Dr. Edward Maher is the recipient of the 2004 William A. McAdams Outstanding Service Award. This award is presented annually by the American Academy of Health Physics (AAHP) and the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP) to honor a certified health physicist who has made a significant contribution toward the advancement of professionalism in health physics and to the certification process. In conferring this award, the nominating committee especially recognizes Dr. Maher's sustained service to the programs and objectives of the ABHP for more than eighteen years. He has served as a member of the Panel of Examiners and as Chair of the Part II Panel. He has also served as a member of and in each of the offices of the ABHP. He continues his service as a member of the Health Physics Society Board of Directors, Secretary of the Society, and liaison to the AAHP from the Society.

Dr. Maher has more than 29 years of experience in conducting and managing radiological, safety, and environmental protection programs for clients. His educational preparation for this career began with his BS in electrical engineering from Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts. He continued his education receiving his MS in biomedical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts; and his doctor of science degree in radiological protection and health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1985. It was at Harvard, under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Dade Moeller, that Ed began his quest for health physics certification and full-time practice in health physics. His doctoral research was on radon measurement and control of radon in residences. Ed holds several patents with Dr. Moeller on indoor radon control technologies.

Upon receiving his BS degree, Ed was commissioned a second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force (USAF) and entered active military service in 1973 after completing his MS degree. He began his service conducting research and modeling studies in ocular laser damage that contributed to the development of laser exposure standards for the USAF Surgeon General. Ed was selected for doctoral studies at Harvard, and upon completion of his doctoral studies, he was assigned to the USAF Occupational and Environmental Health Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Ed served in a variety of positions that provided environmental and occupational health services to worldwide USAF installations. In 1994, Dr. Maher retired from active military service holding the rank of Colonel.

Following his retirement from military service, he went to work for Arthur D. Little, Inc., providing consulting services on occupational health and safety, health physics, industrial hygiene, and process safety management. In 1996, he became Director of the Yankee Atomic Environmental Laboratory providing laboratory and consulting services to Yankee's Nuclear Power Stations. When the laboratory was sold to Duke Engineering and Services, Ed remained as Director of the Environmental Laboratory. In addition to the technical and management positions that have formed Ed's career, there has also been a business development thread through his career. He has held business development roles at Arthur D. Little, Duke Engineering and Services, and Framatome-ANP. Ed is currently employed by Dade Moeller and Associates providing support to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health performing individual dose reconstructions for claimants under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.

As stated earlier, Ed decided to seek certification when he was a doctoral candidate at Harvard. He became a certified health physicist in 1986 and he immediately became involved in the certification process. From 1987 to 1992 he served on the ABHP Panel of Examiners. He chaired the Comprehensive Part II Panel of Examiners in 1992; this is a position with a great deal of responsibility and often, insufficient recognition for the personal commitment of time. As the Part II Chair, he made question writing assignments, conducted the workshop where questions were refined, led the question selection process, led the grading process and prepared statistical information on exam performance. He had two or three years off before serving on the Board progressing from Board member to Parliamentarian, Secretary, Vice Chair and Chair. Ed served as Parliamentarian and Secretary of the ABHP when the Board was seeking accreditation by the Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards. Ed undertook the task of revising and reformatting the ABHP Policy and Procedures Manuals to meet the requirements for accreditation while ensuring that the intent of Board policies and procedures were maintained. He continues his service as a member of the Health Physics Society Board of Directors, Secretary of the Society and liaison to the AAHP from the Society.

Today, the American Academy of Health Physics and American Board of Health Physics are proud to honor and recognize Dr. Maher for his many years of dedication and sustained service to the health physics profession and the certification process in particular. Dr. Maher exemplifies the personal attributes of the great leader that this award is named for. I take great pride and privilege in presenting the 2004 William A. McAdams Outstanding Service Award to Dr. Edward Maher.

Birch, Mary L., Vice Chair ABHP

Here at this 50th Anniversary meeting of the Health Physics Society, we have been looking back and celebrating the origins of our society. We celebrate the first meeting, the creation of our professional journal, and the first steps to the establishment of the certifying body, the American Board of Health Physics. In our profession, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the founders who had a vision for the unique field of Health Physics. The early history of the Board mentions two names prominently: Elda Anderson, in whose name the HPS annually honors a young health physicist, and William McAdams.

