Radiation Safety Committees

Radiation Safety Committee Morningside Campus

The Radiation Safety Committee of Columbia University supervises and oversees the use of radioactive materials and radiation-generating devices for:

Morningside Campus
Barnard College
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Nevis Laboratories

Name: Robert Anderson
Title: Chairman, Radiation Safety Committee Senior Research Scientist
Office: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Name: Peter F. Caracappa
Title: Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer
Office: Environmental Health & Safety

Name: Kathleen A. Crowley
Title: Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety
Office: Environmental Health & Safety

Name: Jeremy R. Dodd
Title: Lecturer in Discipline
Office: Department of Physics

Name: Guy Garty
Title: Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at CUIMC Associate Director, Radiological Research Accelerator Facility
Office: Radiological Research Accelerator Facility

Name: William A. Lannon
Title: Director of Research and Techinical Services
Office: Department of Biological Sciences

Name: Brian J. Mailloux
Title: Professor, Department of Environmental Services
Office: Barnard College

Name: Howard Matza
Title: Manager of Security Safety
Office: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Name: Ran (Angela) Meng
Title: Deputy Radiation Safety Officer
Office: Environmental Health & Safety

Name: David Ng
Title: Associate Research Scientist
Office: Jerome L. Greene Science Center

Name: Juliana Powell
Title: Director for Research Operations, Morningside
Office: Sponsored Projects Administration

Name: Todd Raffa
Title: Director of Laboratories
Office: Department of Chemistry

Joint Radiation Safety Committee (JRSC)

The Joint Radiation Safety Committee supervises and oversees the use of radioactive materials and radiation-generating devices for Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian and Allen Hospitals and New York State Psychiatric Institute. This includes the use of radioactive materials for in vitro research, clinical diagnosis and treatment and clinical trials research.

Chairman
Joshua L. Weintraub - Chairman, Joint Radiation Safety Committee, Professor of Radiology (in Surgery) at CUIMC

Name: Stephen Balter
Title: Professor of Clinical Radiology (Physics) (in Medicine)

Name: Peter F. Caracappa
Title: Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Simon K. Cheng
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology

Name: Kathleen A. Crowley
Title: Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety

Name: Mikhail Doubrovin
Title: Associate Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: Andrew Einstein
Title: Victoria and Esther Aboodi Assistant Professor Director, Cardiac CT ResearchCo-Director, Cardiac CT and MRI

Name: Amichai Erdfarb
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology at CUIMC and Chief of Radiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital

Name: Konstantinos Georgiou
Title: Associate Director and Radiation Safety Officer, Clinical Radiation Safety Program

Name: Klaus A. Hamacher
Title: Associate Professor of Radiology (Physics) at CUIMC

Name: Sachin Jambawalikar
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology (Physics) at CUIMC

Name: Norman J. Kleiman
Title: Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Name: Lawrence Koutcher
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at CUIMC, Department of Radiation Oncology at NYP Hudson Valley Hospital and NYP Westchester Hospital

Name: Yinghui Mao
Title: Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology

Name: Ran (Angela) Meng
Title: Deputy Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Jeffrey M. Miller
Title: Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (NYSPI) at CUIMC

Name: Vivian G. Ng
Title: Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC

Name: Michael J. Price
Title: Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology (Physics)

Name: Guy W. Ross
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: Sukhjit Tom Singh
Title: Corporate Director-Facilities Environment of Care Compliance at NYP

Name: Mark R. Soffing
Title: Director, Quality & Regulatory Affairs Radiology/Kreitchman PET Center at CUIMC

Name: Daniel Wald
Title: Director of Diagnostic Imaging & Interventional Cardiology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Hudson Valley Hospital

Name: Joshua L. Weintraub
Title: Chairman, Joint Radiation Safety CommitteeProfessor of Radiology (in Surgery) at CUIMC

Name: Rebekah L. Wiley
Title: Director of Nursing and Cardiac Operations at NYP

Alternate Members

Matthias Quick, Associate Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUIMC

Name: Stephen Balter
Title: Professor of Clinical Radiology (Physics) (in Medicine)

Name: Kathleen M. Capaccione
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology

Name: Peter F. Caracappa
Title: Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Simon K. Cheng
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology

Name: Mikhail Doubrovin
Title: Chairman of Human Use Sub-CommitteeAssociate Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: Sachin Jambawalikar
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology (Physics)

