Science Teacher Workshops

The North Central Chapter, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers, provided a workshop for high school physics teachers on October 28, 2006, at the UW-Marathon campus in Wausau, WI.  Each attendee received a course notebook with lecture notes, hands-on materials, reference materials, and a portable radiation survey meter suitable for use in the classroom.

A list of instructors is at the end of this page.

Instructors

	Nick Bates is a health physicist at 3M Company with responsibility for directing the corporate radiation safety program at the Brookings, SD gamma irradiator facility. Nick has a B.S. in physics (mathematics minor) from Dickinson College and a M.S. in health physics from Purdue University. Nick is an Associate member of the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to joining 3M in 1998, Nick was a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. In that capacity, Nick served as a field team leader of the Air Force’s Broken Arrow emergency response team (AFRAT), and as a manager of several MARSSIM-based environmental decommissioning projects.
	Jeff Brunette is a health physicist for the Mayo Clinic since 1999. Some of his responsibilities include radiation safety in nuclear medicine, the PET cyclotron facility, and for CT shielding needs at the Clinic. Jeff has a BS in physics from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls and a MS degree in health physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jeff is certified by the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to working at Mayo, Jeff was employed as a health physicist at both the Charleston Area Medical Centers in Charleston, West Virginia and the VA West Side Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.
	Daniel Miron is currently a health physicist with Cardinal Health in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He has more than a dozen years of health physics experience in the medical and research environment, most of the time within the VA Healthcare System. Mr. Miron holds a BA degree in Physics from Ripon College. Dan is an associate member of the American Board of Health Physics and a member of the Health Physics Advisory Committee of Lakeshore Technical College, Cleveland, Wisconsin.
	Kimberly Knight-Wiegert has been a Radiation Safety Specialist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for over ten years and is currently the assistant Radiation Safety Officer. She also consulted as a Health Physicist for Zablocki VA Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2000 to 2003. Kimberly has a Health Physics degree from Lakeshore Technical College, Cleveland, Wisconsin and a Bachelors degree from Lakeland College of Wisconsin. She also has certified credits from the Radiation Safety Management Program from Black Rivers Falls, Wisconsin. Kimberly is an avid member of the Health Physics Society and the North Central Chapter.