In 1989, the American Board of Health Physics established an award for outstanding service to the Board and to the professionalism of the practice of Health Physics in the name of William McAdams. Sixteen Certified Health Physicists have been honored with the award. Today, I am pleased to announce that the seventeenth recipient of the William A. McAdams award is Dr. Dade Moeller.

Dr. Moeller was born and reared in rural Florida where he grew up on a farm as a child of the Depression.  Upon graduating from high school in 1944 at age 17 (and with World War II underway), he enlisted in the US Navy and reported for active duty one month later. Seeing something special, the Navy sent him to school instead of to war.  Had it not been for the war and the Navy, he might not have had an opportunity to attend college.  His undergraduate career included studies at seven different schools and took an interesting turn.  Because Dade desired to obtain a degree from Georgia Tech, he developed a plan to get admitted to the university. He learned that Georgia Tech would only allow a limited number of transfers from specific programs. At the University of South Carolina at the time, Dade found out that one student per year was allowed to transfer to Georgia Tech from Howard University in Birmingham. So off to Birmingham he went. Dade eventually transferred from Howard, which was a seminary school, to Georgia Tech and as Dade tells it, he was just one course short of completing his divinity degree and becoming a minister. After all of the transfers, Dade received a BS in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Sanitary (Environmental) Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1948.

Dade then began his first job as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service (USPHS). While in the USPHS, he earned his doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State in 1957. During his 18 years in the USPHS, he was stationed in 10 different cities. His duty stations included the Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the headquarters offices of the Public Health Service in Washington, DC, the Robert A Taft Sanitary Engineering Center in Cincinnati, where he served as Director of Radiological Health Training, and the Northeastern Radiological Health Laboratory in Winchester, Massachusetts, where he served as Officer in Charge.  In 1966, he retired from the USPHS and joined the Harvard School of Public Health as an Associate Professor. As Dade will tell you, he joined Harvard because they asked. His final position at the school was Dean of Continuing Education. He was also awarded an honorary degree by the university.

Counting his time in the Public Health Service as one job, and his subsequent appointment to the faculty of Harvard University as his second, he had only two employers prior to his “official” retirement in 1993.  Dade is currently Professor Emeritus at the Harvard University School of Public Health. He remains active in our profession and serves President Emeritus and Chairman of the Board of Dade Moeller & Associates.

Many of you may not know that in the early years, the certification exam was offered twice a year. The first exam was offered by the ABHP on June 30, 1960 to fifteen applicants. Dr. Moeller successfully sat for the 2nd exam offered by the ABHP on December 10, 1960. He was one of 24 examinees and one of 14 who was successful.

Dr. Moeller was the first new member added to the initial ABHP Panel of Examiners with his term starting in the Panel's third year in 1962. He served on the Panel through 1965, and in his final year served as the Chair of the Panel of Examiners. He was named a member of the American Board of Health Physics the following year in 1966. He then served four years, from 1967-1970 as the Chair of the ABHP. His term of service remains the longest period of service as Chair in the history of the ABHP. This was also a period of great change as 1968 was the first year of the separate fundamental exam now known as the Part I exam. Dade also published an extensive analysis of the characteristics of applicants to be certified in the Health Physics Journal in May 1971. I should point out that Dade's mentoring was prominently mentioned in the citation of last year's recipient of the McAdams award.

Dr. Moeller was a member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and chaired the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste. He was on a subcommittee for BEIR-I (Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation), and was a member of the BEIR-III Committee. He represented the US on Committee 4 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, and was elected an honorary member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. One of his most recent activities (2002 - 2005) was to serve as chairman of the Science and Technology Review Panel, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S. Department of Energy.

He is the past President of the Health Physics Society, and a fellow in the American Nuclear Society, the American Public Health Association, and the Health Physics Society. He is a registered professional engineer in New Mexico and a Diplomate in the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, in addition to being a Certified Health Physicist. He has received special honors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Georgia Tech University, North Carolina State University, and the Robley D. Evans Commemorative Medal from the Health Physics Society.

