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Mr. B.E. Stuck
US Army Medical Research Detachment USA
bruce.stuck@brooks.af.mil |
Bruce E. Stuck is the Director of the U.S. Army Medical Research
Detachment of the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research located at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas
with programmatic responsibilities for laser and
microwave biological effects research. He has
30 years experience in laser bioeffects research
and is the author/co-author of research on the
ocular and cutaneous effects of laser radiation,
the effects of laser exposure on vision and performance,
the assessment of laser accident cases, the treatment
of laser-induced retinal injury and assessments
of laser eye protection. Mr. Stuck is a member
of the Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology, the Laser Institute of America,
the Biomedical Optical Society of the SPIE and
the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI)
Z136 Committee which develops the ANSI Standard
for the Safe Use of Lasers. He has been serving
ICNIRP SCIV since July 1999. |
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Prof. E. Breitbart
Centre of Dermatology, Buxtehude, Germany
e.breitbart@elbekliniken.de |
Eckhard Breitbart is the head
of the Centre of Dermatology, Buxtehude, Germany,
and is working since many years in the fields
of clinical and experimental skin cancer research.
He is a member of the Standing Committee on Non-Ionizing
Radiation of the German National Radiation Protection
Board and of various national and international
scientific and medical societies. He is the former
President of the European Society of Skin Cancer
Prevention EUROSKIN whose aim is to reduce skin
cancer incidence and mortality by promoting and
co-ordinating collaboration between European specialists
in the fields of skin cancer research and prevention.
At the national level, he is instructed by the
government to establish an independent Skin-Cancer
Screening within the scope of the Cancer Early
Detection Programme in Germany. On the basis of
the "Round Table Solaria" in Germany he is also
instructed, in co-operation with WHO and the German
Cancer Aid, to establish a "European Certification
Standard for Solaria-Studios. He has been elected as an ICNIRP member in 2004. |
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Prof. Dr. P. Söderberg
Karolinska Institutet Sweden
per.soderberg@ste.ki.se |
Per Söderberg is a Professor of Ophthalmology. He is
the head of the Research Department, St. Erik's
Eye Hospital and the executive director of the
Swedish optometry program at the Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden. Main research interests are
effects of optical radiation in the eye with an
emphasis on ultraviolet radiation, cataract measurement,
and anterior segment surgery. His work includes
exploration of the pathophysiological mechanism
for UVR induced cataract, development of a new
model for determination of UVR toxicity in the
eye, determination of the influence of variables
such as age, sex, pigmentation, exposure time
and fractionation of exposure on UVR induced cataract
and development of new systems for measurement
of cataract. Dr Söderberg has served ICNIRP
SCIV since 2002. |
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Dr. J-P. Césarini
France
jpcesarini@free.fr |
Jean-Pierre Césarini, a certified pathologist, received his MD from the University of Marseille
in 1964, where he worked as an assistant professor
for pathology and research from 1968-1971. Since
1972 he has been a research senior for the French
National Institute of Health. From 1980 until
2001, he worked as Head of the Research Laboratory
on Oncogenesis, UVR and Human Skin at the Rothschild
Foundation for INSERM. His research interests
include epidemiological, clinical and pathological
aspects of melanoma and the effects of UVR on
human skin. Dr. Césarini is associate director
of Division 6 of CIE and chairman of several technical
committees. He has been an ICNIRP Member from
1992 to 2004. |
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Prof. Dr. B. Diffey
Dryburn Hospital UK
b.l.diffey@ncl.ac.uk |
Brian Diffey is Head of the Regional Medical Physics Department,
employing around 250 physicists, engineers and
technologists based at 15 hospitals across the
north of England. He is Professor of Medical Physics
in the University of Newcastle and also holds
a personal chair in Photobiology within the Medical
School. He has a considerable involvement in studies
of human exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation, its effects on human skin, and in measures that
can be taken to reduce excessive exposure, especially
the use of sunscreens. He was presented with the
1999 Medal by the Society of Cosmetic Scientists