Name: Lynne L. Johnson
Title: Professor of Medicine at CUIMC

Name: Ran (Angela) Meng
Title: Deputy Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Mark R. Soffing
Title: Director, Quality & Regulatory Affairs Radiology/Kreitchman PET Center at CUIMC

Name: Joshua L. Weintraub
Title: Chairman, Joint Radiation Safety CommitteeProfessor of Radiology (in Surgery) at CUIMC

Members: Noor Ahmad; Assistant Professor of Radiology, Director, Radiology-Quality & Patient Safety

Members: Stephen Balter; Professor of Clinical Radiology (Physics) (in Medicine)

Members: Peter F. Caracappa; Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer

Members: Kathleen A. Crowley; Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety

Members: Carlos Dube; Director of Radiology

Members: Konstantinos Georgiou; Associate Director and Radiation Safety Officer, Clinical Radiation Safety Program

Members: Klaus A. Hamacher; Associate Professor of Radiology (Physics) at CUIMC

Members: Gabriel A. Hellmann; Biomedical Imaging Manager

Members: Abigail Lane; Chair, Radiation Quality Assurance Subcommittee, Manager Imaging Services at NYP

Members: Adam Riegel; Director of Clinical Medical Physics

Members: German Sanchez; Director of Radiology at NYP Westchester

Members: Daniel Wald; Director of Radiology at NYP Hudson Valley Hospital

Members: Rebekah L. Wiley; Director of Nursing and Cardiac Operations at NYP

Name: Marc Brown
Title: Associate Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: Peter F. Caracappa
Title: Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Yunsuo Duan
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychology)

Name: Sachin Jambawalikar
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: Itamar Kahn
Title: Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Name: Rachel Marsh
Title: Chairman, Joint MR Research Safety Committee, Associate Professor of Medical Psychology at CUIMC

Name: Ran (Angela) Meng
Title: Associate Director, Research Radiation Safety Program, Deputy Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Benjamin Navot
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: John Thomas Vaughn, Jr.
Title: Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Name: Silvia Cenzano Villagarcia
Title: MRI Safety Officer

Technologists Approved to Administer Radionuclides by Injection for Diagnostic Purposes

Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC)

The RDRC, is chartered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is responsible for reviewing and approving research involving the administration of unapproved radiopharmaceuticals intended to solely obtain information about the human physiology, pathophysiology, biochemistry or metabolism of the drug. The RDRC review and approval of such studies is in lieu of obtaining a FDA review and approval of an investigational new drug (IND) application.

Committees Contact:
Yvette Acevedo
Senior Coordinator Radiation Safety Committees
Columbia University
Radiation Safety Office
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (212) 305-4095

Chairman
Joseph G. Jurcic - Chairman, Radioactive Drug Research Committee Professor of Medicine at CUMC Director, Hematologic Malignancies Section Division of Hematology/Oncology

Name: Peter F. Caracappa
Title: Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer

Name: Mikhail Doubrovin
Title: Associate Professor of Radiology at CUIMC

Name: Klaus A. Hamacher
Title: Associate Professor of Radiology (Physics) at CUIMC

Name: Joseph G. Jurcic
Title: Chairman, Radioactive Drug Research Committee Professor of Medicine at CUIMC
Director, Hematologic Malignancies Section

Name: Akiva Mintz
Title: Professor of Radiology at CUIMC/Director of the Columbia University Kreitchman PET Center at CUIMC

Name: Mark R. Soffing
Title: Director, Quality & Regulatory Affairs Radiology/Kreitchman PET Center at CUIMC

Non-voting management Member

Deborah F. Stiles – Vice President for Research Operations & Policy Chief Operating Officer (OEVPR)

Laser Safety Committee (LSC)

The Laser Safety Committee of Columbia University supervises and oversees the laser operations for:

Morningside Campus
JLG
Medical Center
NYSPI
Nevis Laboratories

The primary purpose of the Committee is to ensure the safe use of lasers within the organization.

Members: Peter F. Caracappa; Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer

Members: Milan Delor; Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Members: Konstantinos Georgiou; Associate Director and Radiation Safety Officer, Clinical Radiation Safety Program

Members: Alexander Harris; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Members: Elizabeth Hillman; Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology

Members: Darcy S. Peterka; Chairman, Senior Research Scientist and Director of Cellular Imaging, Zuckerman Institute

Members: Peter A. Sims; Assistant Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Members: David Sulzer; Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology) at CUIMC

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