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Isaf Al-Nabulsi, PhD, DOE
At the 67th Health Physics Society (HPS) Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Spokane Convention Center 17–21 July 2022 in Spokane, Washington, a special technical session will be devoted to presentations and discussions of ongoing activities at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Domestic and International Health Studies. Cochaired by Dr. Isaf Al-Nabulsi (DOE), and Dr. Ashley Golden (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), this technical session is scheduled for Wednesday, 20 July.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Chapter 4, Section 31 requires research and development activities relating to the protection of health and promotion of safety during research and production activities. The DOE Office of Health and Safety fulfills the requirement by supporting health studies and other research activities to determine if DOE workers and people living in communities near DOE sites are adversely affected by exposures to hazardous materials from DOE operations and to address critical research needs for important occupational exposures. The ultimate use of the information is to protect and promote the health of DOE workers, their families, and residents of neighboring communities and to share the information and data with the public.
The purpose of the DOE international health studies program and activities at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, is to support the health and safety mission of DOE by providing new knowledge and information about the human response to ionizing radiation. The RERF activities represent unique opportunities to enhance our knowledge and to establish science-based worker and public protection standards and to fulfill humanitarian purposes.
The goal of this session will be to increase awareness of ongoing health studies activities supported by the DOE. HPS members are invited and encouraged to attend the session. The invited speakers for the special session and titles of their presentations are listed below:
- Harry Cullings, RERF, "Recent Developments in the Dosimetry of the Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors at RERF"
- Kotaro Ozasa, RERF, "Radiation Risk in the Life Span Study of Atomic Bomb Survivors"
- Osamu Tanabe, RERF, "Biorepository of A-Bomb Survivors and Their Offspring"
- Bruce Napier, PNNL, "Recent Improvements in Dose Reconstructions for the JCCRER Russian Studies"
- Dale Preston, Hirosoft International, "Recent Results From Studies of the Mayak Worker, Techa River, and East Urals Radioactive Trace Cohorts"
- Christopher Loffredo, Georgetown University, "The Russian Human Radiobiological Tissue Repository: A Unique Resource for Studies of Plutonium-Exposed Workers"
- Sergei Y. Tolmachev, USTUR, "US Transuranium and Uranium Registries: 2010–2022 Research Accomplishments and Collaborative Efforts"
- Martin Sefl, USTUR, "Uncertainties in Radiation Dose Assessment for Internally Deposited Plutonium in Support of Radiation Epidemiology"
- Maia Avtandilashvil, USTUR, "Beryllium in the Tissues of Former Nuclear Worker"
- Caleigh Samuels, ORNL, "Plutonium Bioassay Models for Reconstruction of Doses for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Rocky Flats Workers"
- Michael Bellamy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, "Reconstruction of Lung Doses for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation"
- Sara Howard, ORAU/ORISE, "Impact of the Department of Energy's Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) to the Million Worker Study"
- Ashley Golden, ORAU/ORISE, "Recent Findings From Three Department of Energy Cohorts in the Million Worker Study: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rocky Flats Site, and Tennessee Eastman Corporation"
- Larry Dauer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, "Million Worker Study: Status, Expansion and Vision"
For more information about the session, please contact Dr. Isaf Al-Nabulsi.
