Guest speaker at American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Missouri River Valley Chapter Symposium
2005
Guest speaker at Ozark Health Ventures Weapons of Mass Destruction
Symposium
2004 -2006
Member of St. John’s Regional Health Center Institutional
Review Board
2003
Guest speaker at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Nuclear
Medicine Symposium
2003
Faculty at 8th Annual Nuclear Medicine Spring Symposium, Southwest
Missouri Subchapter Society of Nuclear Medicine
2002 - 2006
Councilor for Nuclear Science badge at Boy Scout Post # 339 Merit
Badge University
2000
Guest speaker at the Missouri Society of Radiologic Technologist
Fifth District
1996
Member of the Medical Radiation Control Private Industry Task Force
to review and update Missouri radiation protection rules impacting
medical facilities
1995
Guest speaker at the Society of Nuclear Medicine Southwest Missouri
Valley Subchapter
1994
Guest speaker at the 62nd Annual Missouri Society of Radiologic
Technologist
1991
Creative idea award from administration at St. John's Regional Health
Center
1989
Radiologic Health Section Program Chair for the American Public
Health Association Annual Meeting
1988
Accepted scientific exhibitor at annual meeting of the Society of
Nuclear Medicine
1987
Invited lecturer at Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section,
14th Annual Meeting
1985
Invited lecturer for the Nuclear Medicine Science Refresher Course,
Southwestern Chapter, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Experience:
July 2006 - Present
The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston
Assistant Professor of Radiology
At the University, teach medical physics to medical students, residents
and hospital staff. Member of University Radiation Safety Committee.
Serve as Radiation Safety Officer for Memorial Hermann Hospital
and Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza. Develop and manage the diagnostic
and interventional uses of radioactive materials and machine-produced
radiation throughout the institution.
Nov. 1989-June 2006
St. John's Hospital
Springfield, MO
Diagnostic Medical Health Physicist
Manage the Health System’s (ranked in the top 20 health care
systems) radiation protection program. Listed on NRC license as
radiation safety officer for six facilities and authorized to perform
survey instrument calibration and leak testing. Provide support
for Radiology (232,000 annual procedures), Nuclear Medicine (15,000
annual procedures), Cardiac Catheterization (6,000 annual procedures),
and Laboratory. Participate with review of new equipment and make
purchasing recommendations. Instructor in St. John’s School
of Radiologic Technology. The main facility is licensed for 1000
beds, is a level 1 trauma center and ranked in the top 100 hospitals.
Aug. 1982-Oct. 1989
Baylor College Of Medicine
Houston, TX
Clinical Instructor of Radiology
Provide instruction to medical school students in Radiology and
Nuclear Medicine Residency programs. These classes and laboratory
covered radiation protection and instrumentation used to detect and
image x-ray and gamma rays. Also taught students in the Baylor College
of Medicine School of Nuclear Medicine Technology. Remainder of time
spent as assistant radiation safety officer at St. Luke's Episcopal
Hospital-Texas Heart Institute and Ben Taub General Hospital both
in the Texas Medical Center.
Associations:
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Nuclear Society
American Public Health Association
Health Physics Society
Society of Nuclear Medicine
License:
Texas (MP0359) Diagnostic Radiological, Medical Nuclear and Medical
Health Physics
Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas
1982
M.S., Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
1978
B.S., University of Houston-University
Park, Houston, Texas
Postgraduate Training:
2007
National Nuclear Security Administration on Enhancing Security and
Radioactive Materials, Houston, TX
2007
Texas Radiation Regulatory Conference, Austin, TX
2006
PET/CT Hands-On Short Course at UT M D Anderson, Houston,
TX
2005
US DOT Specialized Hazmat: Radioactive Materials, Oklahoma City,
OK
2005
Health Physics in Radiation Emergencies, Oak Ridge, TN
2002
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Medical Workshop, Chicago, IL
1999
The Physics and Technology of Mammography, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Diagnostic Physics Review Course, CAMPEP, San Antonio, TX
1996
St. Francis Hospital Breast Seminar, Tulsa, OK
1994
What MQSA Means To Your Mammographic Site, Eastman Kodak Company
Health Sciences Division, St. Louis, MO
1992
Achieving Excellence in Mammography, TNI, Inc Denver, CO
1991
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Medical Workshop, Chicago, IL
1991
American College of Radiology's Symposium on Mammography Quality
Control for Medical Physicist, San Francisco, CA
1991
Specification, Acceptance Testing and Quality Control of Diagnostic
X-ray Imaging Equipment, AAPM Summer School, University of California
at Santa Cruz
1988
Texas Conference on the Regulation of Radiation, Austin, TX
1986
SPECT Preceptorship St. Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, CA University
of California, San Francisco, CA
