RICHLAND, Wash. – Radiation effects expert John Boice will present on the past and future of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements as part of a Herbert M. Parker Lecture series at Washington State University Tri-Cities on April 10.

The seeks to formulate and widely disseminate information, guidance and recommendations on radiation protection and measurements, which represent the consensus of leading scientific thinking.

The free public presentation will begin at 5 p.m. in the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï East Auditorium. It is part of the Herbert M. Parker Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation, which partners with ÍøÆسԹÏ.

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Boice serves as the director of science for the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is an international authority on radiation effects, with more than 520 publications. He also currently directs the Million Person Study of Low Dose Radiation Health Effects, which examines the lifetime risk of cancer following low-dose exposures received gradually over time.

Boice has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Texas at El Pasco; a master’s in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; a master’s in medical physics and a doctoral degree in epidemiology from Harvard University.

He serves currently on the board of directors of Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the steering committee for the Image Gently Alliance and NASA’s research and clinical advisor panel on space radiation.

He also previously served 27 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, on the main commission of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, the Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction and was the first chief of the radiation epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute.

 

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Maegan Murray, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï public relations specialist, 509-372-7333, maegan_murray@wsu.edu

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RICHLAND, Wash. – Epidemiology expert Roy E. Shore will discuss what scientists and medical professionals currently know about the human health effects of radiation exposure as part of a Herbert M. Parker Lecture that will begin 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï East Auditorium.

Shore was a professor and chief of the epidemiology division at New York University School of Medicine before serving at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima-Nagasaki as vice chairman and chief of research. He is an author of approximately 100 radiation-related publications and is currently working with other investigators on studies of radiation and various diseases.

Shore’s interests include the effects of radiation on both cancer and noncancer disease incidence and understanding the epidemiologic and biological modification of radiation effects by various environmental, genetic and age factors.

This free public presentation is part of the Herbert M. Parker Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation, which partners with ÍøÆسԹÏ.

The Herbert M. Parker Foundation was created in 1987 to memorialize Parker and his many significant contributions to radiation protection, radiation biology, the environment and radiotherapy, and to support academic and public education in radiological and related sciences.

To learn more, visit the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Parker Foundation website, .