Radiation Safety Committee (RSC)

The Radiation Safety Committee at Massachusetts General Hospital is the governing body for all aspects of radiation protection at the hospital. It includes all affiliated research, clinical, instructional and service units that use radiation sources in facilities owned or controlled by the hospital and operating under the hospital’s radioactive materials license issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Public Health - Radiation Control Program.

What We Do

The Radiation Safety Committee ensures that all possession, use and disposition of radiation sources by hospital personnel comply with federal and state regulations and specific conditions enumerated in licenses issued to the hospital.

Concomitant radiation exposure at Mass General is maintained following the guiding principle of radiation safety known as ALARA, which stands for "As Low As Reasonably Achievable."

The Radiation Safety Committee meets on a monthly basis via in-person and virtual meetings. To conduct the monthly meetings, a quorum of at least one-third of the Radiation Safety Committee's membership must be present, including the Radiation Safety Officer and the management representative.

All members present at the meeting are entitled to vote. Members who have a conflict of interest relating to committee deliberations must abstain from voting. Between meetings, interim decisions may be made by established subcommittees or by a majority of voting members via e-mail ballot.

Current Members

• Madan M. Rehani, PhD (Chairman)
• Melissa S. Knight (Operations Manager)

For the term September 2024 - August 2026 (Members in alphabetical order)

• Arellano, Ronald MD
  Interventional Radiology
• Belknap, John B.
  Administration
• Borges, Nicolas
  Radiation Safety Office
• Chung, Ryan
  Radiology
• Dietrich, Jorg
  Neurology (Oncology)
• Eagleton, Matthew
  Vascular Surgery
• Esfahani, Shadi Abdar
  Nuclear Medicine
• Gierga, David PhD
  Medical Physicist, Rad Onc
• Gover, Joanne
  Nursing, Cancer Center
• Kolte, Dhaval
  Cardiology
• Lee, Hwan
  Nuclear Medicine
• Marschall, Theodore Alan
  Med Phys
• Medich, Tara
  RSO
• Pourvaziri, Ali
  Radiology
• Sabet, Hamid
  Radiology/Martinos
• Westra, Sjirk MD
  Pediatric Radiology
• Yang, Kai PhD
  Medical Physics
• Zeman, Merissa
  Radiology (Nuclear Medicine)

RSC Past Chairs

• Ted Webster
  1975- Dec 2000
• Ron Callahan
  Jan 2001- Sept 2013
• Jack Correia
  Oct 2013-March 2018