The President's Message

HPS Accelerator Section 2004 Midyear Report

Date Prepared: January 2, 2004

Abstract: This report summarizes the activities of the Health Physics Society (HPS) Accelerator Section for the first half of the 2003-2004 business year. No recommendations to the HPS board are made in this report.

Recommendations for Action: None

Section Activities

1. The Accelerator Section of the Health Physics Society (HPS) held its annual business meeting during the 2003 Annual Meeting of the HPS in San Diego, CA. At this meeting, newly elected officers were announced, and their terms began. The officers of the section are as follows.
   • President: Bob Casey, Brookhaven National Lab
   • President-Elect: Sayed Rokni, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
   • Past President: Carter Ficklen, Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
   • Secretary: Lorraine Marceau-Day, Louisiana State University
   • Treasurer: Marcia Torres, Argonne National Lab
   • Newsletter Editor: Linnea Wahl, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
   • Directors
     • Stephen Butala (2006), Argonne National Lab
     • Ted deCastro (2004), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
     • Elaine Marshall (2005), Fermi National Accelerator Lab
     • Roger Sit (2005), University of North Carolina
     • Tosh Ushino (2004), Global Dosimetry Solutions, Inc.
     • Kamran Vaziri (2006), Fermi National Accelerator Lab
2. The president-elect Sayed Rokni is arranging the scientific program for the accelerator special session for next year's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. A half-day day program is planned. The details of our program will be provided to the chair of the HPS Program Committee by the end of January.
3. The Accelerator Section plans to nominate an accelerator health physicist as a G. William Morgan Lecturer at the Washington, D.C., meeting. Three outstanding personnel have been identified and the selection process is underway. Our nomination will be made to Otto Raabe by the end of January.
4. An announcement of the second annual Wade Patterson Memorial Award for the best annual meeting student accelerator paper/poster was included in the most recent Accelerator Section newsletter and was also forwarded to student advisors at all college health physics programs in the U.S. A follow-up announcement will be included in the February or March HPS Newsletter. Joe McDonald, a past section president, has agreed to chair the selection committee for a second year. The Patterson Award winner will receive a $250 cash prize and a certificate.
5. Our newsletter editor Linnea Wahl has issued the fall and winter quarterly volumes of the Accelerator Radiation Safety Newsletter. The newsletter is distributed via e-mail to all members of the Accelerator Section and to others interested in accelerator safety. The newsletter is also available at the website at http://www.hps.org/iarpe.
6. The section stands ready to support or sponsor a midyear meeting on the topic of radiation-generating machines for 2007 or 2008.