San Francisco Radiation and Health Sessi

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Information on the ANS Low Level Radiation Health Effects sessions, and 

the Radiology Centennial Award Dinner/Lecture:  by Myron Pollycove MD,
Emeritus UCSF, 30+ years research and practice of nuclear medicine, and Head
of Nuclear Medicine at the SF General Hospital Med Center. Currently Visiting
Medical Fellow at the NRC. 

Dr. Pollycove will address nuclear medicine and health, and the science and
data of radiation health effects, including evidence of beneficial effects. 

The dinner is 6:00 pm, 7:30 presentation, Tue Oct 31 (Halloween! :-) at the SF 
Hilton and Towers, 333 O'Farrell St, SF, and is open to non-meeting attendees. 
Call ANS HQ at 708-579-8206 for tickets; or send me email. 

The rad health effects sessions are Tue Oct 31 and Nov 1:
Tue AM on "Data and Programs" - Papers
Tue PM on "Policies and Cost/Benefits" - Papers and Panel
Wed AM on "Biology Research and Beneficial Effects" - Papers
Wed PM on "Needs for Research, Communication, and Corrective Actions" 
   This is an "open meeting" of the participants (about 25)

Participants include among others:
Dr. Marvin Goldman, Immediate Past Pres HPS
Dr. Alan Waltar, Immediate Past Pres ANS
Dr. Jerry Cuttler, Pres CNS
Carol Marcus, PhD, MD, Pres Cal Chap Am College Nuclear Physicians
Dr. Sohei Kondo, Emeritus, Japan, author "Health Effects of LLR" (essential
reading) Dr. Robert Thomas, Fellow HPS, former Dir CHR Argonne, and DOE

Dr. James Trosko, U. Mich Genetics, former Dir Research RERF
Dr. Don Luckey, Emeritus U. Mo. Biochemistry, author "Radiation Hormesis"
Dr. Sadao Hattori, VP and Dir Research, CRIEPI Japan
Dr. John Cameron, Emeritus U Wisc Medical School
Dr. Takashi Makinodan, UCLA
Dr. Bernard Cohen, U.Pitt
Dr. Jerry Cohen, ret LLNL/SAIC
Dr. Alden Tschaeche, Fellow HPS
Dr. Allen Brodsky
Dr. Takeo Ohnishi, Nara Medical U. Japan
Dr. Sheldon Wolff, UCSF
Leonard Sagan MD, retired EPRI Dir Medical Research, (Editor HPJ 1987 issue on 
Hormesis) and others


Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com