Baltimore Washington Chapter of the Health Physics Society

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Baltimore Washington Chapter of the Health Physics Society

Presents:

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Barrett N. (Barry) Fountos, Program Manager,
Russian Health Studies Program, US Department of Energy

Presentation Topic:

Recent Research Results from the Russian Health Studies Program

        Location:

The Barking Dog Restaurant
4723 Elm Street
 Bethesda, MD 20814
301-654-0022

The Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Health Physics Society 

cordially invites you to attend a technical dinner meeting.

Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011

6:00 pm: Social hour, cash bar

7:00 pm: Dinner

8:00pm: Speaker: Barrett N. (Barry) Fountos

Cost: $30 

• Caesar Salad

• Dinner Rolls

• Grilled Fish Entree with Lemon Butter Sauce

• Penne Pasta with Vegetables in Garlic Cream Sauce

• Steamed Wild Rice

• Coffee and Soft Drinks included

• Cash Bar Available

RSVP Deadline: Sean Austin by 4 p.m., December 31, 2010.

Speaker: Barry has over 31 years of public and private sector experience in occupational and environmental epidemiology, during which time he worked in 3 Federal agencies and 3 consulting firms, one of which was his own firm, Health and Environmental Research Associates (HERA), Inc. Mr. Fountos received his Bachelor's degree in Biology, cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University and his Master's degree in Preventive Medicine from the Ohio State University, where he majored in epidemiology and minored in biostatistics. Since 2002, Mr. Fountos has managed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Russian Health Studies Program, which assesses worker and public health risks from exposure to radiation during the production of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union.

Topic: Recent Research Results from the Russian Health Studies Program

The Joint Coordinating Committee for Radiation Effects Research (JCCRER) Program assesses worker and public health risks from radiation exposure resulting from nuclear weapons production activities in the former Soviet Union. This work results from the bi-national agreement between the United States and Russia called the JCCRER Agreement, which was signed in 1994, renewed in 2000 and again in 2007 through 2009, and is in the process of being renewed through 2014. The JCCRER Agreement established the legal framework for U.S. and Russian scientists to collaborate on radiation effects research. The products of the program are peer-reviewed publications on cancer risk estimates from worker and community exposure to ionizing radiation following the production of nuclear weapons in Russia. Radiation cancer risk estimates, in turn, will be used to validate and/or revise national and international radiation protection standards and practices. JCCRER projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

RSVP Contact: Sean Austin (email preferred), or 301-990-6006 or 240-372-0226. If you must cancel your reservation, please notify Sean Austin by the RSVP deadline..

NOTE: Please consider personally inviting a friend or colleague that either is not a member (or perhaps a not-so-active member) to join us for this meeting. Thanks!

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NEXT MEETING is tentatively scheduled for January 19, 2011 featuring Brooke Buddemeier from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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