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MJW Senior Staff Profiles

Name:	Thomas La Bone

Title:	Senior Internal Dosimetrist

Current Job Responsibilities

Since January 2006, Mr. La Bone has served as the Assistant Principal Internal Dosimetrist for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Dose Reconstruction Program. In this capacity he helps direct the internal dose reconstruction effort of this large-scale program providing support and guidance to personnel performing dose reconstructions for claimants under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. He also assists in the evaluation of data relevant to Special Exposure Cohort petitions, and performs dose reconstruction research as needed.

Mr. LaBone also performs work for several other government clients related to the operation of internal dosimetry programs and software used to calculate internal doses.

Work Experience

MJW CORPORATION:

Senior Health Physicist (1999 – 2001, 2002 – Present) - Senior Consultant for the Mound Dose Assessment Project. Mr. La Bone was responsible for evaluating historic plutonium intakes treated with chelation therapy and for verification and validation of new biokinetic models for polonium developed by ORNL.

OTHER:

Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Savannah River Site

Technical Lead of Internal and External Dosimetry Programs (2001 – 2005) - Responsible for technical oversight of internal and external dosimetry programs.
Leader of Internal Dose Assessment/In-vivo Bioassay Group (1995 – 2001) - Responsible for senior internal dosimetrist duties in addition to management of operations at the 735-4B In-Vivo Counting Facility.
Senior Internal Dosimetrist (1991 – 1995) - Responsible for internal dosimetrist duties in addition to overseeing the activities of two junior internal dosimetrists.
Internal Dosimetrist (1986 – 1991) - Responsible for the design of internal dosimetry programs and for evaluation of intakes of fission products, tritium, uranium, and transuranics at a major US Department of Energy facility.

DuPont/New England Nuclear

Health Physicist (1981 – 1986) - Responsible for internal and external occupational dose assessment, environmental dosimetry, radiological safety training for workers and customers, shielding calculations, and emergency response for large radio pharmaceutical company.

Educational Background

M.S., Radiological Sciences from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1981
B.A., Chemistry and Biology from Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ, 1979
Coursework towards a Master’s of Industrial Statistics, University of South Carolina. Expected completion in 2008.

Professional Affiliations

Chair of ANSI N13.25 committee, Internal Dosimetry Programs for Plutonium Exposure, 2006-Present
Member of ANSI N13.30 committee, Performance Criteria for Radiobioassay, 2001- Present.
Member of US Department of Energy Tritide Working Group Group, 1999 - Present.
Member of US Department of Energy Plutonium Working Group, 2000 – Present.
Program chairman for 35th Annual Conference on Bioassay, Analytical and Environmental Radiochemistry in Charleston, SC in 1989.
Guest lecturer at Skrable Enterprises Internal Dosimetry Short Course annually from 1983 - 2000. Topics covered include intake and dose assessment and design and implementation of bioassay programs.
Co-author of Skrable Enterprises INDOS bioassay evaluation code.

Publications

E. H. Carbaugh and T. R. La Bone Two Case Studies of Highly Insoluble Plutonium Inhalation with Implications for Bioassay Radiation Protection Dosimetry (105) pp 133-138, 2003.

Kenneth Skrable, Clayton French, George Chabot, Mark Tries, Thomas La Bone Elements of Exposure, Bioassay, and Internal Dose Assessment Programs in Practical Applications of Internal Dosimetry, Wesley E. Bolch, editor (Madison: Medical Physics Publishing) 2002.

Kenneth Skrable, Clayton French, George Chabot, Mark Tries, Thomas La Bone Variance Models for Estimating Intakes from Repetitive Bioassay Measurements in Practical Applications of Internal Dosimetry, Wesley E. Bolch, editor (Madison: Medical Physics Publishing) 2002.

Anderson, J.; Kahn, B.; Brown, L.; Harris, F.; La Bone, T. Solubility of Various Forms of Strontium Titanate in the Lungs: in-vitro and in-vivo Studies Health Physics (76) pp 628-634, 1999.

Anderson, J.; Kahn, B.; Rosson, R.; Kim, E.; La Bone, T. Use of Creatinine Measurement to Confirm the Time Interval of a Urine Sample Radiation Protection Management (12) pp. 51-64, 1995.

La Bone, T. R. Evaluation of Intakes of Transuranics influenced by Chelation Therapy in Internal Radiation Dosimetry, O. G. Raabe, editor (Madison: Medical Physics Publishing) 1994.

La Bone, T. R. The Perfect Internal Dosimetry Code in Internal Radiation Dosimetry, O. G. Raabe, editor (Madison: Medical Physics Publishing) 1994.

Skrable, K.W.; Chabot, G.E.; French, C.S.; and La Bone, T.R. Estimation of Intakes from Repetitive Bioassay Measurements in Internal Radiation Dosimetry, O. G. Raabe, editor (Madison: Medical Physics Publishing) 1994.

Skrable, K.W.; Chabot, G.E.; French, C.S.; and La Bone, T.R. Use of Multi-compartment Models of Retention for Internally Deposited Radionuclides in Internal Radiation Dosimetry, O. G. Raabe, editor (Madison: Medical Physics Publishing) 1994.

A Review of Mathematica, Health Physics (64), pp 419-420, 1994.

Skrable, K.W.; Chabot, G.E.; French, C.S.; and La Bone, T.R. Intake Retention Functions and Their Applications to Bioassay and the Estimation of Internal Radiation Doses Health Physics (55) pp. 933 950 (1988).

Skrable, K.W.; Sun, L.C.; Chabot, G.E.; French, C.S.; La Bone, T.R. Pseudo Uptake Retention Functions for the Whole Body for Estimating Intakes from Excretion Bioassay Data Radiation Protection Dosimetry (18) pp. 133 139 (1987).

Lessard, E.T.; Yihau, X.; Skrable, K.W.; Chabot, G.E.; French, C.S.; La Bone, T.R.; Johnson, J.R.; Fisher, D.R.; Belanger, R.; Landmann Lipsztein, J. Interpretation of Bioassay Measurements NUREG/CR 4884 1987.

Steinmetz-Kayne, M.; La Bone, T. R. A Rapid Assay for E. coli 4-thiouridine sulfurtransferase, Analytical Biochemistry (98), pp. 146-153 (1979).

Yung Sung Cheng, Raymond A. Guilmette, Yue Zhou, Jun Gao, Thomas La Bone, Jeffery J. Whicker, and Mark Hoover Characterization of Plutonium Aerosol Collected During an Accident Health Physics 87(6):596-605; 2004.

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