Current Board Members
Director Shaheen Dewji
FY2025 Assignments:
Committees: Science Support; Academic Education; Intersociety Relations
Sections: Accelerator; Instrumentation; Medical Health Physics
FY2024 Assignments:
Committees: Science Support; Academic Education; Intersociety Collaboration
Sections: Accelerator; Instrumentation; Medical Health Physics
FY2023 Assignments:
Annual Priority: A.3.1 Optimize HPS social media presence
Committees: Intersociety Relations
Sections: Accelerator; Medical Health Physics
Director Angela Leek
FY2025 Assignments:
Annual Priority: A.2.1 Implement video creation process; A.2.2 Implement process for video archiving; B.3.1 Document and publish LinkedIn and other social media posting process; B.3.2 Development and implement guidelines for content that can be posted under the HPS brand; B.3.3 Develop communication plan for reaching people who are not HPS members
Committees: Government Relations; HP Title Protection; Public Information; History
Sections: Academic, Industrial, Research Radiation Safety; Nonionizing Radiation
FY2024 Assignments:
Annual Priority: A.2.1 Develop process for proposal, review, and approval of video development; A.2.2 “Develop process to publish and publicize videos;” A.2.4 Develop categorized inventory of existing videos (History Committee involvement, in part)
Committees: Government Relations; Public Information; Video Resources Ad Hoc; Professional Standards and Ethics Task Force; History
Sections: Academic, Industrial, Research Radiation Safety; Nonionizing Radiation
FY2023 Assignments:
Annual Priority: A.2 Continue and assess video development for public education/outreach
B.1 Advance inclusive professional ethics and standards
Committees: Professional Standards and Ethics, History
Sections: Academic, Industrial, Research Radiation Safety; Nonionizing
Director Derek Jokisch
FY2025 Assignments:
Annual Priority: B.2.1 Develop strategies and begin implementation for increasing retention of current HPS members; B.2.2 Develop strategies and begin implementation for recruiting and retaining student members; B.2.3 Assess and implement recruitment of chapter-only members
Committees: Membership; Mentorship; Professional and Ethical Conduct; Student Support
FY2024 Assignments:
Annual Priority: B.1 Develop, implement, and institutionalize process to recruit non-health physicist radiation safety specialists; B.2 Develop strategies and begin implementation for increasing retention of current HPS members; B.3 Assess and implement recruitment of Chapter-only members (need coordination between Membership and Society Support).
Committees: Student Support; Radiation Protection Research and Education; Membership; Mentorship
Sections: Military Health Physics
Director Tanya Palmateer-Oxenberg
FY2025 Assignments:
Annual Priority: B.1.1 Develop process to create a virtual chapter
Committees: Management Services Review Ad Hoc; Nominating; Society Support
Sections: Environmental/Radon; Women in Radiation Protection
FY2024 Assignments:
Annual Priority: A.1.2 Develop communication plan involving multiple communication methods to effectively reach a broader audience (Society Support); B.1.1 Institutionalize process to transfer liaison responsibilities to SSC
Committees: Nominating; Society Support.
Sections: Environmental/Radon; Women in Radiation Protection
Director Greg Fairchild
FY2025 Assignments:
Annual Priority: A.3.1 Develop and implement a process to periodically survey members about the resources they desire as a benefit of membership
Committees: International Collaboration; Standards; N13; N43
Sections: Homeland Security and Emergency Response; Military Health Physics
Director Matt McFee
FY2025 Assignments:
Annual Priority: B.1.2 Implement process to publicize web support for chapters; C.1.1 Establish process for meaningful volunteer recognition; C.1.2 Publish descriptions of what committees do so potential volunteers have a greater understanding of where they might best fit; C.1.3 Establish and implement process to provide timely feedback to members that volunteer for a committee
Committees: 2025 Annual Meeting Task Force; 2025 Winter Workshop Task Force; 2026 Winter Workshop Task Force; Continuing Education Programs; Local Arrangements; Program
Sections: Decommissioning; Early Career