2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
The 2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee (HPIC) meeting will take place on the UNM-LA campus September 24, 25, and 26. The last time the HPIC met in New Mexico was…
How the Nuclear Bomb Gave Us the Computer
http://youtu.be/0rMdwCdczB0 At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.'s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan project was busy building a bomb that would be a…
2012 RGC HPS Spring Technical Meeting, Celebrating our 50th Anniversary
April 16 – 17, 2012 at the La Fonda Hotel 100 E. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 The Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society is excited…
History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex
JOINT DINNER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT “History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Highlights” Speaker: Charles Loeber, DOE and SNL (retired). Abstract: The Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) is a nationwide group of government…
ORAU Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection
Oak Ridge Associated Universities with the assistant of the Health Physics Society, recently began the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection. For more information on the collection please visit: ORAU…
Image Gently® and Society of Nuclear Medicine Launch “Go With the Guidelines” Pediatric Nuclear Medicine Campaign to “Child-Size” Radiopharmaceutical Dose
This fall, Image Gently® and the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) have unveiled the "Go With the Guidelines" awareness campaign, encouraging community hospitals, academic hospitals and clinics to observe new…
RGC HPS Board Meeting
The Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society will be having a board meeting on October 19 at 6:30 pm at El Norteno. Please contact us if you wish…
RGC HPS President-Elect Dinner Meeting at La Fonda
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Social hour: 6:00 pm (Cash Bar) Plated Dinner: 7:00 pm ($30/perons, includes annual RGC HPS dues) Guest Speaker: 8:00 pm…
Armin Ansari, PhD, CHP (short bio)
Armin is a health physicist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serving as subject matter expert in CDC’s radiation emergency preparedness and response activities. Armin received both…
Grassroots Preparedness, a Radiation Risk Scale, and Marketing of Health Physics
by Armin Ansari, PhD, CHP HPS President Elect This presentation has three distinct segments. The first segment discusses the significant impact that radiation professionals (health and medical physicists, nuclear medicine…