
Health Physicist / Medical Physicist
St. Peter's Hospital
January 20, 2010
An Update on the
Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors Activities (CRCPD)
Dr. Adela Salame-Alfie, NYS Department of Health
December 17, 2009
#1 - Health
Physicists Without Borders - - An Exciting Activity
#2 - Davis-Besse
Reactor Vessel Head Degradation, A Lesson in Off-Normal Conditions
Presented by George Anastas, P.E., CHP, FHPS, DEE,
FARPS
Past HPS President
November 5, 2009
New Concepts in
Radiological Emergency Planning
Presented by Edward F. Maher, Sc.D., CHP
HPS President-Elect
September 25, 2009
Historical
Development of the Periodic Table and the Chart of the Nuclides
Dr. Harold Knox, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
April 29, 2009
Detectors and
Radiation: Intersections for the Security Field
Dr. J. Scott Price, GE Global Research Center
February 26, 2009
RADON - - The Health Threat
with a Simple Solution
Nikolas Webster - Radiological Health Specialist Trainee II
Jerry Collins - Associate Radiological Health Specialist
Robert Snyder - Principal Radiological Health Specialist
January 6, 2009
Espionage Missions by U.S.
Navy Nuclear Submarines During the Cold War
Ray Misiewicz - Retired Engineer, Knolls Atomic
Power Laboratory
October 29, 2008
Will They Ever Learn? The
Public Education Game
Howard Dickson - HPS President-Elect
September 18, 2008
Decontamination and
Demolition of the Separations Process Research Unit
John Rampe - USDOE Site Manager Separations Process Research
Unit
Steven Feinberg - USDOE Federal Project Director
Richard Bartowsik - Chief Engineer, Washington Group
International, a Division of URS
June 4, 2008
An Analysis of Misadministrations
in Radiation Therapy in NY
Dr. Janaki Krishnamoorthy, NYS Department of Health
February 19, 2008
Radiological Fire
Disasters - Lessons Learned
Matt Norton, Vice President of Health Physics Operations for Philotecnics, Inc.
November 26, 2007
Current Research Projects in
Health Physics
Dr. X. George Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
September 26, 2007
Why No One Believes
Us: Cognitive Neuroscience and Radiation Risk
HPS President-Elect
Richard Toohey, Ph.D., CHP
February 27, 2007
Medical Response to
Radiation Incidents
HPS President-Elect
Kevin Nelson
January 23, 2007
Handbook for Responding to a
Radiological Dispersal Device – Dirty Bomb – The First 12 hours
Dr. Adela Salame-Alfie, Acting Director, NYSDOH
Division of Environmental Health Investigations
May 9, 2006
Nuclear Fuels Fabrication
Facility Remediation
Peter Collopy, Director - Environment, Safety and Health, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
November 2, 2005
New Regulations and Guidance
for Dealing with Radioactivity in Solid Waste in Pennsylvania
Dave Allard, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of
Radiation Protection
October 19, 2005
IAEA and the Control of
Radioactive Sources
Brian Dodd, President-Elect of the HPS
November 16, 2004
The Return of the Energy Crisis
Dr. Paul Swartz
September 24, 2004
Adventures in Nuclear and
Radiological Safety During Thirty Years at a Major
National Laboratory and Lessons Learned about Nuclear Power Advocacy and Public
Information Outreach during Twenty Years of Retirement
Ted Schoenberg
April 21, 2004
New Instruments for the Same
Old Challenges
Andrew Karam, Research Assistant Professor, Rochester
Institute of Technology
March 25, 2004
History of Low Level
Radioactive Waste
Art Green, Radiac
January 15, 2004
Serendipitous Radiation
Monitors
Dr. Robert L. Fleischer, Geology Department, Union College
A radon detector right in front of your
eyes?
June 5, 2003
Health Physics Society
Strategic Plan and Important Initiatives
Kenneth Kase, President-Elect of the HPS
December 5, 2002
Emergency Preparedness in
Response to Terrorist Threats at Power Reactor Sites
Michael Slobodien, Director of Emergency Programs,
Entergy - Northeast
October 8, 2002
Symposium - Management of Terrorist
Events Involving Nuclear Reactors or Radioactive Materials
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George Anastas, Past President, International Health
Physics Society
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Alan Brodsky, Chairman HPS Homeland Security Committee, International Health
Physics Society
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Dr. Robert Burhans, Asst. Division Director, Division
of Environmental Health Protection, N.Y. State Department of Health
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Dr. Paul Evancoe, Director Office of Emergency
Response, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
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Andrew Feeny, N.Y. State Emergency Management Office
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Dr. Marvin Goldman, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of California
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Dr. Ian Scott Hamilton, Professor Dept of Nuclear
Engineering, Texas A&M, Member of NCRP Report 138, "Management of
Terrorist Events Involving Radioactive Materials"
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Dr. Joseph Indusi, Chairman Non-Proliferation and
National Security Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Dr. Frank Marcinowski, Director Radiation Protection
Division and Center for Radiological Emergency Preparedness Programs, US
Environmental Protection Agency
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Michael Slobodien, Director Emergency Programs NY
Power Plants, Entergy Nuclear Corporation
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Sam Speedy, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Public Security, NY State
Governor's Office
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James Tarzia, Emergency Planning, New England Nuclear
Power Plants
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Dr Kerry Thomas, Program Manager, Office of Domestic
Preparedness, US Dept of Justice
Questions and Comments may be sent to the NENYHPSsecretary@gmail.com.
