Kathleen Kaufman Ms. Kaufman is the Director of Los Angeles County Radiation Management, where she provides technical and administrative supervision to 21 professionals and 2 support staff. In addition to radiological or nuclear emergency response and preparedness, the staff is responsible for inspecting approximately 20,000 X-ray machines and 300 radioactive materials licenses. Ms. Kaufman has served on 2 FDA Advisory Committees and the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors’ (CRCPD) Board of Directors, and she has been either the chairperson or a member of many CRCPD committees, including the committee that wrote the Handbook for Responding to a Radiological Dispersal Device. She is a member of a National Council on Radiation Protection committee that wrote the soon-to-be published report Responding to Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism: A Guide for Decision Makers. She is a recipient of 9 national awards for outstanding achievements in radiation protection, was Los Angeles County Environmental Health's Outstanding Employee of the Year in 2004, and received Los Angeles County Public Health's Excellence Award for outstanding performance and achievements. Ms. Kaufman is a certified radiographer and holds a bachelor of science degree in radiologic sciences from George Washington University.
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