A more detailed biography of Dr. Moeller was published in the Journal of the Health Physics Society in December 2003 honoring him as the recipient of the Robley D. Evans Medal. I would encourage all of you to look up the Evans' Medal Citation for more detail into his long career and accomplishments.

These accomplishments are even more impressive considering his lengthy publication list. Dr. Moeller's curriculum vitae runs 32 pages long with 237 specific publications as of June 2005, with over 30 since his retirement.

I would also be remiss in mentioning his accomplishments if I did not also mention his five children and sixteen grandchildren, and his service as an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of New Bern, NC.

To his extraordinary list of honors, it is my privilege and pleasure on behalf of the American Board of Health Physics to present the William A. McAdams outstanding service award to Dr. Dade Moeller.

James S. Willison, Vice Chair ABHP

As we enter our 51st annual meeting of the Health Physics Society, it remains appropriate to continue to celebrate the accomplishments and years of service by the "founding" members and early contributors of the Society. Without the dedication, sacrifice, and guidance of these individuals, the Society and the American Board of Health Physics would not be what it is today.

Since the founding of the William A. McAdams award for outstanding service to the Board and professional contribution to the practice of health physics, seventeen Certified Health Physicists have been added to the roster of awardees. Today, I am very pleased to add to that list, the eighteenth recipient, William C. Reinig.

Bill Reinig served in the Navy during World War II. He received his bachelor of mechanical engineering degree from the Polytechnic University in New York in 1945. After the war he joined General Electric, and began his career as a reactor health physicist in 1946 at the Hanford Works under the supervision of none other than William McAdams. In 1948, he was employed by Associated Universities and became the leader of the radiation protection program at the nation's first peace-time research reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory during its startup and initial operations.

In 1951, he was employed by the DuPont Company at the Savannah River Site to lead the preoperational environmental survey of the site. There he held various technical and management positions, including the superintendent of the Health Physics Department for 10 years. When Westinghouse became the operator of the Savannah River Site in 1988, he was appointed Deputy General Manager of the Environment, Safety and Health Department and a consulting scientist before his retirement in 1993.

Bill's activities for both the national and local Health Physics communities were numerous. He served on the Nominating and Code of Ethics Committees as well as the Council on Rules and Procedures. In 1964 and 1965, he was the Secretary of the Health Physics Society and in 1969-1971, he was a director of the Society. In 1979 and 1980, he was President-Elect and President. He is a charter member and a Fellow of the Health Physics Society. Bill also remained active on the local health physics scene, he was the Program Chairman of the 1968 Mid-Year Symposium and a Founder and President of the Savannah River Chapter of the Health Physics Society.

As one of the early contributors to the ABHP, Bill served on the first Examination Panel for the American Board of Health Physics from 1961 to 1967, serving as its chair in '62, '63, '64 and '66. He became a member of the ABHP Board of Directors in 1967, its Secretary-Treasurer from 1968 to 1974, and Chairman of the ABHP in 1975 and 1976. He also served as a director of the American Academy of Health Physics in 1986 and 1987.

Bill is a co-founder and serves as a director of Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness, the nation's largest non-profit, grass roots organization that supports the beneficial applications of nuclear energy. He served on the advisory committee for the Georgia Institute of Technology nuclear engineering and health physics programs.

He was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection. During his six years on the Council, he chaired the scientific committee on tritium measurements. He is currently a consociate member of the NCRP.

Bill is the editor of the book, Environmental Surveillance in the Vicinity of Nuclear Facilities, and author of over forty technical papers.

Shawn Googins, Vice Chair ABHP

The William A. McAdams Award is given in recognition of significant contributions to the certification process and the promotion of professionalism in the field of health physics. This year the Award is given to Ms. Kathryn H. Pryor in recognition of her energetic dedication to the practice of health physics and her prolific professional accomplishments.

For the past 25 years, Kathy has provided management and technical support to radiation protection programs at radiological facilities regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S. NRC), and Agreement States. Her well-rounded background includes assignments at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Trojan Nuclear Plant, University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus, and Southern California Edison Company.

