Dr. James Smith currently works as Senior Consultant and Principal at Smith and Braselton, LLC.
2002-2006: Assoc. Division Director for Radiation, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA
1990-2001: Chief, Radiation Studies Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA
1983-1989: Chief, Physical Agents Effects Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC, Cincinnati, OH
1974-1982: Assoc. Research Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
1971-1974: Senior Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1969-1971: Research Physicist, Radiation Effects Group, RCA Space Center, Princeton, NJ
Areas of Interest
- Biomedical Sciences
- Emergency Preparedness
- Environmental Health
- Exposure Assessment
- Global Health
- Imaging
- Modeling
- Risk Assessment
Education
- BS (physics) 1964, W. Virgnia University
- MS (theoretical physics) 1966, W. Virgnia University
- PhD (experimental physics) 1969, W. Virginia University
Affiliations & Activities
Governor's Appointee to Georgia Board of Public Health (2010-11)
Scientific Committee, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (2005-2006)
G-7 Global Health Security Action Group, Nuclear and Radiological Technical Committee (2003-2006)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Working Group on Medical Management of Radiation Casualties( 2003-2005)Consultant, International Atomic Energy Agency (2003-2004)
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Working Group on Radiological/Nuclear Threat Countermeasures (2003-2004)
Editorial Board, International Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (2000-2005)
Editorial Board, Health Physics Journal (1986-1994)
Member, J. Kenyon Mason Institute, University of Edinburgh Law School, Edinburgh, Scotland. (2015-present)
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U.S. Public Health Service Superior Service Award for establishing CDC as major international focus for radiation epidemiology (1994)
Appointed CDC Distinguished Scientist/Consultant (2001-2006)
CDC Honor Award for Nuclear/Radiological Response (2004)
Nominee, CDC Charles C. Shepard Science Award for best scientific research paper of 2005