Dade Moeller Hanford employee appointed to DOE board

Cheryl Antonio, a Dade Moeller certified health physicist, has been appointed to the Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program Radiobioassay Oversight Board.

She will serve a five-year renewable term.

The board administers accreditation of DOE sites for direct measurement of radioactivity in the human body, such as whole body counts and lung counts, and indirect measurements, such as radiochemical analysis of urine samples.

Antonio has 20 years of experience with internal dosimetry and direct and indirect radiobioassay programs and has served as an assessor for the DOE program.

Currently, she is under full-time subcontract to Mission Support Alliance, where she is the technical lead for the Hanford indirect bioassay program.

This story was originally published August 31, 2015 at 12:35 PM with the headline "Dade Moeller Hanford employee appointed to DOE board."