U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries
Advisory Committee
Guidance from the SAC
2014 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting
Comments
- Great use of Tri-Cities nursing students during autopsies and dissections.
- Appears to be increased interest in the USTUR by College of Pharmacy leadership, e.g. pharmacokinetics, genomics.
- Established higher goals for analytical throughput, and implementation of these higher goals was already proceeding.
- Found old Registrant data and reconstituted the Registrant list.
- Meeting very well organized, especially with respect to previous recommendations.
- Excellent presentations by staff including Maia, Brian, George.
- Resolved the issue of handling donations from Registrants lost to follow-up.
Recommendations
- Need to decide on a mechanism and proceed with gathering work histories.
- Complete the data quality objectives (DQO) document. This will be needed for contract laboratories also.
- Develop marketing/public information materials for the USTUR, i.e. recruiting brochures.
- Request funding for contract lab analyses to help clear the backlog.
- Participate in Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security (EHSS) occupational medicine and Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) occupational medicine conferences; hand out marketing materials.
- Make use of WSU’s public affairs office to publicize USTUR accomplishments and human interest stories, e.g. the science fair awardee.
- If desired, use the National Death Index to get vital status of recovered Hanford Environmental Health Foundation Registrants, then contact living persons for follow-up; however, try reasonable data search to see if Registrant meets qualification criteria before contacting.
- Continue to pursue opportunities for WSU student participation in the USTUR program.
- Clarify prioritization of samples for analysis.
- Need strategic plan review/revision for long term. Clarify the value of Registries data now and in the future.
- Continue presentations of USTUR data at scientific meetings; have marketing brochures handy.
- Continue collaborative research opportunities.