James Smith
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct or Visiting, Environmental Health
Research Physicist, Radiation Effects Group,
RCA Space Center, Princeton, NJ (1969-71)
Senior Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biophysics,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (1971-74)
Assoc. Research Professor, University of Utah
School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT (1974-1982)
Chief, Physical Agents Effects Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC, Cincinnati, OH (1983-89)
Chief, Radiation Studies Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA (1990-2001)
Assoc. Division Director for Radiation, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA (2002-2006)
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U.S. Public Health Service Superior Service Award for establishing CDC as major international focus for radiation epidemiology (1994)
Appointed CDC Distinguished Scientist/Consultant (2001-2006)
CDC Honor Award for Nuclear/Radiological Response (2004)
Nominee, CDC Charles C. Shepard Science Award for best scientific research paper of 2005
Areas of Interest
- Global Health
- Imaging
- Public Health Preparedness and Response
- Risk Assessment
Affiliations & Activities
Consultant, International Atomic Energy Agency (2003-2004)
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Working Group on Radiological/Nuclear Threat Countermeasures (2003-2004)
G-7 Global Health Security Action Group, Nuclear and Radiological Technical Committee (2003-2006)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Working Group on Medical Management of Radiation Casualties( 2003-2005)
Scientific Committee, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (2005-2006)
Governor's Appointee to Georgia Board of Public Health (2010-11)
Editorial Board, International Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (2000-2005)
Editorial Board, Health Physics Journal (1986-1994)
Publications
- Whitcomb, RC, Ansari, AJ, Buzzell, JJ, McCurley, CM, Miller, CW, Smith, JM, and Evans, LE, 2015, A public health perspective on the U.S. response to the Fukushima radiological emergency, Health Physics, 108(3), 357-363, ,
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- Schneider AB, Smith JM, 2012, Potassium Iodide Prophylaxis: What Have We Learned?, Thyroid, 22, 344-46
- Donnelly, EH, Smith, JM, Farfan, EB, and Ozcan, I, 2011, Prenatal Radiation Exposure: Background Material for Counseling Pregnant Patients Exposed to Radiation, Disaster Med. and Public Hlth. Prep., 5(1), 62-68
- Smith, J. M., Ansari, A., Harper, F. W. , 2005, Hospital management of mass radiological casualties: contaminated victims from an exploded radiological dispersal device, 2005 , Health Physics Journal, 89(5), 513-520
- Smith, T. L., & Smith, J. M. , 2001, Electrosurgery in otolaryngology - head and neck surgery: principles, advances and complications, Laryngoscope, 111(5), 769-780
- Smith, TL and Smith, JM, 2000, Radiofrequency Electrosurgery. , Journal of Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 11, No. 1, 1-7., ,
- Devine, OJ and Smith, JM, 1998, Estimating Sample Size for Epidemiologic Studies: The Impact of Ignoring Exposure Measurement Uncertainty. , Statistics in Medicine, 17, 1375-1389. , ,
- Miller, CW and Smith, JM, 1996, Why Should We Do Environmental Dose Reconstructions? , Health Physics, 71(4), 420-424., ,
- Smith, JM, 1987, A Review of non-ionizing radiation research , Health Phys. 53, No. 6, 567., ,
- Schneider, AB and Smith, JM, 1987, Prophylaxis against radiation exposure from radioiodine, In Wartofsky, L and Van Nostrand, D (Eds) Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, Humana Pess, Totowa, NJ, In Press,
- Williams, FH, Smith, JM and R. Baerwolf, R, 1984, Contrast enhancement of fission fragment tracks for automatic counting by image analyzing microscopes. , Nuclear Instrument Methods in Physics Res. vol. 200, 585-588., ,