Keynote speakers

Kenneth Kase

Kenneth Kase received a BS in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Masters Degree in Bioradiology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph. D. in Biophysics from Stanford University. He is currently President of the International Radiation Protection Association. During his career in Health Physics and Medical Physics he has held positions of Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Most recently he was an Associate Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Director of the Environment, Safety and Health Division. He is a Past President of the Health Physics Society and Honorary Vice President of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) in the United States. He has served as Scientific Vice President for Operational Radiation Safety and Chairman of Scientific Committee 46 on Operational Radiation Safety of the NCRP and on Committee 4 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). He has written over 70 articles on radiation protection, measurement and dosimetry, and has served as Associate Editor for the journals Health Physics, Medical Physics, and Radiation Research.


Mike Boyd

Michael Boyd is a senior health physicist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Radiation and Indoor Air/Radiation Protection Division. He joined EPA in 1988 after working for 8 years in radioactive waste management for a nuclear utility in North Carolina. As a member of the Radiation Protection Division’s Center for Science and Technology, Mike manages the development of new Federal Guidance documents that bring consistency to the methods used by U.S. agencies for radionuclide dose and risk assessment. He is also the co-chair of the Federal Guidance Subcommittee of the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS). This subcommittee is currently preparing a White Paper that discusses possible options for implementing the recommendations of ICRP Publication 103 in the United States. Mike serves on the Board of the Health Physics Society’s Radon and Environmental Section and is a past President of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the HPS. In the international area, Mike represents EPA on the OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency’s Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health and is a member of that committee’s Bureau. He has a B.S. in Biology and Master of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Kaare Ulbak

  Chief consultant Kaare Ulbak
- Graduated in physics from the Niels Bohr Institute
- Employed more than 35 years at the National Institute of Radiation
  Protection, Denmark, 1986-2006 as director
- Danish member of European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group
  (ENSREG)
- Member of Euratom Article 31 Group of Expert Group since 1986,
  2005-2010 as Chairperson
- Member of ICRP Committee 4, 1991-1995 and 2001-2005
- Member of Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC), 2002 – 2004
- Member of Commission on Safety Standards (CSS), 2004 – 2007
- Team leader of Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) to Australia, 2007
- Member of OPECD/NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health, CRPPH,
  1986 - present
- Member of the Board of the Nordic Nuclear Safety Research (NKS), 1989 - present


Dr. Ted Lazo, P.E., CHP

I hold bachelors and Masters degrees in Nuclear Engineering, and a PhD in Radiation Protection, and have in all my professional positions been focused on the practical application of my knowledge and experience. My experience has included applied decommissioning at Three Mile Island, environmental restoration at contaminated US DOE sites, operating laboratory and accelerator radiation protection at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and operational radiation protection at French nuclear power stations with FRAMATOME and EDF. I am presently with the NEA’s Division of Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste Management, where I am the Scientific Secretariat of the NEA’s Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH), and am responsible for all sub-groups (totalling approximately 250 experts from 28 countries). This work has focused on radiological risk assessment and management, stakeholder involvement and risk governance, radiation protection policy and regulation, nuclear emergency management, occupational exposure at nuclear power plants, and decommissioning. I am also the Chair of the International Congress Programme Committee for IRPA-13 (Glasgow, 13 – 18 May 2012).

My professional interests have always been with operational aspects of radiation protection.  I feel that it is hard to judge what is the “best” thing to do (standards, regulations, policy, operation, etc.) if one has not been spent a long time wearing a respirator or a bubble-suit actually trying to do something in a hot contaminated environment.


