Professional Bio
John D. Boice, Jr, ScD, is a Research Professor of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is past president of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and currently the Director of Science.
Dr. Boice is an international authority on radiation effects and served on the main commission of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) for 20 years and as a U.S. advisor to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) for 25 years. During 27 years in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), he developed and became the first chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), retiring as Captain. His seminal discoveries and over 560 publications have been used to formulate public health measures to prevent radiation associated diseases.
Dr. Boice has a master's degree in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; a master's in medical physics from Harvard; and a doctorate in Epidemiology from Harvard. He received the Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Award of Merit; the EO Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy; the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States; the outstanding alumnus award from the University of Texas at El Paso; the Distinguished Service Medal from the USPHS; and the NCI Director's Award in 2021. In 2022 he was elected to the Inaugural Fellows Class of the Radiation Research Society (RRS), and in 2023 delivered the RRS Failla Award Lecture. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the U.K. Society for Radiological Protection in 2022. The John D Boice Jr. Young Investigator Award was established by NCRP in 2019 to recognize early career professionals.
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Education
MS - Nuclear Engineering and Science - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1968
ScM - Environmental Health Science, Med. Radiol. Physics - Harvard University, 1974
ScD - Epidemiology - Harvard University, 1977
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