Current News Archive

Marcia Hartman and Gen Roessler

Health Physics Society (HPS) members are familiar with the Ask the Experts (ATE) service started by HPS Past President Gen Roessler in 1999. Nearly 13,000 questions have been submitted and personally answered by our experts. Many of these questions and answers are posted along with FAQs and information sheets under 28 different radiation safety categories. The service has around 300 experts, and our ATE pages draw over one million visitors per year to the HPS website.

ATE recently welcomed new topic editors. Paul Charp is our new laser, infrared, and ultraviolet editor. He is taking over part of the nonionizing category and Gary Zeman will continue as the editor on other topics of that category. Jan Johnson is our new environmental and background radiation editor, succeeding Linnea Wahl. Linnea deserves many thanks for all of her excellent work for ATE. Earlier this year she became the new managing editor for the Health Physics Journal.

Vicki Morris is our new medical and dental patient issues decision editor, succeeding Steve King. Steve has worked effectively with Kent Lambert on that category for several years, but is now involved in a number of new HPS roles, including HPS treasurer.

Short résumés and photos of our new editors can be seen on our Meet the Editors page.

Gen has been invited to give the Third Thomas Tenforde Topical Lecture at the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) annual meeting on 2 April 2019. The theme of the meeting is "NCRP Meeting the Challenge at 90: Best Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions About Radiation." The title of her talk is "HPS Ask the Experts: Our Most Intriguing Questions and Answers." Gen is pleased that the HPS will have a chance to present the achievements the Society has made in the area of public outreach.

We thank our many experts and topic editors for all their work for ATE.