Navy RHO/RS Retired Affairs
CAPT David George
CAPT(ret) George
Contact Information:
Accomplishments During Service:
-As Specialty Leader to the Surgeon General, guided the Navy Radiation Health Program for six years. Rewrote six of the Navy Medical Department's seven instructions detailing conduct and procedures for the Navy Radiation Health Program. Ensured through duty assignments and counseling that prospective officers for senior radiation health and medical physics positions had the necessary understanding and experience to successfully relieve their predecessors and continue the program.
-Conceived and developed a generic gamma counting procedure for Navy industrial facilities to determine if potentially radioactively contaminated tools, calibration instruments and test equipment could be returned to use versus being scraped. Net savings to the Navy has been approximately $3M per year since the procedure was implemented in 1984.
- Developed automated survey and analysis techniques for evaluating large areas of ground within industrial facilities to determine if the area has been contaminated by Navy's radiological work. System's field of view could see increased levels of radioactivity to a depth of 30 inches in soil. Technique resulted in approximately $30M savings in environmental restoration work at Mare Island Naval Shipyard alone.
-Achieved radiological environmental free-release of Mare Island, Charleston and Long Beach Naval Shipyards upon their closure.
-Directed Navy review for compliance with informed consent and ethics standards for all experiments (1944-1997) involving human test subjects where subjects were exposed to ionizing radiation.
-Authored the first radiation health protection instruction for hazards from non-ionizing radiation.
-Designed the present National Naval Medical Center's (NNMC) Radiation Oncology Department and performed shielding calculations for the treatment areas.
-Developed algorithm to use readings on the current Navy four chip LiF TLD badge to determine the badge's background exposure.
Other:
-Certified in Radiological Therapeutic Physics by the American Board of Radiology.
-M.A. in Physics, Western Michigan University.
-M.S. in Operations Research, George Washington University.
-President, Hawaii Health Physics Society, 1983-85.
-Health Physics Society Membership Committee, 1983-86.
Commodore, Great Lakes Yacht Club, 1980.
Honolulu Marathon Finisher, 1982-83.
RHO assignments included:
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COMMAND
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DATES
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NNMC
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Dec
1997 - Jul 1999
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NAVSEA
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Sep
1995 - Dec 1997
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NAVDOSCEN
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Dec
1991 - Sep 1995
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BUMED
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Aug
1985 - Dec 1991
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Pearl
Harbor Naval Shipyard
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Aug
1981 - Aug 1985
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Armed
Forces Staff College
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Jan
1981 - Aug 1981
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Great
Lakes Naval Hospital
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Nov
1977 - Jan 1981
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NNMC
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Feb
1973 - Nov 1977
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BUMED
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Mar
1969 - Feb 1973
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Awards:
Legion of Merit (two awards), Defense Meritorious Service, Navy Meritorious Service (two awards), Navy Commendation (two awards), National Defense Ribbon (two awards)
Accomplishments Since Retirement:
-Radiation Physics consultant with Mid-Atlantic Radiation Physics, Greenbelt, MD. Provides services to three radiation therapy centers supporting three linear accelerators and approximately 120 patients per day.
-Manager of the George Family Ranch in Kansas. The ranch employees two cowboys, raises wheat and alfalfa, runs approximately 200 cows and 150 head of stocker cattle on pasture and has a small 500 head feedlot for starting feeder cattle and/or performing artificial insemination for replacement heifers.
Words of Wisdom:
"Do a professional quality job. Assume ownership of your program. Expand your formal credentials, maintain your basic skills, take care of your people, preserve your integrity, judge your actions from the perspective of the citizens you have agreed to serve."