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Becker, David Victor
 (212) 746-4583  (212) 746-8873

Society Memberships:


  • The American Thyroid Association
  • The Endocrine Society
  • The Society of Nuclear Medicine
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinology
  • American Federation for Clinical Research
  • American College of Physicians
  • American College of Endocrinology
  • New York Academy of Medicine


Other Activities

  • 1968-
    Steering Committee-U.S.P.H.S
    Thyrotoxicosis Follow-Up Study

  • 1971-1979
    AMA Advisory Committee on Education for the Allied Health Professionals and Services

  • 1973-
    Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Radioactive Materials-New York State Department of Health

  • 1975-1980:
    Member- Task Force on Short Lived Radionuclides, Bureau of Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, U.S.P.H.S.

  • 1976-
    Consultant-Bureau of Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration

  • 1978-
    Member- National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurement Scientific Committee No. 57

  • 1978-1979
    President-Greater New York Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, New York

  • 1978-1986
    Trustee- National Society of Nuclear Medicine

  • 1978-
    National Cooperative Thyroid Cancer Treatment Study Group

  • 1980-1981
    Chairman, Environmental Hazards Committee, The American Thyroid Association

  • 1981-
    Member- Working Group on Health Aspects of Radioactive Materials, Subcommittee on Environmental Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York

  • 1981-1989
    Member- Publications Committee, The Society of Nuclear Medicine

  • 1982-1983
    President- The American Thyroid Association

  • 1982-1986
    Member- Medical Radiation Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration

  • 1983-
    Member-Ad Hoc Working Group on Thyroid/Iodine 131 Assessment, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda,MD

  • 1984-1998
    Member-Committee on Public Health, and its Executive Committee, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York

  • 1984-
    Member- Thyrotoxicosis Follow-Up Study Group, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

  • 1987-
    Consultant- Radiological Devices Panel/ Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Food and Drug Administration

  • 1987-1998
    Member-Scientific Advisory Committee on Radiation to the Department of Health of the City of New York

  • 1987-1999
    Member- American Medical Association Radiation Advisory Committee

  • 1987-
    Member- National Cancer Institute Thyroid/Iodine-131 Assessments Committee

  • 1988-
    World Health Organization/Commission of the Euopean Communities Workshop on Iodine Prophylaxis Following Nuclear Accidents

  • 1990-
    Chairman, NCI-Chernobyl Thyroid Working Group

  • 2001-
    Member, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Board of Radiation Effects Research. "Committee on use of Potassium Iodide in the event of a Nuclear Incicent."


 


Foreign Languages Spoken
                    

   
 
Education
M.D., New York University School of Medicine, 1948
M.A., Columbia University, 1944
 
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