Advancing Radiological Protection: Christopher Clement, Guest Lecture

Advancing Radiological Protection
MEDPHYS 4U03/6U03 | Guest Lecture

Date: Thursday January 18, 2024
Time: 4:30 – 5:20 PM
Location: Burke Science Building (BSB), Room 106

Join Christopher Clement, Scientific Secretary and CEO of ICRP, for a discussion on the importance of radiological protection and ICRP’s role in protecting communities and ecosystems around the world from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation.

Christopher Clement
Scientific Secretary & CEO, ICRP 

Christopher Clement is the Scientific Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). He oversees the daily business of ICRP, represents the organisation in many international fora, and has presented well over 300 invited lectures on radiological protection in more than 40 countries. He has overseen the production of more than 70 issues of Annals of the ICRP as Editor-in-Chief, the basis of radiological protection standards, legislation, and practice world-wide. 

Clement has a Master of Science degree in Medical Physics and is a Certified Health Physicist. He has more than thirty years of experience in radiological protection. Prior to joining ICRP he worked in environmental monitoring and remediation, radiological counterterrorism, and as Director of Radiation Protection at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission overseeing radiation protection regulation in all sectors across the country. For several years he represented Canada at the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health.