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NAME: Edward Lee NickoloffEdward Lee Nickoloff


OCCUPATION: Medical Physicist specializing in Diagnostic Radiology

BORN: December 6, 1942 in Harrisburg, PA

EDUCATION: B.S. at Lebanon Valley College in 1965
M.S. at University of New Hampshire in 1968
D.Sc. at Johns Hopkins University in 1977

CERTIFICATIONS:
ABR certification in Diagnostic Radiological Physics & Medical Nuclear Physic in 1980
ABHP certification in Health Physics in 1980
ABMP certification in Diagnostic Imaging Physics in 1990

CAREER:
Between the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees, I worked in the electronics industry for 5 years. As I was finishing the D.Sc. degree, I was hired by the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions as an Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Physics & Engineering. I worked with

Drs. Russel Morgan, GUV Rao, Stanley Siegelman and Henry N. Wagner, Jr. I was then recruited to Columbia University and the Columbia University Medical Center where I had the academic ranks of Associate Professor and Professor and was the Chief Hospital Physicist. At Columbia University, I worked with Drs. Philip O. Alderson, Howard Amols, David Brenner, Eric Hall and others. I have been involved in quality control, radiation safety, research in image quality assessments and dosimetry, teaching of radiology residents and graduate students and various administrative functions. I have been active in professional organizations. I have been President of RAMP Inc, Chairman and Secretary of the ACMP, Secretary of the ABMP and a member of the AAPM Board of Directors. By 2005, I had authored 47 journal articles, 64 published abstract and 28 books/book chapters and more than 120 presentations at national meetings. I wrote a book (which included a CD of Power Point images) for radiology residents. I have often given presentations on a variety of medical physics topics at the annual meetings of AAPM, RSNA and ACMP. I have worked with radiographic, PACS, fluoroscopy, angiography, cardiac catheterization, MRI, ultrasound and nuclear medicine equipment. I would describe myself as a practical clinical physicist as compared to a research scientist.

Publications [Up to 15]:

  1. Wagner HN Jr, Wake R, Nickoloff EL, and Natarajian TK. The Nuclear Stethoscope: A Simple Device for Generation of Left Ventricular Volume Curves, Amer J Cardiol 8(6):747-750, 1976.
  2. Burow RD, Strauss WH, Singleton R, Pond M, Rehn T, Bailey IK, Griffith LC, Nickoloff EL, and Pitt B. Analysis of Left Ventricular Function from Multiple Gated Acquisition Cardiac Blood Pool Imaging, Circulation 56(6):1024-1028, 1977.
  3. Van Aswegen A, Alderson PO, Nickoloff EL, Householder DF, and Wagner HN Jr: Temporal Resolution Requirements for Left Ventricular Time-Activity Curves, Radiology 135(1):165-170, 1980.
  4. Leichner PK, Klein JL, Garrison JE, Jenkins RE, Nickoloff EL, Ettinger DS, and Order SE. Dosimetry of 1311 Labeled Anti-Ferritin in Hepatoma: A Model for Radioimmunoglobulin Dosimetry, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 7(3):323-333, 1981.
  5. Links JA, Beck LC, Schindledecker JG, Guzman P, Burow RD, Nickoloff EL, Alderson PO, and Wagner HN Jr. Measurement of Absolute Left Ventricular Volume from Gated Blood Pool Studies, Circulation, 65(1):82-91, 1982.
  6. Nickoloff EL, Perman WH, Esser PD, Bashist B, and Alderson PO. Physical Basis for Attenuation Corrections in Radionuclide Determinations of Left Ventricular Volume, Radiology 152(2):511-515, 1984.
  7. Romney BM, Nickoloff EL, Esser PD, and Alderson PO. Radionuclide Administration to Nursing Mothers: Mathematically Derived Guidelines, Radiology 160(2):549-554, 1986.
  8. Nickoloff EL, Feldman F, and Atherton JV. Bone Mineral Assessment: New Dual-Energy CT Approach, Radiology 168(1):223-228, 1988.
  9. Nickoloff EL, Donnelly EM, Eve L, Atherton JV, and Asch T. Mammographic Resolution: Influence of Focal Spot Intensity Distribution and Geometry, Med Phys 17(3): 436-447, 1990.
  10. Weidenbaum M, Foster RJ, Best BA, Saed-Nejad F, Nickoloff E, Newhouse J, Ratcliffe A, and Mow VC. Correlating Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Biochemical Content of the Normal Human Intervertebral Disc, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 10(4): 552-561, 1992.
  11. Nickoloff EL, Khandji A and Dutta A. Radiation Doses During CT Fluoroscopy. Health Physics, 79(6):675-681; December 2000.
  12. Nickoloff, EL and Berman HL. Factors Affecting X-ray Spectra, Radiographics, 13(6):1337-1348, 1993.
  13. Nickoloff EL and Alderson PO. Radiation Exposures to Patients from CT: Reality, Public Perception and Policy, AJR 177(2):285-287, August 2001.
  14. Nickoloff EL. Current Adult and Pediatric CT Radiation Doses, Pediatric Radiology 32(4):250-260, April, 2002.
  15. Nickoloff EL, Dutta AK and Lu ZF. Influence of Phantom Diameter, kVp and Scan Mode Upon CTDI, Medical Physics 30(3):395-402, March 2003.

