Jerrold T. Bushberg

Jerrold T. Bushberg, PhD, DABMP, DABSNM, FAAPM, FHPS Jerrold T. Bushberg is a clinical professor of Radiology and Radiation Oncology at the University of California (UC), Davis, School of Medicine. He served as associate chair of Radiology (Radiation Biology & Medical Health Physics) until 2018 and was awarded Emeritus status by the UC Davis Chancellor as Director of Medical/ Health Programs at that time. Dr. Bushberg is chair of the Board of Directors and senior vice-president of the United States National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. He is an expert on the biological effects, safety, and interactions of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and holds multiple radiation detection technology patents. With over 35 years of experience, he has served as a subject matter expert and an adviser to government agencies and institutions throughout the nation and around the world including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. EPA’s Radiation Protection Division, the National Academy of Sciences, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the World Health Organization’s Radiation Program, Geneva, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria, in the areas of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation protection, risk communication, medical physics, and radiological emergency medical management. A former Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, among other assignments, CDR Bushberg served as Executive Officer of CBNR120 Pacific, a highly skilled multidisciplinary military emergency response and advisory team. Dr. Bushberg is an elected fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Health Physics Society. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, as well as other enduring academic material outside the domain of medical physics covering such diverse topics as emergency medical response to radiological terrorism and electromagnetic interference of wireless telecommunications systems with cardiac pacemakers. Dr. Bushberg is certified by several national professional boards with specific subspecialty certification in radiation protection and medical physics and currently serves as a director of the American Board of Medical Physics and served as its vice-chair from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Bushberg has received numerous honors and awards including NCRP’s Warren K. Sinclair Medal for Excellence in Radiation Science in 2014 and the Christiansen Distinguished Alumnus Award from Purdue University in 2016. Before joining the faculty at UC Davis as technical director of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Bushberg was on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Radiology where his research was focused on radiopharmaceutical development. Dr. Bushberg has responsibility for medical postgraduate education in medical physics as well as ionizing and non-ionizing radiation biology and radiation protection.