NCCHPS 20 January Meeting

["Jack H. Elliott" <jackelliott@home.com>]

January 2000 NCCHPS Newsletter Visit our NCCHPS Web Site! www.ncchps.org


January 20th Meeting: First Meeting of the New Year! Guest Speaker - Dave
Hickman, LLNL, will be speaking about some of his unclassified work in
Russia Where: Hungry Hunter Steakhouse 5104 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, CA
(925) 463-1244

Dinner Reservations due by 1/17/00

$20 pre-reserved/ $25 at door RSVP: John Pasinosky 650.354.7900
john.pasinosky@roche.com Cash bar at 6:00 p.m. Dinner at 7:00 p.m. Speaker
following.

Menu - (Please select one at the time you make your reservation. All served
with wild rice pilaf) ÿ Classic Cut of Prime Rib - Three quarters of a
pound of house specialty, coated with herbs, and slow roasted to the peak
of tenderness. ÿ Filet Mignon- A tender filet, charbroiled. ÿ Grilled
Norwegian Salmon - A generous 8oz filet of salmon, flame broiled, and
topped with a hint of garlic and butter. ÿ Forest Mushroom Chicken - A
flame broiled chicken breast, smothered with a mixture of rich portabella
mushrooms and house whiskey peppercorn sauce. ÿ Please let John know if you
have a special dietary consideration or require a vegetarian plate.


Try using MAPQUEST for directions to the meeting. http://www.mapquest.com/



Guest Speaker/Topic for January Meeting David Hickman is a principal
investigator in the Special Projects Division of the Hazards Control
Department. He is primarily responsible for basic and applied research and
development projects that relate to radiation health and safety issues. At
LLNL Hickman has investigated new techniques for calibrating in vivo
measurement equipment without using human surrogate structures, and
developed weapons accident emergency response equipment and a mobile
laboratory for use in former Soviet Republics.

Prior to joining LLNL, Hickman worked at Rockwell International in Golden,
Colorado, where he was responsible for health physics and internal
dosimetry. He also worked at Carolina Power and Light (CP&L), where he
provided technical assistance to CP&L's nuclear facilities and managed the
internal dosimetry program. As a scientist and internal dosimetrist for
Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories in Richland, Washington, Hickman
managed the bioassay program for the Hanford site. While studying for his
PhD, he researched aspects of radionuclide transport in estuarine systems,
metabolism and radiochemistry of polonium, anthropometric phantom
development, and in vivo measurement of internally deposited radionuclides.
Hickman has taught graduate-level Health Physics at San Jose State
University and has consulted with Lederle Laboratories and Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. In November 1992, he taught a course on internal
dosimetry for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Sydney, Australia.

Dave holds a PhD, Environmental Medicine from New York University, New
York, a MS in Radiology and Radiation Biology, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, and a BS, Zoology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
1976.

His research interest extends into: Health Physics, radiation protection,
methods and development of internal dosimetry computations and dose
assessment, new techniques for in vitro and in vivo bioassay, and
development of radiation instrumentation and air monitoring systems. Dave
has notable publications and presentations.


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Jack H. Elliott
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925  828-5225
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