(Representing AAHP)
Joseph
McDonald, PhD, is a Medical Physicist at the Madigan Army Medical Center in
Tacoma, Washington. His current tasks
include acceptance and annual testing and certification of diagnostic medical
equipment, including Mammography, MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine Cameras, and
Ultrasound.
Additionally,
he performs calculation and testing of radiation shielding installations, and teaches
MD Fellows the physics of medical diagnostic imaging. He serves on the American
Board of Medical Physics Exam Panel in Medical Health Physics, and also on the American Board of Health Physics Part II Examination
Board.
Dr.
McDonald is a member of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Emergency
Radiological Response Team (MERRT).
Dr.
McDonald performed his dissertation research at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (LLNL) while obtaining his PhD at Western Michigan University and
continued with basic research in Nuclear Physics at LLNL for 21 years authoring
or coauthoring more than 85 peer-reviewed articles before changing careers to medical/health
physics. From 2009 to 2019 he worked as the Radiation Safety Officer and
Medical Physicist at the Georg E Wahlen Department of Veterans affairs Medical
Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr.
McDonald is also an avid pilot and ultra-marathoner.