R. William Field

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R. William Field is an American Academic Scholar and Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology within the College of Public Health[1] at the University of Iowa.

He received a BS and MS degree in Biology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Preventive Medicine from the Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine at the University of Iowa in 1994. Dr. Field's research career started in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979. The research performed after the accident resulted in the only published scientific report documenting radioactive contamination to the wild food chain (voles - microtus pennsylvanicus) in the vicinity of the accident. Subsequent research examining, caesium-137 in White-tailed deer, demonstrated that there was not widespread contamination from caesium-137 as a result of the accident.

Dr. Field has been instrumental in advancing radiation exposure assessment methodology and has received numerous awards from various agencies including the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the National Environmental Health Association for his research in this area. In 2007, ABC-CLIO included Dr. Field as one of their 110 profiled historical figures in military, political, social, cultural, scientific, industrial, religious, and economic life. His groundbreaking work on retrospective radon dose reconstruction is known internationally, see: [2] Dr. Field currently directs the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health's funded Occupational Epidemiology Training Program at the University of Iowa[3]. Dr. Field serves on numerous national and international committees. He chairs the radon measurement working group for the World Health Organization's International Radon Project [4]and has also served on National Academy of Sciences Committees, including the "Review of the Worker and Public Health Activities Program Administered by DOE and DHHS".

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