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Jim Smith James M. Smith, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Professor in environmental and occupational health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a consultant on nuclear and radiological terrorism. For twenty-two years he worked for the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and recently retired from there as Associate Director for Radiation in the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects. He was also appointed as a Distinguished CDC Consultant. His prior positions included Associate Research Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine and research physicist in radiation effects at the former RCA Space Center in Princeton, N.J. Dr. Smith has also served as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, as a member of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Working Group on Nuclear Threat Countermeasures, and as a member of the Nuclear and Radiological Technical Committee for the Global Health Security Action Group consisting of the Secretaries and Ministers of Health from the G-7 countries. He has been a member of the Editorial Boards for the Health Physics Journal and the Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. Dr. Smith, who has authored or coauthored over 100 technical papers and presentations in the field of radiation physics and biophysics, is a past recipient of numerous career awards, among them the U.S. Public Health Service Superior Service Award. He received his M.S. in theoretical physics and Ph.D. in experimental physics at West Virginia University and was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow in molecular biophysics at Florida State University. |