2020-04-29
In 2019, ICRP established a mentorship programme to engage university students and early-career professionals and scientists as mentees in ICRP Task Groups with the guidance of an ICRP member as mentor.
Mentees may come from educational, governmental, private, or any other organisation. This is a part-time voluntary arrangement, with mentees continuing to work at their home organisation most of the time. There is no fee, but the mentee’s home organisation will bear any costs associated with the mentorship.
While the first opportunities began last year, the bulk of the open positions have commenced this month:
| Task Group 111 Factors Governing the Individual Response of Humans to Ionising Radiation | Stephen Barnard, Public Health England, UK | Nobuyuki Hamada, TG111 Member | Literature review relating to the biology and epidemiology of late-developing tissue reactions, in particular, cataracts, circulatory disease and neurodegenerative disease. | One year starting 1 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 111 Factors Governing the Individual Response of Humans to Ionising Radiation | Julie Leblanc, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | Simon Bouffler, TG111 Chair | Literature review relating to the modification of responses to ionisingradiation by sex. There may be an opportunity to extend this to include modification of radiation responses by other factors. | One year starting 1 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 116 Radiological Protection Aspects of Imaging in Radiotherapy | Abdullah Abuhaimed, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia | Colin Martin, TG116 Member | Monte Carlo modelling to evaluate radiation doses to patients from imaging that will assist in evaluation of different optimisation strategies, especially relating to cone beam CT. This will include modelling of doses to sets of anatomical phantoms of varying size that may provide information which can be used in advising on adjustments that should be made for individual patients. | One year starting 1 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 116 Radiological Protection Aspects of Imaging in Radiotherapy | Mario Djukelic, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia | Tomas Kron, TG116 Member | Preparing notes or literature reviews on specific topics relating to the Task Group. | One year starting 1 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 116 Radiological Protection Aspects of Imaging in Radiotherapy | Sebastien Gros, Loyola University Medical Center, USA | Bill Small, TG116 Member | Develop specific sections of the Task Group document, and help review other sections. | One year starting 1 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 111 Factors Governing the Individual Response of Humans to Ionising Radiation | Weiwei Pei, Soochow University, China | Andrzej Wojcik, TG111 Member | Literature review relating to the modification of responses to ionisingradiation by various life-style factors. There may be an opportunity to extend this to include modification of radiation responses by other factors. | One year starting 7 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 110 Radiological Protection in Veterinary Practice |
Anthony Davila, USA | Nicole Martinez, TG110 Co-Chair | Critical review of relevant peer-reviewed literature, particularly as related to health effects in animals at low doses and dose rates, and how these effects and time of onset compare to human effects, and reviewing modern ethical philosophy and deontology associated with animal health care and welfare. | One year starting 27 April 2020, with possibility of renewal |
| Task Group 116 Radiological Protection Aspects of Imaging in Radiotherapy | Abdel-Hai Benali, Algeria Tushar Bopche, India Maria Cristine Plazas d'Leon, Columbia Yiannis Roussakis, Cyprus and Greece Hossam Ragab Shaaban, Egypt |
Colin Martin, TG116 Chair | As part of a team lead by Colin Martin, Jenia Vassileva, and Tim Wood, assist in the organisation of an international survey of imaging in radiotherapy. Establish contacts with radiotherapy departments in your country, distribute questionnaires, and carry out initial analysis of the data collected. Provide observations and insights into the way imaging is used and potential approaches to improving optimisation of radiological protection in your region. | One year starting 1 May 2020, with possibility of renewal |
For the full list of positions in our programme, please visit our Mentorships page.
Questions and inquiries can be directed to Kelsey Cloutier, Development and Communications Manager for ICRP.