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James  Smith

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct or Visiting, Environmental Health

Dr. James Smith currently works as Senior Consultant and Principal at Smith and Braselton, LLC.

2002-2006: Assoc. Division Director for Radiation, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA 

1990-2001: Chief, Radiation Studies Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA 

1983-1989: Chief, Physical Agents Effects Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC, Cincinnati, OH 

1974-1982: Assoc. Research Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT

1971-1974: Senior Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1969-1971: Research Physicist, Radiation Effects Group, RCA Space Center, Princeton, NJ 

 

Contact Information

, GA

Email: jsmith9@emory.edu

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Areas of Interest

  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Environmental Health
  • Exposure Assessment
  • Global Health
  • Imaging
  • Modeling
  • Risk Assessment

Education

  • BS (physics) 1964, W. Virgnia University
  • MS (theoretical physics) 1966, W. Virgnia University
  • PhD (experimental physics) 1969, W. Virginia University

Affiliations & Activities

Governor's Appointee to Georgia Board of Public Health (2010-11)

Scientific Committee, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (2005-2006)

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)Consultant, International Atomic Energy Agency (2003-2004)

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Working Group on Radiological/Nuclear Threat Countermeasures (2003-2004)

Editorial Board, International Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (2000-2005)

Editorial Board, Health Physics Journal (1986-1994)

Member, J. Kenyon Mason Institute, University of Edinburgh Law School, Edinburgh, Scotland. (2015-present) 

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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

Publications

  • , , SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, , ,
  • , , Prophylaxis against radiation exposure from radioiodine, In Wartofsky, L and Van Nostrand, D (Eds) Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, 3rd Edition, Springer, NY , , 1009-1012
  • , , A public health perspective on the U.S. response to the Fukushima radiological emergency, Health Physics, 108(3), 357-363, ,
  • , , Potassium Iodide Prophylaxis: What Have We Learned?, Thyroid, 22, 344-46
  • , , Prenatal Radiation Exposure: Background Material for Counseling Pregnant Patients Exposed to Radiation, Disaster Med. and Public Hlth. Prep., 5(1), 62-68
  • , , Hospital management of mass radiological casualties: contaminated victims from an exploded radiological dispersal device, 2005 , Health Physics Journal, 89(5), 513-520
  • , , Electrosurgery in otolaryngology - head and neck surgery: principles, advances and complications, Laryngoscope, 111(5), 769-780
  • , , Radiofrequency Electrosurgery. , Journal of Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 11, No. 1, 1-7., ,
  • , , Estimating Sample Size for Epidemiologic Studies: The Impact of Ignoring Exposure Measurement Uncertainty. , Statistics in Medicine, 17, 1375-1389. , ,
  • , , Why Should We Do Environmental Dose Reconstructions? , Health Physics, 71(4), 420-424., ,
  • , , A Review of non-ionizing radiation research , Health Phys. 53, No. 6, 567., ,