Bushberg Jerrold T

Jerrold Bushberg is currently a Clinical Professor of radiology and radiation oncology with the U.C. Davis School of Medicine. He is the Director Emeritus of the Medical/Health Physics Programs. He retired as an Associate Chair of the Department of Radiology in 2018. He served as an Executive Officer of the Chemical/ Biological/Nuclear Technical Unit 120 Pacific, a military emergency response and advisory team. He is a former Commander with the U.S. Naval Reserve, CDR. He was a member of Radiology Faculty, Yale School of Medicine. With over 40 years of experience, he has served as a Subject Matter Expert and an Adviser to government agencies and organizations, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the WHO, and the IAEA in the areas of ionizing and nonionizing radiation protection, risk communication, medical physics, and radiological emergency medical management. He is an expert on biological effects, safety, and interactions of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, and he holds multiple radiation detection technology patents. In 2016, he was an appointed Vice-Chair of COMAR, Technical Committee of IEEE EMBS. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors and the Senior Vice President of NCRP. He serves as the Director and the Vice-Chair of The American Board of Medical Physics. He has been responsible for medical postgraduate education in medical physics, radiation biology, and protection for more than 35 years. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Health Physics Society, certified by several national professional boards with subspecialty certification in radiation protection and medical physics. In 2014, he received the NCRP Warren K. Sinclair Medal for Excellence in Radiation Science and the Professor John C. Christiansen Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Purdue University School of Health Sciences, in 2016.