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Thomas S. Tenforde

 

Thomas S. Tenforde
President

T.S. Tenforde received his A.B. degree from Harvard University, with a major in physics, and his Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to being elected President of NCRP in 2002, he was a Fellow at Battelle’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (1988 to 2002) and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1969 to 1988). His special areas of research include nonionizing radiation, for which he received the D’Arsonval Medal in 2001, and the production of radionuclides with medical applications. He has received awards from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for the development of yttrium-90 as a therapeutic medical isotope. He is a member of numerous scientific societies, including the Radiation Research Society, the Health Physics Society, the Bioelectromagnetics Society (President, 1987 to 1988), and the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is the author or coauthor of more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. Dr. Tenforde and his wife, Susan, have two sons, Adam and Mark, who are students at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, respectively.

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