Beasley, Charles Ward, Ph.D.

FILED AS:

Basic Science Research, Faculty, Informatics, Medical Physics

UPDATED ON:

January 5th, 2011

TAGGED:

Assistant Professor

Professional Focus:

Promoting the safe use of radiation in medicine.

Board Certifications:

• American Board of Medical Physics
• American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine

Selected Achievements:

2011

Appointed to Texas Board of Licensure for Professional Medical Physicists

Faculty of Radiation Safety Officer Course, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health at UT School of Public Health

2010

Invited speaker at Nuclear Medicine Technologists of Houston at Fall Symposium

Faculty of Radiation Safety Officer Course, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health at UT School of Public Health

Invited speaker at Alaska Society of Radiologic Technologists Annual Conference, Homer, AK

2009

Invited speaker at Nuclear Medicine Technologists of Houston Fall Symposium

Invited speaker at Nuclear Medicine Technologists of Houston Spring Symposium

Faculty at 56th Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting

Guest speaker at Radiation Safety Officer course, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health

2008

Faculty at 55th Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting

Editorial board member of BMC Medical Physics Journal

Guest speaker at Radiation Safety Officer course, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health

2007

Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Executive board member of the Radiation Safety Operations Section of the Health Physics Society

Guest speaker at Radiation Safety Officer course, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health

2006

Guest speaker at American Association of Physicists in Medicine Missouri River Valley Chapter Symposium

Guest speaker at Radiation Safety Officer course, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health

Member of St. John’s Regional Health Center Institutional Review Board

Councilor for Nuclear Science badge at Boy Scout Post # 339 Merit Badge University

2005

Guest speaker at Ozark Health Ventures Weapons of Mass Destruction Symposium

Member of St. John’s Regional Health Center Institutional Review Board

Councilor for Nuclear Science badge at Boy Scout Post # 339 Merit Badge University

2004

Member of St. John’s Regional Health Center Institutional Review Board

Councilor for Nuclear Science badge at Boy Scout Post # 339 Merit Badge University

2003

Guest speaker at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Nuclear Medicine Symposium

Faculty at 8th Annual Nuclear Medicine Spring Symposium, Southwest Missouri Subchapter Society of Nuclear Medicine

Councilor for Nuclear Science badge at Boy Scout Post # 339 Merit Badge University

2002

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

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
• USNRC (24-00866-02) Radiation Safety Officer, instrument calibration and leak testing (89-06)
• TDH (L00650) Broad License Radiation Safety Officer (2006-present)

Graduate Degrees:

2004

Ph.D., The University of Texas School of Public Health

1982

M.S., Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

1978

B.S., University of Houston

Postgraduate Training:

2010

Texas Radiation Regulatory Conference, Austin, TX

Hands-On Multi-Slice CT Workshop for Physicists at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

RADEYE G Course, Office of Global Threat Reduction Institute, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN

2009

MDS Nordion TheraSphere University, Chicago, IL

Alarm Response Force Training, Office of Global Threat Reduction Initiative National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge TN

2008

Diagnostic Physics Review Course, CAMPEP, Houston, TX

2007

National Nuclear Security Administration on Enhancing Security and Radioactive Materials, Houston, TX

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

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

American College of Radiology’s Symposium on Mammography Quality Control for Medical Physicist, San Francisco

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