Dr. Tabatadze elected president of Columbia Chapter of Health Physics Society
Stacey McComishGeorge Tabatadze has become a president-elect of the Columbia Chapter of the Health Physics Society (CCHPS). He began his three-year term in July 2017 and will serve one-year terms as president-elect, president, and past president between 2017 – 2019, respectively. The Columbia Chapter of the Health Physics Society (established in 1960) is a professional organization whose members are specialists in radiation safety. The CCHPS mission is to support its members in the practice of their profession and to promote excellence in the science and practice of radiation safety.
George Tabatadze has been appointed as a member of the International Collaboration Committee (ICC) of the Health Physics Society (HPS). He will begin his three-year term starting July 2015. Dr. Tabatadze previously served as an advisor for the committee in 2014. He has actively participated in planning the special session for the 2015 HPS annual meeting in Indianapolis, IN, including arrangements for the special speaker visit from the Georgian chapter of the Health Physics Society (Georgian Health Physics Association – GHPA). He also played a key role in nominating the GHPA president-elect for the 2015 HPS G. William Morgan lectureship.
USTUR director, Dr. Sergei Tolmachev, was appointed to serve a 2nd term on the Editorial Board for the Japanese Journal of Health Physics (JJHP). He worked in Japan at the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai-mura and the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Chiba before joining the College of Pharmacy faculty in January 2007. Dr. Tolmachev has served on the JJHP editorial board since November 2009.