Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats

Meetings and Training

Future Meetings

• Radiation Exposures from Imaging and Image Guided Interventions: Eighth Annual Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium, December 9, 2009, National Academies, Washington, DC
• Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRR) Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation (MEIR) Courses (various dates scheduled for 2010)
• Health Physics Society 55th Annual Meeting & Exhibition—June 27 - July 2, 2010, Salt Lake City, UT
• 56th Annual Radiation Research Society Meeting—September 25 - 29, 2010, Maui, HI 

Past Meetings

• Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—September 30, 2009, Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD 
• 55th Annual Radiation Research Society Meeting—October 3 - 7, 2009, Savannah, GA
• Late Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiological Divide—May 4-6, 2009, Washington, DC
• 10th International Conference on the Health Effects of Incorporated Radionuclides (HEIR) —May 10 - 14, 2009, Santa Fe, NM
• Public Workshop (FDA/NIAID): Animal Models for the Treatment of Acute Radiation Syndrome—September 17 – 18, 2008, Gaithersburg, MD
• Partial-Body Radiation Diagnostic Biomarkers and Medical Management of Radiation Injury Workshop—March 5 – 6, 2008, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), Bethesda, MD
• Radiation Epidemiology Course—Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)—May 14 – 17, 2007, Bethesda, MD
• Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) Educational Seminar—Medical and Organizational Challenges Resulting From a Radiological or Nuclear Emergency—September 25, 2007, Bethesda, MD

• Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—Lecture Series. Center for High-Throughput Minimally Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Terrorism and Disaster—What Clinicians Need to Know: Radiation Attack: Rush University Medical Center and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) faculty authored a case series to provide continuing medical education for terrorism preparedness and other public health emergencies. The series of 14 case studies was developed to provide opportunities for health professionals to problem-solve issues related to terrorism or other public health emergencies.

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