COMMITTEE ON PHYSICS AND RADIATION SAFETY REPORT
Report for the Executive Committee Meeting of September 19, 1999
- The State of Ohio had been delayed in status as an Agreement State of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, previously set at July 19, 1999. Individual or institutional NCR license may be merged with their NARM (Ohio) license by amendment to ODH.
- JGD is serving on the Rules Committee of ODH for Radiation Oncology. The committee is in the midst of developing new standards of review for radiation oncology radiation-producing equipment used in patient care.
- Since obtaining the ODH list of Certified Radiation Experts (CRE) from Dr. Chris Lee, the undersigned have contacted the two official subgroups which constitute Medical Physicists who worked in Ohio plus an unofficial group. The Penn-Ohio Chapter and Ohio River Valley Chapter are operated under the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The Cleveland Area Medical Physicists CAMP, is unaffiliated. Representatives of these groups have been inquired about the possibility of forming a new group of medical physicists who worked and/or lived in Ohio and whose livelihood will be impacted by the emerging rules of Ohio. A meeting of these representatives at OSRS is being scheduled to meet with Drs. Chris Lee, John Olsen, George Callendine and Jerry Dare.
- GWC and JGD have scheduled a meeting in October with Roger Suppes and Margaret Wanchik of ODH to review the qualifications of Medical physicists. The ODA rules show different credentials for working in a hospital as a CRE as opposed to those who serve in the private sector of radiation oncology centers and diagnostic imaging centers. The meeting will serve to itemize the exact requirements.
George W. Callendine, Jr.
Jerome G. Dare
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