Phone: (608) 262-2170
Fax: (608) 262-2413
E-Mail: jrcamero@facstaff.wisc.edu

Position: Emeritus Professor

Education:
B.S., Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1947
M.S., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1949
Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1952

Membership:
American Association of Physicists in Medicine: President, 1968.
International Organization for Medical Physics: Secretary-General, 1968-1974.
Health Physics Society: Member, Board of Directors; President of the North Central Chapter.
Nuclear Medicine Society: Board Member; President of the Central Chapter.
Member or Honorary Member of several national and foreign radiological societies.
Member or Honorary Member of medical physics societies in U.K., Ireland, France, Italy, India, Brazil, and the Third World Association of Medical Physics.

Other Scientific Appointments:
Advisor or consultant to the following organizations at various times:
The International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, Austria).
The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy).
The Bureau of Radiological Health (now CDRH) (Rockville, MD).
The Atomic Energy Commission (now DOE & NRC) (Germantown, MD).
The State of Wisconsin Radiation Safety Office (Madison, WI).
The University of Wisconsin Radiation Safety Committee (Madison, WI).
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): Nuclear Shipyard Workers Study (Member of the Technical Advisory Panel) funded by DOE.

Primary Research Areas:
Research in thermoluminescent dosimetry initiated in 1960 (author of the first book on TLD, 1967).
Developed the photon absorptiometry method of measuring bone mineral in vivo starting in 1960. It is now the standard technique for evaluating osteoporosis.
Starting in 1970, with colleagues developed many simple instruments for quality control measurements on medical x-ray equipment. Radiation Measurements, Inc., of Middleton, WI, manufactures these devices.
Modeling of human imagination and creativity.

Business Related Activities:
Radiation Measurements, Inc., P.O. Box 327, Middleton, WI 53562, President or Chairman of the Board, 1960 to 1988.
Gammex-RMI, Ltd., Nottingham, England, Board Member, 1988-present.
Wisconsin Innovarium, Ltd., Madison, Wisconsin, Secretary-Treasurer and Member of the Board, 1987-present.
John R. Cameron Medical Physics Foundation, Inc., Secretary-Treasurer and Board Member, 1987-1994.
Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI, Non-profit, tax exempt educational publisher, Founder and Funder, 1985-present.

Current Professional Interests:
Education of the public in scientific and medical areas, especially about radiation through publication of books and by lectures.
Support of medical physics activities in developing countries by teaching and by donation of equipment and books (fluent in Portuguese and Spanish).
Research: radiation dosimetry; instrumentation for QC of x-ray equipment (especially for developing countries); and physics of the brain (primarily biomagnetism).

Representative Publications:

Dobbins III, J.T., Pederson, P.L., Mazess, R.B., Cameron, J.R., Hansen J.L., and Hefner, L.V., A Scanning-slit X-ray Videoabsorptiometric Technique for Bone Mineral Measurement, Medical Physics, Vol. 11, No. 5, 1984.

Diffey, B. and Cameron, J.R., A Microcomputer Program to Predict Sunburn Exposure, Medical Physics, Vol. 11, No. 6, 1984.

DeWerd, L.A., Cameron, J.R., Da-ke, WU, Papini, T, Das, I., Characteristics of a New Dosimeter: LiF(Mg, Cu, P), Radiation Protection Dosimetry 6, 350, 1984.

Ghilardi Netto, T. and Cameron, J.R., An Inexpensive kVp Penetrameter, Medical Physics, Vol. 12, No. 2, 259-260, 1985.

Cameron, J.R., DeWerd, L.A., Goetsch, S.J. and Price, J.C., Investigation of Alternative Means to Accomplish the Goals of Biennial Calibration of Ionization Chambers, published by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Contract No. NRC-04-83-002, May 1985.

Constantinou, C., Cameron, J.R., DeWerd, L.A. and Liss, M., Development of Radiographic Chest Phantom, Medical Physics 13, 917, 1986.

Price, J., Cameron J.R., DeWerd, L.A. and Goetsch S.J., Evaluation of a Commercial Diode for Mailed QC of Therapy Units, International Journal of Radiation Oncology/Biology/Physics, 19, 1053, 1990.