Renate Czarwinski

Renate Czarwinski began her career in Health Physics in 1971 with the study of Experimental Physics and Radiation Protection Physics at Technical University of Dresden finalized in 1975. After an industrial mission she moved to the National Board for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection in Berlin in 1977. She graduated a postgraduate study from 1982 to 1984 and got the license as inspector for radiation protection in nuclear facilities. During the same time she was responsible for authorization and supervision of interim storage facility for spent fuel at NPP Greifswald and radiation protection in nuclear facilities. From 1990 to 1996 as a research assistant she was responsible for internal and external dose assessments as well as for assessment of radiation exposures in building and environment. She coordinated national radon campaigns and managed European radon research projects. In 1996 Ms Czarwinski was appointed as Head of Radiation Protection at Workplaces Section in the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection with responsibilities for the assessment of safety and security of radioactive sources. Ms Czarwinski was the German representative in the development of the IAEA Action Plan on Safety of Radioactive Sources and the Code of Conduct on Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources.
Since 2007 Ms Czarwinski is Head of Radiation Safety and Monitoring Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. She is responsible for the Revision of Basic Safety Standards and development/revision of other Radiation Safety Standards. Radiation protection of patients and workers, monitoring services and exposures of the public due to natural sources of radiation and emergency situations are further topics of her responsibility.
Throughout her career Ms Czarwinski has been active in research activities related to radiation physics and in practical activities related to radiation protection. She has published over 70 papers. Furthermore she is active working voluntarily in national and international NGO’s.  Ms Czarwinski served on the Board of Directors of the German-Swiss Radiation Protection Association from 1991 and as the Executive Secretary between 1996 and 2003.
Since 2004 she is Member of the Executive Council  of the International Radiation Protection Association and was elected as Vice President of IRPA in 2008.
Since 1995 Ms Czarwinski is member of the editorial committee and subeditor of journal “StrahlenschutzPRAXIS” and since 2007 she is International Editorial Advisor to the Journal of Radiological Protection.


Augustin Janssens

Personal data
-   born 2.8.1949 in Etterbeek (B)
-   nationality: Belgian
Current position
-   European Commission, Head of Unit, Radiation Protection, DG
    TREN H.4 (since 01/05/2004)
Responsibilities
Legislation:
-   Involvement in drafting and negotiation of the Basic Safety
    Standards Directive (Directive 96/29 Euratom and new recast
    BSS)
-   Commission Recommendations on environmental radioactivity (Articles 36 and 37 of the
     Euratom Treaty)
-   Legislation on placing on the market of contaminated food and feeding-stuffs
Actions:
-   Implementation of Articles 35-38 of the Euratom Treaty
-   Verifications under Article 35 of environmental monitoring facilities
-   Opinions on planned disposal of radioactive waste (Art. 37)
-   Urgent information exchange between Commission, Member States and IAEA (ECURIE
    arrangements)
Representation:
-   RASSC (IAEA)
-   CRPPH (NEA)
-   ICRP Committee 4, Task Group on rehabilitation of contaminated territories
-   IACRS (Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety)
-   Secretariat for the revision of the International Basic Safety Standards
Education
-   1977: PhD in nuclear physics (University Ghent, highest distinction)
Career
-   1971-1985: Research at Nuclear Physics Laboratory (University Ghent) in radiation
    dosimetry, environmental radioactivity, natural radiation sources (radon gas, building
    materials)
    (some 60 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings)
-   1985-1989: European Commission, Safeguards inspectorate
-   1990-1999: Principal Administrator, Radiation Protection Unit of DG ENV)
-   Since 2000: management functions as Head of Sector and, since 2005, Head of Unit (DG
     ENV, DG TREN/ENER)
Membership of societies:
Belgian Radiation Protection Society (since 1971)


Christopher Clement

Mr. Clement graduated from McMaster University with a Master of Science degree in health physics, and is a Certified Health Physicist (CHP). He worked for a about decade with the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office (part of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited), a federal agency responsible for low-level radioactive waste management in Canada. He then worked for close to a decade with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC),Canada’s federal nuclear regulator. He held a number of posts at the CNSC, culminating in Director of the Radiation Protection Division, the CNSC centre of excellence for radiation protection, supporting all areas of the CNSC mandate. During that time, Mr. Clement was also co-chair of the Canadian national Federal/Provincial/Territorial Radiation Protection Committee, was the Canadian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Radiation Safety Standards Committee, and also represented Canada at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency’s Committee on Radiation Protection in Public Health.
In 2008 Mr. Clement left Canadian federal service to take on the position of Scientific Secretary of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). ICRP is an independent Registered Charity established to advance for the public benefit the science of radiological protection, in particular by providing recommendations and guidance on all aspects of protection against ionising radiation. The recommendations of ICRP form the foundations of radiological protection programmes and regulation worldwide. As ICRP Scientific Secretary Mr. Clement:
- is responsible for the overall management of ICRP similar to an Executive Director or Chief
  Executive Officer (whereas the ICRP Main Commission is the ICRP governing board presided
  over by the ICRP Chair);
- organizes and participates in all Main Commission meetings;
- occasionally gets involved in the scientific work of ICRP (most of this is done by ICRP
  Committees, Task Groups and Working Parties);
- is the Editor of the Annals of the ICRP;
- often represents ICRP in international fora; and,
- is one of two full-time paid positions within ICRP, the other being the Executive Assistant to
  the Scientific Secretary (all other ICRP members are part-time volunteers).