for innovative contributions to the suncare industry,
and in April 2000 was a member of the International
Agency for Research on Cancer working group on
the Evaluation of Sunscreens as Preventive Agents
in Skin Cancer. He has published more than 300
papers in the medical and scientific literature
and spoken at over 200 national and international
meetings. He has served ICNIRP SCIV since 1998. |
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Dr. A. McKinlay
Health Protection Agency
Radiation Protection Division
United Kingdom
Alastair.McKinlay@hpa.org.uk
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Alastair McKinlay is Head of the Physical Dosimetry
Department at the United Kingdom Health Protection
Agency’s Centre for Radiation, Chemical
and Environmental Hazards. He is a graduate of
Strathclyde University Scotland where he received
a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Natural Philosophy. He was
awarded a Ph.D. by the UK National Council for Academic Awards for studies in thermoluminescence
dosimetry. Appointments held previously included:
Membership of the United Kingdom "Application
of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee"
(ARSAC): President of the UK National Committee
of the International Commission on Illumination
(CIE): Chairman of the European Commission Expert
Group on Mobile Telephony and Human Health and:
Founding member of the European Society of Skin
Cancer Prevention (EUROSKIN). Alastair is currently
President of EUROSKIN: A member of the Research
Steering Committee of the UK National Adult Brain
Cancer Study: A member of the Programme Management
Committee of the UK Mobile Telephone Health Research
Programme and: A member of the International Advisory
Committee of the WHO EMF Project. He was a Main
Commission Member of ICNIRP from its inception
in 1992 until 2004, its Vice-chairman from 1996
to 2000 and its Chairman from 2000 to 2004. |
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Dr. K. Schulmeister
ARC Seibersdorf Research Austria
karl.schulmeister@arcs.ac.at |
Karl Schulmeister is a physicist at the Austrian
Research Centers, Seibersdorf, Austria. He received
his M.Sc. in Technical Physics from the University
of Technology in Vienna in 1992 and an M.Sc. in
Computational Physics from the University of Dublin,
Ireland, in 1993. In 2001 he received his Doctorate
(technology) in Biophysics from the Vienna University
of Technology. Dr. Schulmeister has worked at
ARC Seibersdorf research (a governmental research
center) since 1994, where he is presently the
head of the working group „Laser and Optical Radiation“
in the Health Physics Division. Since 1994 his
research has concentrated on hazard assessments
and radiometry of optical radiation and lasers.
In recent years he developed a probabilistic risk
model for ocular laser damage which is used by
the European Space Agency for risk management
of space-based laser missions. He also serves
as lecturer for Non-ionizing Radiation Protection
at the University of Technology in Graz. Dr. Schulmeister
is head of the Austrian delegation to IEC TC 76
(Laser), where he is also technical secretary
of Working Group 1on radiation safety standards.
In 2002 he was elected to the position of Associate
Director of Division 6 “Photobiology” of CIE,
the International Commission on Illumination,
where he is also active in a number of Technical Committees. As a consulting member of ICNIRP,
he has actively participated in several ICNIRP
task groups on Light Emitting Diodes, Laser Pointers,
and Laser Guidelines, and Infrared Warming Cabins.
He has been serving ICNIRP SCIV since July 2003. |
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Dr. D.H. Sliney
US Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive Medicine USA
david.sliney@us.army.mil |
David H. Sliney received his B.S. in physics from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in physics and
radiological health from Emory University, and
his Ph.D. in biophysics and medical physics from
the University of London. He is the Manager of
the Laser/Optical Radiation Program at the US
Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive
Medicine. Dr. Sliney´s research interests focus
on subjects related to UV effects upon the eye,
laser hazards and laser applications in medicine
and surgery. He served as member, advisor and
chairman of numerous committees and institutions,
which are active in the establishment of safety
standards for protection against non-ionising
radiation in particular from lasers and other
high-intensity optical sources (ANSI, ISO, ACGIH,
IEC, WHO, NCRP). Dr. Sliney was an IRPA/INIRC
member from 1984-1992 and has been an ICNIRP member
from its inception in 1992 until 2004. |
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