COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL PHYSICS AND RADIATION SAFETY
George W. Callendine, Jr., PhD
Jerome G. Dare, PhD, MS
Report to the Executive Committee Meeting of April 30, 1999. The state of Ohio will become an Agreement State, effective July 19, 1999. The Department of Health, through the Bureau of Radiological Health, will assume the management of programs formerly administered by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Institutions may merge their NCR-type and their Ohio Naturally Occurring Radionuclide licenses after July 19 by amendment.
The Bureau of Radiological Health within the Department of Health for the State of Ohio has recently reorganized to unify their directives. The umbrella organization called the Bureau of Radiological Health with Roger Suppes as the director is the authority for ail uses of radiation-producing machines and radioactive materials. One division will be responsible for X-ray, both medical [hospitals, clinics, medical offices, imaging centers, mobile units, etc.] and industrial. Another division will be responsible for industrial and medical nuclear material licensing and inspections for naturally occurring and accelerator produced radionuclides.
Just as it is important that the radiologists speak with one voice it is important that medical physicists in Ohio be unified when dealing with regulatory agencies. We are in the process of securing the names of all medical physicists who live and/or work in Ohio. The American College of Radiology is collating all physicists in Ohio who are members of the College. Listings of the Ohio physics members of the American Association of Medical Physicists, in the Penn-Ohio and Ohio River Valley chapters of the AAMP have be secured. The Cleveland Area Medical Physicists and other physicists who may not be members of the ACR or AAPM are being collected. A process will be developed to bring all Ohio medical physicists together. An organizational meeting is proposed for summer 1999 to be held at the OSRS office location. |
