{"id":1594,"date":"2019-09-19T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crpa-acrp-bulletin.ca\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2020-02-18T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T01:44:12","slug":"2019-crpa-award-winners-laureats-2019-de-lacrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crpa-acrp-bulletin.ca\/fr\/2019\/09\/19\/2019-crpa-award-winners-laureats-2019-de-lacrp\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 CRPA Award Winners \/ Laur\u00e9ats 2019 de l\u2019ACRP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJeff Dovyak, who was CRPA president at the 2019 conference, presented awards to the following recipients (left to right): Jing Chen, Tony Waker, Joe Cortese, and Ali Shoushtarian \/ Jeff\u00a0Dovyak, pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019ACRP lors de la congr\u00e8s de 2019, a remis des prix aux laur\u00e9ats suivants (de gauche \u00e0 droite) : Jing Chen, Tony Waker, Joe Cortese, et Ali Shoushtarian<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bb Richard V. Osborne Founders\u2019 Award<\/a>
\n\u00bb Distinguished Achievement Award<\/a>
\n\u00bb Meritorious Service Award<\/a>
\n\u00bb Raymond G. Ilson Leadership Award<\/a><\/p>\n

Richard V. Osborne Founders\u2019 Award<\/h1>\n

The recipient of the 2019 Richard V. Osborne Founders\u2019 Award was Dr. Jing Chen, Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada.<\/p>\n

The award honours CRPA\u2019s first Founders\u2019 Award recipient, our founding president, Dr. Richard V. Osborne. It recognizes outstanding contributions that enhance the reputation of the association and raise its profile as an important organization in radiation protection, or promote the benefits of membership in the association and encourage participation in association activities.<\/p>\n

Dr. Chen is a member of CRPA\u2019s International Liaison Committee. The committee\u2019s mandate is to promote CRPA internationally and to create or maintain liaisons with foreign and international organizations with goals or objectives similar to CRPA. Her many contributions to the following organizations have enhanced CRPA\u2019s reputation nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Dr. Chen has fostered collaborations between CRPA and several national or international organizations, such as the Canadian Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (CARST), Federal Provincial Territorial Radiation Protection Committee (FPTRPC), and Chinese Society of Radiation Protection (CSRP). She has represented Canada on committees or working groups of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

She worked on the Canadian Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) Working Group of FPTRPC, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Expert Group on Radiological Protection Science (EGRPS), and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) working group assessment of radioactivity in the Arctic. She was one of the experts who contributed to the development of WHO\u2019s Management of Radioactivity in Drinking-Water<\/em><\/a>. Dr. Chen joined the Canadian delegation to UNSCEAR in 2011, was an alternate representative from 2014 to 2017, and has been the Canadian representative since 2018.<\/p>\n

Dr. Chen is a consulting editor of radiation protection dosimetry and a member of the editorial board of the Radiation and Environmental Biophysics<\/em> journal and an international associate editor of the Radiation Environment and Medicine<\/em> journal.<\/p>\n

Dr. Chen has been a research scientist with Health Canada since 2001. Prior to that, she worked in the Institute of Radiation Biology at the GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health in Germany; the Environment, Safety, and Health Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States; and Bubble Technology Industries Inc., Chalk River, Canada. She has published 180 scientific papers and has received a number of awards, including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2012.<\/p>\n

Distinguished Achievement Award<\/h1>\n

The recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Achievement Award was Dr. Tony Waker, professor, Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).<\/p>\n

Dr. Waker is also the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) \/ University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE) Industrial Research Chair in Health Physics and Environmental Safety at UOIT.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining UOIT, he was a senior scientist and manager in radiation biology and health physics at the Chalk River Laboratories of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.<\/p>\n

The Distinguished Achievement Award is presented for outstanding contributions in the field of radiation protection. Recipients must have received recognition from peers, either nationally or internationally, for major accomplishments or significant contributions to the knowledge, practice, or advancement of the radiation protection profession.<\/p>\n

Dr. Waker has earned worldwide recognition for his work on experimental radiation measurement techniques and its application in neutron therapy (microdosimetry), which deals with the measurement of charged particle energy deposition in tissue equivalent volumes ranging in size from nanometres to micrometres. Microdosimetry is employed to improve our understanding of the relationship between radiation energy deposition, the resulting biological effects, and the appropriate quantities to be used in characterizing and quantifying radiation quality.<\/p>\n

His research also focuses on measurement and quantification of radiation quality for cellular, subcellular, and molecular systems for high linear energy transfer (LET) radiation and low-energy X-rays and beta particles; neutron activation analysis and neutron monitoring; and radiation detector development for radiation protection dosimetry.<\/p>\n

He has served on both national and international committees concerning radiation measurement and effects. In 2015, Dr. Waker was recognized for his teaching efforts when he received the Canadian Nuclear Society Education and Communication Award for \u201csignificant efforts in improving the understanding of nuclear science and technology among educators, students, and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Waker recently published a technical book, Microdosimetry: Experimental Methods and Applications<\/em>, intended for use in medical, radiation, and health physics courses. He is also a long-time CRPA supporter. Not only does he attend the annual CRPA conferences, he also sends health physics students to the conferences to share their research applications with the radiation protection community.<\/p>\n

He has a BSc in applied physics from London South Bank University, United Kingdom, and a PhD in radiation physics from London South Bank University, United Kingdom, and the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meritorious Service Award<\/h1>\n

The recipient of the 2019 Meritorious Service Award was Joe Cortese, radiation safety officer,\u00a0British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).<\/p>\n

The award recognizes significant services provided either to the association or to the radiation protection community in general.<\/p>\n

Cortese is a long-standing member of CRPA, whose attitude of \u201cwe can make this work\u201d has led him to join multiple CRPA committees at the same time. Not only is he the current chair of the Nominations Committee (with the frustrating job of finding candidates for election year after year), he also serves on the Professional Development Committee and the Membership Committee.<\/p>\n

Cortese was also the chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2014 CRPA conference in Vancouver and is currently contributing to the joint International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) \/ Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) \/ CRPA conference, to be held in Vancouver in 2020.<\/p>\n

He has a BSc in physics from the University of British Columbia and a diploma in nuclear medical technology from BCIT. Cortese achieved his CRPA(R) status in 2010.<\/p>\n

In addition to his responsibilities at BCIT, Cortese is a nationally recognized, well-respected radiation safety trainer and a private consultant who travels across Canada talking about radiation safety.<\/p>\n

Raymond G. Ilson Leadership Award<\/h1>\n

The recipient of the 2019 Raymond G. Ilson Leadership Award was Ali Shoushtarian.<\/p>\n

The award honours CRPA Founders\u2019 Award recipient and past president Raymond G. Ilson. It is presented to a CRPA member who has demonstrated or shows promise of leadership and has made a significant contribution to the radiation protection profession.<\/p>\n

Shoushtarian, as a forward-thinking and active member of the CRPA board of directors, has demonstrated leadership in the radiation protection profession and in the association. He leverages his large network to create partnerships to advance CRPA\u2019s mission. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n