Biosketch

ANTHONY C. JAMES is a Research Professor (Health Physics/Radiobiology) in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA. He joined the U.S. Transuranium & Uranium Registries (USTUR) in September, 2004, as its Associate Director. In July, 2005 he was appointed as the USTUR’s Director, with a 5-y grant renewal to the WSU College of Pharmacy from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Occupational Health (EH-53). Dr. James began his professional career with 17 years at the UK’s National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), where he led research on monitoring and internal dosimetry of radon and its progeny, and experimental studies of the biokinetics of inhaled “industrial” aerosols of plutonium and higher actinides. In 1988, he migrated to the Life Sciences Center, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he was a staff scientist in the Biology Department, and latterly a Group Leader and Laboratory Fellow in the Health Physics Department. He left PNNL in 1994, to establish an independent scientific consulting business specializing in internal dosimetry. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. James’ company developed (with NRPB) the ICRP68-based bioassay and internal dosimetry software suite “IMBA Expert™ USDOE-Edition” for DOE’s Offices EH-51 and EH-31. The new methodologies implemented in this software have replaced the ICRP30-based dosimetry methods previously used for regulatory dose assessments by DOE sites and contractors. His company also developed with NRPB the software “IMBA Expert™ OCAS-Edition” used by CDC/NIOSH’s Office of Compensation Analysis and Support (OCAS), and its health physics contractors, to reconstruct tissue doses from internal exposures to radionuclides received by individual claimants under the Department of Labor’s Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA 2000). Dr. James brings to the USTUR special experience in both practical and theoretical internal dosimetry of transuranic materials and uranium, including 15 y served as a scientific consultant on litigated cases. He also brings experience of active participation in the work of two ICRP Task Groups, reporting on “Protection against Radon-222 at Home and at Work” (ICRP Publication 65; ICRP 1993a) and the “Human Respiratory Tract Model for Radiological Protection” (ICRP Publication 66; ICRP 1994a), and of corresponding membership of the ICRP Task Group on Dose Calculations (DOCAL). Dr. James has served on a Scientific Committee of the National Research Council (NRC), and continues to be a member of NASA/DOE/EPA’s Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel/Biomedical and Environmental Effects Sub-panel (INSRP/BEES). He is also serving as a Member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements’ (NCRP’s) recently commissioned Scientific Committee 6-3 on “Uncertainties in Internal Dose Assessment” and as an Alternate Member on the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) for the Local and Regional Public Health seat. Dr. James holds two additional University Faculty appointments: (i) Faculty Affiliate, Dept. of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University; (ii) Faculty Affiliate, Department of Physics, Health Physics Program, Idaho State University. He has authored or co-authored well over 100 articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.