Board Members
- Richard Giever, M.D.
- received his M.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and did his residency in radiation oncology (the study of tumors) at the medical schools of the University of Wisconsin and University of Arizona. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology-Therapeutic Radiology. Dr. Giever is a Fellow of the American College of Radiation Oncology.
- Floyd Ivey
- is an attorney practicing in the Tri-Cities in southeastern Washington. He received his law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law; his specialty is intellectual property law, and he is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Benton Patent Association. He also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and an M.B.A. from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. While in Nevada he was an instrumentation and control and project engineer for EG&G, Inc. He has resided in the Tri-Cities since 1978, and his extensive community involvement has included serving as past president of the Pasco-Kennewick Rotary, as past chair of the Educational Institute for Rural Families, and as a founding Director of Community First Bank. He is Chair-Elect of the American Nuclear Society and a member of its Isotope Committee.
- Wanda Munn
- is a retired Westinghouse Hanford nuclear engineer. She is a graduate of Oregon State University and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Washington. She is a life member and Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers; her local section has established a fully endowed scholarship in her name. Also a life member of the American Nuclear Society, she has represented it and other engineering societies at multiple United Nations conferences. Ms. Munn served on the City Council in Richland, Washington, and is on the Board of Directors for Girl Scouts Mid-Columbia Council, Nuclear Age Artists Associates, the Nuclear Medicine Research Council, and the Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology. By appointment of Oregon Governor Kitzhaber, Ms. Munn serves on the Citizens Advisory Commission of the Umatilla Army Depot. She was named Tri-Cities "Engineer of the Year" in 1993 and was inducted into Oregon State University's Engineering Hall of Fame in 1999.
- Haakon Ragde, M.D.
- is a world renowned urologist who led the first United States team in performing ultrasound-guided radiation seed implants to treat prostate cancer. Dr. Ragde earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia Medical School at Charlottesville. He completed both his internship and residency in urology at McGill University, Montreal, and served as a special fellow in pathology at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, and in transplantation immunohematology at the University of Washington. Dr. Ragde, a board certified urologist, is a clinical assistant professor of urology at the University of Washington Medical School. Dr. Ragde practices at Northwest Hospital's Northwest Prostate Institute, Seattle, Washington.
- Robert E. Schenter, Ph.D.
- is a world expert on production of isotopes. For over twenty-five years, as a scientist with Westinghouse Hanford Company and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, he has directed the production and sales of isotopes for several medical, industrial, and scientific uses. In 1991, for example, he was responsible for the relief of a world shortage of gadolinium-153, which is used in instruments for early detection of osteoporosis, a crippling bone disease. Dr. Schenter earned his doctorate in Phsics from the University of Colorado, after earning a B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 1994, Dr. Schenter was honored by the Washington Society of Professional Engineers as its "Engineer of the Year." In 1998, he received the Public Communication Award from the American Nuclear Society, for which he has held numerous local and national offices. He is a member of the Therapeutics Council of the Society for Nuclear Medicine.
- Marguerite Yoshino
- has been in the real estate brokering business since 1969 and since the mid-1990s has hosted a talk show, "Friend to Friend," sponsored by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Her guests have included local community members as well as nationally known individuals such as Michael Reagan and Gigi Graham, daughter of the Reverend Billy Graham. She also worked for World Relief for four years, helping to settle refugees. A cancer survivor herself, Marguerite became aware of medical isotopes in 1992, when she interviewed several prominent research scientists on her program. She has since focused her energies on promoting awareness of the value of medical isotopes in any way she can.
Science Advisors
- Darrell Fisher, Ph.D.
- is a senior scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, where he is responsible for medical isotope research. He received his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in health physics and medical physics. During his distinguished scientific career, his research has involved 1) analyzing the dosimetry and health effects of radioactive materials in the body, 2) assessing radiation dose from medically administered radioisotopes for diagnosis and therapy of diseases, and 3) designing and testing new cancer drug concepts. Dr. Fisher is also an affiliate investigator in Clinical Research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, an adjunct member of the Radiology faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, a member of the Graduate School faculty in Environmental Sciences at Washington State University in Pullman and Richland, and a lecturer in English and the Humanities at Washington State University. He serves as a member of the Medical Internal Radiation Dose committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He also serves on the Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee, a federal advisory committee of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Centers for Disease Control.
- Kitty Gandee
- has been involved in isotope production since the early 1980s, when she was a research engineer with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. While working for the Department of Energy in the mid-1980s, she obtained funding to sponsor an Osteoporosis Conference in Seattle, at which a major topic was diagnosis of this disease using the medical isotope gadolinium-153. Ms. Gandee was also liaison to the Department of Energy's Isotope Production Office in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From 1987 to 1990, she was a staffer in the U.S. House Science Committee.
- R. Eric Leber, Ph.D.
- currently serves as Manager, College and University Relations at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Leber majored in Chemistry at Reed College while also serving as Senior Operator and Acting Supervisor of the TRIGA Mark I Nuclear Research Reactor Facility. After earning his B.S., he attended Yale and received his M.S., M.Ph., and Ph.D. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Leber joined the research group led by Professor Glenn T. Seaborg at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, thereby becoming a member of the U.S. team searching for new chemical elements. In 1977, Dr. Leber received a Congressional Science Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and served as Staff Scientist to Congressman Mike McCormack (D-Wash.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production of the House Science and Technology Committee. Dr. Leber is former Director of Public Policy and Communication for the American Chemical Society and was an ACS Smithsonian Fellow, coordinating the planning of the permanent exhibition on "Science in American Life."
- James N. Paglieri
- has over 36 years of professional experience in the nuclear safety field. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Washington. Since 1981, Mr. Paglieri has worked in the nuclear safety program at the Fast Flux Test Facility in southeastern Washington, as a Senior Principal Engineer with Westinghouse Hanford Company and currently with Fluor Hanford. His responsibilities include oversight of programs to produce isotopes for medical, research, and industrial uses.
- Gary L. Troyer
- has over 34 years of professional experience as a nuclear chemist and computer scientist. He holds a B. S. in Chemistry from the University of Idaho and a M. S. in computer science from Washington State University. Mr. Troyer has worked as an applied development analytical chemist at the Hanford site and is currently semi-retired. Prior to retirement, he was a Fellow Scientist with Westinghouse Hanford Company. Mr. Troyer has numerous papers related to measurements of radionuclides in systems ranging from at-line process monitoring to in-situ environmental and laboratory applications. He has developed novel methods for measuring materials with neutron activation analysis and high performance gamma spectrometry. He also teaches part time at Kenya Methodist University in Meru, Kenya.
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