The Radiology Centennial program urges each contributing organization to select a Radiology Centennial Orator, with the award and lecture to receive a prominent role in the organization's Centennial observations. This person is to be of significant stature in his field, to deliver a substantial lecture on the field to be published as a major paper in an appropriate established journal. For ANS, the selected individual is known as the "Wilhelm Roentgen Radiology Centennial Orator for the American Nuclear Society". The award consists of a substantial plaque inscribed with the words "Radiology Centennial 1895-1995" at the top, followed by the Radiology Centennial logo and "Wilhelm Roentgen Radiology Centennial Award", with "Presented to <name> Wilhelm Roentgen Orator of the American Nuclear Society 1995".

Myron Pollycove, MD, has been selected as the ANS Roentgen Orator by the BMD Selection Committee. Dr. Pollycove has been at the forefront of both research and applications of nuclear medicine for over 40 years. He is the author of a substantial chapter of the Centennial History on Nuclear Medicine and is on the Radiology Centennial Board. For over 30 years he was associated both with the University of California, San Francisco as Professor, now Emeritus, in Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, ultimately Chair of the Nuclear Medicine Division, and similtaneously with San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, as Chief of Nuclear Medicine Services. Dr. Pollycove is a past president of the American College of Nuclear Physicians, and a past officer of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is also on the Board of Cal Rad, the organization of radioactive materials users in California, and numerous other organizations.

Since his 1991 retirement, he has contributed greatly as an NRC Visiting Medical Fellow in regulating nuclear medicine practice and radiation protection. He is also committed to compiling significant data and contributing to the standard setting bodies on the data indicating the lack of health effects of low-to-moderate radiation doses.

Dr. Pollycove will speak to the history, achievements, and great potentials, of nuclear medicine both in research and in diagnosis/therapy, and regarding radiation doses to patients and practitioners. He will also address the data showing the lack of adverse health effects, and even beneficial effects, at low-to-moderate doses in contrast to adverse effects at high doses, from epidemiological data on medically-exposed and other populations.

As a long time prestigious member of the San Francisco medical community, we anticipate a potentially significant San Francisco contingent, hopefully with local and specialized science media interests. Since Dr. Pollycove is a strong and experienced speaker, with a message that is of great interest and significance to the nuclear science and technology community, this is a great opportunity that warrants substantial interest and support.

The Award will be presented during the San Francisco meeting at the "Wilhelm Roentgen Award Dinner/Lecture" scheduled for Tuesday October 31. It will start with a cash bar at 6:00 pm. Following dinner, Dr. Pollycove will present a multi-projector lecture scheduled from 7:30 to 8:15 with a question and answer period for those who want to continue after 8:15. The lecture will be directed to the ANS industry and government communities who are unfortunately distant from the knowledge and practice of nuclear medicine and radiation health effects science and data.

We will also introduce some of the substantial contingent of senior scientists participating in the BMD sessions on the Health Effects of Low Level Radiation. This includes Professor Emeritus Dr. Sohei Kondo and Mr. Sadao Hattori from Japan, Professor Emeritus Dr. Don Luckey who has revitalized the study of the beneficial effects of radiation world-wide with his 1980 book "Hormesis with Ionizing Radiation", followed by his 1991 book "Radiation Hormesis". Other prominent contributors include Dr. Marvin Goldman, immediate past President of HPS, Dr. Bernard Cohen, Dr. Robert Thomas, Dr. Sheldon Wolff, Dr. Takashi Makinodan, Leonard Sagan, MD, Dr. Takeo Ohnishi, Dr. James Trosko, Dr. John Cameron, Dr. Allen Brodsky, Dr. Jerry Cohen, and Carol Marcus, PhD MD.