Kathy attended the St. Andrews Priory School for Girls in Honolulu, HI, and was not particularly fond of science during her high school years. She was especially not fond of biology, having had to catch and transport a very large toad to school to disect in her biology class. Kathy began her college education in fashion design at the University of Hawaii. She came to the realization that perhaps a fashion design degree was not going to put enough food on the table, and instead switched to pre-medicine at Washington State University. Kathy graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. degree in Biology, followed by a M.S. degree in Radiological Sciences.

Following graduation, Kathy was offered a position at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Clemente, CA. She worked with a large number of Certified Health Physicists, all of whom provided support and encouragement in pursuing certification by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP). Kathy held technical support positions both at the plant and in Southern California Edison's corporate office. She then held the position of Radiation Safety Officer at the University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus, administering the school's radioactive materials license and managing the campus Radiation Safety Office. Kathy moved back to the Northwest for a position first as a Health Physicist and later as the Radaition Protection Technical Support Supervisor at the Trojan Nuclear Plant.

Kathy is currently a Chief Health Physicist at PNNL, with responsibility for regulatory analysis and technical support of the Radiological Safety and Health programs. Kathy also currently leads the Safety and Health task for the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility design project, managing the assessment of worker dose for the facility and the application of radiological controls to its design. Kathy previously held the position of Manager, Safety and Health Technical Support, managing a group of health physicists, industrial hygienists and safety engineers in providing technical support and field dosimetry services forhte Radiological Control and Worker Safety and Health programs at PNNL.

Kathy became interested in becomming a Certified Health Physicist while working as a technician in the University of Washington Radiation Safety Office. She has been certified by the ABHP since 1986, and was certified in both Comprehensive Practice and the Power Reactor specialty at the time. Kathy began her service to the ABHP on the Part II Examination Panel in 1990, including service as Vice Chair and Chair in 1993 and 1994. Following this, whe served on the ABHP as Board Member, Parliamentarian, Secretary, Vice Chair and Chair. Her service on the American Academy of Health Physics (AAHP) includes a term as the Secretary, as a Director, and on the Continuing Education and Nominating Committees.

While on the ABHP, Kathy actively provided oversight of the exam process in order to maintain a consistent level of quality. She also graded questions on the Part II exam each of the years that she was a Board Member, and frequently served as a Grading Group Leader. Kathy's goal as a Panel Member and subsequently as Panel Chair was to keep questions to a managable length, to strive for clarity and to maintain a balance of subject matter on the exam. Even years after her tenure, the ABHP continues to seek Kathy's counsel by asking her to perform final QA reviews of the certification examination in a process that has traditionally come to be know as the "Wise Person Review." She has ably served in this role many times.

During her tenure as Board Chair, the reengineering effort for the Part II Exam was underway. As a chief steward for the AAHP financial resources and the ABHP's reputation, it became important to reassess the progress towards reengineering of the Part II Exam. After carefully leading the Board through a rigorous analysis of the progress and status of this effort, the end result was that the Board voted to discontinue the reengineering effort and to examine alternate methods of achieving the goals of the Part II Exam. The succeeding Board did achieve this desired outcome through closing the Part II question bank and gathering statistics on the performance of the questions.

Kathy is currently serving as the Secretary-Elect of the Health Physics Society (HPS) and has previously served a term on its Board of Directors. She has also served the HPS on the Placement Committee, the Standards Committee, and as a member of various standards working groups. Kathy is a proud member of the Columbia Chapter of the HPS. The Chapter has greatly benefited from her active participation including offices as Secretary, President-Elect, President, and Past President. She also servied on the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2005 HPS Annual Meeting. Because of her many contributions to the field and her dedicated service to the Health Physics community and the profession, the Columbia Chapter selected her as the 2003 recipient of hte prestigious John P. Corley Meritorious Service Award.

Kathy and her husband, Dale, recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. They have three teenaged children: Jeffery, Erik, and Lindsey.

Jim Tarpinian, Vice Chair ABHP