[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 227 (Monday, November 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 58391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28834]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Nominations of New Member of the Advisory Committee on the
Medical Uses of Isotopes
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Call for nominations.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is inviting
nominations, of individuals who are qualified as nuclear medicine
physicians, for a position on the Advisory Committee on the Medical
Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI).
DATES: Nominations are due January 26, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Submit nominations to: The Office of Personnel, ATTN: Ms.
Jude Himmelberg, Mail Stop T2D32, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Josephine M. Piccone, Ph.D., Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Telephone: 301-415-7270.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ACMUI advises the NRC on policy and
technical issues that arise in regulating the medical use of byproduct
material for diagnosis and therapy. Responsibilities include providing
guidance and comments on changes in NRC rules, regulations, and guides
concerning medical use; evaluating certain non-routine uses of
byproduct material for medical use; and providing technical assistance
in licensing, inspection, and enforcement cases.
Committee members possess the medical and technical skills needed
to address evolving issues. Currently the membership of the ACMUI
consists of five practicing physicians; a physician representing the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug
Administration; one nuclear pharmacist; one medical physicist; one
representative with the States' perspective; one patients' rights and
care advocate; and one health care administrator. The specialties of
the physicians on the ACMUI are: nuclear cardiology (one); therapeutic
radiology, with expertise in teletherapy and brachytherapy (two);
nuclear medicine research (one); and nuclear medicine (one). The term
of the current nuclear medicine physician member is scheduled to end
September 1996. Nominations for the position of radiation therapy
technologist/medical dosimetrist and medical physicist with expertise
in radiation therapy are currently being evaluated.
NRC is soliciting nominations of persons who are qualified as
nuclear medicine physicians. Persons having the aforementioned
qualifications are encouraged to apply.
Nominees must include four copies of their resume, describing their
educational and professional qualifications, and provide their current
address and telephone number.
All new cmommittee members will serve a 2-year term, with possible
reappointment to two additional 2-year terms.
Nominees must be U.S. citizens and be able to devote approximately
80 hours per year to committee business. Members will be compensated
and reimbursed for travel (including per diem in lieu of subsistence),
secretarial, and correspondence expenses. Nominees will undergo a
security background check and will be required to complete financial
disclosure statements, to avoid conflict-of-interest issues.
Dated at Washington, DC, this 20th day of November, 1995.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew L. Bates,
Advisory Committee Management Officer, Office of the Secretary of the
Commission.
[FR Doc. 95-28834 Filed 11-24-95; 8:45 am]
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