American Nuclear Society Radiation Protection and Shielding Division

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American Nuclear SocietyRadiation Protection and
Shielding Division

• Presentation to the
• ANS Board of Directors
• David Court, Chair
• 19 Nov 03, New Orleans, LA

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RPSD Mission
The division promotes the interchange of
technology related to the transport of
particulate and electromagnetic radiation in
materials and biological systems techniques and
instrumentation to measure and calculate
radiation fields and the quantification of
radiation effects and nuclear heat deposition
within materials. Radiation protection
management, ALARA, operation health physics, and
radiation shield design and evaluation are key
subject areas.
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RPSD Governance

• Executive Committee Structure
• Chair John D. Court
• Vice Chair David Anderson
• Secretary Andrew Hodgdon
• Treasurer John Wagner
• Past Chair Jeff Johnson Program
  Chair Robert Hayes
• Membership Mark Blumberg
  Benchmarks Hamilton Hunter
• Honors Awards Bernadette Kirk
  Standards Bill Hopkins
• Scholarship Dan Ingersoll ANS BoD
  Liaison Sophie Gutner

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RPSD GovernanceExecutive Committee

• 2005
• John Bennion
• Don Dudziak
• Michele Sutton Ferenci

• 2004
• David Anderson
• Stephanie Frankle
• Nolen Hertel

• 2006
• Larry Townsend
• Elizabeth Selcow
• Jennifer Tanner

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RPSD Governance

• Succession Planning
• Vice-chair -gt Chair -gt Past Chair
• Overlapping board terms
• By-laws Draw officers from past board members

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Membership Trends
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Membership Trends
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Membership Trends
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Communications

• Division Newsletter
• Division Web Site
• http//rpsd.ans.org/
• New Webmaster
• Newsletters and Executive Committee Minutes
• Topical Conferences

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RPSD Contributions to ANS

• ANS Position Statements
• Position Statement No. 41 Health Effects of
  Low-Level Radiation
• Position Statement No. 19 on "Radon in the Home"
• Participation with Other Professional Societies
• Mathematics and Computation Division
• Health Physics Society
• OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
• Conference of Radiation Control Program
  Directors, Inc.

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RPSD Services to Membership

• Scholarships
• Everett P. Blizard Scholarship
• Peer Recognition/Awards
• ANS Fellow
• Service Recognition Award
• Professional Excellence Award
• Student Support
• Student National Support
• Student Conference Support
• RPSD Topical Conference Student Support

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RPSD Meetings

• National Meeting Participation
• Biennial RPSD Topical Conference
• 2002 Santa Fe
• 2004 Madeira, Portugal (Class II with ICRS 10)
• Co-Sponsor of MC 2003, Gatlinburg, TN

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Summary