AWARDS:
1977 Doctor of Science degree with Distinction from Johns Hopkins Univ.
1994 Fellow of the American College of Medical Physics (FACMP)
1994 Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR)
1997 Fellow of the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM)
2001 Sadek K. Hilal Faculty Research Award, Department of Radiology, Columbia University
2003 Best Diagnostic Physics Journal Article, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (JACMP)

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Activities:
1986 - 1989 Chairman, ACR/AAPM/ACMP Tri-Lateral Task Force on Physics Staffing
1989 President of Radiological and Medical Physics Society of New York, Inc. (RAMPS)
1992 & Board of Directors of the American Association of
1996-1998 Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
1984 - 1991 & Member of Diagnostic X-ray Imaging Committee
1994 - 2004
1991 - 1993 Member of Rules Committee
1995 - 2000 Chairman of Cardiac Catheterization Performance Evaluation Task Group #17
1995-2000 Member of Education Council Committee on the Training of Radiologists
1995-1999 Member of Education Council Committee on the Education and Training of Medical Physicists

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Activities:
1995-1998 Refresher Course Committee in Medical Physics
1998 Director of Categorical Course in Diagnostic Radiology Physics: Cardiac Catheterization Physics
2005-2008 Member of Educational Exhibits Committee

American College of Medical Physics (ACMP) Activities:
1991-1993 Board of Chancellors (Region II)
1994 - 1996 Liaison to Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)
1994 - 1998 Member Standards Committee
1997-1998 Secretary
1997-2001 Membership Committee
2003 Vice Chairman
2004 Chairman

American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) Activities:
1989-1991 Secretary and Member of Board of Directors
1989-2001 Oral Examiner for Diagnostic Imaging Physics Panel
1995-1998 Chairman of Diagnostic Imaging Physics Examination Panel

American College of Radiology (ACR) Activities:
1997-2002 Committee on Research and Technology Assessment

American Board of Radiology (ABR) Activities:
2001-2005 Physics Advisory Committee
2002-2005 Contributor of Oral Physics Questions
2003 Oral Examiner in Diagnostic Radiological Physics

Advocations and Special Interests:
Gardening, home repairs (electrical, carpentry, plumbing), automobile mechanics, hiking, hunting, fishing, spectator at my son's hockey games, reading, travel

Family:
Diane Catherine Zambetti Nickoloff (1956) -- Wife
Andrea Lee Nickoloff (1987) -- Daughter
Edward Lee Nickoloff, Jr. (1989) -- Son